Tenth Chapter:
Tao te Ching
Can you keep your body and soul separated?
Can you keep your body as supple as an infant?
Can you look at yourself in the dark mirror and make it spotless?
Can you govern the state without knowledge (cunning)?
Can you play the role of the female in the opening and closing of the gates of [...]
Tao te Ching:
Ninth Chapter
To fill a cup until it overflows
Is not as good as to stop in time.
Sharpen a sword-edge too much
Its edge will blunt.
When the gold and jade fill your hall,
You will not be able to keep them long.
To puff with honor and wealth
Is to cause your own downfall
Withdraw as soon as your work [...]
Eighth Chapter:
Tao te Ching
The highest good is like water.
Water benefits all things just by being itself.
It flows in lowly places that all disdain.
This is why it is like Tao.
The highest good lives in accordance with nature.
He lives close to the earth.
He loves what is deep and profound.
He is gentle and kind.
He keeps to his words.
He [...]