Thank you for introducing Tao Te Ching so much! Luckily I can read your blog in comparison to its Chinese version, which helps me understand the content better. (After all, the original Tao Te Ching was written about 2,000 years ago in ancient Chinese, instead of modern Chinese. So it is explained in different modern Chinese versions, too.)

The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly;

I notice in Chinese version it shows " Just because of the existence of the ugly, the whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful." In my mind, Taoism is regarded as a kind of dialectical philosophy: if without the ugly, without the beautiful!
I've read a little bit of Tao Te Ching before. However, isn't it very interesting for me to learn and digest it by following a western poet？
I'm also really glad that I've learned a new buddism term: finger pointing to the moon from this blog. (God knows how I especially checked the information about it online.)