Chapter 53
What is skillfully established cannot be uprooted; what is skillfully embraced cannot slip away. Through this, descendants will continue ancestral rites without cease.
Cultivate it in yourself, and its De becomes authentic; cultivate it in the family, and its De becomes abundant; cultivate it in the community, and its De becomes enduring; cultivate it in the state, and its De becomes flourishing; cultivate it in all-under-heaven, and its De becomes universal.
Therefore, observe the self through the self; observe the family through the family; observe the community through the community; observe the state through the state; observe all-under-heaven through all-under-heaven.
How do I know that all-under-heaven is thus? By this.
By this.