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道沖而用之，(沖，中也。道匿名藏譽，其用在中。)或不盈，(或，常也。道常謙虛不盈滿。)淵乎似萬物之宗。(道淵深不可知，似為萬物之宗祖。)挫其銳，(銳，進也。人欲銳精進取功名，當挫止之，法道不自見也。)解其紛，(紛，結恨也。當念道無為以解釋。)和其光，(言雖有獨見之明，當知闇昧，不當以擢亂人也。)同其塵。(當與眾庶同垢塵，不當自別殊。)湛兮似若存。(言當湛然安靜，故能長存不亡。)吾不知誰之子，(老子言：我不知，道所從生。)象帝之先。(道自在天帝之前，此言道乃先天地之生也。至今在者，以能安靜湛然，不勞煩，欲使人修身法道。)
The Way is empty, yet when you use it, (Empty here means empty of fixed form or notions. The Way conceals its name and reputation; its function lies in emptiness.) It never overflows. (Never means always. The Way is always humble and never full.) It is deep, like the ancestor of the ten thousand things. (The Way is so deep it cannot be grasped, like the origin or ancestor of all things.) Blunt your sharpness, (Sharpness refers to ambition or striving. If people want to be sharp and ambitious for fame or success, they should curb it—just as the Way does not show itself.) Untangle your knots, (Knots refer to resentments and entanglements. You should remember the Way's non-doing to dissolve them.) Soften your glare, (Even if you have unique insight, you should know how to be obscure—do not use it to disturb others.) Merge with the dust. (You should share the ordinary and lowly with the common people—do not set yourself apart.) It is calm, as if it were there. (It should be calm and still, and only then can it endure without vanishing.) I do not know whose child it is, (Laozi says: I do not know where the Way originates from.) It seems to have existed before the Lord. (The Way exists before the Lord of Heaven. This expresses that the Way came before heaven and earth. It remains even now because it is calm and still, and demands no effort—this is meant to teach people to cultivate themselves by following the Way.)