SPECULUM – REFLEXÕES

Categoria: Lao Tzu

  • Tao Te Ching XI

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    Trinta raios unidos formam uma montagem de roda; sozinhos, são inutilizáveis: é o vazio QUE OS UNE, que faz deles uma roda de que se pode servir. Uma propriedade que se toca e que se pega é inutilizável: é o ar que a preenche que dela faz um bem o qual se pode usar. Construir,…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXII

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    Tao is eternal, but has no fame [name]; The Uncarved Block, though seemingly of small account, Is greater than anything that is under heaven. If kings and barons would but possess themselves of it, The ten thousand creatures would flock to do them homage; Heaven-and-earth would conspire To send Sweet Dew, Without law or compulsion,…

  • Izutsu (ST) – Lao-Tzu (ou Laozi)

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    Laozi es una figura legendaria o, por lo menos, semi-legendaria, y constituye un evidente eufemismo decir que no se sabe nada a ciencia cierta acerca de él, ya que, incluso en el supuesto de que haya una base histórica en su biografía, debemos admitir que la imaginación popular ha tejido en torno a él un…

  • Wieger: Profusion du Principe

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    Ce chapitre IV important est consacré à la description du Principe. A cause de l’abstraction du sujet, et peut être aussi par prudence, ses conclusions choquant les anciennes traditions chinoises, Lao-tzeu emploie trois fois le terme atténué paraître, au lieu du terme catégorique être. — Il ne se prononce pas sur l’origine du Principe, mais…

  • Wieger: T A O — T E I — K I N G (Livre I, Chapitre 1)

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    L I V R E I Chapitre 1. Texte. A. Le principe qui peut être énoncé, n’est pas celui qui fut toujours. L’être qui peut être nommé, n’est pas celui qui fut de tout temps. Avant les temps, fut un être ineffable, innommable. B. Alors qu’il était encore innommable, il conçut le ciel et la…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXVIII

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    The man of highest “power” does not reveal himself as a possessor of “power”; Therefore he keeps his “power”. The man of inferior “power” cannot rid it of the appearance of “power”; Therefore he is in truth without “power”. The man of highest “power” neither acts nor is there any who so regards him; The…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXVII

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    Tao never does; Yet through it all things are done. If the barons and kings would but possess themselves of it, The ten thousand creatures would at once be transformed. And if having been transformed they should desire to act, We must restrain them by the blankness of the Unnamed. The blankness of the Unnamed…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXVI

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    What is in the end to be shrunk Must first be stretched. Whatever is to be weakened Must begin by being made strong. What is to be overthrown Must begin by being set up. He who would be a taker Must begin as a giver. This is called “dimming” one’s light. It is thus that…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXV

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    He who holding the Great From goes about his work in the empire Can go about his, yet do no harm. All is peace, quietness and security. Sound of music, smell of good dishes Will make the passing stranger pause. How difference the words that Tao gives forth! So thin, so flavourless! If one looks…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXIX

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    As for the things that from of old have understood the Whole — The sky through such understanding remains limpid, Earth remains steady, The spirits keep their holiness, The abyss is replenished, The ten thousand creatures bear their kind, Barons and princes direct their people. It is the Whole that causes it. Were it not…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXIV

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    Great Tao is like a boat that drifts; It can go this way; it can go that. The ten thousand creatures owe their existence to it and it does not disown them; Yet having produced them, it does not take possession of them. Makes no claim to be master over them, [And asks for nothing…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXIII

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    To understand others is to have knowledge; To understand oneself is to be illumined. To conquer others needs strength; To conquer oneself is harder still. To be content with what one has is to be rich. He that works through violence may get his way; But only what stays in its place Can endure. When…

  • Tao Te Ching X

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    Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying, Hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it? Can you, when concentrating your breath, Make it soft like that of a little child? Can you wipe and cleanse your vision of the Mystery till all is without blur? Can you love the people and rule the…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXI

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    Fine weapons are none the less ill-omened things. [People despise them, therefore, Those in possession of the Tao do not depend on them.] That is why, among people of good birth, In peace the left-hand side is the place of honour, But in war this is reversed and the right-hand side is the place of…

  • Tao Te Ching XXX

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    He who by Tao purposes to help a ruler of men Will oppose all conquest by force of arms; For such things are wont to rebound. Where armies are, thorn and brambles grow. The raising of a great host Is followed by a year of dearth. Therefore a good general effects his purpose and then…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVIII

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    “He who knows the males, yet cleaves to what is female Because like a ravine, receiving all things under heaven,” And being such a ravine He knows all the time a power that he never calls upon in vain. This is returning to the state of infancy. He who knows the white, [yet cleaves to…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVII

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    Perfect activity leaves no track behind it; Perfect speech is like a jade-worker whose tool leaves no mark. The perfect reckoner needs no counting-slips; The perfect door has neither bolt nor bar, Yet cannot be opened. The perfect knot needs neither rope nor twine, Yet cannot be united. Therefore the Sage Is all the time…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVI

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    As the heavy must be the foundation of the light, So quietness is lord and master of activity. Truly, “A man of consequence though he travels all day Will not let himself be separated from his baggage-wagon, However magnificent the view, he sits quiet and dispassionate”. How much less, then, must be the lord of…

  • Tao Te Ching XXV

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    There was something formless yet complete, That existed before heaven and earth; Without sound, without substance, Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven. Its true name we do not know; Were I forced to say to what class of things it belongs…

  • Tao Te Ching XXIV

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    He who stands on tip-toe, does not stand firm; He who takes the longest strides, does not walk the fastest. He who does his own looking sees little, He who defines himself is not therefore distinct. He who boasts of what he will do succeeds in nothing; He who is proud of his work, achieves…