Lecturas del Tao Te King || Capitulo 2

ENGLISH: Chapter Two: When everyone recognizes the beautiful as beautiful, this in itself is ugliness. When everyone recognizes good as good, this in itself is bad. Certainly, the hidden and the manifest generate each other. Difficulty and ease complement each other. The long and the short reveal their opposite. High and low establish the mutual measure. The voice and the sound harmonize with each other. The back and the forward succeed each other. Therefore, the Sage manages his affairs without acting, and spreads his teachings without speaking. He denies nothing to the innumerable things. He builds them without attributing anything to himself. It does its job without accumulating anything for it. He fulfills his task without boasting about it and, precisely because he does not boast, no one can take it away from him.