| Dealing with the Small. It is easy to sustain a situation when it is pacified. It is easy to plan when it doesn't yet show signs of danger. It is easy to dissolve what is crisp; easy to disperse what is minute. Deem-act on it in its not-yet-exist phase; order it in its not-yet-disordered phase. An armful of wood arises from small sprouts; nine story towers start from a pile of earth. A thousand league walk starts with putting the foot down. Those who deem-act wreck it; those who grasp lose it. Using this: Sages lack deeming action, hence they lack wrecking, lack grasping hence lack losing. The people in pursuing social affairs take the phase of nearly completed as constant and then wreck it. If you are as careful at the end as in the beginning then you will lack wrecking things. Using this: Sages treat not-desiring as a desire and don't value goods difficult to obtain. Study not-studying and restore what the crowd of humanity has passed by. Use restoring the self-so nature of the ten-thousand natural kinds and don't recklessly deem-act. |
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