The Beginning of Power
The Tao that can be
expressed
Is not the Tao of the Absolute.
The name that can be named
Is not the name of the Absolute.
The nameless originated
Heaven and Earth.
The named is the Mother of
All Things.
Thus, without expectation,
One will always perceive subtlety;
And, with expectation,
One will always perceive the boundary.
The source of these two is
identical,
Yet their names are
different.
Together they are called
profound,
Profound and mysterious,
The gateway to the
Collective Subtlety.