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The
substance that arose from the chaos is whole.
Before Heaven and Earth were born there was stillness! Formlessness!
Alone, poised, not yet changed.
Then it went out everywhere unhindered.
It then became Heaven below's (the sacred body's) mother.
We
still know it by the name of the one.
The philosopher, they speak of the Tao.
Forced to create a name, I name it the great.
The great is called far reaching.
Far reaching, it is known to go far away.
Far away, it is known to return.
Thus the Tao is great, Heaven is great, Earth is great, the nobility
of humanity is great.
Within the universe there exist four great directions and the
nobility of humanity dwells there in the unity of the one.
Humanity emulates the Earth, the Earth emulates the Heavens, the
Heavens emulate the Tao, and the Tao emulates itself.
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