Headless(Translator)
1.1 Words and names are not the way. They can't define the absolute.
1.2 It's better that you look within. Hold your tongue and just be mute. Look within and look out too
1.3 You will not find a separation. Out there you see appearance. Within you see origination
1.4 Look within with wonder at emptiness and bliss for wonder names totality where nothing is amiss
1.5 The space within is always there if you can moderate desire A place of utter emptiness and possibility entire
2.1 Where beautiful and ugly. Do not stand in opposition
2.2 Where life and death or YES and NO do not make a contradiction.
2.3 Can you see the vacant place where good and bad and sad and merry disappear forevermore?
2.4 Where nothing ever is contrary.
2.5 So stay within the emptiness Unless you rise you never fall
2.6 Accepting that which comes your way
2.7 You are forever all in all.
3.1 If you love accumulation Gain and increase every day. Thieves and robbers will be waiting just to take it all away.
3.2 Best to be so empty-headed that it seems you've lost it all
3.3 You will know you're on the way
3.4 Though others say you're at a stall.
4.1 This nothingness is like a well always giving, never taking
4.2 And all claims to origin Neither wanting or forsaking
4.3 You know it's ever present. You find it where you have no face
4.4 It is a wondrous blessing. Original amazing grace
5.1 This emptiness is truly void and infinitely capacious
5.2 It holds whatever comes its way. Eternally tenacious
5.3 Can you take whatever comes?
5.4 Though judgment calls it bad and good
Seeing is acceptance and nothing to be understood
6.1 Complete and full awareness. It's like an open valley of endless generation that doesn't reach finale
6.2 It is a simple presence. It's a nothing you can see
6.3 You'll find it right at center wherever you may be. You are Tao
7.1 This presence is unlimited. Because it wasn't ever born and it will not be perishing
7.2 Will never give you cause to mourn
7.3 It truly wants for nothing. It has no wishes of its own. It is the one and only Eternally alone
7.4 It holds itself in vacancy with no desire to advance
Remaining in simplicity
It merely witnesses the dance
7.5 The seer will remain behind and never yearns for leaving home. Just living in the here and now. Prefers to stay unknown
8.1 The seer flows like water. Lying low along the way nourishing whatever comes
8.2 To be held on display the seer keeps to simple ways. And therefore is content when joy or sorrow manifests
To give complete assent if you can clearly be yourself
8.3 And never rise to interfere. Everyone will cherish you and always hold you dear
9.1 Don't fill a bowl till it's more than full. Or sharpen a blade till it must go dull.
9.2 Don't pile up treasure that comes at great cost.
9.3 Approval and riches are easily lost
9.4 Can you only do what's really needed then stop and withdraw when your task is completed?
10.1 Can you see as a child sees and keep the simple vision?
10.2 See the inner oneness with absolute precision. Hold all things in your embrace
10.3 The entire world is in your care. Let things be just as they are
10.4 Extend acceptance everywhere. Let go all need to comprehend
10.5 The truth is here where all behold their infinite capacity to welcome and enfold
11.1 The empty hub at center allows a wheel to roll
11.2 The vacancy within defines the function of a bowl
11.3 The openness within a house provides location to reside
11.4 The open space that is my heart is where ten thousand things abide
12.1 Too much sound can make you deaf
12.2 Too many colors leave you blind
12.3 Can you let desire die down and not leave emptiness behind?
12.4 Wanting things can drive you mad and acquisition makes you poor
12.5 See that you are everything and leave off wanting more
13.1 Fame and shame are equal and so are gain and loss
13.2 It isn't very difficult to get this point across
13.3 Having fame you know that you are terrified to lose it. Making gain you always fear that others will abuse it.
13.4 Can you see that you're not like your image or reflection? Just see you are totality by looking in your own direction
13.5 The one who is not limited accepts whatever comes or goes. And cares for everything around on opening and close
14.1 When you look, it isn't there
14.2 Listen and you cannot hear it
14.3 It seems to be beyond your reach because you are so near it
14.4 This single source of everything appears to be an empty image
14.5 Though it cannot be understood. You can see its naked visage
14.6 Follow it to nothingness. Approach it where you have no face. From nowhere to infinity
14.7 This vacant image leaves no trace. From never to eternity. This naked face is what you are
14.8 An empty, vacant, open door. Forevermore ajar
15.1 Those of old who knew the way to origin and source within have seen the place where wholeness and infinity begin.
15.2 Alert as one on a frozen stream or one who watches for the foe.
15.3 Deferential as a guest and generous as melting snow.
15.4 Plain as an uncarved block of wood. Expansive as a vale
15.5 Transparent just like water whose clarity will never fail.
15.6 Can you keep yourself so still that muddy water clears? And wait until right action spontaneously appears?
16.1 See that you are emptiness. Always quiet and at peace
16.2 You're in the place where all begins.
16.3 The space where all things cease all things arise and have their day.
16.4 And then go back to the single source. Returning to serenity with no regret and no remorse
16.5 When you see the source within you only give assent. You see you're everlasting and eternally omnificent
17.1 It's best if you are barely known. The lesser state is being praised. Worse is being hated.
17.2 Just stay empty and amazed. Only do what must be done. And see you are the one alone.
17.3 When you finish all will say: "We did this on our own".
18.1 Goodness and compliance came when people lost the way.
18.2 Spontaneity declined
18.3 Hypocrisy was here to stay.
19.1 Banish learned discourse and everyone will be content.
19.2 Eliminate propriety.
19.3 Increase astonishment
19.4 Stay away from fraud and swindle.
19.5 Everyone is bound to gain.
19.6 You really have it all you know
19.7 There is no basis to complain
19.8 Can you see your empty core?
19.9 It isn't missing, gone or hidden. Just let go of neediness. And it will come unbidden
20.1 You need not give a yes or no. Such distinctions matter little
20.2 Keep your vision open and be at center noncommittal
20.3 See that it's ridiculous
20.4 To seek success and fear to fail
20.5 To ever want what others want
20.6 To think you always must prevail
20.7 Other people look so bright
20.8 I am dark and void and null
20.9 Others are so very sharp while I alone am dull.
20.10 Others are so purposeful
20.11 Only I don't understand
20.12 Aimless, drifting, weak and dumb
20.13 Uninteresting and bland
20.14 I see I'm different from the rest
20.15 For I take in what's plainly shown and I take my sustenance only from the great unknown
21.1 Seeming utter emptiness quite impossible to trace. Yet it contains all images
21.2 Within its wide embrace appearing total darkness. Yet you see that it is right. To stay with its obscurity
21.3 The only origin of light. This ever present openness at center and within.
21.4 Can be seen just anytime. So look and look again
22.1 Overcome by giving up see that you are really nil. Look into your emptiness.
22.2 If you want to have your fill be satisfied with little. Just content with what you need. If you are always wanting more you surely are consumed by greed. Abide in your simplicity though you are not on display.
22.3 See all things are shining bright in marvelous array.
22.4 If you do not boast or brag everyone will hold you high. If you do not argue you will prevail thereby.
22.5 Only see you are complete and all things have come to you. Overcome by giving up all except your inner view
23.1 Say your piece and then be still like nature in a storm. That rains and blows and ceases. And sees the sun reborn.
23.2 Open to the inward view
23.3 You are at one with all existence. There's nothing blocking up the way or putting up resistance if you're at home with nothingness.
23.4 And simply trust what comes about.
23.5 You'll find that all is in its place without a question or a doubt.
24.1 Who stands on tiptoe - topples. Who runs ahead soon looses speed. Who goes on show is hidden. Who pushes far gives up the lead.
24.2 Don't depart from what is given. The ever present here and now. Don't overreach and don't oppose. Invite, admire and allow
25.1 Before creation did occur this blessed emptiness was here.
25.2 Alone forever and at peace the source of all that does appear. Eternally unchanging. Forever lacking limit. This void is all potential. The everlasting ultimate
25.3 It flows through all existence and then returns to source
25.4 It's ever at your center your only true recourse. For here begins the universe, The earth and humankind.
25.5 Following this greatest way you can never be defined
27.1 Can you walk and leave no tracks? Make no errors when you talk? Count without a tally? Secure a door without a lock?
27.2 You can abandon no one. There's nothing you can leave behind. In you there are no limits. You are forever unconfined.
27.3 What happens is spontaneous. Good and bad are just the same in origin identical beyond both praise and blame
28.1 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.
28.2 Know the light but keep the dark. And watch ten thousand things emerge. In you they have their residence where space and time converge.
28.3 Know the high but keep the low. Humility will honor you. Attend to your vacuity. There's nothing else to do.
28.4 Be like an uncarved block of wood. Don't squander your potential or overlook your vacant core. Nothing else is so essential.
29.1 Do you want to change the world?
29.2 You cannot possibly succeed. The given cannot be improved. On this the seers are agreed
29.3 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.
29.4 Just stay with the serene. You are the quiet center of the ever changing scene.
29.5 Can you see things as they are and let them be all on their own?
29.6 Remain in pure awareness. You never need to stray from home. Things are just as they are. They arise out of nowhere.
29.7 What good does it do to reject some events and accept others?
29.8 It harms no one but yourself. You are not made to reject anything. You are made open and aware. You take in the world.
30.1 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.
30.2 The one who sees completes a task and stops when it is done.
30.3 Seeing all is on its own and not controlled by anyone.
30.4 The seer sees that all is well and does not need to please. Just gives acceptance everywhere, puts everyone at ease.
31.1 Weapons lead to violence which everyone despises.
31.2 Avoid them altogether. Allow no compromises.
31.3 If use of weapons has to be when enemies just leave no choice use them but reluctantly.
31.4 In victory do not rejoice. Ascendancy brings sorrow. And triumph doesn't carry pleasure.
31.5 It severs you from wholeness and robs you of your real treasure.
31.6 Victory is like a funeral where loss of life must make you sad. For putting other people down never ought to make you glad.
32.1 Awareness is not limited. It's like an uncarved block of wood with infinite potential beyond all usefulness for good.
32.2 If leaders could stay centered in awareness pure and plain this world would be as nourishing as nature's gentle rain.
32.2 Everyone would be at peace and always living in the whole. Opposition and division could never take their toll.
33.1 It may be said that you are wise.To see yourself as others do.
33.2 But you are wiser still to see from your own central point of view. Then you see you have it all.
33.3 The riches that are always here belong to you completely because your vision is so clear.
34.1 The empty center's everywhere. It flows both left and right.
34.2 It brings to pass ten thousand things and yet it never leaves your sight.
34.3 It welcomes everything around on nothing does it make a claim.
34.4 It's in the heart of each and all. This ultimate without a name.
34.5 Some can see that it is great and some will say that it's obscure. It is your real identity. Simplicity that will endure.
35.1 Totality will be with you if you can see the simple presence although there's danger all around.
35.2 You give complete acceptance good music, food and company are welcome when you're traveling.
35.3 The inner truth seems tasteless. Yet it produces everything
35.6 You look and you see nothing. You listen and hear silence
35.7 Its use is inexhaustible. It's ever worthy of reliance.
36.1 You cannot be diminished unless you've been inflated.
36.2 You cannot be defeated unless you've been elated.
36.3 You cannot be belittled unless you've been esteemed.
36.4 Unless you're wholly missing you cannot be redeemed.
36.4 The soft and slow can overcome the rigid and the hard and fast.
36.5 Just see your inner emptiness for nothing else is made to last.
37.1 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.
37.2 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.
37.3 Desires would be moderate and peace would be the only way.
38.1 You needn't search for power you already have it all. To seek outside your empty core is looking for a fall.
38.2 The seer doesn't do a thing but sees that all is finished.
38.3 Foolish people run about and leave totality diminished.
38.4 Goodness must be doing and justice never is complete. Propriety can't satisfy. Obedience is forced defeat.
38.5 When totality is lost goodness comes to take its place. Followed by propriety bewilderment and end of grace.
38.6 The seer sees periphery but also sees the open core. And thus the seer sees the whole and dwells therein forevermore.
39.1 If you stay with clear awareness the sky is open, pure and spacious. The earth is firm and friendly too. Activity is efficacious.
39.2 But depart from clarity the purest sky is torn apart. The earth is so divided.
39.3 Felicity must flee your heart.
39.4 The seer knows humility. Doesn't argue or cajole. Doesn't discard anything or mutilate the whole.
39.5 The seer doesn't show at all. Doesn't sparkle like a jewel.
39.6 The seer's vast immensity is truly less than minuscule.
40.1 All is born of emptiness manifests and has its day.
40.2 Then yields and surrenders. Returns and dies away.
41.1 When seers see their nothingness they never let it out of sight.
41.2 But others see it now and then and miss out on its true delight.
41.3 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.
41.4 The brightest way seems darkness. Just going on seems like retreat.
41.5 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.
41.6 Awareness doesn't have a name to all appearances is null. Yet it produces everything and so this empty place is full.
42.1 Awareness comes from nothingness. So all can see it's plainly one contains all opposition. Ten thousand things are now begun.
42.2 All these things embrace the void and face the manifest achieving thus true harmony.
42.3 They find existence truly blessed. No one wants to be considered empty and alone.
42.4 Yet that's exactly what the seers say they have been shown and violence is not the way.
42.5 I give you this instruction. Those who live by violence will bring about their own destruction.
43.1 Overcome by yielding the weak can overcome the strong.
43.2 For only absence can provide the place where everything belongs. And thus it is that I can see the worthiness of not contending.
43.3 Yet few will ever comprehend the potency of bending.
44.1 Which of these means more to you integrity or reputation? Are gain and loss not equally responsible for limitation?
44.2 Everything that you possess is surely transitory. Just be pleased with emptiness and witness inner bliss and glory.
44.3 You know that your are always safe. If only you can be contented with awareness as capacity and with all that is presented.
45.1 Wholeness seems like imperfection yet its usefulness is sure. Fullness seems quite empty but it is certain to endure.
45.2 True straightness can seem twisted. True wisdom does not seem to know. Great eloquence seems halting. Great darkness seems to be aglow.
45.3 Can you see that emptiness contains all oppositions? Like hot and cold and fast and slow? All differences and all conditions.
46.1 When the absolute is cherished horses graze on the open green. When the absolute is lost only steeds of war are seen.
46.2 No calamity exceeds desire and always wanting more.
46.3 Can you not see you have enough and live in plenitude galore?
47.1 No need to go outside a door to see totality. Or look out of a window for seeing what will always be.
47.2 Going out you go astray. At home and center all is one. The seer doesn't have to do to see that everything is done.
48.1 In going after learning something's added every day. For resting in the ultimate everything must drop away. Day by day do less and less until nothingness is seen.
48.2 All occurs quite on its own a doer need not intervene. Allow all things to run their course.
48.3 If you want to be proficient make a fuss and bother and existence will be insufficient.
49.1 The seer doesn't own a thought. For thoughts do not reside within thoughts concern ten thousand things. And that's the way it's always been.
49.2 The seer doesn't rush to judge and treats all people well. Considers no one bad or good. Attracts but never does repel.
49.3 The seer trusts things as they are and takes all people at their word giving trust to everyone. Knows faithfulness will be returned the seer turns your view around.
49.4 So you can never be beguiled. And gives you back all that you lost. The vision of a little child.
50.1 Between the time when they are born and the time that they will die three in ten will follow life. Three others only will deny. Three others are so casual. They live as though they're passing through. But one remains who clearly sees.
50.2 There's not a single thing to do. Can you be like the one who sees the world emerging on its own?
50.3 What's needed for each moment arises from the great unknown. This one doesn't have a fear of weaponry or wild beast.
50.4 These enemies can't harm the one whose separate self is long deceased.
51.1 Everything arises from this total emptiness is nourished and completed and finds creation blessed.
51.2 All things arise from nothingness are cared for by existence which freely gives what is required for bountiful subsistence.
51.3 Existence does not make a claim on what it has created.
51.4 It nourishes and serves and leads is honored and appreciated.
52.1 All things emerge from nullity.
52.2 The only derivation of everything that manifests the source of all creation. Stay in touch with origin.
52.3 There's nothing that you need deny. Seeing your totality you will not fear to die.
52.4 Do not be in haste to speak and always guard the senses. You will find your heart at peace.
52.5 And in the place where all commences see the subtle and the clear. It is the empty source of light.
52.6 There is no danger in this place. That is forever in plain sight.
53.1 This way is wide and easy yet people love to stray. They love to take the sidetracks and wander from the way.
53.2 When the few are rich and wealthy living way above their needs the granaries are empty and the fields are full of weeds.
53.3 When rulers spend on weapons and implements of war it's a never ending circle of ever wanting more. When the rich have all abundance what remains must surely dwindle.
53.4 Having more than you can use is thievery and fraud and swindle.
54.1 Hold fast to this awareness seeing that it is your root. It will not ever slip away. This ever present absolute it cannot be uprooted. It's always held in veneration. Discovered very close at hand in every generation.
54.2 Allow its presence in your life. Awareness real and profound. Allow it in the family. Its blessings will abound.
54.3 And if you care to share it with neighbor and with friend its potency will multiply with benefits that never end.
54.4 You ask me how I know it's true. It isn't something I mistook. Well nothing is more obvious. The only thing I do is look.
55.1 One who sees full emptiness is like a child just born with muscles weak and bones so soft yet with a grip that's strong.
55.2 The newborn hasn't been fulfilled. Its nature is pure vacancy nullity and nothingness and potent spontaneity.
55.3 It can scream and cry all day and yet it never does get hoarse.
55.4 It only does what naturally emerges from the inner source.
55.5 To see this inner nature is seeing in a way that's bold into the only place there is that cannot possibly grow old.
56.1 Those who know don't like to say. Those who say don't know.
56.2 Close the mouth and guard the senses. You'll see more than what's on show. Untie tangles, dim the glare. Dull the sharp and join the dust. Abide in primal unity and then do what you must.
56.3 You cannot hold it or let go. It can't be blamed or praised. In all-embracing oneness be astonished and amazed.
57.1 To truly lead with fairness you must put aside control.
57.2 Abandon imposition
Make spontaneity your goal.
57.3 The more you try to run their lives with rules and prohibition
The poorer people's lives become
The more they live in opposition
The more you deal with others
With cunning and with guile
The more that other people say
Our lives are not worthwhile
The more you hoard your treasures
The more you're giving hope to thieves
The more you sharpen weapons
The more the country grieves
57.4 Do nothing and see all is done and everyone is true.
57.5 Drop the rules and people owe prosperity to you. Just let go of all desire and people will return to natural and simple ways to life without concern.
58.1 Let your lead be gentle and people will be satisfied. Let it be severe and harsh and be rejected and defied.
58.2 Happiness may reign today. But who knows what tomorrow holds?
58.3 Sadness too will have its time
As all ten thousand things unfold.
58.4 The seer's sight is sharp and pointed but it does not cut or pierce. The seer sees and shows the truth. This gentle way is never fierce.
59.1 To serve and care for others with restraint and moderation.
59.2 Stay centered in the here and now and free of limitation.
59.3 If you keep returning to this your central root you will possess forever awareness undilute.
60.1 It's best to lead a large domain as you would cook a little fish. Don't poke and prod or you are bound to spoil the country and the dish.
60.2 Just stay open and aware and evil cannot get a hold cannot find a home in you.
60.3 Even evil's not that bold. At center you harm no one and no one's able to harm you.
60.4 This kind of reciprocity creates the world anew.
61.1 A great domain is like the sea whose power comes from lying low.
61.2 And due to this humility its greatness has to grow.
61.3 A small domain can lie low too acknowledging its low location.
61.4 Surrender and humility. Give rise to exaltation.
61.5 If you lie low you too arise to uppermost position for everyone's attracted to one who doesn't fear submission.
62.1 I'm at the center and the source of all ten thousand things where I receive the benefits. That pure awareness brings. These benefits belong to all to good and bad the same. For nature gives you what you need with no regard for praise or blame.
62.2 Words and deeds of excellence may bring you honor and acclaim but nature values each alike and is indifferent to fame.
62.3 When new leaders are installed don't send gifts or lofty praise. Stay centered in the unity provided by the inward gaze.
62.4 Why should you esteem the void? It does away with imperfection. Those who seek are bound to find. It disappears on close inspection.
63.1 Begin with the easy and do without doing.
63.2 There isn't a thing that you should be pursuing.
63.3 Begin with the simple there's no need attacking.
63.4 Your greatness will lie in all that you're lacking.
63.5 Tackle problems when they're small and still subject to solution.
63.6 The largest problem is resolved by simple deeds of diminution.
63.7 Can you center every day and see all the seers see empty here and brimming there a marvelous asymmetry?
64.1 To keep the peace is easy.
64.1 Begin before a problem stirs handle things before they happen and trouble before it occurs.
64.3 Be calm and conquer worries before they can proceed.
64.4 The very largest tree begins as just a tiny seed.
It takes a single step to start a journey of a thousand miles.
And just one brick to start to build the grandest domiciles.
64.4 Let things happen as they will. You do not need to interfere.
64.5 See that you do nothing. That causes discord to appear.
65.1 Those of old who found the way could see their inner core.
65.2 They saw that it was hidden and didn't bring it to the fore.
65.3 When people think they know the truth they want all others to concur but they are happy and content when they remain unsure.
65.4 Don't try to lead with cleverness prefer instead simplicity.
65.5 It's obvious that truth must lie in nothingness and clarity.
66.1 The sea is large and mighty because it lies below the streams and rivers of the world thus capturing their flow.
66.2 If you want to have your fill then you must see that you are hollow. If you want to lead the way then you must be prepared to follow.
66.3 When you lead you are above but no one feels put down. And when you must be out in front know that no one's losing ground.
66.4 When you see that you're not built for facing up or confrontation no one can contend with you who are the ultimate negation.
67.1 On seeing inner nothingness you see it's great beyond compare. Though many find it curious that you would even care.
67.2 I have three treasures that I keep.
The first is friendliness.
The second is to stay behind.
The third is wanting less.
67.3 For if you're friendly and you care you can dare to do what's needed.
67.4 And if you always stay behind the lead will surely be conceded and if you're satisfied with less.
67.5 You have everything to give. Keep these treasures in your heart. Then you will truly live.
68.1 Violence is not the way. The greatest warriors know that treachery and anger will not defeat the foe.
68.2 You only win if you don't strive and gain if you do not oppose.
68.3This is the certain victory Simplicity bestows.
69.1 In conflict just be cautious and always on your guard.
69.2 Rather than advance an inch instead retreat a yard. In this way you go along and make your gain without advancing.
69.3 You deal with the rival as your position is enhancing. Remember that it's possible your rival just may yield so don't advance on such a foe.
69.4 Let differences be healed.
70.1 Embarrassingly obvious and always near at hand.
70.2 It is this nothingness you see but never understand though truth within is ageless.
70.3 Very few will ever see my face is what I give to you. The jewel within is me.
71.1 You cannot understand the truth claim to know and show you're ill. Just see that you are missing. That truth is bare and nil.
71.2 Unknowing is the final cure when knowledge takes its heavy toll. Pure presence is totality. And absence makes you whole.
72.1 When the sense of wonder goes disaster is not far behind.
72.2 Don't intrude in people's lives and they won't think you are unkind.
72.3 The seer sees both this and that but doesn't ask for praise finding this immensity with just a simple inward gaze.
73.1 The way is very easy. Its purposes prevail.
73.2 When all is done in silence intention cannot fail.
73.3 Its net is vast and over all with meshes large and wide.
73.4 Yet it loses nothing
Holds everything inside
74.1 You truly are what isn't born. You need not be afraid to die. Just live your life and know that you will never lose the inner eye.
74.2 You can't control what is to be in using tools you don't command.
74.3 Unlike the master carpenter you're bound to cut your hand.
75.1 The people starve when taxes take the bulk of what they earn.
75.2 When leaders interfere too much they get rebellion in return. The people do not fear to die if leaders rob them of their lives but taking no more than you need.
75.3 You see that everybody thrives.
76.1 We're soft and supple when we're born. Hard and rigid when we die.
76.2 Living plants are pliable. Deadwood is brittle and dry.
76.3 This way life befriends the weak but death draws near the strong.
76.4 The hard and stiff are bound to break. The supple bends and goes along.
77.1 Nature's way of doing is like the bending of a bow. For pulling on a bow you see the low go high and the high go low.
77.2 Nature takes from those who have and gives to those who lack. When nature takes from human beings they fight to get it back.
77.3 But if you see you have it all you're not afraid to give away.
77.4 Expecting nothing in return it all comes back with no delay.
78.1 Water is so very soft it overcomes because it yields. By wearing down the hardest rock it shows what power weakness wields.
78.2 The weak can overcome the strong. The soft can overcome the hard. Everybody knows it's true. So hold the low in high regard.
78.3 The seer sees serenity where others see affliction. The seer sees the inner truth where others only see a fiction.
79.1 There's little good in making peace if resentment lingers.
79.2 You'll never see an end to blame if everyone is pointing fingers.
79.3 It's better to be pointing at the peaceful and creative place where you see naught but emptiness.
79.4 And others say they see your face
80.1 If a land is small and the people few and the rulers recognize what's needed the simple ways of courtesy are happily and gladly heeded.
80.2 For people need so little to live their lives aright. Are food and home and clothing. Not enough for pure delight?
80.3 Though nearby lands are close enough to hear their roosters crow.
80.4 The people will be so content that not a one will want to go.
81.1 Truth need not be eloquent and eloquence may not be true. There is no need to argue when truth is shining through.
81.2 Those who see may not be learned. The learned may not see to see you merely need to look in pure simplicity.
81.3 The seer doesn't have to hoard and does not fear to lose. The more you give, the more you have.
81.4 So why should you refuse? Why not give it all away?
81.5 For emptiness brings benefit and as the seers always say the more you give, the more you get