Sunday 13 July 2008

Daodejing Poem 60

Singapore time 8.49 am 13th July 2008

Cure a big country as if you fry small fishes. Using Tao to reach the world:- world's ghosts are not gods; not world's ghosts are not gods. World's god does not harm people; not world's god does not harm people.
The Sage also does not harm people. Oh, both, Sage and people, do not harm each other, so virtue converge to return to the roots.
Ruling a big country is like frying small fishes. This is to say, don't meddle too much into the affairs of others. Another meaning is inaction, 'wu wei'. To make this effective, the head of state should be inactive or without any political power, just a figure head. So he just cultivate self to prosper the country.
Lee Kuan Yew thinks he is very smart in ruling Singapore. He does not know that all these are because I am in Singapore. If I am to migrate to another country, Singapore can collapse.
Whether ghost or God, they don't harm people. It is the Act Play of Nature that is what we see. We thought this is reality. This is not. We are just actors.
It is in virtue that we have to return to our Root in the END.

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