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Chapter 40

Part 2: Te Ching

Dispensing with the Use (of Means)

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The movement of the Dao by contraries proceeds; and weakness marks the course of Dao's mighty deeds.
All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).