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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.
Verse 23: Nothing is Everywhere
Shh! Just do it.
Morning winds fade.
The rainy day ends.
What makes it like this?
Nature.
Nothing Nature does lasts long,
How can what people do be any different?
59: Preserving Dao
In Regulating the Person,
or Attending to Heaven,
Conservation is best.
72: Loving Oneself
People’s irreverence
leads to the greatest reverence.
They do not grow too familiar with
their abiding.
They do not tire of
their arising.
Verse 2: Cultivating the Main Point
Once beauty is recognized,
the idea of ugliness is created.
Once good is established,
so is the notion of not good.
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.