00:00:30:21 - 00:00:58:24 Unknown But how that can be told is not the eternal Dow. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Dow is both named and nameless as nameless. It is the origin of all things as named. It is the mother of 10,000 things ever desire less. One can see the mystery. Ever desiring one sees only the manifestations. 00:00:59:20 - 00:01:37:18 Unknown And the mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding. Under heaven, all can see beauty as beauty. Only because there is ugliness. All can no good as good. Only because there is evil being and nonbeing produce each other. The difficult is born in the easy. Long is defined by short. The high by the low. Before and after go along with each other. 00:01:39:00 - 00:02:01:20 Unknown So this age lives openly with apparent duality and paradoxical unity. This age can act without effort and teach without words, nurturing things, without possessing them. He works, but not for rewards. He competes, but not for results. When the work is done, it is forgotten. That is why it lasts forever. 00:02:09:03 - 00:02:38:07 Unknown Putting a value on status will create contentiousness. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. By not displaying what is desirable, you will cause the people's hearts to remain undisturbed. The sage governs by emptying minds and hearts, by weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. Practice not doing. When action is pure and selfless. Everything settles into its own perfect place. 00:02:44:16 - 00:03:13:22 Unknown Heaven and earth are impartial. They see the 10,000 things as straw dogs. The sage is not sentimental. He treats all his people as straw dogs. The sage is like heaven and earth to him. None are especially dear, nor is there anyone he dis favors. He gives and gives without condition, offering his treasures to everyone. Between heaven and earth is a space like a bellows, empty and inexhaustible. 00:03:14:13 - 00:03:48:04 Unknown The more it is used, the more it produces. Hold on to the center. Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within the spirit that never dies is called the mysterious feminine. Although she becomes the whole universe, her immaculate purity is never lost. Although she assumes countless forms. Her true identity remains intact. The gateway to the mysterious female is called the root of Creation. 00:03:49:11 - 00:04:26:22 Unknown Listen to her voice Spirit echo through creation. Without fail, she reveals her presence. Without fail, she brings us to our own perfection. Although it is invisible, it endures. It will never end. Heaven is eternal. The earth endures. Why do heaven and earth last forever? They do not live for themselves only. This is the secret of their durability. For this reason, the sage puts himself last and so ends up ahead. 00:04:27:12 - 00:04:38:24 Unknown He stays a witness to life. So he endures, serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled through selfless action. Fulfillment is attained. 00:04:47:22 - 00:05:10:09 Unknown The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It flows to low places loathed by all men. Therefore, it is like the don't live in accordance with the nature of things in dwelling be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart, in dealing with others. Be gentle and kind. Stand by your word. 00:05:10:20 - 00:05:41:20 Unknown Govern with equity. Be timely in choosing the right moment. One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things. He moves in harmony with the present moment, always knowing the truth of just what to do. To keep on filling is not as good as stopping. Overfilled the cup. The hands drip. Better to stop pouring. 00:05:42:06 - 00:05:57:18 Unknown Sharpen a blade too much and its edge will soon be lost. Fill your house with jade and gold and it brings insecurity. Puff yourself with honor and pride. And no one can save you from a fall. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven. 00:06:05:01 - 00:06:29:05 Unknown Carrying body and soul. And embracing the one. Can you avoid separation? Can you let your body become as supple as a newborn child? In the opening and shutting of Heaven's Gate. Can you play the feminine part? Can you love your people and govern your domain without self-importance? Giving birth and nourishing. Having yet not possessing. Working. Yet not taking credit. 00:06:29:13 - 00:07:03:15 Unknown Leading without controlling or dominating. One who heeds this power brings the down to this very earth. This is the primal virtue. 30 spokes converge upon a single hub. It is, on the whole, in the center that the use of the cart hinges. Shape clay into a vessel. It is the space within that makes it useful. Carve fine doors and windows that the room is useful in its emptiness. 00:07:04:12 - 00:07:39:06 Unknown The youthfulness of what is. Depends on what is not. The five colors blind. The eye. The five tones deaf in the ear. The five flavors. Dull. The taste. The chase and the hunt craze. People's minds wasting energy to obtain rare objects only impedes one's growth. The master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. 00:07:39:18 - 00:08:11:09 Unknown He prefers what is within to what is without favor and disgrace. See him alarming high status greatly afflicts your person. Why are favor and disgrace alarming? Seeking favor is degrading Alarming when it has gotten alarming when it is lost. Why does high status greatly afflict your person? The reason we have a lot of trouble is that we have cells. 00:08:11:21 - 00:08:32:19 Unknown If we had no cells, what trouble would we have? Man's true self is eternal, yet he thinks I am this body and will soon die. If we have no body, what calamities can we have? One who sees himself as everything is fit to be guardian of the world. One who loves himself as everyone is fit to be teacher of this world. 00:08:41:13 - 00:09:08:17 Unknown That which cannot be seen is called invisible. That which cannot be heard is called inaudible. That which cannot be held is called intangible. These three cannot be defined. Therefore they are merged as one. Each of these three is subtle for description. By intuition you can see it, hear it, and feel it. Then the unseen, unheard and untouched are present as one. 00:09:09:21 - 00:09:44:22 Unknown Its rising brings no dawn, its setting, no darkness. It goes on and unnamable, returning into nothingness. Approach it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. You cannot know it, but you can be it at ease in your own life. Discovering how things have always been. Brings one into harmony with the way the ancient masters were profound and subtle. 00:09:45:09 - 00:10:11:19 Unknown Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is no way to describe it. One can only describe them vaguely by their appearance. Watchful. Like men crossing a winter stream. Alert like men aware of danger. Simple as on carved wood. Hollow like caves yielding like ice about to melt. Amorphous like muddy water. But the muddy as water clears as it is stilled. 00:10:12:15 - 00:10:53:08 Unknown And out of that stillness, life arises. He who keeps the door does not want to be full, but precisely because he is never full. He can remain like a hidden sprout does not rush to early ripening become totally empty, that your heart be at peace. Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings. Things flourish each by each only to return to the source, to what is and what is to be returned to. 00:10:53:08 - 00:11:25:21 Unknown The root is to find peace. To find peace is to fulfill one's destiny. To fulfill one's destiny is to be constant. To know the constant is called insight. Not knowing this cycle leads to eternal disaster. Knowing the constant gives perspective. This perspective is impartial. Impartiality is the highest nobility. The highest nobility is divine. Being divine, it will be a one with the Dow Being at one with the Dow is eternal. 00:11:27:06 - 00:12:00:12 Unknown This way is everlasting, not endangered by physical death with the greatest leader above them. People barely know one exists. Next comes one whom they love and praise. Next comes one whom they fear. Next comes one whom they despise and defy. When the leader trusts no one, no one trusts him. The great leader speaks little. He never speaks carelessly. 00:12:01:01 - 00:12:35:01 Unknown He works without self-interest and leaves no trace. When all is finished, the people say We did it ourselves. When the greatness of the door is present, action arises from one's own heart. When the greatness of the Dow is absent, action comes from the rules of kindness and justice. If you need rules to be kind and just, if you act virtuous, this is a sure sign that virtue is absent. 00:12:35:16 - 00:13:10:05 Unknown Thus, we see the great hypocrisy When kinship falls into discord, piety and rites of devotion arise when the country falls into chaos. Official loyalists will appear and patriotism is born. Give up sainthood. Renounce wisdom. And it will be 100 times better for everyone. Throw away morality and justice and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit. 00:13:10:17 - 00:13:42:13 Unknown There will be no thieves. All of these are outward forms alone. They are not sufficient in themselves. It is more important to see the simplicity, to realize one's true nature, to cast off selfishness and temper, desire. Give up learning and you will be free from all your cares. What is the difference between yes and no? What is the difference between good and evil? 00:13:43:14 - 00:14:03:00 Unknown Must I fear what others fear? Should I fear desolation when there is abundance? Should I fear darkness? When that light is shining everywhere? In spring, some go to the park and climb the terrace. But I alone and drifting. Not knowing where I am. Like a newborn baby. Before it learns to smile. I am alone without a place to go. 00:14:04:11 - 00:14:28:08 Unknown Most people have too much. I alone seem to be missing something. Mine is indeed the mind of an ignoramus in its unadulterated simplicity. I am but a guest in this world, while others rush about to get things done. I accept what is offered. I alone seem foolish, learning little, spending less. Other people strive for fame. I avoid the limelight, preferring to be left alone. 00:14:28:16 - 00:14:50:09 Unknown Indeed, I seem like an idiot. No mind, no worries. I drift like a wave on the ocean. I blow as aimless as the wind. All men settle down in their grooves. I alone am stubborn and remain outside. But wherein I am most different from others is in knowing to take sustenance from the great mother. 00:14:59:05 - 00:15:25:02 Unknown The greatest virtue is to follow the Dow and the Dow alone. The Dow is elusive and intangible, although formless and intangible, it gives rise to form. Although vague and elusive, it gives rise to shapes. Although dark and obscure. It is the spirit, the essence, the life breath of all things throughout the ages. Its name has been preserved in order to recall the beginning of all things. 00:15:26:01 - 00:15:33:09 Unknown How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning? I look inside myself and see what is within me. 00:15:39:10 - 00:16:13:21 Unknown You, the flexible, are preserved, unbroken. The bent becomes straight, the empty are filled, the exhausted becomes renewed. The poor are enriched. The rich are confounded. Therefore, the sage embraces the one. Because he doesn't display himself. People can see his light because he has nothing to prove. People can trust his words because he doesn't know who he is. People recognize themselves in him because he has no goal in mind. 00:16:14:10 - 00:16:47:07 Unknown Everything he does succeeds the old saying that the flexible are preserved, unbroken is surely right. If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you. You to talk little is natural. Fierce winds do not blow all morning. A downpour of rain does not last the day. Who does this? Heaven and earth. But these are exaggerated forced effects. 00:16:47:13 - 00:17:15:14 Unknown That is why they cannot be sustained. If heaven and earth cannot sustained a forced action, how much less is man able to do so? Those who follow the way become one with the way those who follow goodness become one with goodness. Those who stray from the way and goodness become one with failure. If you conform to the way its power flows through you, your actions become those of nature, your ways, those of heaven. 00:17:16:09 - 00:17:51:08 Unknown Open yourself to the door and trust your natural responses. Then everything will fall into place. If you stand on tiptoe, you cannot stand firmly. If you take long steps, you can not walk far. Showing off does not reveal enlightenment. Boasting will not produce accomplishment. He, who is self-righteous, is not respected. He, who brags, will not endure all these ways of acting are odious, distasteful. 00:17:51:19 - 00:18:27:12 Unknown They are superfluous excesses. They are like a pain in the stomach, a tumor in the body when walking the path of the dial. This is the very stuff that must be uprooted, thrown out and left behind. There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene, empty, solitary, unchanging, infinite, eternally present. It is the mother of the universe, for lack of a better name. 00:18:28:00 - 00:18:56:21 Unknown I call it the doll. I call it Great. Great. As boundless, boundless as eternally flowing, ever flowing. It is constantly returning. Therefore, the way is great. Heaven is great, Earth is great. People are great. Thus to know humanity, Understand Earth to know Earth Understand Heaven To know Heaven understand the way to know the way. Understand the great within yourself. 00:19:05:03 - 00:19:28:08 Unknown The heavy is the root of the light. The still is the master of unrest. Realizing this, the successful person is poised and centered in the midst of all activities. Although surrounded by opulence, he is not swayed. Why should the Lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. 00:19:29:01 - 00:20:05:01 Unknown To be restless is to lose one's self-mastery. A knower of the truth travels without leaving a trace speaks without causing harm, gives without keeping in account the door He shuts though having no lock cannot be opened The not he ties though using no cord cannot be undone, be wise and help all beings impartially abandoning none waste no opportunities. 00:20:05:04 - 00:20:36:19 Unknown This is called following the light. What does a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man? But a good man's job. If the teacher is not respected and the student not cared for. Confusion will arise. However clever one is. This is the great secret to know the strength of man. But keep a woman's care. 00:20:37:08 - 00:21:12:00 Unknown Be a valley under heaven. If you do, the constant virtue will not fade away. One will become like a child again. No, The white keep to the black and be the pattern of the world to be the pattern of the world is to move constantly in the path of virtue without erring a single step, and to return again to the infinite one who understands splendor while holding to humility acts in accord with eternal power to be the fountain of the world is to live the abundant life of virtue. 00:21:13:02 - 00:21:46:08 Unknown When the unformed is formed into objects, its original qualities are lost. If you preserve your original qualities, you can govern anything. Truly, the best governor governs least. Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done. Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. 00:21:46:17 - 00:22:09:18 Unknown Trying to grasp. We lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out. There is a time for being ahead. And a time for being behind. The time for being in motion. And a time for being at rest. A time for being vigorous. And a time for being exhausted. 00:22:10:08 - 00:22:23:22 Unknown A time for being safe. And a time for being in danger to the Sage. All of life is a movement toward perfection. So what need has he for the excess of the extravagant or the extreme? 00:22:35:01 - 00:23:03:23 Unknown One who would guide a leader of men in the uses of life will warn him against the use of arms for conquest. Weapons often turn upon the wielder where armies settle. Nature offers nothing but briers and thorns. After a great battle has been fought, the land is cursed, the crops fail. The earth lies stripped of its motherhood. After you have attained your purpose, you must not parade your success. 00:23:04:14 - 00:23:25:18 Unknown You must not boast of your ability. You must not feel proud. You must rather regret that you had not been able to prevent the war. You must never think of conquering others by force. Whatever strains with force will soon decay. It's not attuned to the way not being attuned to the way its end comes all too soon. 00:23:36:15 - 00:24:01:16 Unknown Weapons are the tools of violence. All decent men detest them. Therefore, followers of the door never use them. Arms serve evil. They are the tools of those who oppose wise rule. Use them only as a last resort. Or peace and quiet are dearest to the decent man's heart. And to him, even a victory is no cause for rejoicing. 00:24:02:16 - 00:24:27:07 Unknown He who thinks triumphed beautiful is one with a will to kill and one with a will to kill shall never prevail upon the world. It is a good sign when man's higher nature comes forward. A bad sign when his lower nature comes forward with the slaughter of multitudes. We have grief and sorrow. Every victory is a funeral. When you win a war, you celebrate by mourning. 00:24:37:22 - 00:25:02:16 Unknown The eternal now has no name, although simple and subtle. No one in the world can master it. If Kings and Lords could harness them, the 10,000 things would naturally obey. Heaven and earth would rejoice with the dripping of sweet do. Everyone would live in harmony not by official decree, but by their own goodness. Once the hall is divided, the parts need names. 00:25:03:07 - 00:25:22:15 Unknown There are already enough names. No one to stop. No one reason sets limits to avoid peril. Rivers and streams are born of the ocean and all creation is born of the doubt. Just as all water flows back to become the ocean, all creation flows back to become the title. 00:25:33:03 - 00:25:59:03 Unknown One who understands others has knowledge. One who understands himself has wisdom. Mastering others requires force. Mastering the self needs strength. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. One who gives himself to his position surely lives long. One who gives himself to the Dow surely lives forever. 00:26:09:11 - 00:26:32:10 Unknown The great way is universal. It can apply to the left or the right. All beings depend on it for life. Even so, it does not take possession of them and accomplishes its purpose, but makes no claim for itself. It covers all creatures like the sky, but does not dominate them. All things return to it as to their home. 00:26:33:18 - 00:27:16:16 Unknown But it does not lorded over them. Thus it may be called Great. The sage imitates this conduct by not claiming greatness. Sage achieves greatness. All men will come to him. Who keeps to the one? They flock to him and receive no harm. Or in him. They find peace, security and happiness. Music and dining are passing pleasures, yet they cause people to stop how bland and insipid other things of this world when one compares them to the Dow. 00:27:17:17 - 00:27:46:21 Unknown When you look for it, there is nothing to see when you listen for it. There is nothing to hear when you use it. It cannot be exhausted. Should you want to contain something, you must deliberately let it expand. Should you want to weaken something, you must deliberately let it grow strong. Should you want to eliminate something, you must deliberately allow it to flourish. 00:27:47:20 - 00:28:08:08 Unknown Should you want to take something away, you must deliberately granted access. The lesson here is called the wisdom of obscurity. The gentle outlasts, the strong, the obscure outlasts the obvious. Fish cannot leave deep waters, and a country's weapons should not be displayed. 00:28:20:24 - 00:28:49:07 Unknown The Dow does nothing but leaves nothing undone. If powerful men could center themselves and the whole world would be transformed by itself in its natural rhythms. When life is simple, pretenses fall away. Our essential natures shine through. By not wanting there is calm in the world will straighten itself when there is silence. One finds the anchor of the universe within oneself. 00:29:02:10 - 00:29:22:19 Unknown A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good. A foolish man tries to be good and is therefore not good. The master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things. Yet many more are left to be done. The highest virtue is to act without a sense of self. 00:29:23:11 - 00:29:49:24 Unknown The highest kindness is to give without condition. The highest justice is to see without preference. When the dollar is lost, there is goodness when goodness is lost. There is morality. When morality is lost. There is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith. The beginning of chaos. The great master follows his own nature and not the trappings of life. 00:29:50:10 - 00:30:00:24 Unknown It is said he stays with the fruit and not the fluff. He stays with the firm and not the flimsy. He stays with the true and not the fall. 00:30:12:00 - 00:30:41:04 Unknown These things from ancient times arise from one. The sky is whole and clear. The earth is whole and firm. The spirit is whole and full. The 10,000 things are whole. And the country is upright. All these are in virtue of wholeness. When man interferes with the Dow, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted. The equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. 00:30:42:09 - 00:31:11:10 Unknown Therefore, nobility is rooted in humility. Loftiness is based on loneliness. This is why noble people refer to themselves as alone, lacking and unworthy. The pieces of a chariot are useless unless they work in accordance with the whole. A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe. Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true. 00:31:11:10 - 00:31:42:13 Unknown Humility. Truly, too much honor means no honor. It's not wise to shine like jade and resound like stone chimes. Returning is the motion of the dog. Yielding. Is the way of the dough. The 10,000 things are born of being. Being is born of Nonbeing. 00:32:00:08 - 00:32:24:06 Unknown A great scholar hears of the doll and begins diligent practice. A middling scholar hears of the doll and retains some and loses some. An inferior scholar hears of the doll and roars with ridicule. Without that laugh, it would not be the doll. So there are constructive sayings on this. The way of illumination seems dark going forward. Seems like retreat. 00:32:25:02 - 00:33:07:17 Unknown The easy way seems hard. True power seems weak. True purity seems tarnished. True clarity seems obscure. The greatest art seems unsophisticated. The greatest love seems indifferent. The greatest wisdom seems childish, though. Is hidden and nameless. The Dow alone nourishes and brings everything to fulfillment. The Dow gave birth to one. One gave birth to two to give birth to three. 00:33:09:00 - 00:33:39:12 Unknown All three begat the 10,000 things. The 10,000 things carry yin and embrace yang. They achieve harmony by combining these forces. People suffer at the thought of being without parents, without food, or without worth. Yet this is the very way that Kings and Lords once described themselves. But one gains by losing and loses by gaining what others taught. I teach the violent do not die of natural death. 00:33:40:18 - 00:34:13:13 Unknown This is my fundamental teaching. The softest of all things overrides the hardest of all things that without substance enters where there is no space. And so I know the value of non-action, teaching without words, performing without actions. Few in the world can grasp it. That is the master's way. Rare indeed, are those who obtain the bounty of this world. 00:34:22:20 - 00:34:50:11 Unknown Which means more to you. You or your renown. Which brings more to you. You are what you hope, I say. What you gain is more trouble than what you lose. Love is the fruit of sacrifice. Wealth is the fruit of generosity. The contented man is never disappointed. He, who knows when to stop is preserved from peril. Only thus can you endure long. 00:34:59:01 - 00:35:48:15 Unknown The greatest perfection seems imperfect, and yet its uses inexhaustible. The greatest fullness seems empty, and yet its use is endless. Great straightness seems twisted. Great intelligence seems stupid. Great eloquence seems awkward. Great truth seems false. Great discussions seem silent activity conquers cold. Inactivity conquers heat. Stillness and tranquility set things in order. And in the universe. When the world has the way running horses are retired to till the fields. 00:35:49:18 - 00:36:26:09 Unknown When the world lacks the way. War horses are bred in the countryside. There is no greater loss than losing the dog. No greater curse than covetousness. No greater tragedy than discontent with the worst of fault is wanting more always. Contentment alone is enough. Indeed, the bliss of eternity can be found in your contentment without going out the door. 00:36:26:14 - 00:37:05:02 Unknown No. The world without looking out the window. You may see the ways of heaven. The farther one goes, the less one knows. Therefore, the sage does not venture forth and yet knows, does not look. And yet names does not strive and yet attains completion. Learning consists of daily accumulating. The practice of the doubt consists of daily diminishing, decreasing and decreasing until doing nothing. 00:37:05:22 - 00:37:37:05 Unknown When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go own way. It cannot be gained by interfering. The sage has no fixed mind. He is aware of the needs of others. Those who are good. He treats with goodness, those who are bad. He also treats with goodness because the nature of his being is good. 00:37:38:17 - 00:38:03:24 Unknown He is kind to the kind. He is also kind to the unkind because the nature of this being is kindness. He is faithful to the faithful. He is also faithful to the unfaithful. The sage in harmony with all below heaven. He sees everything as his own self. He loves everyone as his own child. All people are drawn to him. 00:38:05:02 - 00:38:46:24 Unknown He behaves like a little child between birth and death. Three and ten are followers of life. Three in ten are followers of the and men just passing from birth to death. Also, number three and ten. Why is this so? Because they clutch to life and cling to this passing world. But there is one of ten that say so sure of life that tigers and wild bulls keep clear weapons turn from him on the battlefield. 00:38:47:10 - 00:39:08:06 Unknown Rhinoceroses have no place to haunt him. Tigers find no place for claws. And soldiers have no place to thrust their blades. Why is this so? Because he dwells in that place where death cannot enter. Realize your essence and you will witness the end without ending. 00:39:20:10 - 00:39:47:16 Unknown The way connects all living beings to their source. It springs into existence unconscious, perfect free and takes on a physical body. That's circumstances. Complete it. Therefore, all beings honor the way and value its virtue. They have not been commanded to worship the doll and do homage to virtue, but they always do so spontaneously. The doll gives them life. 00:39:48:14 - 00:40:04:10 Unknown Virtue nourishes and nourishes them rivers and shelters and protects them. The Dow produces but does not possess. The Dow gives without expecting. The Dow fosters growth without ruling. This is called hidden virtue. 00:40:16:11 - 00:40:41:13 Unknown All under heaven have a common beginning. This beginning is the mother, the world. Having known the mother, we may proceed to know her children. Having known the children. We should go back and hold on to the mother. Keep your mouth shut. Guard the senses and life is ever full. Open your mouth. Always be busy. And life is beyond hope. 00:40:42:15 - 00:40:57:12 Unknown Seeing the small is called clarity. Keeping flexible is called strength. Using the shining radiance you return again to the light and save yourself misfortune. This is called the practice of eternal light. 00:41:08:10 - 00:41:36:08 Unknown If I have even just a little sense, I should walk in the great way. My only fear would be straying. The great way is very smooth and straight. And yet the people prefer devious paths. That is why the court is corrupt. The fields lie and waste. The granaries are empty. Dressing magnificently, wearing a sharp sword, stuffing oneself with food and drink, amassing wealth to the extent of not knowing what to do with is being like a robbery. 00:41:37:02 - 00:42:14:16 Unknown I say this pomp at the expense of others is like the boasting of thieves after a looting. This is not the doubt. Whoever is planted in the door will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the door will not slip away. Generations, honor. Generations endlessly cultivated in the self. Virtue is realized, cultivated in the family. Virtue overflows. Cultivated in the community. 00:42:15:03 - 00:42:42:15 Unknown Virtue increases. Cultivated in the state. Virtue abounds. The Dow is everywhere. It has become everything. To truly see it, see it as it is in a person. See it as a person in a family. See it as a family in a country. See it as a country in the world. See it as the world. How do I know this is true? 00:42:43:13 - 00:42:45:12 Unknown By looking inside myself. 00:42:57:22 - 00:43:23:12 Unknown E who is in harmony with the doll? It's like a newborn child. Deadly insects will not sting. Wild beasts will not attack you. Birds of prey will not strike you. Bones are weak. Muscles are soft. Yet his grasp is firm. He has not experienced the union of man and woman, but is whole. His manhood is strong. He screams all day, becoming hoarse. 00:43:24:02 - 00:44:00:21 Unknown This is perfect harmony. To know harmony is to know the changeless. To know the changeless is to have inside things in harmony with the doubt remain things that are forced grow for a while, but then wither away. This is not the doubt. And whatever is against the doubt soon ceases to be those who know and do not talk. 00:44:01:14 - 00:44:27:13 Unknown Those who talk and do not know. BLOCK all of the passages. Close your mouth. Cordon off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your not soften your glare, settle your dust. This is primal union with a secret embrace. One who knows this secret is not moved by attachment or aversion, swayed by profit or loss, or touched by honor or disgrace. 00:44:28:06 - 00:44:37:12 Unknown He is far beyond the cares of men. It comes to hold the dearest place in their hearts. This, therefore, is the highest state of man. 00:44:48:04 - 00:45:12:24 Unknown If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts and the world will govern itself. How do I know this is so? Because in this world, the greater the restrictions and prohibitions, the more people are impoverished, the more advanced the weapons of state, The darker the nation, the more artful and crafty. 00:45:12:24 - 00:45:46:08 Unknown The plan the stranger, the outcome, the more laws are posted, the more thieves appear. Therefore, the sage says, I take no action and people are reformed. I enjoy peace and people become honest. I do nothing and people become rich if I keep from imposing on people. They become themselves. When the ruler knows his heart, the people are simple and pure. 00:45:47:07 - 00:46:16:00 Unknown When he meddles with their lives, they become restless and disturbed. Bad fortune is what good fortune leans. A good fortune is what bad fortune hides in. Who knows the ultimate end of this process? Is there no norm of right yet? What is normal soon becomes abnormal. People's confusion is indeed longstanding. Thus, the master is content to serve as an example and not to impose his will. 00:46:16:19 - 00:46:56:10 Unknown He is pointed but does not pierce. He straightens, but does not disrupt. He illuminates, but does not dazzle in governing people and serving nature. Nothing surpasses thrift and moderation. Restraint begins with giving up one's own ideas. This depends on virtue gathered in the past. If there is a good store of virtue, then nothing is impossible. If nothing is impossible, then there are no limits. 00:46:56:23 - 00:47:29:07 Unknown If a man knows no limits, he is fit to lead. This is the way to be deeply rooted and firmly planted the down. The secret of long life and lasting vision. Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Approach the universe with the door and evil will have no power. 00:47:30:02 - 00:47:47:19 Unknown Not that evil is not powerful, but its power will not be used to harm others. Not only will it not do harm to others, but the Sage himself will also be protected. If only the ruler and his people would refrain from harming each other, all the benefits of life would accumulate to the kingdom. 00:48:00:01 - 00:48:24:14 Unknown A great country is like the lowlands toward which all streams flow. It is the reservoir of all under heaven the feminine of the world. The female overcomes the male with stillness by lowering herself through her quietness. So if a great country lowers itself before a small one, it wins friendship and trust. And if a small country can lower itself before a great one, it will win over that great country. 00:48:25:15 - 00:48:29:09 Unknown The one wins by stooping the other by remaining low. 00:48:41:18 - 00:49:02:19 Unknown The Dow is the treasure house, the true nature, the secret source of everything. It is the treasure of the good man and the refuge of the bad. If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words. Elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away. Cast away his wickedness. 00:49:03:10 - 00:49:20:24 Unknown Thus, when a new leader is chosen, do not offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Help him to meditate on the principal offer instead to teach him about the devil. Why did the ancients make so much of the principal? Is it not because it is the source of all good and the remedy for all evil? 00:49:21:17 - 00:49:23:24 Unknown It is the most noble thing in the world. 00:49:34:07 - 00:50:09:24 Unknown Practice non-action. Work without doing. Taste the tasteless. Magnify the small, increase the few reward bitterness with care. See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things. Take on difficulties while they are still easy. Do great things while they are still small. The sage does not attempt anything very big and thus achieves greatness. If you agree too easily, you will be little trusted because the sage always confronts difficulties. 00:50:10:17 - 00:50:12:06 Unknown He never experiences them. 00:50:23:12 - 00:50:53:07 Unknown What does that rest as easily managed. What is not yet manifest is easy to prevent. The brittle is easily shattered. The small is easily scattered. Act before things exist. Manage them before there is disorder. Remember a tree that fills a man's embrace grows from a seedling. The tower, nine storeys high, starts with one brick. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 00:50:54:02 - 00:51:18:13 Unknown Act and destroy it, grasp it and lose it. Sage does not act and so is not defeated. He does not grasp and therefore does not lose. People usually fail when they are on the verge of success, so give as much care at the end as at the beginning and there will be no failure. The sage does not treasure what is difficult to attain. 00:51:19:05 - 00:51:35:24 Unknown He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He helps the 10,000 things find their own nature, but does not venture to lead them by the nose. You. 00:51:41:19 - 00:52:03:09 Unknown The ancient ones were simple hearted and blended with the common people. They did not shine forth. They did not rule with cleverness. So the nation was blessed when they think that they know the answers. People are difficult to guide when they know that they do not know. People can find their own way. Not using cunning to govern a country is good fortune for the country. 00:52:04:02 - 00:52:12:00 Unknown The simplest pattern is the clearest content with an ordinary life. You can show all people the way back to their own true nature. 00:52:23:18 - 00:52:47:13 Unknown Why is the Sea King of 100 streams? Because it lies below them. Humility gives it its power. Therefore, those desiring a position above others must speak humbly. Those desiring to lead must follow those. It is that want to say it stands above the people. They do not feel the heaviness of his weight. And when he stands in front of the people, they do not feel hurt. 00:52:48:10 - 00:53:25:15 Unknown The sage stays low, so the world never tires of exalting him. He remains a servant, so the world never tires of making him its king. All the world talks about my doubt with such familiarity. What folly? The Dow is not something found at the marketplace or passed on from father to son. It is not something gained by knowing or lost by forgetting. 00:53:26:01 - 00:53:55:20 Unknown If the door were like this, it would have been lost and forgotten long ago. I have three which I hold fast and watch closely. The first is mercy. The second is frugality. The third is humility. For mercy comes courage. From frugality comes generosity. From humility comes leadership. Now, if one were bold but had no mercy, if one were broad, but were not frugal, if one went ahead without humility, one would die. 00:53:56:13 - 00:54:39:22 Unknown Love Vanquish is all attackers. It is impregnable defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No. It protects him with love. A good soldier is not violent. A good fighter is not angry. Good winners do not contend good employers serve their workers. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of them embody the virtue of Non-competition. 00:54:40:14 - 00:54:51:06 Unknown This is called the virtue of non contending. This is called employing the power of others. This, since ancient times, has been known as the ultimate unity with heaven. 00:55:02:22 - 00:55:26:14 Unknown There is a saying among soldiers I dare not make the first move, but would rather play the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather withdraw a foot. This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back, without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than feeling I have an enemy for when I and enemy exist together. 00:55:27:00 - 00:55:39:05 Unknown There is no room left for my treasure. Thus, when two opponents me, the one without an enemy will surely triumph. When armies are evenly matched. The one with compassion wins. 00:55:49:22 - 00:56:14:06 Unknown My teachings are very easy to understand and very easy to practice. Yet so few in this world understand and so few are able to practice. My words have an ancestor. My deeds have a lord. The people have no knowledge of this. Therefore, they have no knowledge of me. This is why the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems. 00:56:25:08 - 00:56:40:23 Unknown Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness. Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick. Sage is not sick but is sick of sickness. This is the secret of health. 00:56:51:24 - 00:57:15:00 Unknown When people lack a sense of all, there will be disaster. When people do not fear worldly power, a greater power will arrive. Do not limit the view of yourself. Do not despise the conditions of your birth. Do not resist the natural course of your life in this way. You will never weary of this world. Therefore, the sage knows himself, but makes no show of himself. 00:57:15:11 - 00:57:51:11 Unknown Loves himself, but does not exalt himself. He prefers what is within to what is without. Bold action against others leads to death. Bold action in harmony with the Dow leads to life. Both of these things sometimes benefit and sometimes injure. It is heaven's way to conquer without striving. It does not speak yet. It is answered. It does not ask. 00:57:51:13 - 00:58:03:22 Unknown Yet it is supplied with all that it needs. It does not hurry it. It completes everything on time. The net of heaven catches all its meshes course, but nothing slips through. 00:58:16:00 - 00:58:37:20 Unknown If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you're not afraid of dying, there is nothing that you cannot achieve. There is always a lord of death. He who takes the place of the Lord of Death is like one who cuts with the blade of a master carpenter. Whoever cuts with the blade of a master carpenter is sure to cut his own hands. 00:58:48:09 - 00:59:29:21 Unknown When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive. People lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them. Leave them alone. The 76th verse of the Daodejing. A man is born gentle and weak at his death. He is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable and light, dry and brittle. 00:59:30:00 - 00:59:48:21 Unknown And the stiffness is nothing. Companion of death, flexibility, a companion of light, an army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. 00:59:59:18 - 01:00:25:21 Unknown The way of heaven is like drawing a bow. The high is lowered, the low is raised. When it is surplus, it reduces. When it is deficient, it increases. The Dow of mankind is the opposite. It reduces the deficiency. In order to add to the surplus, it strips the needy to serve those who have too much. Only the one who has the Dow offers his surplus to others. 01:00:26:20 - 01:00:41:22 Unknown What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of the doubt. The master can keep giving because there is no end to his wealth. He acts without expectation, succeeds without taking credit, and does not think that he is better than anyone else. 01:00:52:03 - 01:01:15:15 Unknown Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water. But for attacking the hard, the unyielding. Nothing can suppress it. There is nothing like it. The weak overcomes the strong. The soft surpasses the heart. In all the world, there is no one who does not know this. But no one can master the practice. Therefore, the master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. 01:01:16:02 - 01:01:51:24 Unknown Evil cannot enter his heart because he has given up helping. He is people's greatest help. True words appear paradoxical. After a bitter quarrel, some resentment remains. What can one do about it? Being content with what you have is always best in the end. Someone must risk returning. Injury with kindness or hostility will never turn to goodwill. So the wise always give without expecting gratitude. 01:01:52:17 - 01:02:23:07 Unknown One with true virtue always seeks a way to give. One who lacks true virtue always seeks a way to get to the giver comes the fullness of life to the taker. Just an empty. You imagine a small country with few people. They have weapons and do not employ them. They enjoy the labor of their hands and do not waste time inventing labor saving machines. 01:02:24:03 - 01:02:48:06 Unknown They take death seriously and do not travel far since they dearly love their homes. They are not interested in travel, although they have boats and carriages. No one uses them. They are content with healthy food, pleased with useful clothing, satisfied and snug homes and protective of their way of life. Although they live within sight of their neighbors in crowing, cocks and barking dogs can be heard across the way. 01:02:49:08 - 01:02:52:24 Unknown They leave each other in peace while they grow old and die. 01:02:58:23 - 01:03:26:10 Unknown True words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not true. Good men do not argue. Those who argue are not good. Those who have virtue do not look for faults. Those who look for faults have virtue. Sages do not accumulate anything but give everything to others having more. The more they give Heaven does good to all. Doing no evil to anyone. 01:03:27:00 - 01:03:30:03 Unknown The sage imitated acting for the good of all.