The Tao, Chapter 28

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://angelsansara.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/the-tao-chapter-28/ The Tao, Chapter 28 Know the masculine,but keep to the feminine:and become a watershed to the world.If you embrace the world,the Tao will never leave youand you become as a little child. Know the white,yet keep to the black:be a model for the world.If you are a model for the world,the Tao inside you will strengthenand you will return whole to your eternal beginning. Know the honorable,but do not shun the disgraced.Embrace the world as it is.If you embrace the world with compassion,then your virtue will return you to the uncarved block. The block of wood is carved into utensilsby carving void into the wood.The Master uses the utensils, yet prefers to keep to the blockbecause of its limitless possibilities. Great works do not involve discarding substance. -- Translated by J. H. McDonald