为学日益，为道日损。
1He who devotes himself to learning (seeks) from day to day to increase (his knowledge); he who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).
损之又损，以至于无为。
2He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing nothing (on purpose).
无为而无不为。
3Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do.
取天下常以无事，及其有事，不足以取天下。
4He who gets as his own all under heaven does so by giving himself no trouble (with that end).
5If one take trouble (with that end), he is not equal to getting as his own all under heaven.