Motif
Natural accord against artificial interference
natural_accord_against_artificial_interference
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER XXII. / KNOWLEDGE TRAVELS NORTH. / CHAPTER XXIII. / CHAPTER XXIV.; lines 10936-11068 confidence: high
The divine man trusts natural development and avoids adding the artificial to the natural; life and death may be gains or losses according to circumstances, and poisonous drugs can become sovereign remedies.
The divine man trusts natural development, refuses to introduce the artificial into the natural, and the animal-proportion and river-source examples reinforce adequacy by nature.
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