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