The Doorway whence issued all Secret Essences, 众妙之门

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第一章
道可道,非常道;名可名,非常名。
无名,天地之始;有名,万物之母。
故常无欲,以观其妙;常有欲,以观其徼。
此两者,同出而异名,同谓之玄。
玄之又玄,众妙之门。
Chapter 1
The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way;
The names that can be named are not unvarying names.
It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang;
The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its kind.
Truly, ‘Only he that rids himself forever of desire can see the Secret Essences‘ ;
He that has never rid himself of desire can see only the Outcomes.
These two things issued from the same mould, but nevertheless are different in name.
This ‘ same mould‘ we can but call the Mystery,
Or rather the ‘Darker than any Mystery‘,
The Doorway whence issued all Secret Essences.