The Natural Course of Events (1)

1 The secret of operation of Nature is: Lives of all creatures are limited. Like the building blocks, supplied by a certain quantity of material, lives make various changes through permutation and combination. No creature can occupy its using material forever.

2 In the limited space, creatures use these limited material in turn so as to live through generation after generation, showing themselves in assorted forms and colors on the mother earth.

3 If a creature, such as moth, could extend its life as it wants.

4 Then the moth would appear in force on the field in a very short period, and the Heaven and the Earth would be disordered.

5 In recent years, the average life of human extends to seventy years from past forty. Therefore, the earth is in trouble of overpopulation and the biological chain is destroyed.

6 Life of human extending artificially is called stagnancy which infringes the law of Nature.

7 The ruler of a country allows every industry to develop fairly, without promoting certain industries or restricting others. In this country, people are sincerely convinced to work by their own ability without any complaint.

8 The influence that the man of practice has is not on a special singular object but on the whole humanity. For this reason, he is non self. Hence all people respect and canonize him.

9 We discover that everything has its unique rule of survival. Each creature operates by its unique rule and all manipulated forces are the burden and have negative effect on each creature.

10 In this viewpoint, the Nature just stands aside to watch the operation of creatures, always keeping silent. After it set the rules and regulations, creatures move around freely, and the Nature doesn’t make concealed reference to them.

11 Man of practice understands the principle. So he asks himself to keep tranquilness which therefore is his important course of practice. His composed and tranquil heart is naturally formed in this way.

12 In this world nothing can disturb his heart any more. The still water may be used as the mirror to reflect each mustache. The still water can keep absolute level and the carpenter uses it as the measuring tool.

13 If water wave stops, water becomes still. Are spirit and soul like that too? When a man of perfect practice makes his heart tranquil thoroughly, he can have an insight to all things, bewildered by nothing.

14 Observing the Nature, we discover that the vain quiet, tranquilness, loneliness and non-action are the specialties of nature and they are the extreme representation of virtue.

15 The man of perfect practice and the excellent state leader acknowledge and execute those specialties. So they have perfect lives.

16 Leisure is to store up force. Storing up force is to recharge energy. An energetic man is in perfect order and sequence to handle the deeds happened to him.

17 Leisure is for tranquilness and composure, for which the deeds are made properly in rules and regulations and to the point.

18 Leisure is not to issue confused order. If the leader doesn’t issue confused order, his members can try best to play their roles respectively.

19 Leisure presents the inner peace. A man of inner peace, tranquilness and soundness is devoid of sadness and fear. He is sure to enjoy his happy and satisfied life.

20 The concrete presentations of the basic conditions for all creatures’ living are the specialties — vain quiet, tranquilness, loneliness and non-action. Having understood that, Yao became emperor and Shun became an important minister to assistant Yao. The specialties were the key factors for which they succeeded in ruling power and came to the throne.

21 The specialties could make common people become a man of perfect practice, celebrated philosopher and senior hermit in the mountain. All people respect and admire him.

22 If a man with the specialties comes to be an official, he will govern his country in good order to reach the level of great harmony of the utmost ideal.

23 If he lives in town, he will become a famous philosopher.

24 If he makes up his mind to live a life of practice, he could obtain the singular and elegant personality.