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Originally Posted by ayar415
I would be happy to review your take on any chapter of the Tao Te Ching if you believe that two heads are better than one.
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With your knowledge of Chinese, I would love to do that with you. You have inspired me to take out my ENGLISH translation of The Tao Te Ching (Translated by Brian Browne Walker).
Using the aforementioned translation, there are two passages on which your input would be greatly appreciated. I agree with each translation but, since I don't know Chinese, I can't say whether the translation is accurate or not.
4 (ending):
Something is there, hidden in the deep!
But I do not know whose child it is ---
It came even before God.
56 (beginning):
Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.
(That Taoist master whom I met in Chengdu China in the 1980s did NOT talk and yet he communicated a lot. That reference in my previous post triggered this dialogue.
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