When the World Has the Way
The Text
天下有道，却走马以粪。天下无道，戎马生于郊。祸莫大于不知足；咎莫大于欲得。故知足之足，常足矣。
When the world has the way, galloping horses are turned out to fertilize the fields. When the world lacks the way, warhorses breed on the border. No disaster is greater than not knowing sufficiency; no fault greater than desiring gain. So the sufficiency of knowing sufficiency is lasting sufficiency.
Reading it
The state of the nation is read off one image — what the horses are doing. Desire is identified as the whole mechanism of catastrophe, and the remedy is a strange reflexive formula: sufficiency about sufficiency itself, knowing you have enough and knowing that you know.
国势从一个意象读出——马在做什么。欲望被点名为灾祸的全部机制，而药方是个奇怪的反射式公式：对「知足」本身知足。
List what you already have enough of. Check whether you are still acquiring it.
列出你已经拥有得足够的东西。核对是否仍在继续获取它。