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Be rid of holiness; throw out learning,

and people will benefit a hundred times over.

Be rid of benevolence; throw out morality,

and people will rediscover respect and love.

Be rid of ingenuity; throw out profit-seeking,

and thieves and crooks will disappear.

Those three principles are just the externals, thus, insufficient.

So let us abide in the inward three:

Recognizing what is genuine, you embrace your original simplicity.

Dropping your self-interest, you curb habituation.

Emptying yourself of enculturtion, you end anxiety.