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Its use is inexhaustible
It's ever worthy of reliance
36
You cannot be diminished
Unless you've been inflated
You cannot be defeated
Unless you've been elated
You cannot be belittled
Unless you've been esteemed
Unless you're wholly missing
You cannot be redeemed
The soft and slow can overcome
The rigid and the hard and fast
Just see your inner emptiness
For nothing else is made to last
37
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
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
Desires would be moderate
And peace would be the only way
38
You needn't search for power
You already have it all
To seek outside your empty core
Is looking for a fall
The seer doesn't do a thing
But sees that all is finished
Foolish people run about
And leave totality diminished
Goodness must be doing
And justice never is complete
Propriety can't satisfy
Obedience is forced defeat
When totality is lost
Goodness comes to take its place
Followed by propriety
Bewilderment and end of grace
The seer sees periphery
But also sees the open core
And thus the seer sees the whole
And dwells therein forevermore
39
If you stay with clear awareness
The sky is open； pure and spacious
The earth is firm and friendly too
Activity is efficacious
But depart from clarity
The purest sky is torn apart
The earth is so divided
Felicity must flee your heart
The seer knows humility
Doesn't argue or cajole
Doesn't discard anything
Or mutilate the whole
The seer doesn't show at all
Doesn't sparkle like a jewel
The seer's vast immensity
Is truly less than minuscule
40
All is born of emptiness
Manifests and has its day
Then yields and surrenders
Returns and dies away
Commentary
41
When seers see their nothingness
They never let it out of sight
But others see it now and then
And miss out on its true delight
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
The brightest way seems darkness
Just going on seems like retreat
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
Awareness doesn't have a name
To all appearances is null
Yet it produces everything
And so this empty place is full
42
Awareness comes from nothingness
So all can see it's plainly one
Contains all opposition
Ten thousand things are now begun
All these things embrace the void
And face the manifest
Achieving thus true harmony
They find existence truly blessed
No one wants to be considered
Empty and alone
Yet that's exactly what the seers
Say they have been shown
And violence is not the way
I give you this instruction
Those who live by violence
Will bring about their own destruction
43
Overcome by yielding
The weak can overcome the strong
For only absence can provide
The place where everything belongs
And thus it is that I can see
The worthiness of not contending
Yet few will ever comprehend
The potency of bending
44
Which of these means more to you
Integrity or reputation？
Are gain and loss not equally
Responsible for limitation？
Everything that you possess
Is surely transitory
Just be pleased with emptiness
And witness inner bliss and glory
You know that your are always safe
If only you can be contented
With awareness as capacity
And with all that is presented
45
Wholeness seems like imperfection
Yet its usefulness is sure
Fullness seems quite empty
But it is certain to endure
True straightness can seem twisted
True wisdom does not seem to know
Great eloquence seems halting
Great darkness seems to be aglow
Can you see that emptiness
Contains all oppositions？
Like hot and cold and fast and slow？
All differences and all conditions？
46
When the absolute is cherished
Horses graze on the open green
When the absolute is lost
Only steeds of war are seen
No calamity exceeds desire
And always wanting more
Can you not see you have enough
And live in plenitude galore？
47
No need to go outside a door
To see totality
Or look out of a window
For seeing what will always be
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
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
All occurs quite on its own
A doer need not intervene
Allow all things to run their course
If you want to be proficient
Make a fuss and bother
And existence will be insufficient
49
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
The seer doesn't rush to judge
And treats all people well
Considers no one bad or good
Attracts but never does repel
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
So you can never be beguiled
And gives you back all that you lost
The vision of a little child
50
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
There's not a single thing to do
Can you be like the one who sees
The world emerging on its own？
What's needed for each moment
Arises from the great unknown
This one doesn't have a fear
Of weaponry or wild beast
These enemies can't harm the one
Whose separate self is long deceased
51
Everything arises
From this total emptiness
Is nourished and completed
And finds creation blessed
All things arise from nothingness
Are cared for by existence
Which freely gives what is required
For bountiful subsistence
Existence does not make a claim
On what it has created
It nourishes and serves and l