按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页，按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页，按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部！
————未阅读完？加入书签已便下次继续阅读！
Tending to relating to the family
Its ideal will be bubbling over
Tending to relating to the community
Its ideal will be growing
Tending to relating to the nation
Its ideal will be abundant
Tending to relating to the world
Its ideal will be everywhere。
So body happens seeing body
Family happens seeing family
Community happens seeing community
Nation happens seeing nation
World happens seeing world。
Why does it happen that I know the nature of the world？
This just happens。
55
Holding the richness of the ideal in the mouth
Compares to relating to a newborn child。
Poisonous bugs are without stinging
Fierce animals are without grasping
Birds of prey are without pouncing。
There are weak bones and yielding tendons； yet a firm grasp
The male does not yet know union with the female
Yet its virility is strong
It has essence even at the extreme。
Screaming all day yet without being hoarse
Harmonizing even at the extreme。
Knowing harmony say entireness
Knowing entireness say luminous
In accord with giving birth say happy
The mind results in animus； say strong。
Things reach the prime and then grow old？
What is called this is without tao。
What is without tao comes to an early end。
56
Those who know are without words
Those with words are without knowing。
Corking its bottle
Obstructing its door
Blunting its sharpness
Untying its tangles
Harmonizing its brightness
Being together with the dusty earth
Appropriately called insightful togetherness。
So one cannot obtain it yet be attached
One cannot obtain it yet be detached
One cannot obtain it yet benefit
One cannot obtain it yet be harmed
One cannot obtain it yet treasure
One cannot obtain it yet consider as common。
So it acts as the treasure of the world。
57
When governing the nation happens correctly
Surprising use of strategy happens。
Absent of effort grabbing the world happens。
Why do I know this is so？
This just happens。
The world has an abundance of prohibitions and taboos
Yet people become increasingly inadequate
People have an abundance of beneficial tools
Confusion multiplies in the families of the nation
Men have an abundance of skills and cleverness
Surprising things arise and multiply
Laws and decrees multiply conspicuously
Robbers and thieves are present in abundance。
So sages say
I am absent of action yet people transform themselves
I am fond of stillness yet people correct themselves
I am absent of effort yet people are of themselveswealthy
I am absent from desire yet people of themselvesexhibit true nature。
58
They who administrate are covered； muffled
Their people are pure； honest
They who administrate are exacting； scrutinizing
Their people are incomplete； deficient。
Such misfortune！
The place of happiness place is to lean upon it
Such happiness！
The place of misfortune is to be suppressed。
Who knows its limit？
It is absent from the correct。
The correct returns； acting surprising
The valued returns； acting as evil spirits。
The dirt in the eye of men；
It is solid； everyday； long…lasting。
Appropriately it happens that sages are
Square yet without cutting
Pointed yet without piercing
Straight yet not unbridled
Bright yet not dazzling。
59
In governing people
Noone compares efforts of the heavens to restraint。
In the end only restraint is appropriately called quickly resolving
What is called quickly resolving has heavy accumulation of ideal。
Following heavy accumulation of ideal
Comes absence of lacking conquering
Following absence of lacking conquering
Noone knows limits
When noone knows limits
Presence of a nation can happen。
In the presence of the mother of a nation
Growth and longevity may happen。
Appropriately called
Deep roots； firm stalks； growth； life； longevity；looking at tao。
60
Governing a great nation looks like cooking tiny fish。
When it happens that tao is present in the world
What is clever lacks spirit
What is not clever lacks spirit
What has spirit is not wounding man
What has no spirit is not wounding man。
Sages also are not wounding man。
In the end both are without wounding each other
So ideal is reached； merges； comes within。
61
Those which are great nations flow and spread lower
The intersection of the world
The female of the world。
The female entirely conquers the male through stillness
It happens that stillness acts lower。
So when a great nation is lower than a tiny nation
It next grabs the tiny nation
When a tiny nation is lower than a great nation
It next grabs the great nation。
So some are lower and it happens they grab
Some are lower and yet they grab。
Without fail a great nation desires to bring together and rear others
Without fail a tiny nation desires to enter into the efforts of others。
In the end for both of these to acquire their desired position
Those which are great appropriately act low。
62
That which is tao is treasurehouse for the 10000 things
Treasure of the valuing man
Place of refuge for the man who is not valuing。
Embellished words can cause respect to be marketed
Doing valued things can cause lavish praise to enter
Men who are not valuing； why be rejecting their presence？
So establish the emperor
Install three ministers
Even though it happens
That the gift of the large jade disk is precededby a team of horses
It can not compare to sitting； emulating this tao。
Why did it happen that in ancient times
There were those who treasured this tao？
Did they go without saying
Seek and finding happens
Possess faults and escape from the anomalous happens？
So it acts as the treasure of the world
63
Acting absent of acting
Effort absent of effort
Tasting absent of tasting
Great； small； abundant； few
Repay hatred； ideal happens。
Planning the difficult relates to what is easy
Acting great relates to what is small
The difficult efforts of the world seed doing related to what is easy
The great efforts of the world seed doing relatedto what is small。
Appropriately it happens
That sages eventually lack great action
So they are able to perfect what is great。
In the end light promises seed scanty belief
Abundant easiness seeds abundant difficulty。
Appropriately it happens
That sages see all things as being equally difficult
So eventually an absence of difficulty is with them。
64
What is peaceful is easily maintained
What is not begun is easily planned
What is fragile is easily shattered
What is tiny is easily scat