READING LAOZI


Those who speak, don't know.  Those who know, don't speak.
I heard this line from that old gentleman.
So if the old fellow did know the Dao,
what did he think of his five thousand words?
     --Bai Juyi, my tr.

读老子

言者不如知者默
此语吾闻于老君
若道老君是知者
缘何自著五千文

dú lǎo zi

yán zhě bù zhī zhī zhě mò
cǐ yǔ wú wén yú lǎo jūn
ruò dào lǎo jūn shì zhī zhě
yuán hé zì ruò wǔ qiān wén