The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!