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Archive for October, 2009

Chapter Thirty-One

How ingenious weaponry may seem to be, though it will always be disastrous rubbish Everybody hates it A righteous man saves himself from it While a true man will not soil his hands with it A fighter grabs for it Weapons are not good for meek people They bring nothing but trouble One who is [...]

Chapter Thirty

One who advocates a righteous world, uses no violence Because One who uses violence, provokes violence And where discord rules there is chaos And after times of conflict lean years will follow The righteous one does what he can and forces nothing Is not proud about what he achieves Does not brag about what he [...]

Chapter Twenty-Nine

One who thinks he is capable of improving Creation, will not succeed Creation is perfect and cannot be corrected One who intervenes in nature, will only destroy nature One who tries to control nature, will lose to nature Because everything is what it is and everything happens as it happens At times it is warm [...]

Chapter Twenty-Eight

One who knows his strength and yet stays mild, is the least Whoever is the least, is balanced like the open-minded child he once was One who has fathomed the lie is an example for the world One who became human again is an example for the world One knowing oneself, is a knowing among [...]

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