Thirty-eight

A person of sure fitness,
without making a point of their fitness,
Stays fit.
A person of unsure fitness,
assuming an appearance of fitness,
Becomes unfit.
A person of sure fitness never makes an act of it
Nor considers what it may profit them.
A person of unsure fitness makes an act of it
And considers the profit of every action.
However a person with a kind heart proceed,
They forget what it may profit them.
However a person with a just mind proceed,
They remember what it may profit them.
However a person of conventional conduct proceed,
If they are not complied with,
Out go their fists to enforce compliance.

Here is what happens:
Losing the way of life,
people first rely on their fitness;
Losing fitness, they turn to kindness;
Losing kindness, they turn to justness,
Losing justness, they turn to convention.
Conventions are loyalty and honesty gone to waste;
They are the entrance of disorder.
Therefore a sane person dwells on what is real
And not on that which is on the surface -
Stays with the fruit
Beyond the flowering:
They have their no and they have their yes.