The Way 1-9

The Way
I
(MWD 45)

Of ways you may speak,
but not the Perennial Way;
By names you may name,
but not the Perennial Name.

The nameless is the inception of the myriad things;
The named is the mother of the myriad things.

Therefore,
Be ever without yearning so as to observe her obscurity;
Be ever full of yearning so as to
observe what she longs for.

Both come forth alike and yet are named as opposites,
Alike they are called 'abstruse'.
Abstruse on abstruse, the gate
to all obscurity.