That in this world, nothing is softer and weaker than water, yet nothing surpasses it in overcoming the hard and strong. The weak defeats the strong, the soft defeats the hard—everyone knows this, but no one can practice it.
Key Concepts
水
柔弱
刚强
受垢
Cite This Chapter
Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78, "Teuka Lôn Lémah nibthat Ué", laotzu.ai: https://www.laotzu.ai/ace/chapters/78/
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Lôn that dumèe di dalam donya nyang leumeh ngon lémah that teuka keu ué, teukajan that teuprayèe teumasa nibthat aneuk that gasa. Sabab hana nyang leupoh that dumèe. Lémah that jikòn that gasa, that jikòn that that gasa—this is known by everyone in the world, but no one can put it into practice. Therefore the holy person says: 'He who accepts the nation's disgrace is called the lord of the country; he who bears the nation's misfortune is called the king of the world.' True words appear reversed.
Renungan Dalam
Peue nyang bab nyoe tentang?
That in this world, nothing is softer and weaker than water, yet nothing surpasses it in overcoming the hard and strong. The weak defeats the strong, the soft defeats the hard—everyone knows this, but no one can practice it.
Pakri hubunganjih ngon lon?
In my life, I often try to force my way through problems with strength and aggression, but this chapter reminds me that true strength lies in gentleness and flexibility, like water that can overcome the hardest stone through patience and persistence.
Peue nyang patot lon pubuet uroe nyoe?
Today I will respond to a difficult situation with softness instead of force, adapting like water rather than pushing against resistance.
There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it—for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed. Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.
AI Moden
Lôn that dumèe di dalam donya nyang leumeh ngon lémah that teuka keu ué, teukajan that teuprayèe teumasa nibthat aneuk that gasa. Sabab hana nyang leupoh that dumèe. Lémah that jikòn that gasa, that jikòn that that gasa—this is known by everyone in the world, but no one can put it into practice. Therefore the holy person says: 'He who accepts the nation's disgrace is called the lord of the country; he who bears the nation's misfortune is called the king of the world.' True words appear reversed.
Renungan Lon
Peue nyang bab nyoe peugah bak gata? Pakri gata akan pubuet?
