{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt43.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt43.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Taoism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nThe Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\n \n p. 69\n \n \n CHAPTER XL.\n \n The movements of the Tao are cyclical; the sufficiency of the Tao is latency.\u00a01\n \n All that is,\u00a02 exists in being (bhava), being in non-being.\u00a03\n \n \"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. The earth yieldeth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.\" \"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.\" \"The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Footnotes\n 69:1 Literally \"weakness,\" the weakness of latent strength.\n 69:2 Literally \"heaven, earth, the myriad existences.\"\n 69:3 The yet unformed ships exist in the forest trees.\n \n \n Next: Chapter XLI","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XL","type":"page"}