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43: Universal Utility
Nature’s softest,
overpowers nature’s hardest.
Yin and Yang join seamlessly.
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.
58: Smooth Transformation
In one’s disengaged governance,
their people are like alcohol.
In one’s engaged governance,
their people are absent.
Disaster! Happiness leans on it.
Happiness! Disaster conceals it.
Verse 37: For Regulation
The Dao endures without becoming.
The Leader can preserve it
and All That Is self-evolves.
Verse 40: Use it
Returning.
Dao’s movement.
Softening.
Dao’s function.
Verse 26: Noble Virtue
Prudence is the root of ease,
Stillness rules over anxiety.