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Verse 28: Return to Simplicity
Know one’s creativity,
preserve one’s receptivity,
become Creation’s channel.
Serving as Creation’s channel,
Enduring Integrity is non-separation,
a return to unity.
81: Essence Revealed
Trustworthy speech is not beautiful,
beautified speech is not trustworthy.
Knowing is not expansive,
expansiveness is not-knowing.
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 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.
75: Greed Harms
A person’s hunger,
Is because the taxes on food are high.
This is how there is hunger.
Common people’s disorder,
Is because their superior is too active.
This is how the superior doesn’t regulate them.
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.