If you want to contract, you must extend
If you want to weaken, you must stregthen
If you want to make perish, you must make flourish
If you want to take possession, you must offer.
This is what is called a subtle vision:
the soft and the weak conquer the hard and the strong.
In fact, just because weapons are instruments of misfortune,
and surely repel human beings, he who possesses the
Way does not use them.
The Way, the real way, it's not a constant way.
The terms, the real terms, are not constant terms.
The term Non-Being means the beginning of the sky and earth.
The term Being means the mother of the ten thousand things.
Thus, it is thanks to the constant alternating of Non-Being and Being
That will be seen of the one the wonder, and of the other the boundaries.
Although these two have a common origin,
They are designated with different names and terms.
That which they have in common I call the Mytery ,
the Supreme Mystery, the door of all wonders.
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