{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/sbe39/sbe39052.htm","path":"tao/sbe39/sbe39052.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe39/sbe39052.htm","text":"45. 1. Who thinks his great achievements poor\n Shall find his vigour long endure.\n Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,\n Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.\n Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;\n Thy greatest art still stupid seem,\n And eloquence a stammering scream.\n2. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.\n, 'Great or Overflowing Virtue.' The chapter is another illustration of the working of the T\u00e2o by contraries. According to W\u00fb Kh\u00e4ng, the action which overcomes cold is that of the Yang element in the developing primordial ether; and the stillness which overcomes heat is that of the contrary Yin element. These may have been in L\u00e2o-dze's mind, but the statements are so simple as hardly to need any comment. W\u00fb further says that the purity and stillness are descriptive of the condition of non-action.","title":"Texts of Taoism (SBE 39): Tao Teh King, Part II: Chapter 45","type":"page"}