Dao: Song_002

Dao: Song_002

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short contrast each other:
High and low rest upon each other;
Voice and sound harmonize each other;
Front and back follow one another.

Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not.
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.

Translated by Gia Fu Feng

Commentary on Song_002

How will i feel warmth? If warmth is only what i have known?
The greatness of warmth is realised only in presence of bitter cold?
Can water flow from mountain if there is no valley?
Prey should be there for a preadtor to exist?
If i have never felt Dao? Do i realize the harmony in light and dark?
Nature storms and breezes? Why should it?
Why should it not keep breezing alone? Will then, do i know what storm is?
The value of the one is known only when the valueless is known.
What does the Sage do?
Praise light? Despise dark?
Kiss love? Sting hate?
Who are thy to rule nature?
Who are thy to order nature?
Does nature allow itself to change?
Or the Sage changes the course of nature?
Does the father in heaven order me? Or i order the father?
Humbleness[SAGE] sit and watch the divine governance?
A Sage beholding the truth knows the art of watching?
A Sage beholding the truth knows the art of listening?
A Sage beholding the truth knows the art of ceasing?
Watch, listen, and cease from action?
Then it happens unto you the birth of supreme action?
The divine acts within if it's thy purpose?
The unceased action creates chaos in the world?
The ceased action creates bliss in the world?
The one who invokes miracle is a witch.
The one who allows miracle to happen through him is The Sage.
God will: Pose of a sage is that of Great Himalayas.
It acts but unknown to the acted upon—The Sage.