61.1 Those which are great nations flow and spread lower The intersection of the world The female of the world. The female entirely conquers the male through stillness
61.2 It happens that stillness acts lower. So when a great nation is lower than a tiny nation It next grabs the tiny nation When a tiny nation is lower than a great nation It next grabs the great nation.
61.3 So some are lower and it happens they grab Some are lower and yet they grab.
61.4 Without fail a great nation desires to bring together and rear others Without fail a tiny nation desires to enter into the efforts of others.
61.5 In the end for both of these to acquire their desired position Those which are great appropriately act low.

62.1 That which is tao is treasurehouse for the 10000 things Treasure of the valuing man Place of refuge for the man who is not valuing.
62.2 Embellished words can cause respect to be marketed Doing valued things can cause lavish praise to enter Men who are not valuing, why be rejecting their presence?
62.3 So establish the emperor Install three ministers Even though it happens That the gift of the large jade disk is preceded by a team of horses It can not compare to sitting, emulating this tao.
62.4 Why did it happen that in ancient times There were those who treasured this tao? Did they go without saying Seek and finding happens Possess faults and escape from the anomalous happens? So it acts as the treasure of the world

63.1 Acting absent of acting Effort absent of effort Tasting absent of tasting
63.2 Great, small, abundant, few Repay hatred, ideal happens.
63.3 Planning the difficult relates to what is easy Acting great relates to what is small
63.4 The difficult efforts of the world seed doing related to what is easy The great efforts of the world seed doing related to what is small.
63.5 Appropriately it happens That sages eventually lack great action So they are able to perfect what is great.
63.6 In the end light promises seed scanty belief Abundant easiness seeds abundant difficulty.
63.7 Appropriately it happens That sages see all things as being equally difficult So eventually an absence of difficulty is with them.

64.1 What is peaceful is easily maintained What is not begun is easily planned What is fragile is easily shattered What is tiny is easily scattered.
64.2 Acting relates to the not yet present Governing relates to the not yet confused.
64.3 A tree as big as the embrace of a man is born relating to very tiny shoots A nine story tower is raised relating to a pile of earth A journey of a thousand li begins in relating to where you stand.
64.4 Those who act are spoiling Those who take hold of are losing Appropriately it happens that sages are absent of action So there is an absence of spoiling Are absent of taking hold of So there is an absence of losing.
64.5 The following of people of effort in the entire Relates to perfecting part yet spoiling Following care throughout as if just beginning
64.6 Comes an absence of spoiling effort.Appropriately it happens that sages Desire without desiring Are without treasuring goods difficult to obtain Learn without learning Return to the place where the collective mind passes And come to support the self-nature of the 10000 things Yet without venturing to act.

65.1 Those ancients who valued acting in tao Did not come to be luminous People attaining it came to be foolish.
65.2 The difficulty with governing people? It happens that what is wise is abundant. So if it happens that wisdom governs the nation It is the enemy of the nation If it does not happen that wisdom governs the nation It is the good luck of the nation
65.3 Those who know both these things Also investigate the patterns of entireness To know and investigate patterns is appropriately called insightful ideal.
65.4 Insightful ideal goes with the penetrating, with the far-reaching With it things go with turning back And will reach the great alignment.

66.1 In the place of rivers and seas The ability to act as that which is the king of one hundred valleys happens It happens they value being low So the ability to act as the king of one hundred valleys happens.
66.2 Appropriately it happens that Desire to be above people seeds the occurrence of words being low Desire to precede people seeds the occurrence of the body following
66.3 Appropriately it happens that sages Dwell above yet people lack heaviness Dwell in front yet people are without being held back Appropriately it happens That the world joyfully supports them yet without tiring.
66.4 It happens they lack contention So in the world noone is able to be contending with them.

67.1 In the world each says My tao is great and seems to lack resemblance In the end only great therefore seems to lack resemblance. It looks like resemblance goes with the long-lasting With what is tiny as well.
67.2 In the end I possess three principles I am obtaining yet defending One, say compassion Two, say thrift Three say lack of venturing to act to precede the world.
67.3 Compassion, so be able to be brave Thrift, so be able to expand Lack venturing to act to precede the world So be able to perfect tools of growth.
67.4 Right now, abandon compassion just to be brave Abandon thrift just to expand Abandon being behind just to precede Death goes with these.
67.5 In the end with compassion A war happens and next comes conquering Keeping to it happens and next comes solidity. The heavens attain helping It happens that compassion is defending.

68.1 Those who value acting as sergeants lack ferocity Those who value war lack anger
68.2 Those who value conquering lack engagement Those who value using men are acting low.
68.3 Appropriately called ideal of lacking being contending Appropriately called strength to be using men Appropriately called distributing the ancient limit of the heavens.

69.1 Strategists possess words I am without venturing to act as lord yet act as guest Without venturing to enter an inch yet fall back a foot.
69.2 Appropriately called Going absent of going Grabbing absent of an arm Throwing absent of opposition Taking hold of absent of an enemy.
69.3 No misfortune is greater than relating to light opposition Light opposition severs and destroys my principles.
69.4 So when opposing strategies escalate each other Conquering goes with those who mourn.

70.1 My words Are very easy to know Are very easy to practice. In the world Noone is able to know Noone is able to practice.
70.2 Words possess an ancestor Efforts possess a sovereign. In the end only with absence of knowledge Appropriate lack of self-knowledge happens Knowledge of that which is the self is rare And then that which is the self is treasured.
70.3 Appropriately it happens that sages have A covering of coarse cloth A bosom of jade.

71.1 Knowing, lack of knowing Better, lack of knowing Knowing, a disease.In the end only when the disease is sick Appropriate lack of the disease happens.
71.2 Sages lack the disease It happens the disease was sick. Appropriately lack of the disease happens.

72.1 People lack respect for impressive strength And then greatly impressive strength is reached.
72.2 An absence of improper familiarity for what is their place of residence An absence of detesting what is their place of living In the end only without detesting Appropriate lack of detesting happens
72.3 Appropriately it happens that sages Know themselves without displaying themselves Are fond of themselves without treasuring themselves. So detach from that, grab this.

73.1 Bravery in relation to venturing, next comes being killed Bravery in relation to lack of venturing, next comes being mobile
73.2 Each of these two benefits some, harms some.The place of the heaves dislikes Who knows why it is so? Appropriately it happens that sages see it just as difficult.
73.3 The tao of the heavens Without contending yet values conquering Without words yet values responding Without summoning yet attracts to itself Is easy-natured yet values a place for everything.
73.4 The net of the heavens is vast, expansive A coarse mesh yet without loss.

74.1 When people lack respect for death How does it happen that death looks threatening?
74.2 Suppose people entirely respect death Yet there are those who act strange. I may obtain hold of them yet who would venture to be killing them?
74.3 Entireness possesses that which is the master killer, killing.In the end taking the place Of that which is the master killer, killing Is appropriately called Taking the place of the great carpenter, carving. In the end take the place of the great carpenter, carving It is rarely true that a lack of wounding the hand goes with this.

75.1 The hunger of people It happens that those above feed by taxing abundantly Appropriately hunger happens.
75.2 The difficulty in governing people It happens that those above possess action Appropriately the difficulty in governing happens.
75.3 The lightness of people at death It happens that those above reach for the thickness of life Appropriately lightness at death happens. In the end only those who are absent of acting to live Are appropriately wise in relating to treasuring life.

76.1 The life of man is also yielding, weak His death is also rigid, unyielding.
76.2 The 10000 things, the grass and trees Their living is also yielding, fragile Their dying is also dried up, withered.
76.3 So that which is rigid, unyielding is the pupil of dying That which is yielding, weak is the pupil of living
76.4 Appropriately it happens that With unyielding soldiers, next comes lack of conquering With an unyielding tree, next comes being attacked.
76.5 Dwelling in the unyielding and great is worse Dwelling in the yielding and supple is better.

77.1 The tao of the heavens, it is just like opening up a bow With that which towers being restrained That which is lowered being lifted That which has surplus being decreased That which lacks enough being supplemented.
77.2 The tao of the heavens Decreasing in the presence of surplus Yet supplementing what lacks enough. The tao of man, and then it lacks being so Reducing what lacks enough Coming to esteem the presence of surplus.
77.3 Who is able to come to esteem presence of surplus in the world? Only those present with tao.
77.4 Appropriately it happens that sages Act yet without relying Are of outstanding service yet without dwelling therein They lack desire to display principles.

78.1 In the world nothing is supple and weak in relation to water Yet of those things which attack the firm and unyielding Nothing is able to do better In what is absent, this easily happens.
78.2 Being supple conquers the unyielding Being weak conquers the firm In the world Noone is without knowing it Noone is able to practice it.
78.3 Appropriately it happens that sages say He who accepts the disgrace of a nation Is appropriately called lord of the grain shrine He who accepts the misfortune of a nation Is appropriately acting as the king of the world. Correct words look like they turn back.

79.1 Harmonize great resentment Seed the presence of a surplus of resentment How can valuing actions happen peacefully?
79.2 Appropriately it happens that sages Take hold of the left of a contract Yet lack censure in relating to men.
79.3 Presence of ideal controls the agreement Absence of ideal controls its resolution.
79.4 The tao of heaven is absent of favorites It is entirely with the valuing man.

80.1 A tiny nation, few people Suppose the presence of 10 or one hundred times too many tools Yet they are unused Suppose people heavy with death Yet lack moving far.
80.2 Even present with boats and carriages There is an absence of a place to be riding Even present with armor and weapons There is an absence of a place to be displaying them.
80.3 Suppose men return to knotting cords and using them What is eaten is sweet What serves as clothing is beautiful What is a home is peaceful What is common is joyful.
80.4 Nearby nations overlook each other Crowing, barking sounds are heard by each other People reach old age and die Without coming and going between each other

81.1 Believed words lack embellishment Embellished words lack belief.
81.2 Those who value lack argument Those who argue lack valuing
81.3 Those who know lack learning Those who learn lack knowing.
81.4 The sages are without accumulating Grasping, it happens they act Others later gain presence Grasping, it happens they give Others later gain abundance.
81.5 The tao of the heavens Benefitting yet without spoiling The tao of the sages Acting yet without contending.