Below is the chapter from two excellent sources along with the original Chinese text. The first source is from a translation by D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus in 1913 followed by a translation by Stephen Mitchell in 1988.
Chapter 71
1. To know the unknowable, that is elevating. Not to know the knowable, that is sickness.
2. Only by becoming sick of sickness can we be without sickness.
3. The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not sick.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realise that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.
2. Only by becoming sick of sickness can we be without sickness.
3. The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not sick.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realise that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.
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