Happiness is not happiness.
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I’m not sure that the happiness found is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop. They say they are happy, but I am not happy and I am not unhappy either. Ultimately, do they have happiness or not? I regard actionless action as worthy of being called happiness, though the ordinary person regards it as a great burden. It is said ‘Perfect happiness is not happiness, perfect glory is not glory’.
The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. But it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong. Perfect happiness is keeping yourself alive, and only actionless action can have this effect. This is why I want to say:
‘Heaven does without doing through is purity
Earth does without doing through its calmness.’