一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
道沖而用之或不盈，淵兮似萬物之宗。挫其銳，解其紛，和其光，同其塵，湛兮似或存。吾不知誰之子，象帝之先。The Way is empty, yet in use it is never filled; deep, it seems the ancestor of the ten thousand things. It blunts the sharp, unties the tangled, softens the glare, and mingles with the dust. Still and clear, it seems perhaps to be there. I do not know whose child it is; it seems to come before the Lord on High.
What this chapter says
一孔按：道像一只空着的器，因为空，怎么用都不满、不尽；尖的磨钝，亮的收着，它自己一点也不少。王弼注原话：冲而用之，用乃不能穷。
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白Plain Chinese
道虚空而用起来，总也用不满，深远啊，好像万物的宗主。磨去锋芒，解开纷乱，收敛光芒，与尘俗同处，幽隐啊，似有似无。我不知道它是谁的儿子，好像在天帝之前就有了。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Wang Bi; it will be checked when the chapter is taught.
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