DAO DE JING CHAPTER 48 — READING RECORD
Original comparison worksheet.
Keep received text, Wang Bi commentary, translation and your interpretation separate.

Edition / source URL:
Date checked:
Chapter number in that edition:
Chinese clause:
English translation / translator:
Word or phrase carrying the interpretive choice:
What is explicit in the Chinese?
What is supplied by the translation?
Which commentary, if any, supports that choice?
What do the preceding and following clauses add?

CHECK THE WHOLE CHAPTER
[ ] I kept learning / increase beside Dao / decrease.
[ ] I did not invent an explicit object after “decrease.”
[ ] I distinguished Wang Bi's note from the received chapter text.
[ ] I read “nonaction, yet nothing is left undone” as part of the argument.
[ ] I included the ending about taking charge of all under heaven.
[ ] I kept a modern analogy separate from an attributed ancient saying.

COMPARE TWO RENDERINGS
Translation A / phrase:
Translation B / phrase:
What A makes visible:
What B makes visible:
What each leaves uncertain:

SHORT READING ANSWER
The opening contrasts:
The repeated decrease leads toward:
The political ending adds:
The line supporting my interpretation is:
My remaining question is:

OPTIONAL MODERN ANALOGY
Situation:
Interference I am considering reducing:
Responsibility or necessary action that remains:
Where the analogy stops:
This is my analogy, not a quotation or a guarantee from Laozi.