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 | | The Dao is unknowable, has no form and therefore does not undergo change (41), is "constant" (1), and is "invisible, inaudible, and imperceptible" (14). |
 | | The faculty that the Dao has to give life to and nourish the particular objects is its de, or "virtue," and is described as "a mystery within a mystery" (1). |
 | | Aside from generating the world, therefore, the Dao does nothing else: it does not act in it, it is not affected by the transformation, decay, and disappearance of the forms it generates, and it neither rejoices in nor is hurt by what is, in a relative sense, good or bad. |
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