Thirteenth Chapter:
Tao Te Ching
Be uneasy when receiving favor or disgrace.
Be uneasy about high status.
Why be uneasy about favor or disgrace?
Whether you get it or not both ways it is degrading.
Why be uneasy about high status?
It afflicts your person.
We have great trouble because we have bodies.
If we had no body, what trouble would we have?
If [...]
Chapter Twelfth
Tao Te Ching
The five colors make us blind.
The five tones make us deaf.
The five flavors dull our taste.
Rush and hunt craze our minds.
Accumulating worldly objects injures our inner growth.
The sage observes what is without but trusts what is within.
He rejects the outer and accepts the inner.
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As I understand it:
The gratification of the [...]
Chapter Eleven:
Tao Te Ching
Thirty spokes converge around one hub,
But it is on the hole in the center that the utility of the carriage depends.
Clay is molded to form a vessel,
But it is in its hollowness that the utility of the vessel depends.
Doors and windows are cut out to make a room,
But it is in its [...]