Dao De Jing chapter 51 (the Mawangdui B version)

[lienshan]

Dao breeds,

De raises,

The content appears,

The container completes.

 

The precise take is: Everybody drinks Dao and eats De!

 

A wine container of Dao?

A food container of De?

 

These cannot be ordered, nevertheless constant available!

 

Dao breeds, raises, grows, matures, erects, fertilizes, impregnates!

 

The breeding of sloping ?

And so no acting of having?

And so no growing of serving?

 

And so is no ruling indeed the De of the darkness of the womb!

[lienshan]

Dao breeds, De raises, the content appears and the container completes?

 

The precise take is: Everybody drinks Dao and eats De!

 

A wine container of Dao? A food container of De?

 

These cannot be ordered, nevertheless constant available!

 

Dao breeds, raises, grows, matures, erects, fertilizes, impregnates?

 

Soft breeding (and so no acting of having and so no growing of serving and so no ruling)

is indeed the De of the darkness of the womb!

[contrivedname!]

Dao breeds, De raises, the content appears and the container completes?

 

The precise take is: Everybody drinks Dao and eats De!

 

A wine container of Dao? A food container of De?

 

These cannot be ordered, nevertheless constant available!

 

Dao breeds, raises, grows, matures, erects, fertilizes, impregnates?

 

Soft breeding (and so no acting of having and so no growing of serving and so no ruling)

is indeed the De of the darkness of the womb!

 

so when one (read one of the 10 thousand things) attempts to order a wine container of dao or food container of de what is the inevitable outcome?