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OK, That’s it; we’ve finished the James Legge translation of the Tao.
Starting tomorrow, we’ll begin chapter one of the “Tao Huang” edition of the Tao.¬ I think you’ll find it a good deal more easily understood, albeit a little less poetic (Not that that’s a bad thing!)
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Chapter Eighty-One
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.¬ Those who are skilled in the Tao do not dispute about it; the disputatious are not skilled in it.¬ Those who know the Tao are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
The sage does not accumulate for himself.¬ The more that [...]
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¬Chapter Eighty
In a little state with a small population, I would so order it, that, though there were individuals with the abilities of ten or a hundred men, there should be no employment of them; I would make the people, while looking on death as a grievous thing, yet not remove elsewhere to avoid it.
Though [...]
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Chapter Seventy-Nine
When a reconciliation is effected between two parties after a great animosity, there is sure to be a grudge remaining in the mind of the one who was wrong.¬ And how can this be beneficial to the other?
Therefore to guard against this, the sage keeps the left-hand portion of the record of the engagement, [...]
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Chapter Seventy-Eight
There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it;–for there is nothing so effectual for which it can be changed.
Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and [...]
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Chapter Seventy-Seven
May not the Way or Tao of Heaven be compared to the method of bending a bow?¬ The part of the bow which was high is brought low, and what was low is raised up.¬ So Heaven diminishes where there is superabundance, and supplements where there is deficiency.
It is the Way of Heaven to [...]
