Sunday 31 August 2008

Daodejing Poem 37

Singapore time 8.49 am 31st August 2008

Tao is always in inaction and yet none is not effected. If the king can focus on it, all creatures will be transformed. After transformation and still continue their action, I will protect them using the nameless virgin block of wood. Nameless virgin block of wood is not what I want to covet. Nothing to covet using stillness, the world will be ordered or righted.


Virgin block of wood is nose. Using it is nasal gaze. Here it teaches us the head-of-state has to be in inaction. Thereby the country will prosper. For Sage King, this is Great Harmony or world peace.


I advocated the ideal political system in Election97. Initially it is based on Confucianism of 1. cultivate self, 2. regulate family, 3. cure the country and 4. bring world peace. I put an image in http://sg.geocities.com/alex_kew/image1/confucianism.gif . So the head of each body like self or family or country, when they are good, the below 2 will be good. If he is bad or evil, the below 2 will be bad. So Confucianism, I-Ching and Daodejing plus Zhuangzi etc have something in common.

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