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Old 05-07-2014, 04:12 AM
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Lao Tsu's comment on this symbol, translated by James Legge:


"The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced all things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness into which they have emerged, while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.

What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and other things are diminished by being increased.

What other men thus teach, I also teach. The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching."

(Copied down from: F. Max Müller, The Sacred Books of China; The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tsu. Oxford University Press 1891)


The violent and strong do not die their natural death, Mr. Kaarma!!!
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