Chapter 41 The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in ouremployment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things! 2 We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue! 3 I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God. Previous Home Next |