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He who is weighing with scale and
balance
involves the natural things to it
Thus, no task on Earth is left
without examination for affectivity.
Tasks are to compare with
straightening a piece of wood
their number with the grain of corn
stored in a warehouse.
Once ladle and weights are ready,
than is there no way
to avoid the spirit of a thing.
Therefore is written:
When measures and weights are certain
they keep retained and used.
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| 1 1.7 |
It is broken but yet
It continues itself.
It has disappeared and yet
It is further retained.
Who understands the spirit of that?
It dies and is coming to life again
It changes disaster into prosperity
Who understand the utmost of That?
He asks it to what has no shape.
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| 1 1.8 |
Tao that is settling itself on change, means:
Finding balance.
And then: do not go any further.
A situation in which the weights
do not meet expectations, means:
Losing Tao.
For ranks and classes apply invariable positions.
To teach a counselor apply invariable Tao.
To launch the people apply invariable standards.
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| 1 1.9 |
The
four invariable laws
of Heaven and Earth are:
The four seasons,
Light and darkness,
To present life and to kill,
Soft and hard.
The invariable tasks
of the people are:
That the men are working on the land
And that the women are weaving.
The invariable positions
of ranks and classes are:
That wise and foolish do not go together.
The invariable way
to teach counselors is:
To appoint who fits the best
but in such a way
that their skills
are not exceeded.
The invariable way
to launch the people is:
To eliminate self interest
and to give precedence
To the common interest.
That what deviates from invariability
And what exceeds the standard
should be kept in mutual balance
As an exceptional thing.
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| 1 1.10 |
The
right and the exceptional
take both their places
Without elimination of
their Name [and Shape].
Always, in spite of the size of tasks
All things search themselves a shelter
Disobedient or obedient,
death or alive.
Spontaneously every thing
gives itself a name.
Once Form and Name are given
Than every thing is molding
itself to the right.
So only who can lay his hand on Tao
Can get a clear sight of the Heaven swinging around
Above his head,
and look around himself and see.
What separates a ruler from a counselor
And keeps trace for himself.
What is turning the things
in their eternal circles,
Without trying to take over the control.
So he can attain
the highest level of purity
The highest level of pure insight
And develop oneself in all directions
And yet stay without Shape
And only then one can become
The Right One for the World.
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