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63: Beginning of Kindness
Act (y)in-action.
Engage non-reactively.
Taste tastelessness.
Verse 7: Sheathing Light
Heaven is permanent; Earth is eternal.
Nature is permanent and eternal
because it is not self-made.
Being other-made enables immortality.
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.
77: Heaven’s Way
The Way of Creation is like
Drawing a Bow.
Raise it by pressing it,
Lower it by pulling it,
Having overdrawn,
reduce it.
If underdrawn,
add to it.
Verse 46: Moderate Desire
In a world of Active Dao,
still, ride horses for fertilizer.
In a world of Passive Dao,
warhorses are born in open spaces.
Bridges Across Time
A few folks have wondered how I go about translating the Dao De Jing into Weaving the Virtuous Way. What sources do I use? What does the translation process look like? Are you really translating Lao Zi or are you offering your interpretation?