The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.