There is great beauty in "ugliness", and there is great joy in "pain." We know each through their opposites. Existence and non existence give birth to the idea of each other. The idea of difficulty and ease produce one another. Length and shortness fashion out the figure of each other. High and low contrast and measure each other, like how musical notes become harmonious through the relation of one with another and past, present, and future require each other.
This is how the Sage accomplishes without doing anything at all and he and teaches without having to say a word. As things arrive and disappear he lets them come and go freely. He possesses but does not own and perform without expectation. When he finishes his work, he releases it without attachment, that's why it continues eternally.
The Sage's reactions are harmonious with Nature thus require no effort at all. He is an actor that loves his job, and the Tao writes the script.