Chapter 45

✦ ─── ⟐ ─── ✦

Boundless perfection is incomplete
Yet its use has no defect
Boundless plentitude is empty
Yet its use has no expiration
Boundless uprightness bends
Boundless ingenuity is inept
Boundless eloquence is clumsy

Excitement warms a chill, and stillness calms heat
Purifying stillness is the orthodoxy of the world


大成若缺
其用不弊
大盈若沖
其用不窮
大直若屈
大巧若拙
大辯若訥

躁勝寒,靜勝熱
清靜為天下正