A Natural Death
Translation by Tree Buffalo
Nature produces one.
One produces two.
Two produces three.
Three produces everything else.
And they all carry the negative to embrace the positive.
Because blending the vital breath attains harmony.
This is exactly why people hate to be alone and feel unworthy.
But leaders and powerful people make use of this.
Because sometimes things decrease themselves to gain, and sometimes things increase themselves to lose.
Other people teach this, as do I.
Thus, forced aggression does not obtain a natural death.
This is my chief lesson.
Read some of the first English translations of Chapter 42 here.
