42𝌯道化

道德經 Dao De Jing [Tao Te Ching]

Chapter 42: The Transformations of the Dao

	繁體 Trad ↔ 简体 Simp	Legge's Translation	Susuki's Translation	Goddard's Translation
	道化	The Transformations of the Dao	Reason's Modifications	The Transformation of Dao
1	道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。	The Dao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things.	Reason begets unity; unity begets duality; duality begets trinity; and trinity begets the ten thousand things.	Tao produces unity; unity produces duality; duality produces trinity; trinity produces all things.
2	万物负阴而抱阳，冲气以为和。人之所恶，	All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.	The ten thousand things are sustained by Yin [the negative principle]; they are encompassed by Yang [the positive principle], and the immaterial breath renders them harmonious.	All things bear the negative principle (yin) and embrace the positive principle (yang). Immaterial vitality, the third principle (chi), makes them harmonious.
3	唯孤、寡、不谷，而王公以为称。故物或损之而益，	What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.	That which the people find odious, to be orphaned, lonely, and unworthy, kings and princes select as their titles. Thus, on the one hand, loss implies gain, and on the other hand, gain implies loss.	Those things which are detested by the common people, namely to be called orphans, inferiors, and unworthies, are the very things kings and lords take for titles. There are some things which it is a gain to lose, and a loss to gain.
4	或益之而损。	What other men (thus) teach, I also teach.	What others have taught I teach also.	I am teaching the same things which are taught by others.
5	人之所教，我亦教之。强梁者不得其死，吾将以为教父。	The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.	The strong and aggressive do not die a natural death; but I will obey the doctrine's father.	But the strong and aggressive: ones do not obtain a natural death (i.e., self-confident teachers do not succeed). I alone expound the basis of the doctrine of the Dao.

繁體 Trad ↔ 简体 Simp

Legge's Translation

Susuki's Translation

Goddard's Translation

道化

The Transformations of the Dao

Reason's Modifications

The Transformation of Dao

道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。

The Dao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three;
Three produced All things.

Reason begets unity; unity begets duality; duality begets trinity; and trinity begets the ten thousand things.

Tao produces unity; unity produces duality; duality produces trinity; trinity produces all things.

万物负阴而抱阳，冲气以为和。人之所恶，

All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.

The ten thousand things are sustained by Yin [the negative principle]; they are encompassed by Yang [the positive principle], and the immaterial breath renders them harmonious.

All things bear the negative principle (yin) and embrace the positive principle (yang). Immaterial vitality, the third principle (chi), makes them harmonious.

唯孤、寡、不谷，而王公以为称。故物或损之而益，

What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.

That which the people find odious, to be orphaned, lonely, and unworthy, kings and princes select as their titles. Thus, on the one hand, loss implies gain, and on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Those things which are detested by the common people, namely to be called orphans, inferiors, and unworthies, are the very things kings and lords take for titles. There are some things which it is a gain to lose, and a loss to gain.

或益之而损。

What other men (thus) teach, I also teach.

What others have taught I teach also.

I am teaching the same things which are taught by others.

人之所教，我亦教之。强梁者不得其死，吾将以为教父。

The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.

The strong and aggressive do not die a natural death; but I will obey the doctrine's father.

But the strong and aggressive: ones do not obtain a natural death (i.e., self-confident teachers do not succeed). I alone expound the basis of the doctrine of the Dao.