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🧵 #31

Fine weapons are ill-omened tools.
They are hated.
Therefore the old Taoist ignores them.

[…]

Weapons are ill-omened tools,
Not proper instruments.
When their use can’t be avoided,
Calm restraint is best.

Don’t think they are beautiful.
Those who think they are beautiful
Rejoice in killing people.

Those who rejoice in killing people
Cannot achieve their purpose in this world.

[…]

Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo (Hackett Publishing Company)

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🧵 #TaoTeChing #DaoDeJing #LaoTzu

#71

Know not-knowing: supreme.

Not know knowing: faulty.

Only faulting faults is faultless.
The Sage is faultless
By faulting faults,
And so is without fault.

Wikisource translation -

Knowing that you do not know, is superiority;
Not knowing this knowledge, is defectiveness.
Only by defecting defectives,
Can one be void of defectiveness.
The master is void of defectiveness,
Because of the defecting of defectives
Hence is void of defectiveness.

en.wikisource.orgTao Te Ching - Wikisource, the free online library

🧵 Some lines from the Tao Te Ching that keep coming back to me.

#27

[…] In this way the Sage
Always helps people
And rejects none,
Always helps all beings,
And rejects none.
This is called practicing brightness.

Therefore the good person
Is the bad person’s teacher,
And the bad person
Is the good person’s resource.

Not to value the teacher,
Not to love the resource,
Causes great confusion even for the intelligent.*

This is called the vital secret.

Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo (Hackett Publishing Company)

*The Wikisource translation of this line is - “However intelligent such a one may be, he is still greatly confused.”

en.m.wikipedia.orgTao Te Ching - Wikipedia