CHINESE ORIGINAL
反者道之动，弱者道之用。
天下万物生于有，有生于无。
ENGLISH · JAMES LEGGE, 1891
40.
The movement of the Tao By contraries proceeds; And weakness marks the course Of Tao's mighty deeds.
All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).
Legge’s translation uses nineteenth-century English. Parentheses are the translator’s; English chapter headings are editorial reading aids. Sources & method ↗
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The Way
The source that cannot be fully named. Explore the language of emptiness, return, and the patterns through which things arise.
The Way