"What advantage is there in what men call not dying? The body decomposes, and the mind goes with it. This is our real cause for sorrow. Can the world be so dull as not to see this? Or is it I alone who am dull, and others not so?
"If we are to be guided by the criteria of our own minds, who shall be without a guide?
The mind should be a tabula rasa, free from all judgments or opinions of its own as to the external world, and ready only to accept things as they are, not as they appear to be.
What need to know of the alternations of passion,
As above described.
when the mind thus affords scope to itself?—verily even the minds of fools! Whereas, for a mind without criteria
As it should be.
to admit the idea of contraries, is like saying, I went to Yüeh to-day, and got there yesterday.
One of Hui Tzŭ's paradoxes. See [ch. xxxiii].