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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 2, Chapter 20


Abandon learnedness, and you will not walk slowly with a troubled head and heart.

I join together certainty with uncertainty so both can be discarded and come close to what is.

I join together the virtuous with the loathsome so both can be discarded and become what is.

People are afraid. They are unable to not be afraid.
Without restraint! They are without limits!

All people are busy, busy.
Like taking part in a great ox feast.
Like in spring climbing a terrace.

I alone remain calm!
I am one who gives no sign, like a newborn baby who does not smile.
Wearied, wearied!
I seem to be a person who has no place to return to.

People everywhere, all have excess.
I alone appear to be deficient.
I am a simple person in my heart and mind!!

Chaos, chaos!
Worldly people display, display.
I alone am dim, dim.

Worldly people are sharp, sharp.
I alone am dull, dull.

Tranquil! I seem like an ocean.
Whirlwind! It never stops.

People everywhere, all have a reason to exist.
I alone am thickheaded, and seem unrefined.
I alone differ from people and treasure being fed by the Mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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