The Master doesn't try to be powerful;

thus he is truly powerful.

The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;

thus he never has enough.

 

The Master does nothing,

yet he leaves nothing undone.

The ordinary man is always doing things,

yet many more are left to be done.

 

The kind man does something,

yet something remains undone.

The just man does something,

and leaves many things to be done.

The moral man does something,

and when no one responds

he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.

 

When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.

When goodness is lost, there is morality.

When morality is lost, there is ritual.

Ritual is the husk of true faith,

the beginning of chaos.

 

Therefore the Master concerns himself

with the depths and not the surface,

with the fruit and not the flower.

He has no will of his own.

He dwells in reality,

and lets all illusions go.

 

 

Lao Tzu - (Tao Te Ching, chapter 38, translation by Stephen Mitchell)

 

 

Virtue, goodness, morality and ritual are born by the balance of black and white.

The more you have the white energy, the higher virtue you have, and you never do something based on the desire to do things intentionally, but just follow the light which lead you.

The less you have the white energy, the lower virtue you have, and you consciously try to be kind, good and faithful.

Because you do something consciously, your goodness, morality and ritual is lost, and dwell in chaos.

 

MYE