Chapter 26

The heavy is the reason for the light. The still is the source of all movement. Thus I travel all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, I stay serenely in myself. Why should the master of the temple flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be swayed to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with your center. If we depart from the TAO, we become engaged in futile activities which lead to nowhere, and we find ourselves in the abyss of Choronzon, the demon of dispersion. One cut-off from the holy TAO courts death, and will soon come to an early end.