| "He who knows the male (active force), yet keeps to the female (the passive force or receptive element), becomes like a ravine, receiving all sort of things. Being the all-encompassing ravine he knows a power that he never calls upon in vain. This is returning to the state of infancy. He who knows the white, yet keeps and cleaves to the black becomes the standard by which all things are tested, he becomes the model for the world. As such he has all the time the eternal power that never errs; and he returns to the limitless, a primordial nothingness. He who knows glory, yet keeps to obscurity or even cleaves to ignominy, turns into the valley that receives into it all kind of things. And being such a valley he has all the time a power that suffices. So he returns again to some pristine simplicity, returns to the state of simplicity: its the raw, uncarved block. Break up simple awareness and it becomes shaped. Next it becomes someones tool in the hands of the wise man. For when a block is sawed up it's made into subordinates or implements. When the wise man uses it, it becomes chief. So the greatest carver does the least cutting, as they say. The great ruler doesn't cut up. |
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