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  Love is the fruit of sacrifice
  Wealth is the fruit of generosity
  Be content; rest in your own fullness ?br》 You will not suffer from loss
  You抣l avoid the snare of this world
  You抣l have long life and endless blessings

  45

  The Great Perfection seems imperfect yet this world it creates is never impaired
  The Great Fullness seems empty yet this world it creates is never lacking
  Great truth seems false
  Great skill seems clumsy
  Great eloquence seems like babble
  Keep moving and you抣l miss the cold
  Keep silent and you抣l beat the heat
  Be tranquil like the rain of spring
  Be pure like the sheen of silk
  Then the Great Perfection will be perfect and the Great Fullness will be full

  46

  When Tao is present in the empire men follow their own nature and riding horses work the fields
  When Tao is absent from the empire men go astray and war horses breed on sacred ground
  There is no greater loss than losing Tao
  No greater curse than desire
  No greater tragedy than discontentment
  No greater fault than selfishness

  47

  Without going outside one can know the whole world
  Without looking out the window one can see the ways of Heaven
  The farther one goes the less one knows
  Thus the Sage does not go; yet he knows
  He does not look; yet he sees
  He does not do; yet all is done

  48

  To become learned; gain daily
  To obtain Tao; reduce daily
  Reduce and reduce again until all action is reduced to non…action
  Then no one is left
  Nothing is done yet nothing is left undone
  One who gives freely and without attachment gets a full life in return
  One who gives with the secret hope of getting is merely engaged in business
  Truly; they neither give nor receive any of the treasure from this world below Heaven

  49

  The Sage has no fixed heart of his own
  Those who look at him see their own hearts
  Those who are good he treats with goodness
  Those who are bad he also treats with goodness because the nature of his being is good
  Those who are truthful he treats with truth
  Those who are not truthful he also treats with truth because the nature of his being is truthful
  The Sage lives in harmony with all below Heaven
  He sees everything as his own self
  He loves everyone as his own child
  All people are drawn to him every eye and ear is turned toward him

  50

  Again and again
  Men come in with birth and go out with death
  One in three are followers of life
  One in three are followers of death
  And those just passing from life to death also number one in three
  But they all die in the end
  Why is this so?
  Because they clutch to life and cling to this passing world
  I hear that one who lives by his own truth is not like this
  He walks without making footprints in this world
  Going about; he does not fear the rhinoceros or tiger
  Entering a battlefield; he does not fear sharp weapons
  For in him the rhino can find no place to pitch its horn
  The tiger no place to fix its claw
  The soldier no place to thrust his blade
  Why is this so?
  Because he dwells in that place where death cannot enter

  51

  Tao gives all things life
  Te gives them fulfillment
  Nature is what shapes them
  Living is what brings them to completion
  Every creature honours Tao and worships Te not by force but through its own living and breathing
  Though Tao gives life to all things
  Te is what cultivates them
  Te is that magic power which raises and rears them completes and prepares them comforts and protects them
  To create without owning
  To give without expecting
  To fill without claiming
  This is the profound expression of Tao
  The highest perfection of Te

  52

  That which created the universe is the Mother of the world
  By knowing the Mother one knows her children
  By knowing her children one comes to know her
  Such is their unity that one does not exist without the other
  Fully embrace your life and you will share in the glory of creation
  The Mother herself will be your guardian
  And all her creation will be your guide
  Stay with the Mother; shut the mouth; close the gates and you are never in trouble
  Abandon the Mother; open the mouth; be busy with other and you are beyond all hope of rescue
  Seeing your own smallness is called insight
  Honouring your own tenderness is called strength
  The sun in all its glory reveals a passing world
  Only the inner light illuminates eternity
  Only that light can guide us back home
  Have faith
  Follow your own shining
  Be aware of your own awareness
  On the darkest nights you will not stumble
  On the brightest days you will not blink
  This is called 揟he Practice of Eternal Light?br》
  53

  If I had the least bit of wisdom I could follow the path of Tao quite well
  My only fear would be trying to go my own way
  The Great Path is simple and direct yet people love to take the side…routes
  See how magnificent the courts have become
  The women are dressed in colourful gowns
  The men carry well…crafted swords
  Food and drink overflow
  Wealth and finery abound
  Yet in the shadow of all this splendour the fields grow barren the granaries empty
  I say this pomp at the expense of others is like boasting of thieves after a looting
  Surely it is contrary to Tao
  Surely it cuts against the grain of the whole empire

  54

  The truth; once established; can never be uprooted
  The truth; once imbibed; can never be stripped away
  A sacrifice to a higher cause is never lost
  An offering to an ancestor never goes to waste
  When a person embodies Tao his heart becomes true
  When a family embodies Tao it thrives
  When a village embodies Tao it is protected
  When a country embodies Tao it prospers
  When the world embodies Tao it reveals its perfection
  Tao is everywhere it has become everything
  To truly see it; one must see it as it has revealed itself
  In a person; see is as a person
  In a family; see is as a family
  In a country; see is as a country
  In the world; see is as the world
  How have I come to know all this?
  Tao has shown me ?Tao as all this!

  55

  One who embraces Tao becomes pure and innocent like a newborn babe
  Deadly insects will not sting him
  Wild beasts will not attack him
  Birds of prey will not strike him
  He is oblivious to the union of male and female yet his vitality is full his inner spirit is complete
  He can cry all day without straining so perfect is his harmony so magically does he blend with this world
  Know this harmony ?it brings the Eternal
  Know the Eternal ?it brings enlightenment
  A full life ?this is your blessing
  A gentle heart ?this is your strength
  Things in harmony with the Tao remain
  Things that are forced; grow for a while but then wither away
  This is not in keeping with Tao
  Whatever is not in keeping with Tao comes to an early end

  56

  One who speaks does not know
  One who knows does not speak
  Shut the mouth
  Close the gates
  Blunt the sharpness
  Loosen the knots
  Tempe the glare
  Become one with the dust of the world
  This is called 揟he Secret Embrace?br》 One who knows this secret is not moved by attachment or aversion; swayed by profit or loss; nor touched by honour or disgrace
  He is far beyond the cares of men yet comes to hold the dearest place in their hearts

  57

  To rule the state have a known plan
  To win a battle; have an unknown plan
  To gain the universe; have no plan at all
  Let the universe itself reveal to you its splendour
  How do I know this should be so?
  Because of this ?br》 The more restrictions; the more poverty
  The more weapons; the more fear in the land
  The more cleverness; the more strange events
  The more laws; the more law breakers
  Thus the Sages say;
  Act with a pure

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