Tao is the source of mind and insight.
Mind and insight mean that one takes up position
within the standards, and is acting within the standards.
Who takes position within the standards,
is inspiring confidence without words.
Who acts outside the standards,
his words cannot be changed.
Who takes position within the standards,
is quiet and cannot be dislodged from his place.
Who acts outside the standards,
cannot be persuaded to other objectives.
[Insight] is quiet and cannot be dislodged from its place.
[Mind] comes in action
and does not deviate from its objectives,
therefore we call it mind.
Mind and insight are the basics of knowledge
which rest on observation.
There is something that [exists] in the beginning,
it settles itself on Earth and reaches up to Heaven,
Yet no one is seeing the shape of it.
Her size is filling the space completely
between Heaven and Earth,
but no one knows the name of it.

Mind and insight

Because no one can know it from observation,
there exists the perfecetion of the opposite,
because through that the creatures arise.
Therefore corrective punishments exist,
and you could be hit bij the disaster itself.

The perfection of the opposite

When you try to protect what is damned,
and when you attack something that should be kept alive,
if you create a distance to your next of kin
by attacking your own family and [friends],
than that will lead that to disorder
and you will end up nameless.

Next of kin

Sometimes everything seems glorious
and then in decay again;
that is the circle of all things.
Sometimes everything seems glossy
and then withered again.
That is the circle of all life.
In general, alle creatures and wealth
that arise all at once,
will disappear in the same way.

The circle of life

9.5

These are three examples of action
and hunting for succes out of the standards.
Such action will certainly not succeed,
and disaster will surely turn itself around
and hit you.

Action