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04道德经英译本85种-第233章

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  Greatness is ordinary; much is little
  Repay ill will with virtue
  Plan for the complicated while it is simple
  Develop the great while it is small
  The difficult tasks under heaven
  Always begin in simplicity
  The greatest tasks under heaven
  Always begin as minutiae
  This is why wise ones never assume greatness
  And so can achieve such greatness
  Those who lightly promise will surely be less trusted
  Much ease is surely much difficulty
  This is why wise ones look for things to get complicated
  And so in the end have no complications at all

  64

  What is secure is easy to hold
  What has yet to begin is easy to plan for
  What is thin is easy to break up
  What is minute is easy to scatter
  Attend to things before they come to be
  Arrange things before they entangle
  A tree which fills the joined embrace
  Has grown from a slender shoot
  A tower which reaches nine stories
  Begins as a basket of earth
  A journey of a thousand li
  Begins from beneath the feet
  Those who interfere spoil things
  Those who grab lose things
  This is why wise ones do not interfere and so do not spoil
  Do not grab and so do not lose
  People in their pursuits & affairs
  (are) ever on the verge of achieving and still ruin things
  Take care at the end as well as at the beginning
  And then there will be no ruined affairs
  This is why wise ones desire to have no desires
  Do not prize goods which are hard to obtain
  Learn to unlearn
  And return to what everyone else has passed by
  Thus helping the myriad beings to realize themselves
  While not presuming to interfere

  65

  Those ancients skilled at practicing the way
  Did not try to enlighten the people
  (But) would have tried to simplify them
  The difficulties of governing the people
  Are due to their great cleverness
  And so to use cleverness in governing a realm
  Is an injury to the realm
  To avoid using cleverness in governing a realm
  Is a favor to the realm
  Those who comprehend both of these
  Also examine for patterns
  Always to know to look for patterns
  May be called a mystic power
  A mystic power so deep & so far reaching
  (As) to help creation to turn itself around
  Natural succession then reaches perfect harmony

  66

  What is the reason why the rivers and ocean
  can serve as sovereign to the hundred valleys?
  Because they are so well below them
  In this way (they) can act as sovereign
  to the hundred valleys
  Applying this; in desiring to rise above the people;
  Always in expression be subordinate to them
  In desiring to go ahead of the people
  Always regard yourself as behind them
  This is how wise ones remain above
  And yet the people are not burdened
  Remain ahead
  And yet the people are not obstructed
  So it is that (all) under heaven readily come forward
  and never weary
  Because such as these will never contend
  So none under heaven can contend against them

  67

  Everyone in the world admits our way is great
  (And) resembles no likeness
  It is insofar as it is great
  That it resembles no likeness
  Had it a likeness
  Surely after so long
  It might have diminished a little
  Here I have three treasures
  Take and keep them safe:
  The first; call compassion
  The second; call economy
  The third; call never presuming to act as the world抯 leader
  Compassion confers a capacity for courage
  Economy confers a capacity for breadth
  Never presuming to act as the world抯 leader
  confers a capacity to develop enduring talents
  To right away set aside compassion
  in order to be more courageous
  To set aside economy in order to be more expansive
  To set aside following in order to be more advanced
  Is truly deadly
  Now compassion used in combat means triumph
  Used in defense means security
  Those whom heaven would redeem
  With compassion it protects them

  68

  The student skilled at action is not aggressive
  The one skilled at combat is not angry
  The one at besting opponents does not participate
  The one skilled at employing others behaves as their subordinate
  This may be styled the 搗irtue of not contending?br》 It may be styled 揳pplying another抯 power?br》 It may be styled 搒iding with heaven;?br》 The consummation of antiquity

  69

  Military strategists have a saying:
  揑 will not dare to act as host;
  But rather; act as guest;
  Will not presume to advance an inch;
  But rather; retreat a foot?br》 This may be called 搕o move without movement;
  To roll up sleeves without baring arms;
  To depose without a fight
  To capture without force?br》 There is no danger greater than underestimating a foe
  Underestimate a foe will risk losing what we value
  And so when opposing forces meet each other
  The one sympathetic will truly succeed

  70

  My words are very easy to understand
  Very easy to practice
  (But) nobody in the world can understand
  Nobody can practice
  Expressions presume a lineage
  Endeavors presume a master
  Insofar as these are unknown
  So it is that we are not known
  Those who know me are few
  Accordingly I am valued
  This is why wise ones wear common cloth
  Concealing jade in the heart

  71

  To know without knowledge is best
  To not understand knowledge is affliction
  Now (it is) because afflictions afflict
  That there is a way to avoid affliction
  Wise ones avoid disease
  Because they are made ill by illness
  This is the way to avoid the disease

  72

  (When) the people do not heed the imposing
  Then great impositions come to pass
  Do not constrict the places where they live
  Do not overtax their means of living
  Only when there is no oppressing
  Will there then be no oppression
  This is how wise ones know themselves
  Without displaying themselves
  Love themselves
  Without venerating themselves
  And so dismiss That to choose This

  73

  Courage atop presumption suggests dying
  Courage in avoiding presumption suggests survival
  (Yet) either of these may be sometimes beneficial;
  other times harmful
  That which heaven holds in contempt …
  Who knows as to the reasons?
  This is why wise ones watch for things to get complicated
  Heaven抯 way does not compete; yet skillfully overcomes
  Does not speak; yet skillfully replies
  Does not summon; yet naturally attracts
  Is above all of this; yet skillfully arranges
  Heaven抯 net is vast & encompassing
  Loosely meshed; and yet nothing escapes

  74

  (If) the people do not fear death
  Then why use death to intimidate them?
  Suppose it were so that the people always feared death
  And still they behaved perversely
  (When) we seized; detained and executed them
  Who would be bold?
  There will always be a master executioner to do the killing
  Now to t
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