Dancing the Wheel

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On “The farther it goes out, the less it knows” (其出彌遠，其知彌少):

The graph 其 (it) points to the Dao; the graph 出 (goes out) indicates a going-forth that is hazy, not knowing what is there-“empty-upon-empty, a single Xing-nature”.
“My Dao fills the cosmos: the more still, the more mysterious; the clearer, the more wondrous. With a single stillness it fills Heaven and Earth; with a single Vacuity it encompasses Qian and Kun”.
“Its Dao, the more it ‘goes out,’ the more it pervades; the more it goes forth, the farther it reaches”—this speaks of the one numen, vacuous within, with nothing it does not illumine or pe*****te: hence “its going-forth extends farther”.
Yet one may “be still in the Dao and not see the Dao; pursue the Mysterious to its limit and not sense its mysteriousness. Not knowing what is Dao and what is the Mysterious”—this is “its knowing grows ever less”.
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Excerpt from the Book “Daoist Cultivation, Book 27 - Lü Dongbin’s Secret Annotations to the Dao De Jing: Heart-Transmission” translated and commented by Vitaly Filbert.
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