Chapter 26
Skillful movement leaves no tracks or traces; skillful speech has no flaws to be criticized; skillful counting needs no tallies or counting sticks; skillful closing uses no bolt or bar yet cannot be opened; skillful binding uses no rope or cord yet cannot be untied.
Thus the sage is always skillful at saving people, and so abandons no one; always skillful at saving things, and so discards nothing.
This is called inheriting the light.
Thus the good person is the teacher of the not-good person; the not-good person is the resource of the good person.
To not honor one's teacher, to not cherish one's resource - though one may be clever, this is a great delusion. This is called the essential mystery.