Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.
To examine oneself makes good use of sight.
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.