To speak little is natural.
Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning.
Nor does a downpour last a whole day.
Who does these things? Heaven and Earth.
If even Heaven and Earth cannot force perfect continuity
How can people expect to?
Therefore there is such a thing as aligning one’s actions with the Tao.
If youaccord with the Tao you [...]
The imperfect is completed.
The crooked is straightened.
The empty is filled.
The old is renewed.
With few there is attainment.
With much there is confusion.
Therefore the sage grasps the one and becomes the model for all.
She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent.
She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged.
She does not boast and therefore has merit.
She [...]
The forms of great virtue is something that only the tao can follow.
The Tao as a “thing” is only vague and obscure.
How obscue! How Vague! In it there is form.
How Vague! How obscure! in it are things.
How deep! How dark! In it there is an essence.
The essence is so real– therein is belief.
From the present [...]
Get rid of “learning” and there will be no anxiety.
How much difference is there between “yes” and “no”?
Howfar removed from each other are “good” and “evil”?
Yet what the people are in awe of cannot be disregarded.
I am scattered, never having been in a comfortable center.
All the people enjoy themselves as if they are at the [...]
Get rid of “Holiness” and abandon “Wisdom” and the people will benefit a hundredfold.
Get rid of “humaneness” and abandon “rightness” and the people will return to filial piety and compassion.
Get rid of cleverness and abandon profit, and thieves and gangsters will not exist.
Since the above three are merely words, they are not sufficient.
Therefore, there must [...]
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