道德經
一章 /
一章 /
Lao Tze /
The Way that can be experienced is not true; /
When beauty is abstracted /
Not praising the worthy prevents contention, /
The Way is a limitless vessel; /
Nature is not kind; /
Experience is a riverbed, /
Nature is complete because it does not serve itself. /
The best of man is like water, /
Fill a cup to its brim and it is easily spilled; /
Embracing the Way, you become embraced; /
Thirty spokes meet at a nave; /
Too much colour blinds the eye, /
Both praise and blame cause concern, /
Looked at but cannot be seen - it is beneath form; /
The enlightened possess understanding /
Empty the self completely; /
The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects; /
When the Way is forgotten /