Chapter 20
IndexThe capacity of great virtue is to follow only the Way.
The Dao, as a thing, is elusive and indistinct.
Obscure and elusive, yet within it are forms; elusive and obscure, yet within it are entities.
Deep and dark, within it is essence; this essence is profoundly real, within it is truth.
From ancient times to the present, its name has not departed, through it all things come into being.
How do I know the state of all beginnings?
By this.