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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Ingrained Ideas -> 2.4

Therefore it is said (further),
'Sadness and pleasure show a depraving element in the virtue (of those who feel them);
joy and anger show some error in their course;
love and hatred show a failure of their virtue.
Hence for the mind to be free from sorrow and pleasure
is the perfection of virtue;
to be of one mind that does not change
is the perfection of quietude;
to be conscious of no opposition
is the perfection of vacancy;
to have no intercourse with (external) things
is the perfection of indifference;
and to have no rebellious dissatisfactions
is the perfection of purity.'


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