"Without passing out of the gate The world's course I prognosticate. Without peeping through the window
The heavenly Reason I contemplate. The further one goes, The less one knows."
Therefore the holy man does not travel, and yet he has knowledge. He does not see things, and yet he defines them. He does not labor, and yet he completes.
Interpretation:
Since the Daoist seeks to understand the world and life from the place before form, they need not trave to seek knowledge, by looking within, he can seek the structures and forms that lie beneath for. If you look to the place before yen and yan, before light and dark, you look also to the place before here and there. From this place before, all forms that rise from the Tao seem natural and understandable without study or intellectual understanding.
Stanza one observes that the knowledge of the dao comes from still contemplation not movement. The last stanza, "the further one goes, the less one knows." Can be interpreted to mean any movement, study, thought, away from still contemplation.
The second stanza tells us the benefits of seeking this stillness. Internal knowledge, understanding, and wu wei, completion through non-action.
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