The Three Principle Texts of Daoism translated by ... - Bad Request

the other is impossible. When one is affirmative, theother is negative. Which being the case, the true sagerejects all distinctions of this and that. He takes hisrefuge in God, and places himself in subjective relationwith all things.”“And inasmuch as the subjective is also objective, and theobjective also subjective, and as the contraries under eachare indistinguishably blended, does it not becomeimpossible for us to say whether subjective and objectivereally exist at all?”“When subjective and objective are both without theircorrelates, that is the very axis of Tao. And when thataxis passes through the centre at which all Infinitiesconverge, positive and negative alike blend into aninfinite One. . . Therefore it is that, viewed from thestandpoint of Tao, a beam and a pillar are identical. Soare ugliness and beauty, greatness, wickedness,perverseness, and strangeness. Separation is the same asconstruction: construction is the same as destruction.Nothing is subject either to construction or todestruction, for these conditions are brought togetherinto One. Only the truly intelligent understand thisprinciple of the identity of all things. They do not viewthings as apprehended by themselves, subjectively; buttransfer themselves into the position of the thingsviewed. And viewing them thus they are able tocomprehend them, nay, to master them; and he who canmaster them is near [1] . So it is that to place oneself insubjective relation with externals, without consciousnessof their objectivity,--this is Tao. But to wear out one's