56. The one who is conscious (in Tao) can’t speak.

The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)(1)
Close the mouth (silence your mind);

Shut the doors (close your your senses;controls the Gates of his Breath)

Smooth the sharpness( blunts his activity);

Untie the tangles (untangle your affairs;release your worries).

Harmonize your inner light (dim the glare; tempers his light);

Let settle your dust (calm the turmoil;unite the world into one whole).

Doing this is to enter the mystical oneness(with Tao)(2)

Yes such(a human being ) realizing mystical oneness (the saint;the wise)

holds balance beyond sway of love or hate (3)

He is immune to gain or loss [he can not be benefited nor harmed]

He can not be made noble nor to suffer disgrace [beyond care of praise(honor ;nobility) or blame (disgrace,shame; meanness)].

Therefore he is considered the most valuable human being under Heaven. [the treasure of the World].(4)

Notes:

(1) “He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know” is a false translation repeated endlessly.

Konstantin Stanislavsky(1863-1938) in his book ( “An Actor Prepares”),

about” The Professional Training system of an Actor” has illustrated the impossibility of talking or remembering.

He asked an actor to raise smth. very heavy.

The actor whose body was fully tense and concentrated on this task was unable to speak or to remember simple things he executed before. Stanislavski's theories on relaxation,body-mind unity and consciousness speaks about a man with a high degree of self knowledge(“that to concentrate one must first know how to relax”) Anyone in a mystic trance can’t speak without losing his attention,his fragile grasp or resonant connection with the subtle reality.Mystical trance requires an impartial conscious witness inside the traveller. This impartial consciousness that witnesses the journey to the Center is trained in taoism and yoga using the practice of silence(mouna).In hypnotic and shamanic trance the same thing is realized by two persons:one in trance and the other is the conscious witness outside,the guider,the hypnotherapist or the shaman.

(2) Mystical unity:the profound identification,the dark and mysterious identity,mysterious samenes,absolute equality).

(3) The saint remains detached and not moved or insulted either by affection or aversion; approached or alienated.

(4)Legge:”Such an one cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; he is beyond all consideration of profit or injury; of nobility or
meanness:he is the noblest man under heaven”.

Chan:”Therefore it is impossible either to be intimate and close to him or to be distant and indifferent to him.

It is impossible either to benefit him or to harm him. It is impossible either to honour him or disgrace him.

For this reason he is honoured by the world”.

Crowley:"He cannot be insulted either by familiarity or aversion; he is immune to ideas of gain or loss, of honour or disgrace; he is the true man, unequaled under Heaven".

LinYutan:”Then love and hatred cannot touch him. Profit and loss cannot reach him. Honor and disgrace cannot affect him. Therefore is he always the honored one of the world”.

Wieger:”No one can attach himself (by doing favours) to such a man, nor repulse him (by treating him badly). He is indifferent to gain or loss, exaltation or humiliation. Being thus, he is the most noble in the world”.

Wu:”Which you cannot court after nor shun, Benefit nor harm, honour nor humble. Therefore, it is the Highest of the world”.

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26 Greul este izvorul şi temelia uşorului

Realitatea nemanifestata din nucleul central al universului este izvorul şi temelia tuturor manifestarilor de la periferie

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77.Calea[Tao]Cerului se aseamănă cu īncordarea unui arc
 

77. The Way(Tao) of Heaven is like the stringing of an ancient bow

Is not the Way (Tao) of Heaven like the stringing of a bow?

The top extremes are bent downward; what is low is bent up.

So the extremes(the excesses)are diminished, and the deficient (the middle) is given to.(1)

The Way of Heaven reduces the excess, and supplements whatever is depleted.

The human way is different. It takes from the depleted, and give to those who already have an excess.

Who can give away what he has more than enough to give to all under Heaven?

Only someone whose only treasure is (the following of) Tao (2).

Therefore the sage acts (in present;here and now),but never contends

[an act of giving without the expectation for results (living in future)];

Accomplishes his work in detachment ,but does not possess it(without appropriating his work or attributing the result to himself he does not expect rewards in return:glory;praise).

He achieves successes ,but has no desire to dwell in them (in the past)

or to proclaim his superiority( he keeps himself in voluntary obscurity and has no desire to boast his merits because he considers himself as all men's equal in order to maintain the oneness with all things).

Notes:

(1) The ancient chinese bow is a symbol for the entering in Tao:” The Way of Heaven is like bending a bow. The surface is lowered; the center is raised. When the periphery is empty the Center is filled”.

(2) “Only someone whose only treasure is (the following of)Tao” respects what Jesus has said:“where your treasure is,there your hear will be”( Mt 6.21;Lk 12.34); and we can keep our Greatest Commandment:”Love the Lord your God with all your heart”(Mt.22.37;Mk.12.30;Lk.10.27)