Chapter 73

The TAO is always at ease. By putting yourself at ease those around you will be at ease. The TAO answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Being courageous out of daring courts early death; being courageous out of not daring will survive. Of these two, the later is beneficial while the first brings harm. What Heaven detests, who knows the reason? Even the sage is baffled by such a question. The TAO of Heaven contends not, yet it overcomes; it is silent, yet its need is answered; it summons none, but all come to it of their own free will. Its method is quietness, yet its Will is efficient. Large are the meshes of heaven's net; wide open, yet nothing ever slips through it.