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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: while he carries his (signet of) jade in his bosom.
71. 1. To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest
(attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.
2. It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this
disease that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease.
He knows the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he
does not have it.
72. 1. When the people do not fear what they ought to fear, that which
is their great dread will come on them.
2. Let them not thoughtlessly indulge themselves in their ordinary
life; let them not act as if weary of what that life depends on.
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