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 ...
What does everyone else think, if there is a consensus I can stop this translation. If the silence is deafening I will continue... Chris Moderator, The Daily...
this ryhme seems foreign to me, some nuances are left out to make it ryhme. But, it is always helpfull to hear another point of view. just hear without...
Anybody else see the irony in this? ... From: Luhra Tivis Warren To: DailyDao@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [DailyDao]...
While this is not my favorite translation, please continue. Because I cannot read Chinese, the Tao Te Ching is like a painting I can never look upon with my...
12. Too much sound can make you deaf Too many colors leave you blind Can you let desire die down And not leave emptiness behind? Wanting things can drive you...
I am enlightened by your comments, Tony. I may be prejudiced because I am a poet. Running into those trite rhymes at the end of a line feels like a slap in...
thank you for the suggested reading, i have found some excerpts from your suggestion online, and i must say it seems very interesting and beautifull. don't get...
i am just glad there's someone who makes the translation/explanation of this Tao Te Ching , it enlightens me in anyway ... STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8...
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"The world is fine like it is, it's when we insert ourselves that trouble arises." Tony, I am a new member to the list, and what you said here really made ...
13. Fame and shame are equal And so are gain and loss It isn't very difficult To get this point across Having fame you know that you Are terrified to lose it ...
