Even if he were to limit himself to picking up a clod of earth, or dealing with a handful of dust, he would still have been unfaithful to the Principle, for he would have acted.
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| Kuan-yin-tzu said: All beings are clearly revealed to him who dwells in nothingness. He is sensitive to their impression like a calm lake; he reflects them as in a mirror; he repeats them like an echo. |
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United with the Principle, he is in harmony with all beings; he knows all through general, superior reasoning, and in consequence he no longer uses his senses to know individual things and details. |
| The true reason for things is invisible, ungraspable, indefinable, and indeterminable. The spirit alone, returned to the state of perfect natural simplicity, can see partially into it when in deep contemplation. |
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After this revelation, one no longer wishes for, or to do, anything, which is true science and true talent. He who has seen the nothingness of all desire and all actions; what can he wish for? what can he wish to do? |
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Even if he were to limit himself to picking up a clod of earth, or dealing with a handful of dust, he would still have been unfaithful to the Principle, for he would have acted. |
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