Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

The purest white seems stained.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.