In life, too much leisure produces
extraneous thoughts, and too much work
keeps you from your true nature. Thus you
cannot completely ignore worrying about
your own welfare, at the same time you
should not completely shun the pleasures
of leisure.


Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living - Caicentan by Hong Zicheng (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), Translated by Robert Aitken with Daniel W. Y. Kwok, p. 153

Hong Zicheng Quotes

In life, too much leisure produces extraneous thoughts, and too much work keeps you from your true nature. Thus you cannot completely ignore worrying ...

In life, too much leisure produces extraneous thoughts, and too much work keeps you from your true nature. Thus you cannot completely ignore worrying ...

In life, too much leisure produces extraneous thoughts, and too much work keeps you from your true nature. Thus you cannot completely ignore worrying ...

In life, too much leisure produces extraneous thoughts, and too much work keeps you from your true nature. Thus you cannot completely ignore worrying ...