Léon Wieger

Matérias

• LXXXI - Le Sage qui suit la Voie agit et ne s’agite point.
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  True words are not fine-sounding; Fine-sounding words are not true. The good man does not prove by argument; The he who proves by argument is not good. True wisdom is different from much learning; Much learning means little wisdom. The Sage has no need to hoard; When his own last scrap has been used up on behalf of others, Lo, he has more than before! When his own last scrap has been used up in giving to other, Lo, his stock is even greater than before! For heaven’s way is to sharpen (...)

• XLV - La vie retirée du Sage rectifie tout
  25 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  What is most perfect seems to have something missing; Yet its use is unimpaired. What is most full seems empty; Yet its use will never fail. What is most straight seems crooked; The greatest skill seems like clumsiness, The greatest eloquence like stuttering. Movement overcomes cold; But staying still overcomes heat. So he by his limpid calm Puts right everything under heaven.
  Wieger
  A. Accompli, sous des dehors imparfaits, et donnant sans s’user. Rempli, sans le paraître, et (...)

• XL: Le cercle, voilà le mouvement de la Voie
  25 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  In Tao the only motion is returning; The only useful quality, weakness. For though all creatures under heaven are the products of Being, Being itself is the product of Not-being.
  Wieger
  A. Le retour en arrière (vers le Principe), est la forme de mouvement caractéristique de ceux qui se conforment au Principe. L’atténuation est l’effet que produit en eux leur conformation au Principe.
  B. Considérant que tout ce qui est, est né de l’être simple, et que l’être est né du non être de forme, (...)

• LXIII - Agir comme si l’on n’agissait pas...
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  It acts without action, does without doing, Finds flavour in what is flavourless, Can make the small great and the few many, “Requites injuries with good deeds, Deals with the hard while it is still easy, With the great while it is still small.” In the governance of empire everything difficult Must be dealt with while it is still easy, Everything great must be dealt with while it is still small. Therefore the Sage never has to deal with the great; And so achieves greatness. But again (...)

• XXXVII - La Voie paraît n’agir pas
  23 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Tao never does; Yet through it all things are done. If the barons and kings would but possess themselves of it, The ten thousand creatures would at once be transformed. And if having been transformed they should desire to act, We must restrain them by the blankness of the Unnamed. The blankness of the Unnamed Brings dispassion; To be dispassionate is to be still. And so, of itself, the whole empire will be at rest.
  Wieger
  A. Le Principe est toujours non agissant (n’agit pas (...)

• XXXIV - Que la grande Voie est ambiguë
  23 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Great Tao is like a boat that drifts; It can go this way; it can go that. The ten thousand creatures owe their existence to it and it does not disown them; Yet having produced them, it does not take possession of them. Makes no claim to be master over them, (And asks for nothing from them.) Therefore it may be called the Lowly. The ten thousand creatures obey it, Though they know not that they have a master; Therefore it is called the Great. So too the Sage just because he never at (...)

• XXV - Tao - la Mère de tout sous le ciel
  22 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  There was something formless yet complete, That existed before heaven and earth; Without sound, without substance, Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven. Its true name we do not know; Were I forced to say to what class of things it belongs I should call it Great (ta) Now ta also means passing on, And passing on means going Far Away, And going far away means returning. Thus just as Tao has “this (...)

• LIII - La Voie vous chérit comme un fils
  26 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  He who has the least scrap of sense, Once he has got started on the great highway has nothing to fear So long as he avoids turnings. For great highways are safe and easy. But men love by-paths. So long as Court is in order They are content to let their fields run to weed And their granaries stand empty. They wear patterns and embroideries, Carry sharp swords, glut themselves with drink and food, Have more possessions than they can use. These are the riotous ways of brigandage; they (...)

• LIV - Bâtir sur le désintéressement
  26 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  What Tao plants cannot be plucked, What Tao clasps, cannot slip. By its virtue alone can one generation after another carry on the ancestrial sacrifice. Apply it to yourself and by its power you will be freed from dross. Apply it to your household and your household shall thereby have abundance. Apply it to the village, and the village will be made secure. Apply it to the kingdom, and the kingdom shall thereby be made to flourish. Apply it to an empire, and the empire shall thereby (...)

• LI - La Voie produit ; la Vertu unit
  26 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Tao gave them birth; The “power” of Tao reared them, Shaped them according to their kinds, Perfected them, giving to each its strength. Therefore Of the ten thousand things there is not one that does not worship Tao And do homage to its “power”. No mandate ever went forth that accorded to Tao the right to be worshipped, Nor to its “power” the right to be worshipped, Nor to its “power” the right to receive homage. It was always and of itself so. Therefore as Tao bore them and the “power” of (...)