老子道德经(英译本)Lao Tze 25. Beneath Abstraction

作者：《Lao Tze》李耳

• There is a mystery,
  Beneath abstraction,
  Silent, depthless,
  Alone, unchanging,
  Ubiquitous and liquid,
  The mother of nature.
  It has no name, but I call it "the Way";
  It has no limit, but I call it "limitless".
  
  Being limitless, it flows away forever;
  Flowing away forever, it returns to my self:
  
  The Way is limitless,
  So nature is limitless,
  So the world is limitless,
  And so I am limitless.
  
  For I am abstracted from the world,
  The world from nature,
  Nature from the Way,
  And the Way from what is beneath abstraction.