The five colors make the human eye blind.
The five notes make the human ear deaf.
The five tastes make the human mouth blunt.
Horse-racing, over-riding, [and] field-hunting make the human heart turn mad.
The difficulty in the obtaining of treasures makes the human conduct checked.
Therefore the holy man attends to the inner [the soul]
not he attends to to the eye [the visible, the outer].
Therefore he dismisses the latter, he takes the former.
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