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Enlightenment of the absolute Tao can free a person from worries and sorrow.

How much is the difference between a respectful response and an angry response?

How great is the difference between good and evil?

What people naturally fear, one should also fear.

One’s endless desire can result in negligence of the true nature of life.

People like to pursue after excitement as if they were ascending the terrace in spring and

celebrate a sacrificial feast.

But I alone remain quiet and calm like an infant who is pure and innocent.

And I alone appeared to be lost like one who has nowhere to go.

All people have a surplus, but I alone was simple and left out like a fool.

People seemed bright and shrewd, while I seemed dull.

People like to dispute, while I alone remain quiet.

I am calm and peaceful like the boundless ocean.

I am open-hearted and free like the wind blowing high above the sky without hindrance.

Everyone thinks of themselves as capable and outstanding while I appeared unlearned.

I am the only one to be different from others for I value highly the Great Tao and joyfully act

accordingly.

The wise does not speak.

He who speaks is not wise.

Keep silent and close one’s mouth.

Keep guard on one’s sensory organs.

Round off one’s edges.

Untie the entangled.

Harmonize with the glory.

Mix with the lowliness.

This is called the Mystic Unity.

Because the wise is unified with all and has no distinction,

Thus, one cannot get close to him,

Nor can one keep far away from him,

One cannot benefit him,

Nor can one harm him,

One cannot honor him,

Nor can one disgrace him.

Therefore, he is honored by the whole world

When the government is dull,

People are simple and sincere.

When the government is complex and stringent,

People are cunning and shall cause trouble.

Calamity is what blessings depend upon.

In blessings there hides the calamity.

Who knows the ultimate end of the cycle of calamity and blessings?

Is there no true principle that exists?

The normal may revert and become unusual.

The good may revert and turn into evil.

Long indeed, man has been under such delusion.

Therefore, the saint abides by firm principle and does not depart from it.

He is honest and not mean.

He is upright and not rue.

He is honored and not eminent.

When people do not fear death,

There is no use trying to threaten them with death.

If people value their lives, and those who break the law were being executed,

Then who would dare to commit criminal act?

The life and death of all beings are handled by the executioner of Nature.

Those who substitute the nature executioner to kill,

Is like replacing the master carpenter to chop the wood.

One who substitutes the master carpenter to chop the wood,

Rarely does not hurt his hands.

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This is Taoism.