The naturalist, individualist and politic doctrine of Lao-tse exhibited in 81 poetic and obscure texts. Tr. Waley (en), Lau (en), Julien (fr) and Wilhelm (de).
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The Way is like an empty vessel
That yet may be drawn from
Without ever needing to be filled.
It is bottomless; the very progenitor of all things in the world.
In it all sharpness is blunted,
All tangles untied,
All glare tempered,
All dust soothed.
It is like a deep pool that never dries.
Was it too the child of something else? We cannot tell.
But as a substanceless image it existed before the Ancestor.
Waley 4
道体冲和, 它既取之不尽用之不竭, 又不盈满。它渊远流长, 是万物的根本。
它可以挫平一切坚锐的东西, 调解一切纠纷, 和谐一切光泽, 融合一切物质, 深遂而似存似亡。
我不知道它从何而来, 似乎有有形物体产生之前它就存在了。
白话翻译
The way is empty, yet use will not drain it.
Deep, it is like the ancestor of the myriad creatures.
Blunt the sharpness;
Untangle the knots;
Soften the glare;
Let your wheels move only along old ruts.
Darkly visible, it only seems as if it were there.
I know not whose son it is.
It images the forefather of God.
Lau 4
Le Tao est vide ; si l'on en fait usage, il paraît inépuisable.
Ô qu'il est profond ! Il semble le patriarche de tous les êtres.
Il émousse sa subtilité, il se dégage de tous liens, il tempère sa splendeur, il s'assimile à la poussière.
Ô qu'il est pur ! Il semble subsister éternellement.
J'ignore de qui il est fils ; il semble avoir précédé le maître du ciel.
Julien 4
Der SINN ist immer strömend.
Aber es läuft in seinem Wirken doch nie über.
Ein Abgrund ist er, wie der Ahn aller Dinge.
Er mildert ihre Schärfe.
Er löst ihre Wirrsale.
Er mäßigt ihren Glanz.
Er vereinigt sich mit ihrem Staub.
Tief ist er und doch wie wirklich.
Ich weiß nicht, wessen Sohn er ist.
Er scheint früher zu sein als Gott.
Wilhelm 4
The Way and Its Power – Dao De Jing I. 4. – Chinese on/off – Français/English
Alias Daode Jing, Dao De Jing, Tao Te Ching, Tao Teh Ching, le Tao-tö-king, Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Ching, the Laozi, Lao Zi, the Lao Tze, le Lao-tseu, The Book of the Way and its Virtue, the Way and its Power.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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