After Reading Lao Tsu: Chapter 78 老子：第七八章を読んで

真の達人は，水や赤子のごとく振る舞う。世の中の多くの人にとって，何事も力の強いことは単純に良いとされる。剛を是とするそうした絶対的な価値基準に従った人は，剛に対して剛で優ろうとする。しかしその争いには際限がなく，やがて互いに疲弊し消耗する。一方で，柔を是とする水のごとき人は争いを避け，心穏やかに世界と調和する。赤子のごとく余分な我欲がないから，世間的には損を自ら引き受ける愚者に見える。悟るとはつまりそういうことである。

Genuine masters behave like water or babies. Many people in the world might regard the strength as simply good in everything. People who depend on such absolute standard of value that the hardness is good would intend to be superior to others by the hardness. But such competition is endless, and then both will be tired and exhausted. On the other hand, people who think the softness is good, being like water, would avoid a competition and be in harmony with the world calmly. They socially looks like fools who draw the short straw, because they, like babies, do not have excessive self-interest. In brief, Enlightenment is such a thing as this.