241020 What I learned in my studies this morning 4*

Today's Meditation(s):

Tao Te Ching, 36, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English

This one gets almost completely passed me. I see the tension of opposites, the flow from one state to the complimentary state. The existence of one allowing the other, perhaps making it inevitable.

The final four lines, however, elude me.

If not displayed, the arms are still there and ready to be used, but give way to options which take advantage of soft and weak approaches which find ways to coexist without conflict and violence.