Can body and soul united never server?
    载营魄抱一，能无离乎？

    Can the controlled breath be softed as a baby's?
    专气致柔，能如婴儿乎?

    Can the purified mental mirror be free from blemish?
    涤除玄览，能无疵乎？

    Can a people-loving ruler not interfere in the state affairs?
    爱国治民，能无为乎？

    Can the lower doors not open and close as the supper doors in heaven ?
    天门开阖，能为雌乎?

    Is it possible to understand and make understand without knowledge?
    明白四达，能无知乎？

    Give life and make live , but lay no claim, benefit but do not interfere,lead but do not rule
    生而畜之，生而不有，为而不持，长而不宰，

    Such is the mysterious virtue.
    是谓玄德。

    Thirty spokes radiate from a hub.
    三十幅共一毂，

    When there is  nothing in the hub, the wheel can roll.
    当其无，有车之用。，

    Turn clay to make a vessel.
    埏shan埴以为器，

    When empty，the vessel can be used.
    当其无，有器之用。

    Build a room with doors and windows.
    凿户牖you以为室,

    When empty ,the room can be used as dewlling.
    当其无，有室之用。

    When there is something，it is beneficial;
    故有之以为利，

    When empty， it is useful.
    无之以为用。