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Hmm, well I don't know where to start but....
I won't go deep in detail with chapter by chapter since every translation has difference in opinion etc etc. I'm gonna stick to actual text and what I know to be true about Lao - Tzu teaching as it is written.
Tao and its impact has power to describe the nature in its pure form
Chapter 4
...和其光 åŒå…¶å¡µ...
...brings light (enlightment, knowledge, sharp understanding etc etc) to harmony (balance, complete etc etc), dust (universal dust, including dust of time by spiritual time) to unison (even with each other, confirming in uniform)...
*Let this be known that buddist used 和光 åŒå¡µ to describe Arahan from this very text for their own enlightment = budda (lame)*
This shows characteristics about Tao that unifies or demolishes the catagories and types and qualities that we put on and be able to describe the nature.
Light in the most part is bright or enlightment. In nature, if it is too bright, there is enough darkness to cover it. If it gets hot, it gets cold. Nature strives forward what is natural for everything including itself.
Dust has many meanings but to make it simple for me to state, I will use dust blowing in the wind (going back to the car again). In outdoor parking lot, when you park your car, you come back later that day to see the car covered with dust. Now see the dust covering the car. How is it that there may have been all different types of wind (chaotic system), dust settles and coats this surface evenly and in unison?
Is there a Way the light brings balance to the nature? Is there a Way a dust settles in unison? Why not! Way is in nature. Nature does not catagorize everything in spectrum of knowledge per say, it exists. Be able to cope with nature, what more do you need understand?
These are the ideas building toward emptiness, the ilimination and positive chi in the negative chi as chapters progress. For anyone who has not read the Tao and be able to comment is simply waisting everyone's time.
I'm gonna quote this off of barns and nobles bookself (ISBN-13:978-0-7607-4998-2, ISBN-10: 0-7607-4998-1)
Ch 4
.... It blunts all sharpness,
unties the entangled,
and merges with the dust! ...
what the hell... I can write that with online dictionary and translator...
Compare this with my notes above.... Insane, these people selling books for $40 and change and filled with BS. Apparently whoever wrote this, did read some parts of the explanation page by 王弼... And decided to not include the entire transcript pages that followed with it, yeah thanks A-holes. Not to mention entire buddist scriptures copied 和光åŒå¡µ from Lao -Tzu texts to explain their "Way" starts off from this very text...
Yeah, I never liked any of these texts that I found at bookstores. So I learned through traditional channels. Wow, I hated those bookstore bastards more!
I'm open for any questions or comments, please send me something and wish everyone a Happy New Year! Kudos!
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