The features of the vast dé
Follows entirely from Dào.
Dào as a thing,
It is shapeless and formless.
Shapeless! Formless! Inside there are images.
Shapeless! Formless! Inside there are things.
Hidden! Obscure! Inside there are essences,
And being essences so real it harbors the sincerity of facts.
As it is today, so it was in days of old,
Its name has never gone away.
Through it we witness all origins.
And how can we ever know the form of all origins?
Through this.
Follows entirely from Dào.
Dào as a thing,
It is shapeless and formless.
Shapeless! Formless! Inside there are images.
Shapeless! Formless! Inside there are things.
Hidden! Obscure! Inside there are essences,
And being essences so real it harbors the sincerity of facts.
As it is today, so it was in days of old,
Its name has never gone away.
Through it we witness all origins.
And how can we ever know the form of all origins?
Through this.