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 Valley Spirit never dies.
It is named the Mysterious Female.
And the doorway of the Mysterious Female
Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.
It is there within us all the while;
Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.
Waley 6
谷神, 无的总代表, 以谷形容它的深遂, 以神代表它的作用。它无形无影, 无逆无违, 处卑不动, 守静不衰, 因其永恒, 固而不死。同时由于它自身的运化, 产生了天地万物, 所以又称它为“玄牝”, 玄牝 ― 玄之母也。由于天地是由玄之又玄的机制运化来的, 因此玄牝又是天地之根。它无形地存在着, 永存不绝…。而它的作用, 无穷无尽, 用之不尽。
白话翻译
The spirit of the valley never dies.
This is called the mysterious female.
The gateway of the mysterious female
Is called the root of heaven and earth.
Dimly visible, it seems as if it were there,
Yet use will never drain it.
Lau 6
L'esprit de la vallée3 ne meurt pas ; on l'appelle la femelle mystérieuse.
La porte de la femelle mystérieuse s'appelle la racine du ciel et de la terre.
Il est éternel et semble exister (matériellement).
Si l'on en fait usage, on n'éprouve aucune fatigue.
Julien 6
Der Geist des Tals stirbt nicht,
das heißt das dunkle Weib.
Das Tor des dunklen Weibs,
das heißt die Wurzel von Himmel und Erde.
Ununterbrochen wie beharrend
wirkt es ohne Mühe.
Wilhelm 6
The Way and Its Power – Dao De Jing I. 6. – 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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