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通人曰。莊周云。察其始而無生也。非徒無生而本無形。非徒無形而本無氣。茫忽之間變而有氣。氣變而有形。形變而有生。人之生也氣之聚。聚則為生。散則為死。故曰有無相生也。萬物一也。何謂一也。天下一氣也。推此而談。無別有道。高處大羅獨稱尊貴。

The versatile scholar said: 'Zhuang Zhou said: "I looked into her beginning and saw that originally she had no life. Not only no life, but originally no form. Not only no form, but originally no qi. In the vast and indistinct void, a change occurred and there was qi; the qi changed and there was form; the form changed and there was life." The birth of a human being is the gathering of qi; when it gathers, there is life; when it disperses, there is death. Therefore it is said: "Being and non-being produce each other. All things are one." What is called one? All under heaven is a single qi! Inferring from this, there is no separate Dao that sits high in the Grand Net and alone is titled venerable and noble.'