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for rhinos have nowhere to sink their horns tigers have nowhere to sink their claws and soldiers have nowhere to sink their blades and why because for them there is no land of death
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The Way begets them Virtue keeps them matter shapes them usage completes them thus do all things honour the Way and glorify Virtue
the honour of the Way the glory of Virtue and not conferred but always so the Way begets and keeps them cultivates and trains them steadies and adjusts them nurtures and protects them
but begets without possessing acts without presuming and cultivates without controlling this is called Dark Virtue
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The world has a maiden she becomes the world's mother
who knows the mother understands the child who understands the child keeps the mother safe and lives without trouble
who blocks the opening who closes the gate lives without toil
who unblocks the opening who meddles in affairs lives without hope
who sees the small has vision who protects the weak has strength
who uses his light who trusts his vision lives beyond death this is the Hidden Immortal
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Were I sufficiently wise I would follow the Great Way and only fear going astray
the Great Way is smooth but people love byways
their palaces are spotless their fields are overgrown and their granaries are empty
they wear fine clothes they carry sharp swords they tire of food and drink and possess more than they need this is called robbery and robbery is not the Way
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What is planted right is not uprooted what is held right is not ripped away future generations worship it forever
cultivated in thee self virtue becomes real cultivated in the family virtue multiplies cultivated in the village virtue increases cultivated in the state virtue prospers cultivated in the world virtue abounds
thus view the self through the self view the family through the family view the village through the village view the state through the state view the world through the world
how do we know what the world is like through this
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He who contains virtue in abundance resembles a newborn child wasps don't sting him beasts don't claw him birds of prey don't carry him off his bones are weak and his tendons are soft and yet his grip is firm
he hasn't known the union of sexes and yet his penis is stiff so full of essence is he
he cries all day yet ever gets hoarse so full of breath is he who knows how to breath endures who knows how to endure is wise
who lengthens his life tempts luck who breathes with his will is strong
but virility means old age this isn't the Way what isn't the Way ends early
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Those who know don't talk those who talk don't know
seal the opening close the gate dull the edge untie the tangle soften the light join the dust this is called the Dark Union
it can't be embraced it can't be abandoned it can't be helped it can't be harmed it can't be exalted it can't be debased thus does the world exalt it
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Use direction to govern a country use indirection to fight a war use inaction to rule the world how do we know this works
the greater the prohibitions the poorer the people the sharper the weapons the darker the realm
the smarter the scheme the stranger the outcome the finer the treasure the thicker the thieves
thus the sage declares I change nothing and the people transform themselves I stay still and the people adjust themselves
I do nothing and the people enrich themselves I want nothing and the people simplify themselves
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Where government stands aloof the people open up where government steps in the people slip away
happiness rests in misery misery hides in happiness
who knows where they end there is no direction direction turns into indirection good turns into evil the people have been lost for a long long time
thus the sage is an edge that doesn't cut a point that doesn't pierce a line that doesn't extend a light that doesn't blind
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In governing people and caring for Heaven nothing surpasses economy
economy means planning ahead planning ahead means accumulating virtue accumulating virtue means overcoming all overcoming all means knowing no limit knowing no limit means guarding the realm
guarding the realm's mother means living long
this means deep roots and a solid trunk the Way of long and lasting life
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Ruling a great state is like cooking a small fish
when you govern the world with the Tao spirits display no powers
Not that they don't have power； But their power will not harm people。
Inasmuch as none of them harms anybody； Therefore virtue belongs to them both。
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The great state is a watershed the confluence of the world the female of the world through stillness the female conquers the male in order to be still she needs to be lower
the great state that is lower governs the small state the small state that is lower is governed by the great state
some lower themselves to govern some lower themselves to be governed
the great state's only desire is to unite and lead others the small state's only desire is to join and serve others
for both to achieve their desire the greater needs to be lower
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The Tao is creation's sanctuary treasured by the good it keeps the bad alive
beautiful words might be the price noble deeds might be the gift how can we abandon people who are bad
thus when emperors are enthroned or ministers installed though there be great discs of jade followed by teams of horses they don't rival one who sits and offers up this Way
why the ancients exalted it did they not proclaim who searches thereby finds who errs thereby escapes thus the world exalts it
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Act without acting work without working taste without tasting
great or small many or few repay each wrong with virtue
plan for the hard while it's easy work on the great while it's small
the hardest task in the world begins easy the greatest goal in the world begins small
therefore the sage never acts great he thus achieves great things
who quickly agrees is seldom trusted who makes it all easy finds it all hard
therefore the sage makes everything hard he thus finds nothing hard
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It's easy to rule while it's peaceful it's east to plan before it arrive it's easy to break while it's fragile it's easy to disperse while it's small
act before it exists govern before it rebels
as giant tree grows from the tiniest shoot a great tower rises from a basket of dirt a thousand mile journey begins at your feet
but to act is to fail to control is to lose therefore the sage doesn't act he thus doesn't fail he doesn't control he thus doesn't lose
when people pursue a task they always fail near the end care at the end as well as the start means an end to failure
the sage thus seeks what no one seeks he doesn't prize hard to…get…goods he studies what no one studies he turns to what others pass by to help all things be natural he thus dares not act
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The ancient masters of