Chuang Tzu - The Mystical Way. The Nature and Reality of Tao.

• In  the  Great  Beginning, there was non-being.  It had neither being, nor name.
• The One originates from it,  it has oneness, but not yet physical form.
• When things obtain it and come into existence, that is called virtue.
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• That which is formless is divided (into Yin and Yang) and from the very beginning
• going on without interruption is called destiny (ming, fate).
• Through movement and rest it produces all things.
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• When things are produced, in accordance with the principle (li) of life, there is physical form, that embodies and preserves the spirit so that all activities follow their own specific principles, that is nature.
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• By cultivating ones own nature,  one  will  return  to  virtue.
• When virtue is perfect, one will be one with the beginning.
• Being one with the beginning, one becomes vacuous, one becomes great.
• One will then be united with the sound and breath of things (hsu, receptive to all)
• and then one is united with the universe.
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• To the uninitiated, this appears to be stupid and foolish.
• This unity is profound and secret virtue, this is complete harmony. (peace)