Saturday, January 15, 2022 XIII/四 i.e. XII & I (Circum Mensam & Vagus) 周明ॐ 和 迷走神經 |
"Do the first things first. Learn this first: no soul or individual may have so many friends that they can ever afford to lose even the least of them." ECRL 3126-1  |
道德經
《道德經》第六十三章
為無為，事無事，味無味。
大小多少，報怨以德。
圖難於其易，為大於其細；天下難事，必作於易，天下大事，必作於細。
是以聖人終不為大，故能成其大。
夫輕諾必寡信，多易必多難。
是以聖人猶難之，故終無難矣。
Dao De Jing Chapter Sixty-three — C. Ganson
63
Achieve serenity. Work passively. Taste the flavourless.
Large or small, many or few, exchange love for hatred.
Undertake the difficulty while it is still simple.
Undertake the great while it is still minor.
The problems of the world must be solved
while they are easy, the great while they are minor.
The truly wise find greatness by undertaking nothing great.
A promise lightly made is often difficult to keep.
Whoever makes light of things encounters many problems.
The truly wise know that things are difficult
and therefore meet with no difficulties.
Dao De Jing Chapter Sixty-three — James Legge
63 (Thinking in the beginning)
(It is the way of 道) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small as great, and a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness.
(The master of it) anticipates things that are difficult while they are easy, and does things that would become great while they are small. All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small. Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.
He who lightly promises is sure to keep but little faith; he who is continually thinking things easy is sure to find them difficult. Therefore the sage sees difficulty even in what seems easy, and so never has any difficulties.
Dao De Jing Chapter Sixty-three — Arthur Waley
63
It acts without action, does without doing,
Finds flavour in what is flavourless,
Can make the small great and the few many,
“Requites injuries with good deeds,
Deals with the hard while it is still easy,
With the great while, it is still small.”
In the governance of an empire everything difficult
Must be dealt with while it is still easy,
Everything great must be dealt with while it is still small.
Therefore the Sage never has to deal with the great;
And so achieves greatness.
But again “Light assent inspires little confidence
And 'many easies' means many a hard.”
Therefore the Sage knows too how to make the easy difficult,
And by doing so avoid all difficulties!
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