9/18/2007

effect emptiness to the extreme

Effect emptiness to the extreme.
Keep stillness whole.
Myraid things act in concert.
I therefore watch their return.
All things flourish and each returns to its roots.

Returning to the root is called quietude.
Quietude is called returning to life.
Return to life is called constant.
Knowing this constant is called illumination.
Acting arbitrarily without knowing the constant is harmful.
Knowing the constant is receptivity, which is impartial.

Impartiaility is kingship.
Kingship is heaven.
Heaven is Tao.
Tao is eternal.

Though you lose the body, you do not die.

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