The Nameless Simplicity

Translation by Tree Buffalo

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Nature always acts without acting, but never leaves anything undone.

If the rich and powerful did this, everything in the world would transform spontaneously.

However, transformation gives rise to wisdom which I would restrain with the nameless simplicity.

The nameless simplicity is always without wisdom.

And being free of wisdom is the stillness that would spontaneously transform everything in the world.


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Read some of the first English translations of Chapter 37 here.

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