Chapter 65
Do not try to educate the people, but joyously teach them to NOT-KNOW. When people think that they know the answers, they are difficult to live with. When people know that they don't know, they can find their own way. The "DON'T KNOW MIND" is forever, fresh, open, and fertile with possibilities. "It does not matter, it need not be". DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature. This is a profound power, one which brings things back with the GREAT ACCORD. Anointing the kingdom with simplicity will lead to enlightenment. Make simplicity the rule, the LAW of SECRET PERFECTION OF RULE. Profound and extended is this perfection; He that possesses it is indeed contrary to others, but attracts them to full accordance. People discover their simple natural selves as the ruler does nothing. This could not be done if they were forced or made to do it. It must come naturally, simply, spontaneously, comfortably, willingly. The TAOist is a primitivist who believes that education corrupts natural goodness. The people are better off in a state of NO-KNOWLEDGE, at ONE with nature's harmony and equilibrium. Knowledge, consciousness, is a movement away from nature, life, growth, and peace, and leads to externalization, discord, and finally death.