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In Heaven below (the sacred body) everyone recognizes beauty as beauty when ugly-heartedness ends.
Everyone recognizes virtue as virtue when lack of virtue ends.
Being and not being, together they give life.
Difficult and easy, together they complete.
Long and short, together they compare.
High and low, together they support.
Tone and voice, together they harmonize.
Front and back, together they follow each other.
The sages stay without action in their activities.
They practice silence in their teachings.
Ten-thousand things (everything) arise and they do not refuse.
They give life and do not hold onto it.
They achieve and do not take credit.
What is achieved continues on its own merit.
The masters agree not to dwell on their achievements.
Their accomplishments never cease.
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