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The saint is not only an ideal representative in the Lao-tzu and Lao-tzu chih-kuei, but also the very practitioner of their important theories. The Lao-tzu chih-kuei, written in the style of Han fu and considering naturalness and non-action as its major principles, follows the thoughts of emptiness and quietness as well as the reverse philosophy and the anti-knowledge tradition of the pre-Ch’in Taoist. At the same time, it adopts a great deal the thoughts of the Chuang-tzu’s emptiness and freeing mind to interpret the Lao-tzu. It describes the saint as the model of unity of into-this-world and out-of-this-world. The saint realizes the tao and embraces the te, characterizing himself with emptiness, nothingness, thoughtlessness, carefreeness, and changeability. He is accustomed to be incorporated from the contradictory direction and to control the sources from emptiness and nothingness so as to take every precaution at the beginning. The saint in the Lao-tzu chih-kuei reflects more transcendental quality, scattering the scent of the one who has realized the tao. Actually he is the very manifestation of Yen Tsun’s personal transcendental virtue.
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