Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.