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== [[Tao Te Ching]], 2 ==
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When beauty is abstracted
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Then ugliness has been implied;
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When good is abstracted
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Then evil has been implied.
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So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
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Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
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Long and short abstracted from contrast,
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High and low abstracted from depth,
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Song and speech abstracted from melody,
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After and before abstracted from sequence.
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The sage experiences without abstraction,
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And accomplishes without action;
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He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
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Nurtures them, but does not own them,
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And lives, but does not dwell.
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