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73: Appointed
Resolve with certainty is the point,
Resolve without certainty is the nock.
Each of these brings benefit and harm.
Verse 12: Examine Desire
The five colors cause people’s eyes to go blind.
The five sounds cause people’s ears to go deaf.
The five flavors cause people’s mouths to spoil.
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Verse 21: Empty Heart-Mind
True virtue’s appearance
is only from the Dao.
The Dao’s form is vague and indistinct.
Verse 23: Nothing is Everywhere
Shh! Just do it.
Morning winds fade.
The rainy day ends.
What makes it like this?
Nature.
Nothing Nature does lasts long,
How can what people do be any different?
75: Greed Harms
A person’s hunger,
Is because the taxes on food are high.
This is how there is hunger.
Common people’s disorder,
Is because their superior is too active.
This is how the superior doesn’t regulate them.