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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.
Verse 38: Discussing Integrity
Superior integrity is not virtuous,
this is how it has integrity.
Inferior integrity does not lose virtue,
this is how it lacks integrity.
Verse 21: Empty Heart-Mind
True virtue’s appearance
is only from the Dao.
The Dao’s form is vague and indistinct.
74: Systemic Confusion
How can you scare people with murder
if they’re always unafraid of death?
Make people constantly afraid of death,
And they’ll become non-conforming.
76: Restrained Strength
A person’s generative force:
Soft, pliant.
Their stillness:
Persisting, enduring, able, strong.
Verse 34: True Compassion
The Great Dao is boundless
It can be either left or right.
Completion follows events,
it cannot be claimed as a possession.