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57: Simple Counsel
Through alignment, nations emerge
Through trickery, employ soldiers.
By forgetting agendas, grasp the World.
Verse 14: Praising the Mystery
Vision without sight: “profound.”
Hearing without listening: “silent.”
Holding without gaining: “formless”
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Verse 8: Effortless Nature
The highest virtues are like Water.
Water’s virtue is to benefit all things,
not strive against them.
It rests in places people consider foul.
Thus, it is like the Dao.
Verse 10: Can it be?
Sustain the unity of Yang and Yin,
Can it be separated?
Caress and soften the breath,
Can it be pure and united?
70: Knowing Difficulty
I speak of the:
Deep interchange of knowing,
Profound exchange of action,
And no one
can know it
nor enact it.