Holding body and soul, embracing the one. Can anything escape? Cultivating Chee (Yen-Chee),and becoming supple, can be as a newborn. Cleansing, then seeing with the primal vision, found no strain. Loving all men, rulers need no cleverness. Opening and closing the gate of heaven, cannot go without female. Understanding all things, can you still do [...]
Be contained, better than over flow. Too sharp, easy to break. Too rich, difficult to protect. Too proud of wealth and titles, asking for disaster. Retire after success, Heaven’s Tao.
Highest good, like water. Water provides to everything, yet not demanding. It flows to lowly places (shunned by men), is like Tao. Dwell, in good place. Meditate, into the depth of the heart. Be Jen. Speak, trustworthily. Rules, be just. In business, be competent. In action, be timely. No argument. No blame.
Heaven, Earth, last forever. Why? They are selfless, so forever more. Thus, sages stay behind, yet ahead, detached, yet with all. Being selfless, his Self is fulfilled.
The valley spirit (god of agriculture), never dies, the primal mother. Her gateway, the root of heaven and earth, seemingly presents. Use it, never exhaust.
Heaven and earth have no Jen, use everything as guinea pigs. Sages have no Jen, use people as guinea pigs. The Universe, as a bellows; Empty it, yet not bend. Move it, yet more yield. Say too much, less is understood. Better hold fast to the center.
