《道德經第四十三章》

天下之至柔，馳騁天下之至堅。

無有入無間，吾是以知無為之有益。

不言之教，無為之益，天下希及之。

Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — C. Ganson

43

The softest will penetrate the hardest.

The non-existent will penetrate the existent.

By this, I know the value of being passive.

This is teaching without words,

an achievement without direct action.

In all the world few know this.

Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — James Legge

43 (The universal use (of the action in the weakness of the Dao))

The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing (with a purpose).

There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.

Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — Arthur Waley

43

What is of all things most yielding

Can overwhelm that which is of all things most hard.

Being substanceless it can enter even where is no space;

That is how I know the value of action that is actionless.

But that there can be teaching without words,

Value in action that is actionless,

Few indeed can understand.