The Original Text and Translation of Laozi's Ten Chapters

Chapter 10 of Tao Te Ching

Author Lao Zi? the Spring and Autumn Period

Holding one on your back in the camp, can you go?

Can it be as soft as a baby?

Can you get rid of the mystery and be perfect?

Love the people and govern the country, can you do nothing?

Can Tianmen be opened and closed for women?

Understand Starr, can you be ignorant?

An animal born without it, without relying on it, grows without killing it, which is called Xuande.

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Spirit and form are one, can they not be separated? Can you be as soft and docile as a baby without desire by concentrating on it? "Can you get rid of distractions and observe the mind thoroughly without flaws?" Can loving the people and governing the country follow the law of natural inaction? Can the senses be quiet when exposed to the opposite changes in the outside world? I understand Sida, will you stop trying? Let all things grow and multiply, produce all things, raise all things without taking them for yourself, and be the master of all things without dominating them. This is called "Xuande".

Lao Zi, whose real name is Li Minger, whose name is Bo Yang, or Shu Bo Yang, was born in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and his date of birth and death is unknown. According to "Historical Records" and many other ancient books, Laozi was a native of Guxian in the Spring and Autumn Period, but after his death, Guxian belonged to Chu in the Warring States Period and Chu in the Han Dynasty. China was an ancient thinker, philosopher, writer, historian, founder and main representative of Taoist school, and was also called "Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi" with Zhuangzi. Later, he was revered as the ancestor by Taoism and called "the old gentleman on the throne". In the Tang Dynasty, he was regarded as the ancestor of Li. It is listed as a world cultural celebrity and one of the world's top 100 historical celebrities.