| Who stands on tiptoe, doesn't stand steady; He who takes the longest strides, doesn't walk.." He who does his own looking sees little, and he who shows or reveals himself is hardly luminous He who justifies and defines himself isn't subsequently distinct. He who boasts of what he will do succeeds in nothing; Who brags doesn't endure for long. Who is proud of his work, achieves nothing well lasting. Such people are like remnants of food and tumours of action from the dao point of view. Good braggarts could be dregs. So it's said "Pass round superfluous dishes to those that have already had enough, Such things of disgust all are likely to detest and reject in disgust." So the man of dao spurns them. The man that has dao doesn't stay to bray and show off. |
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