Chapter 70 reveals the paradox of true wisdom: the sage's teachings are simple and easy to practice, yet the world cannot understand or follow them. The sage wears humble clothing but carries inner jade-like wisdom.
Key Concepts
易知
被褐怀玉
知我者希
Cite This Chapter
Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 70, "Lusadisu ya Mame ya Nkailu", laotzu.ai: https://www.laotzu.ai/ktu/chapters/70/
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Ntangu ya mame, ya bwabi mingi ya kumaka, ya bwabi mingi ya kukamba. Kasi ve kuna muntu ya mongo ke kumaka, ve ya kukamba. Ntangu ya mame, mabula ya nkama, mvutu za zola. Kana kana nkisi ya kuzaya, kaka ko yau ke zaya me. Bana ya kumaka me, bazungu mbe mingi. Bana ya landaka me, bazengele. Kaka ko, muntu ya nkailu, kuvata bilamba bya nguba, kansi kuvota kubala ya ngambo ya ntoto.
Makanisi ya nda
Nki kunsi ya yayi mbula?
Chapter 70 reveals the paradox of true wisdom: the sage's teachings are simple and easy to practice, yet the world cannot understand or follow them. The sage wears humble clothing but carries inner jade-like wisdom.
Bobingana na mono?
This speaks to my own experience of sharing truths that others aren't ready to receive. My deepest insights often go unappreciated, yet I must continue living authentically regardless.
Nki nasala lelo?
Today I will share one simple truth with someone, without attachment to whether they understand it. I will practice humility while nurturing my inner wisdom.
My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them. They who know me are few, and I am on that account (the more) to be prized. It is thus that the sage wears (a poor garb of) hair cloth, while he carries his (signet of) jade in his bosom.
AI ya makanisi
Ntangu ya mame, ya bwabi mingi ya kumaka, ya bwabi mingi ya kukamba. Kasi ve kuna muntu ya mongo ke kumaka, ve ya kukamba. Ntangu ya mame, mabula ya nkama, mvutu za zola. Kana kana nkisi ya kuzaya, kaka ko yau ke zaya me. Bana ya kumaka me, bazungu mbe mingi. Bana ya landaka me, bazengele. Kaka ko, muntu ya nkailu, kuvata bilamba bya nguba, kansi kuvota kubala ya ngambo ya ntoto.
