Dis‧Ease No More

End of limitations ≍ End of illness

《道德經》第七十一章

知不知上；不知知病。

夫唯病病，是以不病。

聖人不病，以其病病，是以不病。

Dào De Jing Chapter 71 ― James Legge

(The disease of knowing)

To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.

It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does not have it.

Dào De Jing Chapter 71 ― Arthur Waley

To know when one does not know is best.

To think one knows when one does not know is a dire disease.

Only he who recognizes this disease as a disease

Can cure himself of the disease.

The Sage's way of curing disease

Also consists of making people recognize their diseases as diseases

And thus ceasing to be diseased.

Dào De Jing Chapter 71 ― Herman Ould

To know that one does not know is the better part.

Not to recognize true knowledge is an illness.

Only by knowing this illness to be illness does not cease to be ill.

The Sage is free from this illness;

For having recognized his illness as an illness,

He is no longer ill.