- Bravo!
致虛極 守靜篤I might have said something like:
Sitting in the deepest void, I am still and quiet.
不知常 妄作凶
Where is your interpretation of this statement?
阿姗 wrote:
October 01, 2004
老子道德經第十六章
致虛極 守靜篤
萬物並作 吾以觀復
夫物芸芸 各復歸其根
歸根曰靜 靜曰復命
復命曰常 知常曰明
不知常 妄作凶
知常容 容乃公
公乃全 全乃天 天乃道 道乃久
沒身不殆
16.
In the highest state of void,
I am still like the mountain.
That everything grows and flourishes,
I silently watch their cycles.
Oh, there are so many things in the universe,
They come and go and eventually return to what they are.
To return to self is to reach void,
or fate, or eternity, or infinite, or absolute, or nature.
Knowing nature is true wisdom.
He who knows the ultimate nature of the world
is accepting, is just, is preserved, is natural,
and he lives on with nature, in all eternity.
81zi