16: Returning to the Source


Keeping emptiness as their limit

And stillness as their center

Ten thousand things rise

We watch them return

Creatures without number return to their roots

Returning to their roots they are still

Being still they revive

Reviving they endure

Knowing how to endure is wisdom

Not knowing is to suffer in vain

Knowing how to endure is to yield

To yield is to be impartial

To be impartial is to be the ruler

The ruler is Heaven

Heaven is the Way

and the Way is long life

A life without trouble

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