{"id":17454,"date":"2025-06-04T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:10:49","slug":"principle-and-action-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17454","title":{"rendered":"Principle and Action 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=17411\" rel=\"prev\">\u2190 Chapter 23<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chapter 24<\/h2>\n<p>The effort of one who stands on tiptoe does not lead to rising<br \/>\nTo splay the legs excessively is not walking<br \/>\nHe who puts himself in the light remains in the shadow<br \/>\nHe who believes he has arrived is pushed back<br \/>\nTo put oneself ahead is to lose value<br \/>\nTo esteem oneself is to decay<br \/>\nWith respect to the Way, all this<br \/>\nIs nothing but excrescence and refuse<br \/>\nWith respect to the goal, it is something to be disdained<br \/>\nFar removed from all this is he who is in the Way.<\/p>\n<h2>Commentary<\/h2>\n<p>The path of one united with the Principle is marked by natural, impersonal spontaneity, opposed to all behaviors based on shifting and externalizing the center of oneself into the concretion of the small ego, mere excrescence (the text adds: \u201crefuse\u201d) with respect to being. Any accentuation of the latter automatically converts into a diminishment of the former: a Taoist theme already familiar to us.<\/p>\n<p>In the same line of thought, a still more drastic Taoist expression is: the ego is an abscess that bursts at death.<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese text and literal translation<\/h2>\n<h3>Chapter 24 (\u7b2c\u4e8c\u5341\u56db\u7ae0)<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 1em; border-right: 1px solid gray; width: 30%;\">\n<div class=\"poem\">\u8dc2\u8005\u4e0d\u7acb\uff0c<br \/>\n\u8de8\u8005\u4e0d\u884c\uff0c<br \/>\n\u81ea\u898b\u8005\u4e0d\u660e\uff0c<br \/>\n\u81ea\u662f\u8005\u4e0d\u5f70\u3002<br \/>\n\u81ea\u4f10\u8005\u7121\u529f\uff0c<br \/>\n\u81ea\u77dc\u8005\u4e0d\u9577\u3002<br \/>\n\u5176\u5728\u9053\u4e5f\uff0c<br \/>\n\u66f0\u9918\u98df\u8d05\u884c\u3002<br \/>\n\u7269\u6216\u60e1\u4e4b\uff0c<br \/>\n\u6545\u6709\u9053\u8005\u4e0d\u8655\u4e5f\u3002<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 1em; width: 72%;\">\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"647\">Ones who tip-toe do not stand,<br \/>\nOnes who stride do not pace,<br \/>\nOnes show off themselves do not shine,<br \/>\nOnes that bias themselves with self-righteousness do not justify.<br \/>\nOnes self-asserted are without accomplishments,<br \/>\nOnes self-esteemed are not endurable.<br \/>\nThese according to the Dao,<br \/>\nAre called extravagance and exorbitance.<br \/>\nwhich the masses resent,<br \/>\nTherefore those embracing the Dao dwell not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 The effort of one who stands on tiptoe does not lead to rising To splay the legs excessively is not walking He who puts himself in the light remains in the shadow He who believes he has arrived is pushed back To put oneself ahead &hellip; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evola","category-tao-te-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17456,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions\/17456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}