Which is dearer, fame or your life? Which is greater, your life or possessions? Which is more painful, gain or loss? Therefore we always pay a great price for excessive love. And suffer deep loss for great accumulation. Knowing what is enough, you will not be humiliated. Knowing where to stop, you will not be [...]
The softest thing in the world Will overcome the hardest. Non-being can enter where there is no space. Therefore I know the benefit of unattached action. The wordless teaching and unattached action. Are rarely seen.
The Tao produces one, one produces two. The two produce the three and the three produce all things. All things submit to the yin and embrace yang. They soften their energy to achieve harmony. People hate to think of themselves as “orphan,” “lowly,” or “unworthy” Yet the kings call themselves by these names. Some lose [...]
When superior students hear of the Tao They strive to practice it. When middling students hear of the Tao They sometimes keep it and sometimes lose it. When inferior students hear of the Tao They have a big laugh. But “not laughing” in itself is not sufficient to be called the Tao, and therefore it [...]
Return is the motion of the Tao. Softening is its function. All things in the cosmos arise from being. Being arises from non-being.
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