04道德经英译本85种-第83节
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Can you walk and leave no tracks？
Make no errors when you talk？
Count without a tally？
Secure a door without a lock？
You can abandon no one
There's nothing you can leave behind
In you there are no limits
You are forever unconfined
What happens is spontaneous
Good and bad are just the same
In origin identical
Beyond both praise and blame
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Know the strong but keep the weak
The whole wide world is born in you
You'll see just what a child sees
A vast and comprehensive view
Know the light but keep the dark
And watch ten thousand things emerge
In you they have their residence
Where space and time converge
Know the high but keep the low
Humility will honor you
Attend to your vacuity
There's nothing else to do
Be like an uncarved block of wood
Don't squander your potential
Or overlook your vacant core
Nothing else is so essential
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Do you want to change the world？
You cannot possibly succeed
The given cannot be improved
On this the seers are agreed
At times you find you're out in front
At other times you fall behind
Sometimes you're all commotion
But afterwards you must unwind
When all around is turmoil
Just stay with the serene
You are the quiet center
Of the ever changing scene
Can you see things as they are
And let them be all on their own？
Remain in pure awareness
You never need to stray from home
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There is an ancient way to lead
That just allows and does not force
For what goes out will come around
And violence will lead to wars
The one who sees completes a task
And stops when it is done
Seeing all is on its own
And not controlled by anyone
The seer sees that all is well
And does not need to please
Just gives acceptance everywhere
Puts everyone at ease
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Weapons lead to violence
Which everyone despises
Avoid them altogether
Allow no compromises
If use of weapons has to be
When enemies just leave no choice
Use them but reluctantly
In victory do not rejoice
Ascendancy brings sorrow
And triumph doesn't carry pleasure
It severs you from wholeness
And robs you of your real treasure
Victory is like a funeral
Where loss of life must make you sad
For putting other people down
Never ought to make you glad
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Awareness is not limited
It's like an uncarved block of wood
With infinite potential
Beyond all usefulness for good
If leaders could stay centered
In awareness pure and plain
This world would be as nourishing
As nature's gentle rain
Everyone would be at peace
And always living in the whole
Opposition and division
Could never take their toll
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It may be said that you are wise
To see yourself as others do
But you are wiser still to see
From your own central point of view
Then you see you have it all
The riches that are always here
Belong to you completely
Because your vision is so clear
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The empty center's everywhere
It flows both left and right
It brings to pass ten thousand things
And yet it never leaves your sight
It welcomes everything around
On nothing does it make a claim
It's in the heart of each and all
This ultimate without a name
Some can see that it is great
And some will say that it's obscure
It is your real identity
Simplicity that will endure
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Totality will be with you
If you can see the simple presence
Although there's danger all around
You give complete acceptance
Good music； food and company
Are welcome when you're traveling
The inner truth seems tasteless
Yet it produces everything
You look and you see nothing
You listen and hear silence
Its use is inexhaustible
It's ever worthy of reliance
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You cannot be diminished
Unless you've been inflated
You cannot be defeated
Unless you've been elated
You cannot be belittled
Unless you've been esteemed
Unless you're wholly missing
You cannot be redeemed
The soft and slow can overcome
The rigid and the hard and fast
Just see your inner emptiness
For nothing else is made to last
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Only see you're doing nothing
Yet not a thing is left undone
For all things happen on their own
In you who are the all in one
If leaders could be centered
All ten thousand things would thrive
By seeing what is natural
All creation comes alive
Everyone would be content
With living simply every day
Desires would be moderate
And peace would be the only way
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You needn't search for power
You already have it all
To seek outside your empty core
Is looking for a fall
The seer doesn't do a thing
But sees that all is finished
Foolish people run about
And leave totality diminished
Goodness must be doing
And justice never is complete
Propriety can't satisfy
Obedience is forced defeat
When totality is lost
Goodness comes to take its place
Followed by propriety
Bewilderment and end of grace
The seer sees periphery
But also sees the open core
And thus the seer sees the whole
And dwells therein forevermore
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If you stay with clear awareness
The sky is open； pure and spacious
The earth is firm and friendly too
Activity is efficacious
But depart from clarity
The purest sky is torn apart
The earth is so divided
Felicity must flee your heart
The seer knows humility
Doesn't argue or cajole
Doesn't discard anything
Or mutilate the whole
The seer doesn't show at all
Doesn't sparkle like a jewel
The seer's vast immensity
Is truly less than minuscule
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All is born of emptiness
Manifests and has its day
Then yields and surrenders
Returns and dies away
Commentary
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When seers see their nothingness
They never let it out of sight
But others see it now and then
And miss out on its true delight
Still others only laugh it off
And look at it with ridicule
It wouldn't be the real truth
If it weren't laughed at by the fool
The brightest way seems darkness
Just going on seems like retreat
The simple way seems difficult
Capacity seems like defeat
Clarity can seem obscure
And love seem not to care
Totality seems not enough
And truth can seem to err
Awareness doesn't have a name
To all appearances is null
Yet it produces everything
And so this empty place is full
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Awareness comes from nothingness
So all can see it's plainly one
Contains all opposition
Ten thousand things are now begun
All these things embrace the void
And face the manifest
Achieving thus true harmony
They find existence truly blessed
No one wants to be considered
Empty and alone
Yet that's exactly what the seers
Say they have been shown
And violence is not the way
I give you this instruction
Those who live by violence
Will bring about their own destruction
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Overcome by yielding
The weak can overcome the strong
For only absence can provide
The place where everything belongs
And thus it is that I can see
The worthiness of not contending
Yet few will ever comprehend
The potency of bending
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Which of these means more to you
Integrity or reputation？
Are gain and loss not equally
Responsible for limitation？
Everything that you possess
Is surely transitory
Just be pleased with emptiness
And witness inner bliss and glory
You know that your are always safe
If only you can be contented
With awareness as capacity
And with all that is presented
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Wholeness seems like imperfection
Yet its usefulness is sure
Fullness seems quite empty
But it is certain to endure
True straightness can seem twisted
True wisdom does not seem to know
Great eloquence seems halting
Great darkness seems to be aglow
Can you see that emptiness
Contains all oppositions？
Like hot and cold and fast and slow？
All differences and all conditions？
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When the absolute is cherished
Horses graze on the open green
When the absolute is lost
Only steeds of war are seen
No calamity exceeds desire
And always wanting more
Can you not see you have enough
And live in plenitude galore？
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No need to go outside a door
To see totality
Or look out of a window
For seeing what will always be
Going out you go astray
At home and center all is one
The seer
