I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
Return animosity with virtue.
Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
The high must make the low its base.
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
By compassion one can be brave.
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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