Chương Chương 34 · Chapter 34

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34. 1. All-pervading is the Great Tao! It may be found on the left

hand and on the right.

2. All things depend on it for their production, which it gives to

them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is

accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done it. It

clothes all things as with a garment, and makes no assumption of being

their lord;--it may be named in the smallest things. All things

return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it

which presides over their doing so;--it may be named in the greatest

things.

3. Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to accomplish his great

achievements. It is through his not making himself great that he can

accomplish them.