Thursday 11 September 2008

Daodejing Poem 36

Singapore time 8.52 am 11th September 2008

What is to be shrunken is first stretched out. What is to be weaken is first made strong. What is to be trashed is first raised up. What is to be possessed is first made familiar. This is called mean intelligence. The gentle way will overcome the hard and strong. Fish should not be out of the pool, so the country's weapons are not to be displayed to others.
This is the advice to the Sage King to apply the doctrine of the mean.

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