
If we let the right and the wrong, the 'this' and the 'that' alone...without considering them to be right and wrong or this and that, no opposition will exist between them. Therefore, "not to discriminate 'that' and 'this' as opposites is the very essence of Tao." 'This' and 'that' are both alternatively right and wrong...
The Sage's attitude toward the alternating right and wrong of things, is simply to let them alone. Therefore his attitude does not abolish the distinctions of right and wrong, but transcends them, an act which may be called "following two courses at once."
-- Fung Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy
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