The Tao, Chapter 55

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://angelsansara.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/the-tao-chapter-55/ The Tao, Chapter 55 One who is filled with the Taois like a newborn child. The infant is protected fromthe stinging insects, wild beasts, and birds of prey.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is firm and strong. It doesn't know about the (sexual) unionof male and female,yet his penis can still stand erectbecause of the power of life within him.It can cry all day and never become hoarse.This is perfect harmony. To understand harmony is to understand the Constant.To know the Constant is to be called 'enlightened'. To unnaturally try to extend life is not appropriate.To try and alter the life-breath is unnatural. The master understands that when something reaches its primeit will soon begin to decline. Changing the natural is against the way of the Tao.Those who do it will come to an early end. -- Translated by J. H. McDonald