The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.
Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
Being is born of not being.