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Verse 36: Veiled Wisdom
Spread things out first
to facilitate bringing them together.
Strengthening
enables softening.
Bibliography
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42: Dao Transforms
Dao engenders Potential.
Potential generates Movement.
Potential and Movement become the Mystery.
The Mystery produces All Things.
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.
65: Pure Integrity
Thus it is said:
Those who weave the Way,
do not do so through “conceptualizing ‘people,’”
but through their not-knowing.
52: Returning to the Origin
Everything under heaven has a beginning
that serves as its mother.
Knowing the mother,
is knowledge of the child.
Knowing the child,
preserves the mother.
There is no danger of it disappearing.