《老子道德经(英译本)Lao Tze》25. Beneath Abstraction

  There is a mystery,

  Beneath abstraction,

  Silent, depthless,

  Alone, unchanging,

  Ubiquitous and liquid,

  The mother of nature.

  It has no name, but I call it "the Way";

  It has no limit, but I call it "limitless".

  Being limitless, it flows away forever;

  Flowing away forever, it returns to my self:

  The Way is limitless,

  So nature is limitless,

  So the world is limitless,

  And so I am limitless.

  For I am abstracted from the world,

  The world from nature,

  Nature from the Way,

  And the Way from what is beneath abstraction.

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