Skill's function

 

Good walkers have no rut [and] track.

Good speakers have no blemish [and] error.

Good counters have no counting bamboo slips.

Good lockers have no bolts [and] keys,

and not one can open [their locks].

Good binders have no rope [and] string,

and not one can loosen [their knots].

Therefore the holy man always in goodness saves men;

for there is no outcast man.

Always in goodness he saves things,

for there is no outcast thing.

This is called concealed enlightenment.

Therefore the good man, the one, the not-good man of,

is the instructor.

The not-good man, the one, the good man of,

is the capital.

[Who] not esteems his instructor.

[Who] not loves his capital,

though intelligent, greatly is bewildered.

This is called significant spirituality.