The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.