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Sudoku #41

Category: Sudoku
Thu, 04 Aug 2005, 11:10

When a superior person hears of the Tao,
She diligently puts it into practice.
When an average person hears of the Tao,
he believes half of it, and doubts the other half.
When a foolish person hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud at the very idea.
If he didn't laugh,
it wouldn't be the Tao.

Thus it is said:
The brightness of the Tao seems like darkness,
the advancement of the Tao seems like retreat,
the level path seems rough,
the superior path seem empty,
the pure seems to be tarnished,
and true virtue doesn't seem to be enough.
The virtue of caution seems like cowardice,
the pure seems to be polluted,
the true square seems to have no corners,
the best vessels take the most time to finish,
the greatest sounds cannot be heard,
and the greatest image has no form.

The Tao hides in the unnamed,
Yet it alone nourishes and completes all things.

The above is Chapter 41 of the Tao Te Ching. The Tao Te Ching was written about 2600 years ago in China, and attributed to the philosopher Lao Tzu, considered to be the founder of Taoism.

As I said yesterday, I've been playing with puzzles with four-fold symmetry. Here's a puzzle with four-fold reflectional symmetry about the two diagonals.

Hans

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