text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Water that is still [jing] gives back a clear [ming] image of beard and eyebrows; reposing in the water level, it offers a measure to the great carpenter. And if water in stillness possesses such clarity, how much more must pure spirit [jing shen]? The sage's heart-mind in stillness is the mirror of Heaven and earth, the glass of the ten thousand things.
(Chapter 13)",2013-08-19 14:24:21 UTC,"""The sage's heart-mind in stillness is the mirror of Heaven and earth, the glass of the ten thousand things.""",2013-08-19 14:24:21 UTC,"","",,"","","Reading Erin M. Cline. ""Mirrors, Minds, and Metaphors,"" Philosophy East and West 58:3 (2008): 337-357.",22448,7630
"Do not be an embodier of fame; do not be a storehouse of schemes; do not be an undertaker of projects; do not be a proprieter of wisdom. Embody to the fullest what has no end and wander where there is no trail. Hold on to all that you have received from Heaven but do not think that you have gotten anything. Be tenuous, that is all. Perfect persons use their heart-minds like mirrors—going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing. Therefore they can win out over things and not hurt themselves.
(Chapter 7)",2013-10-30 18:03:19 UTC,"""Perfect persons use their heart-minds like mirrors—going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.""",2013-08-19 14:47:32 UTC,"","",,"","","Reading Erin M. Cline. ""Mirrors, Minds, and Metaphors,"" Philosophy East and West 58:3 (2008): 337-357.",22451,7630