THE WAY OF THE ACTION OF THE SOUL
A New Translation of the Tao Te Ching
by Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey
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SoulType 1, Chapter 55


Embody the action of the soul in its fullness.
Join with it to be as open as a newborn infant.

The bee, scorpion, serpent, and snake, will not bite.
Wild animals will not attack.
Birds of prey will not strike.
Even with weak bones and tender muscles you will be able to stand firm.

It does not know male-female union, yet the whole comes into being.

The life force is at its height!
You can cry all day and you are not hoarse.
Harmony is at its height!

You know that harmony is known as the eternal.
You know that the eternal is called the light.
The increase in your life force is a blessing.

Directing the chi with your mind is violent.
Things overdevelop, which is followed by exhaustion.
This is not the Tao.
What is not the Tao soon ends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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