Chapter 38
Dwell in the reality of nature. One of TAO does not try to be powerful, thus one is truly powerful. Those who keep grasping for power never have enough. One living in harmony with nature does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone. Others are always doing things, yet many more things are left to be done. The kind man does something, yet something remains undone. The just man does something, and leaves many things done. The moral man does something, and when no one responds, he bares his arms and threatens to use force. Those who try to be kind, just, righteous, moral, humanitarian, expect or demand from others to do the same. Some can not tolerate others from violating their golden rules. When the TAO is lost there is goodness, righteousness, virtue. When virtue is lost, there is morality. When morality is lost, there is humanity. When humanity is lost, there is ritual. Ritual is the husk of true faith and loyalty, the beginning of chaos, confusion, disorder. Therefore be concerned with the depths and not the surface, with the kernel and not the husk, with the inner and not the outer, with this and not that, with the cause and not the effect. See the Big Picture. The TAOist's will is one with the TAO. He dwells in reality and lets all illusions go.