Chapter 26
IndexThe best walking leaves no tracks; the best speech has no flaws to be seized upon; the best calculation uses no counting-rods; the best closing uses no bolts and cannot be opened; the best knot uses no rope yet cannot be untied.
Therefore, the sage is always skilled at saving people, and so abandons no one; always skilled at saving things, and so abandons nothing.
This is called 'embracing illumination'.
Therefore, the good person is the teacher of the not-good person; the not-good person is the resource of the good person.
Not valuing one's teacher, not cherishing one's resource, though seemingly wise, is greatly confused. This is called the essential mystery.