The Heaven and Earth seemingly has no pity,
it sees everything like sacrificial straw-dogs;
The master seemingly has no pity,
He sees everyone like sacrificial straw-dogs.
Between heaven and earth is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you push it, the more wind/turmoil bring forth.
Too many words will be a waste of wit,
There fore, rather keep the empty core.
Let it come, let it go without attachement.
Translated by Chiyan Wang
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The Tao is like a deep well,
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.
The Tao:
Smooths out the sharp edges,
Harmonizes the disputes,
Softens the intensity, and
Merges all into earthly dust.
It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than Heaven and Earth.
Completed by Chiyan Wang
Edited by Robert H. Smitheram
If a country over esteems its leader,
People will fight for leadership.
If a country over values what is scarce,
People begin to steal it.
If a country does not show off what is desirable,
People will not lose their conscience.
The Master leads
by emptying people's ambitions
and full-filling their inner-core,
by reducing their desires
and increasing their true strength.
When there is no need for deceit or greed,
The cunning ones shall restrain themselves.
Practice non-doing,
and everything will be accomplished.
Revised and translated by Chiyan Wang;
Editing credit to Robert H. Smitheram Ph.D.
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.
Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.
English by Stephen Mitchell
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the unknown.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet realizations and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called mystery.
Mystery within mystery.
The gateway to all wonderment.
English revised by Chiyan Wang
edited by Robert H. Smitheram
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Lao Tzu named Li Dan, was a philosopher credited with founding the philosophical system of Taoism. He is best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching translated as “The Way of Virtue.”
道Tao, literally means "way", where it implies the essential, mysterious process of the universe.
德 Te, means "virtue", "personal character", "inner strength", "integrity", "divine power", or "healing virtue”, as well as the modern meaning of "moral excellence" or "the highest goodness."
道德 Tao Te together literally means "ethical principles."
經 Ching, means "canon", "great book", or "classic.”
Lao Tzu, the Buddha, and Confucius were contemporaries.
Taoism - Lao Tzu (571-471 BCE) 100 years old
Buddhism - the Buddha (563-483 BCE) 80 years old
Confucianism - Confucius (551-479 BCE) 72 years old
The three lived around the same time in history!
Confucius Met Lao Tzu
The story of the meeting of Confucius and Lao Tzu in the state of Zhou, while Lao Tzu was curator of the royal archives was published by Si-ma Ch'ien Historical Records.
Confucius went to Zhou wanting to ask Lao Tzu about the Tao three times. Lao Tzu once told Confucius:
“Let go of the arrogance, desires, pretentious demeanor and unbridled ambition. None of these is good for health."
Confucius came back and told his disciples, "As for birds, I understand how they can fly; with fish, I understand how they can swim; and with animals, I understand how they can run. But when it comes to dragons, I cannot understand how they ascend into the sky riding the wind and the clouds. Today I met Lao Tzu, and he's just like a dragon! He is a real master.”
Confucius then concluded, “Having heard the Tao in the morning, one may die (content) in the evening.”
Reference: Robert G. Henricks - Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Columbia University Press, 2000.
Editing credit to Rhonda Richey
