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Tao Te Ching Chapter 4: iTao Liyaphukuma. Read the original Chinese, translation, AI reflection, key concepts, and citation guidance.
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Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 4, "iTao Liyaphukuma", laotzu.ai: https://www.laotzu.ai/nr/chapters/4/
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Okusuka
道冲,而用之或不盈。渊兮,似万物之宗。
挫其锐,解其纷,和其光,同其尘。湛兮,似或存。
吾不知谁之子,象帝之先。
Ukuhumusha
iTao liyaphukuma, kanti ukuqhutshwa kwayo akukapheli. Liphelele kakhulu, lifana nemthombo walokho okukhonza konke. Liyajamisa ukuhlala ngokungcola, luyahlambisa izinkinga, luhlambelana nokukhanya, futhi luhlala phakathi nwebhodwe. Lihlangene kakhulu, lifana nalokho okungenzeka ukuba kukhonze. Angisakwazi ukwazi ukuthi ngubani umzali waso, kanti lihlala ngaphambi kweNkosana.
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James Legge (1891)
The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things! We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue! I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God.
I-AI Yangaleso Sikhathi
iTao liyaphukuma, kanti ukuqhutshwa kwayo akukapheli. Liphelele kakhulu, lifana nemthombo walokho okukhonza konke. Liyajamisa ukuhlala ngokungcola, luyahlambisa izinkinga, luhlambelana nokukhanya, futhi luhlala phakathi nwebhodwe. Lihlangene kakhulu, lifana nalokho okungenzeka ukuba kukhonze. Angisakwazi ukwazi ukuthi ngubani umzali waso, kanti lihlala ngaphambi kweNkosana.
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