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Tao Te Ching Chp. 81

Agnieszka Solska ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

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'IHbe' mu'mey teH.
teHbe' mu'mey 'IH.
ghoHbe' QaQwI'pu'.
QaQbe' ghoHwI'pu'.
HaDpu'wI' chaHbe' jIvHa'wI''e'.
jIvHa'wI' chaHbe' HaDpu'wI''e'.

pagh vI' yajchu'wI'.
latlhpu'vaD vangqu' 'ej law'taH vay' ghajbogh.
latlhpu'vaD nobqu' 'ej law'taH vay' Hevbogh.

chepmoH mIw'a', QIHbe': '
   u' mIw'a' 'oH mIwvam'e'.
latlhpu'vaD vang mIw'a', chaH qaDbe':
   yajchu'wI' mIw'a' 'oH mIwvam'e'.

81E

True words are not beautiful.
Beautiful words are not true.
Good people do not argue.
Those who argue are not good.
The enlightened are not learned.
The learned are not enlightened.

The sage accumulates nothing.
The more he does for others the more he has.
The more he gives to others the more he receives.

The Tao of Heaven is to benefit, not harm.
The Tao of the sage is to act for others,
   not to contend with them.


[A] {HaDpu'wI'} = The one who has studied.
I hope it is possible to attach suffix {-wI'} to a
verb already carrying a type 7 suffix.

[B] {jIvHa'wI'} = The one who is "un-ignorant".
Admittedly, this is not a perfect solution but I've
already used {jIvHa'} to mean "to be enlightened"
in chapter 33:

   jIvHa' Sov'eghbogh vay'.
   Those who know themselves are enlightened.

in chapter 55:

   ru'Ha'wI' DaSovchugh bIjIvHa'.
   If you know the eternal you are enlightened.

and in chapter 65:

   nuvpu' jIvHa'moHbe' [...] che'wI' tIQ'e'
   The ancient rulers [...] did not enlighten people.

[C] Since the nouns in the last two lines are already complex I decided not 
to put explicit {-pu'} endings on them as it would make them very cumbersome 
and hard to interpret. Another option I'm considering is to rewrite the 
first six lines entirely in the singular:

'IHbe' mu' teH.
teHbe' mu' 'IH.
ghoHbe' QaQwI'.
QaQbe' ghoHwI'.
HaDpu'wI' ghaHbe' jIvHa'wI''e' .
jIvHa'wI' ghaHbe' HaDpu'wI''e'.

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