19. Simplify
If we could abolish knowledge and wisdom /
If we could abolish knowledge and wisdom /
What is the difference between assent and denial? /
Harmony is only in following the Way. /
Accept and you become whole, /
Nature says only a few words: /
Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady; /
There is a mystery, /
Gravity is the source of lightness, /
The perfect traveller leaves no trail to be followed; /
Using the male, being female, /
Those who wish to change the world /
Powerful men are well advised not to use violence, /
Armies are tools of violence; /
The Way has no true shape, /
Who understands the world is learned; /
The Way flows and ebbs, creating and destroying, /
If you offer music and food /
To reduce someone’s influence, first expand it; /
The Way takes no action, but leaves nothing undone. /
Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted; /