Who considers hard as soft, stays alive.
Who considers soft as hard, will be attacked.
Who esteems that what is soft,
will experience blessings.
Who esteems that what is hard,
will become wiped out

Hard and soft

"Yes" is the seal of words.
"No" is the crack of words.
If "yes" and "no" cannot be trusted,
then knowledge becomes muddy.
If "yes"and "no" can be trusted well,
then you are in position within the standards.

Yes and no

When someting happens in the world,
than you have to investigate the name of it.
When the name [is investigated scrupulous]
just as the direction which name and texture are following,
than a good pattern brings always luck
and a bad pattern brings always disaster.
Good and wrong know their own distribution.
Emptiness, stillness, attention and obedience,
are the laws to complete them.

Good and wrong

A scrupulous investigation iof Name and Pattern
from end back to the start,
is called "The texture of the pattern".
Conform (yourself) exclusive to the common interest,
without counting with your own involvements.
Connect that to your knowledge from your own experience,
if it is not confused, than knowledge will rise up impetous.
Therefore, the one who makes allowance for the Tao,
during his observations of the world  and (her) events,
[he will see] true Tao,
and according to the texture of the pattern,
he will be able to recover begin and end.
Therefore he can determine the name
and define the texture or the pattern.   
 

Begin and end

9.10

From Form and Name, reputation is following
and if the reputation agrees with reality,
then luck and disaster will be like a shadow
that arises from the form,
or like an echo that follows on the sound,
or like a balance that cannot hide (what is) light or heavy.
Therefore, only he who follows the true Tao
is empty and quiet,
focussed on common interest and correctness.
Only then the texture of the pattern manifests itself.
Only then you will become part of the truth of name and pattern.

Integrity