英訳文 Things that we cannot see, I call them “the obscure”. Things we cannot hear, I call them “the faint”. Things we cannot catch, I call them “the subtle”. We cannot sense these and these are originally the same one. The space above it is not bright. The space below it is not dark. I cannot name it because it is too vague. It returns to nothingness in the end. I call it, for convenience’ sake, “appearance of no appearance”, “form of the formless” or just “the vague”. You cannot see its face even if you meet it. You cannot see its back even if you follow it. If you observe the present time with “the way” from ancient time, you can understand the origin of things. This is the start of “the way”.