When hunger and satiation lose their proper value, Then use this plan of action : When you are satiated, then move about quickly. When you are hungry, then neglect your contemplation. When you are old, then take charge of your concerns. If you are satiated and do not move about quickly, Your Qi will be obstructed in your four extremities. If you are hungry and do not neglect your contemplation, When you eat you will get full but you will not stop. If you are old and do not take charge of your concerns, When you are distressed, then you will be quickly exhausted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you expand your heart/mind and free it, When your Qi is magnanimous and vast, When your form is calm and unchanging : You can maintain Oneness[G] and reject the ten thousand trivialities, You see profit and are not tempted, You see trouble and are not frightened. You are magnanimous, relaxed, and kind*; When alone, you are happy with your self. This is called cloud-like Qi - Your intent and behavior resemble that of heaven. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always : at the birth of people - They certainly have joy. When they are worried, then they lose these tenets[X]. When they are angry, then they lose the source. Where there is worry, grief, love, anger, Then Dao does not dwell. Love and desire : still them. Foolishness and confusion : properly align them. When you do not pull and do not push,[Y] Good fortune will naturally return to you : That Dao will naturally arrive, Which you can rely on and consult with. When you are still, then you attain it, When you are impatient, then you lose it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This potent Qi in your heart/mind : One moment it arrives, one moment it departs. It is so tiny there is nothing inside it, It is so great there is nothing outside it. The reason that you lose it Is because impatience causes harm. When the heart/mind can maintain stillness, Dao will naturally settle there. For people who attain Dao : Regulation supports it and it will not dissipate easily, So that the center in their breast does not fail them. When following the Dao of restraining desire, The ten thousand creatures do not cause harm.[Z] ========================================================================== A : altho the modern translation of this symbol is "sudden" or "abrupt" (among other things), and is translated different ways by different authors, I have chosen "close" (as in "within reach", "accessible") based on the answers given each time this question is asked B : using "its" here (rather than "the") is significant, making the difference between referring to the "form of the heart/mind" or referring separately to "the heart/mind" and "the form"