{"id":11746,"date":"2020-03-12T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2021-03-12T06:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:40:38","slug":"principle-and-action-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=11746","title":{"rendered":"Principle and Action 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIn 1959 Julius Evola<\/strong> published a translation and commentary on the Tao Te Ching<\/em> under the title Il Libro del Principio e della sua Azione<\/em> [The Book of the Principle and its Action]. His interpretation is based on his knowledge of Tradition.<\/p>\n

Many years prior he had written an alternative translation that was based more on his studies of German Idealism than on Tradition.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chapter 2 →<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/h2>\n

\nThe Tao that can be named
\nIs not the eternal Tao
\nThe Name that can be pronounced
\nIs not the eternal Name
\n(As the) Nameless it is the principle of Heaven and Earth
\nWith the Name [that is: determined as Heaven and Earth] it is the origin of the myriad particular beings
\nSo: the one who is detached
\nPerceives the Mysterious Essence
\nWhich is obscured by desire
\nThe gaze is stopped by the limit [he sees only the phenomena of appearances of the Principle]
\nNow of the two [the Nameable and the Unnamable, being and non-being]
\nOne essence, only the name is different
\nTheir identity is mysterious
\nIt is the unfathomable depth
\nBeyond the threshold of the ultimate mystery\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two aspects of the Principle are indicated here, the one transcendent (unnameable, without form — equivalent to non-Being, the Emptiness, the unmoved), the other immanent (nameable, with form — equivalent to Being, fullness, the movable). Other Taoist designations: The \u201cFormer Heaven\u201d (hsien t\u2019ien<\/em>) and the \u201cLater Heaven\u201d (hou t\u2019ien<\/em>). The first determination of the Tao (called also \u201cthe great Mutation\u201d) is Heaven-and-Earth which are cosmic symbols of the Yang and the Yin. This Dyad produces all the modifications, therefore the myriad particular beings, of their paths and of their destinies (\u201cThe Great Flux\u201d, the \u201ccurrent of forms\u201d).<\/p>\n

The unmanifested and the manifested, the formless and the formal, the Former Heaven and the Later Heaven, are not distinct temporally (as if at a certain moment something similar to a \u201ccreation\u201d intervened), but in logico-metaphysical terms. Transcendence is immanent, the fullness coexists with the emptiness, non-being is the source of being: identity, that constitutes the ultimate mystery of Taoist realization.<\/p>\n

See Lieh Tzu<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\nThe chain of productions and transformations is interrupted, the producer and the transformer producing and transforming without it — the producer is unmovable, the transformer comes and goes. And the motionless and the mobile endure always. \u2026 Analyzing the production of the universe, the opening up of the sensible from the non-sensible, the seed of the calm generative action of Heaven and Earth, the ancient Sages distinguished these stages: the Great Mutation, the Great Origin, the Great Commencement, the Great Flux.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chinese text and literal translation<\/h2>\n

Chapter 1 (\u7b2c\u4e00\u7ae0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u9053\u53ef\u9053\uff0c\u975e\u6046\u9053\uff1b
\n\u540d\u53ef\u540d\uff0c\u975e\u6046\u540d\u3002
\n\u7121\u540d\u5929\u5730\u4e4b\u59cb\uff1b
\n\u6709\u540d\u842c\u7269\u4e4b\u6bcd\u3002
\n\u6545\uff0c
\n\u6046\u7121\uff0c\u6b32\u4e5f\uff0c\u4ee5\u89c0\u5176\u5999\uff1b
\n\u6046\u6709\uff0c\u6b32\u4e5f\uff0c\u4ee5\u89c0\u5176\u5fbc\u3002
\n\u6b64\u5169\u8005\u540c\u51fa\u800c\u7570\u540d\uff0c
\n\u540c\u8b02\u4e4b\u7384\u3002
\n\u7384\u4e4b\u53c8\u7384\uff0c\u773e\u5999\u4e4b\u9580\u3002<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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The Dao [that] can be stated, is not the eternal Dao;
\nThe name [that] can be named, is not the eternal name.
\nThe nameless is the origin of heaven and earth;
\nThe named is the mother of the myriad things.
\nSo,
\nBy constantly having no [desire] one views its wonders;
\nBy constantly having [desire], one views its limits.
\nThese two have the same origin, but they differ in name;
\nBoth are called Mystery.
\nOne Mystery plus another Mystery, is the source of all wonders.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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