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Lao Tse

TAO TE CHING

Editor Vladimir Antonov

Smashwords Edition

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1. One cannot cognize Tao^[1] only by speaking about It.

One cannot name by a human name that Origin of the sky and the earth Which is the Mother of everything.

Only he who is free from worldly passions can see It; and he who has such passions can see only Its Creation.

Tao and Its Creation are One in essence, though called by different names. The passage which exists between them is a door to all the miraculous.

2. When people know the beautiful, they understand also what is ugly.

When they learn what is good, they realize also what is evil.

In this way, beingness and non-beingness, hard and easy, long and short, high and low allow knowing each other.