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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 14: Praising the Mystery
Vision without sight: “profound.”
Hearing without listening: “silent.”
Holding without gaining: “formless”
45: Flood of Virtue
If one is deficient in
Great Skill,
breath unbroken.
If one is overflowing in
Great Fullness,
breath “no extremes.”
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.
42: Dao Transforms
Dao engenders Potential.
Potential generates Movement.
Potential and Movement become the Mystery.
The Mystery produces All Things.
Verse 11: Nothing is Useful
Thirty spokes join at one hub.
Integrating what isn’t and is,
makes a cart useful.