{"id":11804,"date":"2020-03-21T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2021-03-21T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T14:33:55","slug":"principle-and-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"Principle and Action 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

← Chapter 1<\/a>   Chapter 3 → <\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 2<\/h2>\n

For everything under this heaven, the beautiful conceived
\nThe ugly is born (as correlative)
\nThe good established
\nThe not-good takes form.
\nLikewise: being and non-being mutually condition each other
\nThe possible and the impossible are complementary differentiations
\nLarge and small characterize each other
\nThe high flips over to the low
\nClear sounds and noise complement each other
\nBefore and after [or: ahead and behind] follow each other in a circle
\nThe True Man is like that
\nHe endures in non-acting
\nHe teaches without speaking
\nHe directs without touching [without commanding]
\nHe forms [he makes happen, he leads to development] without taking control
\nHe accomplishes without doing [without calling attention to the one who acts]
\nEssentially: not residing [in the domain of the correlative where the game of opposites unfolds]
\nHe always participates [in the original force]<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/h2>\n

In the first lines, referring on one hand to the law of correlation of all human notions; then, on the other hand, to its ontological counterpart, to that which can be called the \u201cdialectic of the real\u201d. Taoistically: the solidarity and action alternating as opposites, Yin and Yang, gives rise to modifications of the phenomenal world that now complete each other, then pass one into the other.<\/p>\n

This dynamism, previously in the I Ching<\/em> given by the circle of the \u201cFigures of Heaven\u201d, that is, the trigrams and hexagrams, does not touch the calm and undifferentiated essence of the Principle. Chuang tze: \u201cThe immobile center of a circle on the circumference of which crowns all contingencies, distinctions and individuals\u201d. From this, it describes the non-acting behavior of the True Man, of the sheng jen<\/em>, insofar he reflects in himself the Principle in its aspect without name.<\/p>\n

On the gnosiological plane, the relativity and the irrelevance of human distinctions is deduced from the principle of correlation of opposites; therefore, of all the current values which correspond to nothing in reality: \u201conly great spirits are capable of understanding.\u201d (Chuang Tze)<\/p>\n

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

Chapter 2 (\u7b2c\u4e8c\u7ae0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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If everybody knows what beauty is,
\n   then beauty is not beauty [anymore];
\nIf everybody knows what goodness is,
\n   then goodness is not goodness [anymore].
\nTherefore,
\n   Being and nothing give birth to one another,
\n   Hard and easy are mutually formed,
\n   Long and short shape each other,
\n   High and low complement each other,
\n   Music and voice are harmonized with each other,
\n   Front and back follow one another.
\nHence,
\n   The sage focuses on non-action in his works,
\n   Practices not-saying in his speech,
\n   The myriad things arise but are disregarded
\n   The sage produces but does not own
\n   Acts but does not claim
\n   Accomplishes work but does not focus on it
\nDoes not focus on it, and thus it does not go.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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