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Originally Posted by ayar415
"Son of Heaven" conveys the same misconception I tried to prevent in my translation of that last line of Chapter 4.
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By including the "image of the emperor" in the last line, you leave the passage open to interpretation ... open ended ... almost koan-like ... and that is good.
It's almost like the Zen Koan asking what your face was before your parents were born. It alludes to the not-knowing as per "I don't know what gave rise to it" where "it" could encompass anything and everything in the ephemeral manifestation.
That which "gave rise to it" is indeed "Deep within, yet ever-present".