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Chapter Three
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| 3.1.1 |
The blind (is) good
(at) hearing. The deaf (has) good
sight. |
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Sever benefit (from)
one (sensory) source, (one will)
master use (of mind's functioning)
tenfold. |
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(If think and act in courses that curved)
back three (times through three) days and
nights, (one will) master use (of our
mind) ten thousand-fold. |
| 3.1.2 |
Mind (becomes)
lively in (sensing) objects, (but
also becomes) dead in (becoming)
object (sensed). (In this,) the eyes is the
triggering
mechanism (of mental
functioning). |
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| 3.2.1 |
Heaven's (having) no
(special) favour (to anyone),
yet great favour is generated (in promoting life to
everything).
(But on the contrary, with)
sudden thundering (and) strong gale
(from the sky), no one is not
disturbed. |
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Extreme happiness (is in the)
nature (of the Self being) bliss. Note
3.2.1 (This can be gained
in) extreme silence (in which one is)
naturally cleanhanded.
(Thus, though)
Heaven's (triggering mechanism is fundamentally)
extremely egocentric, (yet) in
functioning (it is) extremely
just. |
| 3.2.2 |
The making of (life in)
beasts is in breath (or
prana). |
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Life is the root of death; Death is the root
of life. |
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Favour is born from harming
[i.e. Heaven killing], (and on the
contrary) harm is born from favouring. |
| 3.2.3 |
The foolish man considers writings and
theory of (the functioning of) Heaven-and-earth
sacred, (but) I consider the writings and theory of
seasons and things philosophical (only). Note
3.2.3a |
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People consider (the legendary
beast) Yu foolish. I consider
(it) not foolish (but) sacred.
Note
3.2.3b |
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People with curiosity anticipate sacredness, I
anticipate sacredness with no curiosity. |
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So
by sinking into water (or)
entering fire, (one) get
(his) own
destruction. |
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| 3.3.1 |
The Way of
Nature (being) silent [i.e. Yin],
so Heaven-and-earth (and) all things (in
creation of dynamism) is borned (from
it). |
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The Way of Heaven-and-earth is
flooding Note
3.3.1 (bringing balance everywhere),
so Yin and Yang win (over
each other). |
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Yin and Yang mutually push (forward
their mutual generation), such that transformation
(and) manifestation (unfold)
sequentially. |
| 3.3.2 |
(This) is why the sages know that the Way
of Nature cannot be violated, thus formulate it (as rules
for man's action and behaviour). |
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(But)
the Tao of extreme silence, (is)
what meter and calendar cannot mark. |
| 3.3.3 |
From having the singularity form, is born myriad
phenomena. |
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(This is through changes in qualities
of) the Eight trigrams (and
transformations through time cycles of) the sexagenary cycles, (in which)
the spirits trigger (creative or Yang) mechanism (and) the
ghosts (promote the) hiding (or Yin)
transformations. |
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(And with this) magical formula of Yin and
Yang winning over each other, (these
transformations) illustriously (manifest
and) advance (into the world of)
phenomena. |
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