Returning to simplicity

 

[Who] knows his manhood,

[and] keeps his womanhood,

becomes the world's valley.

Being the world's valley,

the eternal virtue not departs.

He reverts [and] returns to [the state of] an infant child.

[Who] knows his whiteness, 

[and] keeps his blackness,

becomes the world's model.

Being the world's model,

the eternal virtue not is faulty.

He reverts [and] returns to

The unlimited.

[Who] knows his glory, [and] keeps his shame,

becomes the world's vale.

being the world's vale,

the eternal virtue then suffices.

He reverts [and] returns to simplicity.

Simplicity being scattered,

he then will make vessels [of usefulness].

The holy man utilising them,

then will make [them] officers [and] chiefs.

Therefore a great administration does not injure [cut, hurt].