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50: Value Life
Once we’re born,
we start dying.
3 out of 10 follow life.
3 out of 10 follow death.
3 out of 10 of those alive rush to their deaths.
Why? Because their life is so important to them.
Verse 18: Weak Practice
When the Way is neglected,
values of charity and virtue appear.
Wisdom and understanding emerge
together with great delusion.
Verse 25: Phenomenal Cycle
Earth shapes Identities
Heaven shapes Earth.
Dao shapes heaven.
Weaving the Way shapes the Dao.
81: Essence Revealed
Trustworthy speech is not beautiful,
beautified speech is not trustworthy.
Knowing is not expansive,
expansiveness is not-knowing.
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.
65: Pure Integrity
Thus it is said:
Those who weave the Way,
do not do so through “conceptualizing ‘people,’”
but through their not-knowing.