Tao Te Ching — Refutation Edition
Chapter 40
Taoism — Lao-tzu and the Unnameable Way · text: Translated by James Legge (Sacred Books of the East, 1891) — Project Gutenberg eBook #216, 'The Tao Teh King' (public domain). Highlighted passages are answered beneath the text.
11. The movement of the Tao By contraries proceeds; And weakness marks the course Of Tao's mighty deeds.
2All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).