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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Letting Be, and Exercising Forbearance -> 5.3

The teaching of (this) great man
goes forth as the shadow from the substance,
as the echo responds to the sound.
When questioned, he responds,
exhausting (from his own stores) all that is in the (enquirer's) mind,
天下 as if front to front with all under heaven.
His resting-place gives forth no sound;
his sphere of activity has no restriction of place,
He conducts every one to his proper goal, proceeding to it and bringing him back to it as by his own movement.
His movements have no trace;
his going forth and his re-enterings have no deviation;
his course is like that of the sun without beginning (or ending).
If you would praise or discourse about his personality,
he is united with the great community of existences.
He belongs to that great community, and has no individual self.
Having no individual self,
how should he have anything that can be called his?
If you look at those who have what they call their own,
君子 they are the superior men of former times;
if you look at him who has nothing of the kind,
he is the friend of heaven and earth.


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