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Chapter 43
The Softest Thing in the World
天下之至柔
The Text
天下之至柔，驰骋天下之至坚。无有入无间。吾是以知无为之有益。不言之教，无为之益，天下希及之。
The softest thing in the world rides roughshod over the hardest. What has no substance enters where there is no space. From this I know the use of not-acting. Wordless teaching, the benefit of not-acting — few under heaven can equal them.
Reading it
Water and light: no substance, no plan, yet they get into everything and outlast the stone. Wordless teaching follows — the most durable instruction never arrives as instruction.
水与光：无实体、无计划，却钻进一切、并且比石头活得久。「不言之教」随之而来——最耐久的教导从不以教导的面目到达。
Practice for the week
Once this week, teach by doing instead of saying. See whether it travels further than your explanation would have.
这周有一次用做代替说。看它是否走得比你的解释更远。