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chuang-tzu

Detachment Is The Highest Wisdom

by Unworldly Being
back view of a person standing on wooden planks across the snow capped mountains

Alan Watts once said that detachment is the highest form of wisdom, he also quoted Chuang-tzu on detachment: ‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.’ Detachment means to have neither regrets for the past nor fears for the future. It is … Read more

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