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The moment you admire
You have created inequality and competition
The moment you value material goods
You have introduced envy and theft
Therefore the master leads her people
Towards silent practice
Provides simple meals
She weakens ambitions
And strengthens resilience
She helps you to forget
Anything you know
And anything you desire
And those who hold on to their knowledge
She helps them to let it go
There is no need for a doer
There is no need for a non-doer
Action and non-action already happen completely naturally
By itself
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If you label anything as beautiful
You immediately create ugliness
If you label anybody as handy
You immediately create clumsiness
Existence and non-existence give birth each other
And this starts with your labeling
Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other
Therefore the Master acts without doing and teaches without saying
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn’t possess, acts but doesn’t expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever!
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The Tao that can be described
is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the enduring and unchanging
Preceding a name,
it is the Originator of heaven and earth;
Once named, it is the Mother of all things.
Free from desire, you live the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the surface.
Both arise from the same source.
This source has been given many names.
And remains a living mystery.
At the heart of the mystery
You find a fountain of subtle wonder!