Category: Dao De Jing
This category includes my unpublished translation & commentary of the Dao De Jing, reserved for practicing members of my Wuweidao Cultivation Group. For more info on this group, see www.oldoakdao.org. Next group will open around Chinese New Year 2020. Email me at oldoakdao@yahoo.com if interested in joining.
Protected: Dao De Jing Chapter 79
Protected: Dao De Jing Chapter 80
Dao De Jing Chapter 80 (public)
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Small countries have few people
Though there are many tools
The people do not use them
They feel the weight of death
And do not leave their homeland
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Though there are boats & wagons
Nobody rides them
Though there are armor & weapons
Nobody displays them
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Allowing the people to repeatedly use knotted cord*
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Sweet their food
Beautiful their clothing
Peaceful their dwellings
Joyful their customs
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Neighboring countries see one another
Hearing the sounds of one another’s chickens & dogs
The people grow old and die
Never having come or gone
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(*Knotted cord refers to ancient practices of observation, divination, and calibration – a form of record-keeping and communication predating written language. Coding information (spirit) into material form as a means of managing everyday human affairs.)