68. Coinciding with Nature Those who are good champions don't battle. Those who are good at war don't get angry. Those who are good at defeating the enemy...
69. Profound Use There are slogans for using armies. "I don't presume to deem-act as lord and deem-act as guest. Don't presume to advance an inch and withdraw...
70. Difficulty in Knowing How My words are profoundly easy to know. Profoundly easy to perform. In the social world none are able to know or to perform. ...
71. Know-how as a disease Knowing not to know is better. Not knowing to know is a defect. In general, in only 'defecting' defects, using this is not to...
"Thus, nature was a source of divine revelation for native Americans. With insights derived from the study of Mother Earth and her children, native thinkers...
72. Self-love If the people do not fear authority then great authority has arrived. Don't toy around with things they are at home with. Don't despise things...
73. Employing Deeming If one is couragously presumptuous, then--killing. If one is couragously non-presumptuous, then--living. These pairings : one benefits,...
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74. Controlling Feelings When the people are not afraid off death For what reason would you use death to frighten them? If you cause the people to constant...
75. The Destructiveness of Envy Starvation among the people comes from how much taxes-in-kind those above them 'eat'. From this: they starve. The difficulty in...
76. Strength's Warning Signs. The human living state is soft and pliable. The dead state is hard and rigid. The alive state of the ten-thousand natural kinds...
77. The Natural Guide The guide of nature: Is it not like a taut bow? That which is high, represses them. That which is low, raise them up. That which has...
78. Recognizing Fidelity In the social world, nothing is softer or more pliant than water. And yet when it attacks firm, rigid things, none of them is able to...
79. Recognizing Agreements Settling a massive resentment Necessarily some resentment will be left-over. How can such be deemed as worth? Using this: Sages...
80. Primitivist Independence 'Small' the state and 'few' the people. Bring about that having artifacts by the tens and hundreds yet they won't use them. Bring...
81. Making the Essence Clear Accurate language is not beautiful. Beautiful language is not accurate. Those who are good at [things] don't distinguish. Those...
1. Words and names are not the way They can't define the absolute It's better that you look within Hold your tongue and just be mute Look within and look out...
2. Where beautiful and ugly Do not stand in opposition Where life and death or yes and no Do not make a contradiction Can you see the vacant place Where good...
3. If you love accumulation Gain and increase every day Thieves and robbers will be waiting Just to take it all away Best to be so empty-headed That it seems...
4. This nothingness is like a well Always giving, never taking And all claims to origin Neither wanting or forsaking You know it's ever present You find it...
5. This emptiness is truly void And infinitely capacious It holds whatever comes its way Eternally tenacious Can you take whatever comes? Though judgment calls...
6. Complete and full awareness Is like an open valley Of endless generation That doesn't reach finale It is a simple presence It's a nothing you can see You'll...
7. This presence is unlimited Because it wasn't ever born And it will not be perishing Will never give you cause to mourn It truly wants for nothing It has no...
8. The seer flows like water Lying low along the way Nourishing whatever comes To be held on display The seer keeps to simple ways And therefore is content ...
9. Don't fill a bowl Till it's more than full Or sharpen a blade Till it must go dull Don't pile up treasure That comes at great cost Approval and riches Are...
10. Can you see as a child sees And keep the simple vision? See the inner oneness With absolute precision Hold all things in your embrace The entire world is...
11. The empty hub at center Allows a wheel to roll The vacancy within defines The function of a bowl The openness within a house Provides location to reside ...
This translation is also inferior to the one used previously. ... From: Chris Childs To: DailyDao@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:06 PM ...
