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Tao Te Cheng

Verses 60 to 81.


60. Demons

 

When you use the Way to conquer the world,

Your demons will lose their power to harm.

It is not that they lose their power as such,

But that they will not harm others;

Because they will not harm others,

You will not harm others:

When neither you nor your demons can do harm,

You will be at peace with them.

 

 

61. Submission

 

A nation is like a hierarchy, a marketplace, and a maiden.

A maiden wins her husband by submitting to his advances;

 

Submission is a means of union.

 

So when a large country submits to a small country

It will adopt the small country;

When a small country submits to a large country

It will be adopted by the large country;

The one submits and adopts;

The other submits and is adopted.

 

It is in the interest of a large country to unite and gain service,

And in the interest of a small country to unite and gain patronage;

If both would serve their interests,

Both must submit.

 

 

62. Sin

 

The Way is the fate of men,

The treasure of the saint,

And the refuge of the sinner.

 

Fine words are often borrowed,

And great deeds are often appropriated;

Therefore, when a man falls, do not abandon him,

And when a man gains power, do not honour him;

Only remain impartial and show him the Way.

 

Why should someone appreciate the Way?

The ancients said, "By it, those who seek may easily find,

And those who regret may easily absolve"

 

So it is the most precious gift.

 

 

63. Difficulty

 

Practice no-action;

Attend to do-nothing;

Taste the flavorless,

Magnify the small,

Multiply the few,

 

Return love for hate.

 

Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;

Deal with the great while it is yet small;

The difficult develops naturally from the easy,

And the great from the small;

 

So the sage, by dealing with the small,

Achieves the great.

 

Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;

Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;

The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.

 

 

64a. Care at the Beginning

 

What lies still is easy to grasp;

What lies far off is easy to anticipate;

What is brittle is easy to shatter;

What is small is easy to disperse.

 

Yet a tree broader than a man can embrace is born of a tiny shoot;

A dam greater than a river can overflow starts with a clod of earth;

A journey of a thousand miles begins at the spot under one's feet.

 

Therefore deal with things before they happen;

Create order before there is confusion.

 

 

64b. Care at the End

 

He who acts, spoils;

He who grasps, loses.

People often fail on the verge of success;

Take care at the end as at the beginning,

So that you may avoid failure.

 

The sage desires no-desire,

Values no-value,

Learns no-learning,

And returns to the places that people have forgotten;

He would help all people to become natural,

But then he would not be natural.

 

 

65. Subtlety

 

The ancients did not seek to rule people with knowledge,

But to help them become natural.

It is difficult for knowledgeable people to become natural;

So to use law to control a nation weakens the nation,

But to use nature to control a nation strengthens the nation.

Understanding these two paths is understanding subtlety;

Subtlety runs deep, ranges wide,

Resolves confusion and preserves peace.

 

 

66. Lead by Following

 

The river carves out the valley by flowing beneath it.

Thereby the river is the master of the valley.

In order to master people

One must speak as their servant;

In order to lead people

One must follow them.

 

So when the sage rises above the people,

They do not feel oppressed;

And when the sage stands before the people,

They do not feel hindered.

 

So the popularity of the sage does not fail,

He does not contend, and no one contends against him.

 

 

67. Unimportance

 

All the world says,

"I am important;

I am separate from all the world.

I am important because I am separate,

Were I the same, I could never be important."

 

Yet here are three treasures

That I cherish and commend to you:

 

The first is compassion,

By which one finds courage.

 

The second is restraint,

By which one finds strength.

 

And the third is unimportance,

By which one finds influence.

 

Those who are fearless, but without compassion,

Powerful, but without restraint,

Or influential, yet important,

Cannot endure.

 

 

68. Compassion

 

Compassion is the finest weapon and best defence.

If you would establish harmony,

Compassion must surround you like a fortress.

 

Therefore,

A good soldier does not inspire fear;

A good fighter does not display aggression;

A good conqueror does not engage in battle;

A good leader does not exercise authority.

 

This is the value of unimportance;

This is how to win the cooperation of others;

This to how to build the same harmony that is in nature.

 

 

69. Ambush

 

There is a saying among soldiers:

It is easier to lose a yard than take an inch.

In this manner one may deploy troops without marshalling them,

Bring weapons to bear without exposing them,

Engage the foe without invading them,

And exhaust their strength without fighting them.

 

There is no worse disaster than misunderstanding your enemy;

To do so endangers all of my treasures;

So when two well matched forces oppose each other,

The general who maintains compassion will win.

 

 

70. Individuality

 

My words are easy to understand

And my actions are easy to perform

Yet no other can understand or perform them.

My words have meaning; my actions have reason;

Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known.

We are each unique, and therefore valuable;

Though the sage wears coarse clothes, his heart is jade.

 

 

71. Limitation

 

Who recognizes his limitations is healthy;

Who ignores his limitations is sick.

The sage recognizes this sickness as a limitation.

And so becomes immune.

 

 

72. Revolution

 

When people have nothing more to lose,

Then revolution will result.

Do not take away their lands,

And do not destroy their livelihoods;

If your burden is not heavy then they will not shirk it.

 

The sage maintains himself but exacts no tribute,

Values himself but requires no honours;

He ignores abstraction and accepts substance.

 

 

73. Fate

 

Who is brave and bold will perish;

Who is brave and subtle will benefit.

The subtle profit where the bold perish

For fate does not honour daring.

 

And even the sage dares not tempt fate.

 

Fate does not attack, yet all things are conquered by it;

It does not ask, yet all things answer to it;

It does not call, yet all things meet it;

It does not plan, yet all things are determined by it.

 

Fate's net is vast and its mesh is coarse,

Yet none escape it.

 

 

74. Execution

 

If people were not afraid of death,

Then what would be the use of an executioner?

 

If people were only afraid of death,

And you executed everyone who did not obey,

No one would dare to disobey you.

Then what would be the use of an executioner?

 

People fear death because death is an instrument of fate.

When people are killed by execution rather than by fate,

This is like carving wood in the place of a carpenter.

Those who carve wood in place of a carpenter

Often injure their hands.

 

 

75. Rebellion

 

When rulers take grain so that they may feast,

Their people become hungry;

 

When rulers take action to serve their own interests,

Their people become rebellious;

 

When rulers take lives so that their own lives are maintained,

Their people no longer fear death.

 

When people act without regard for their own lives

They overcome those who value only their own lives.

 

 

76. Flexibility

 

A newborn is soft and tender,

A crone, hard and stiff.

Plants and animals, in life, are supple and succulent;

In death, withered and dry.

So softness and tenderness are attributes of life,

And hardness and stiffness, attributes of death.

 

Just as a sapless tree will split and decay

So an inflexible force will meet defeat;

 

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground

While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

 

 

77. Need

 

Is the action of nature not unlike drawing a bow?

What is higher is pulled down, and what is lower is raised up;

What is taller is shortened, and what is thinner is broadened;

Nature's motion decreases those who have more than they need

And increases those who need more than they have.

It is not so with Man.

Man decreases those who need more than they have

And increases those who have more than they need.

 

To give away what you do not need is to follow the Way.

So the sage gives without expectation,

Accomplishes without claiming credit,

And has no desire for ostentation.

 

 

78. Yielding

 

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water,

Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and strong,

For they can neither control nor do away with it.

The soft overcomes the hard,

The yielding overcomes the strong;

Every person knows this,

But no one can practice it.

 

Who attends to the people would control the land and grain;

Who attends to the state would control the whole world;

 

Truth is easily hidden by rhetoric.

 

 

79. Reconciliation

 

When conflict is reconciled,

Some hard feelings remain;

 

This is dangerous.

 

The sage accepts less than is due

And does not blame or punish;

For harmony seeks agreement

Where justice seeks payment.

 

The ancients said: "nature is impartial;

Therefore it serves those who serve all."

 

 

80. Utopia

 

Let your community be small, with only a few people;

Keep tools in abundance, but do not depend upon them;

Appreciate your life and be content with your home;

Sail boats and ride horses, but don't go too far;

Keep weapons and armour, but do not employ them;

Let everyone read and write,

Eat well and make beautiful things.

 

Live peacefully and delight in your own society;

Dwell within cock-crow of your neighbours,

But maintain your independence from them.

 

 

81. The Sage

 

Honest people use no rhetoric;

Rhetoric is not honesty.

Enlightened people are not cultured;

Culture is not enlightenment.

Content people are not rich;

Riches are not contentment.

 

 

So the sage does not serve himself;

The more he does for others, the more he is satisfied;

The more he gives, the more he receives.

Nature flourishes at the expense of no one;

So the sage benefits all men and contends with none.

 

 


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