「Tao creates one, one creates two, two creates three, and three creates the ten thousand things. Everything carries yin and embraces yang, and through their interaction, harmony is achieved. True strength lies in yielding, and those who use force will not find peace.」
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Cite This Chapter
Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 42, "ལམ་གྱིས་གཅིག་སྐྱེ།", laotzu.ai: https://www.laotzu.ai/bo/chapters/42/
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「Tao creates one, one creates two, two creates three, and three creates the ten thousand things. Everything carries yin and embraces yang, and through their interaction, harmony is achieved. True strength lies in yielding, and those who use force will not find peace.」
འདི་ང་དང་ཇི་ལྟར་འབྲེལ་བ་ཡིན་ནམ?
「I see how opposites work together in my own life—struggle and ease, loss and gain. This chapter reminds me that forcing outcomes often leads to destruction, while accepting the flow brings balance.」
དེ་རིང་ང་ལ་ཅི་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ནམ?
「Today I will observe where I am trying to force results, and instead practice yielding with patience, trusting that emptiness and谦逊 lead to true fulfillment.」
The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.
