Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu
Steps: The First Step | Gateway to Mystery | Doing Nothing | Not Doing | Hidden Emptiness | More Words Count Less | The Valley Spirit | Staying Behind | The Highest Good | Stopping Short |
Gateway to Mystery
The Tao that can be toldis not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning
of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother
of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless,
one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring,
one can see the manifestations.
These two spring
from the same source
but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
Translated by Gia Fu Feng and Jane English, Vintage Books, 1972
Steps: The First Step | Gateway to Mystery | Doing Nothing | Not Doing | Hidden Emptiness | More Words Count Less | The Valley Spirit | Staying Behind | The Highest Good | Stopping Short |
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