Chi Kang

Chi K'ang (223 - 262), also Hsi K'ang or Qigong was a Chinese Taoist poet.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Always repenting of wrongs done

Will never bring my heart to rest.

• (The sage ) forgets joy and can therefore become joyful; he loses his life and can thereby preserve his body.

-Shih-ssu lun ( Liberation from the Selfish) His Chung-san chi

• (The sage) knows that luxuriant fragrances harm (human) nature; therefore, he avoids them and pays no more attention to them. It is not hat he still desires them and then curbs those desires. (No) he keeps these things outside, so that his heart cannot remain enchained.

-Shih-ssu lun ( Liberation from the Selfish) His Chung-san chi

• To have reached two noble goals, selflessness and flawlessness, is the highest beauty.

- Shih-ssu lun ( Liberation from the Selfish) His Chung-san chi

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