The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.