THE WAY OF THE ACTION OF THE SOUL
A New Translation of the Tao Te Ching
by Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey

SoulType 1, Chapter 19


Renounce holiness, discard certainty, the people will benefit one-hundred fold.
Abandon benevolence with righteousness, people will return to devotion in the family.
Abandon craftiness, discard profit, and thieves and bandits will not appear.

Don’t be content to use these three lessons as decorations.
Learn to depend on them.

Recognize simplicity, embrace the purity of uncarved wood or uncut jade.
Reduce self-interest, diminish desires, abandon learnedness, and the people will have no sorrow.

 

 


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