Dharma & Dao

Tao Te Ching · Chapter 40 of 81

Chapter 40

modern paraphrase of James Legge's 1891 translation

Modern paraphrase. This is an AI-generated retelling in contemporary English (model: claude-opus-4-7). It is not the James Legge translation. The original is one click away.

The Tao moves by turning back on itself; weakness is the way it works its great deeds.

  1. All things under heaven arose from being, and being arose from non-being.

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