ocr: 9Tao Te Ching - Lau Tzu -EX Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu Translation: Byrn Chapter: 1. The way that can be told of is hardly an eternal, absolute, unvarying one, the name that can be coded and given is no absolute name. Heaven and earth sprang from something else: the bright nameless; the named is but the said mother that rears the ten thousand creatures of heaven and earth, each after its kind. He that rids himself of base desire can see the secret essences, he that didn't and reached high being, he can see outcomes. Still the two are the same; the secret and its manitestations came from the same g ...