Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, can you avoid separation?
Attending fully and becoming supple, can you be as a newborn babe?
Washing and cleansing the primal vision, can you be without stain?
Loving all men and ruling the country, can you be without cleverness?
Opening and closing the gates of heaven, can you play the role of woman?
Understanding and being open to all things, are you able to do nothing?
Giving birth and nourishing, bearing but not possessing, working yet not taking credit, leading yet not dominating, this is the Primal Virtue

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WHAT IS POSSIBLE

By conserving the natural and spiritual powers it is possible to escape dissolution.

By restraining the passions and letting gentleness have sway it is possible to continue as a child.

By purging the mind of its immpurities it is possible to remain untainted.

By governing the people with love it is possible to remain unknown.

By continual use of the gates of Heaven it is possible to preserve them from rust.

By transparency on all sides it is possible to remain unrecognised.

To bring forth and preserve, to produce without possessing, to act without hope of reward, and to expand without waste, this is the supreme virtue.



I believew the two aspects that make up the Soul are Virtue and Karma. When we allow that Virtue to breathe forth into our actions, we "give without possessing". Right action helps us to make the way towards Virtue, but Virtue itself is not "right action, but rather right action flows by it. It is no longer something we strive to do based on morality.

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