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The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Tao te Ching) · front matter · 1 passage
The word tsz’, translated "gravity," is a peculiar phrase which literally means "baggage wagon." The intermediate idea seems to be "heaviness" or "gravity," the latter in the double sense (literal and figurative) as used in English. In our former edition it was translated "dignity."
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file tao/crv/crv108.htm.
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