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When the Enlightened King rules his deeds spread over the whole world but seem not from himself. His riches are loaned to the Myriad Things, but the people do not depend on him. He is there, but no one mentions his name. He let things find their own delight

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Chuang - Tzu. The Inner Chapters, a classic of Tao, translated by A. C. Graham, 1981

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Chuang - Tzu

Chuang - Tzu is a classic of Taoism: a collection of writings from ancient China 4th century BCE the oldest of which are THE INNER CHAPTERS. Chuang - Tzu was a very unusual Taoist sage, a poet free of all conventional frameworks of behavior and thinking, as free as the East Sea wind blowing at dawn over the whirling waves.

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