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Use your mind like a mirror. Reflect everything. Hold nothing.

Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 7 (The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings)

The source

"Use your mind like a mirror. Reflect everything. Hold nothing." Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 7 (The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.

"至人之用心若鏡,不將不迎,應而不藏,故能勝物而不傷。"

Original Chinese, Zhuangzi 7 (The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings). Chinese: Zhuangzi text via zh.wikisource; chapter title after Legge 1891.

Who said it

Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC). Taoist storyteller of the butterfly dream, the useless tree and the cook who never dulled his knife.

Questions

Who said "Use your mind like a mirror. Reflect everything. Hold nothing."?
Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC). Source: Zhuangzi 7 (The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings).
What is the original Chinese?
至人之用心若鏡,不將不迎,應而不藏,故能勝物而不傷。. Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.

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