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what does this quote mean exactly?

Less and less is done

Until non-action is achieved.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

I really don t understand is that like letting things take course naturally not interfering? that undone part really confuses me

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Yeah, well, that's an excerpt from the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), which is notoriously obscure and difficult to interpret. People have been writing interpretations of it for many centuries, so hit the library and find a scholarly commentary on the Daodejing and read about some of the various interpretations that have been made by people who have read it in the original Chinese and who have studied it, its historical context, and other things about it.

  • mokrie
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    It means " less and less is done until NOTHING gets done." The point is to do more.

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