Achieve Tenderness
Translation by Tree Buffalo
Can you carry your mind and body together without letting them separate?
Can you concentrate your breath and achieve tenderness like a newborn baby?
Can you polish your inner mirror so it has no smudges?
Can you care for people and govern the state without complicating them?
Can you open and close the doors of the Universe while remaining the female?
Can you discern all directions without going anywhere?
Give life to things by feeding them.
Produce things without possessing them.
Act upon things without expecting from them.
Lead things without dominating them.
This is called the secret virtue.
Read some of the first English translations of Chapter 10 here.
