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56: Profound Integrity
Knowing is speechless.
Speaking is not knowing.
Shut one’s eyes and ears,
Block one’s gates,
Harmonize one’s vastness,
Unify one’s dusts,
Nourish one’s basin,
Eliminates one’s agitation.
Verse 24: Bitter Kindness
Gloating is not authority.
Self-promotion is not approval.
Showing off is not shining.
Pride is not success.
Arrogance is not memorable.
Verse 41: Same Difference
The Weaver hears of the Way,
and resolves to act from its Center.
The Aspirant hears of the Way,
and sometimes gets it, sometimes forgets it.
The Fool just laughs
when they hear of the Way.
Verse 17: Simple, Sincere Conduct
The ultimate Weavers of the Way?
No one even knows they’re here.
53: Adding Proof
Make me rely on having knowledge
to walk on the Great Way
and all I fear is going awry.
Verse 40: Use it
Returning.
Dao’s movement.
Softening.
Dao’s function.