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| The Yellow Emperor's Four Canons, 21: The Tao of Governing（黄帝四经21: 前道） |
By Anonymous Author 2008-05-17
Sage-kings rely on the guiding principle of the Tao: they know the law of balance between Yin and Yang aspects in the Heavenly cycles, earthly environment, and human conditions and know how to do things in conformance with it; they know how to ensure that the names of things match their forms and the statuses of people match their performance. |
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| The Yellow Emperor's Four Canons, 18: The Established Law（黄帝四经18: 成法） |
By Anonymous Author 2008-05-05
...As everything between heaven and earth was given a name and each name made to match each form, people's different statuses should also match each person's performance and vice versa, so as not to violate the one single law governing all under heaven.... all the names and all the forms should be at one with each other. Then, nobody can break the rules without getting punished.... |
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| The Yellow Emperor's Four Canons, 15: Tribal Strife（黄帝四经15: 姓争） |
By Anonymous Author 2008-04-27
...Heavenly virtue shines bright but would not penetrate people’s hearts without the law punishing the vicious; the Heavenly law strikes awe into the vicious but will not overwhelm without conscious cultivation of virtue....Heaven and Earth help those who chose restraint or action at proper times and fail those who do not....
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| The Yellow Emperor's Four Canons, 14: Order out of Chaos（黄帝四经14: 正乱） |
By Anonymous Author 2008-04-21
。。。The eternal law sets a limit to the satisfaction of anybody’s desires, beyond which things will turn against him.。。。check carefully the way he behaved in the past to find his Achilles’ heel and watch his future actions till a chance occurs for the decisive blow. 。。。 When his people rise against him, 。。。 |
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