wu wei in Mawangdui B chapter 12

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The Mawangdui B chapter 12 consist of 7 pieces of rearranged texts from the Received chapter 12:

 

1th piece: wu3 se4 shi3 ren2 mu4 mang2

4th piece: chi4 cheng3 tian2 lie4

5th piece: shi3 ren2 xin1 fa1 kuang2 nan2 de2 zhi1 huo4 0

3th piece: shi3 ren2 zhi1 kou3 shuang3

2th piece: wu3 yin1 shi3 ren2 zhi1 er3 (long2)

6th piece: shi4 yi3 sheng4 ren2 zhi1 zhi4 ye3

7th piece: wei2 fu4 er2 bu4 wei2 mu4 gu4 qu4 bi3 er2 qu3 ci3

 

The characters not in bold have been added.

The 0 is a character omitted by the scribe.

The (long2) is a damaged character.

 

The Mawangdui B chapter 12 is divided into these sentences of mirrored numbers of characters:

 

2: wu3 se4

8: shi3 ren2 mu4 mang2 chi4 cheng3 tian2 lie4

9: shi3 ren2 xin1 fa1 kuang2 nan2 de2 zhi1 huo4

5: shi3 ren2 zhi1 kou3 shuang3

2: wu3 yin1

5: shi3 ren2 zhi1 er3 long2

9: shi4 yi3 sheng4 ren2 zhi1 zhi4 ye3 wei2 fu4

8: er2 bu4 wei2 mu4 gu4 qu4 bi3 er2

2: qu3 ci3

 

five colors

cause man to see blind doing horseracing and fieldhunting

cause man to go mad having difficulty to obtain his goods

cause man his mouth is happy

five sounds

cause man his ears are deaf

yes therefore wise man his government : acting belly

and then not acting eyes because leaving that and then

receive these

 

The word stomach is in the Dao De Jing chapter 1 described with the character wei4.

It means both the outside you3 actual/existing and the inside wu2 potential/not-existing of a stomach.

The character fu4 meaning belly used here in chapter 12 means only the inside of a stomach.

Therefore I interprete the term wei2 fu4 as similar to wu2 wei2.