第 三十七 章 · Chapter 37

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37. 1. The Tao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of

doing it), and so there is nothing which it does not do.

2. If princes and kings were able to maintain it, all things would of

themselves be transformed by them.

3. If this transformation became to me an object of desire, I would

express the desire by the nameless simplicity.

Simplicity without a name

Is free from all external aim.

With no desire, at rest and still,

All things go right as of their will.

PART II.