The Natural Course of Events (3)

1 Someday, Yao and Shun chatted in the backyard when off duty. Shun asked Yao how he governing and loving people. Yao said, “I never look down on the poor, always managing to approach them and learn about their difficulties and pain. I never desert the homeless people, always looking for houses for them. I express my mourning to the death in their funerals. Staying with the young students, I encourage them to study hard by all means. I comfort and thank those women making sacrifice for their family, such as losing personal freedom, doing heavy homework and assisting husband and teaching children.”

2 Shun said, “It is fairly good that you govern the country in these moods. However, it is far from perfection.”

3 Yao said, “What I should do, you think?”

4 “We should learn from Tao about how it managing Heaven and Earth. Under the control of the natural course of events, all things fulfill their own duties and operate cooperatively and closely in good order. Few mess and disturbance happened to them. The sun and the moon run delicately to create the four seasons, shift of day and night, and cloud and rain in time. These actions are ongoing in silence. Shouldn’t we learn vain quiet, tranquilness, loneliness and non-action from Tao?” Shun replied.

5 Reflecting for a while, Yao said, “You are right, I am truly far from vain quiet, tranquilness, loneliness and non-action. Take an instance of our court, they debate and even quarrel with each other, which bother me a lot. From the viewpoint of this, your practice conforms to the natural course of events and mine only to the human affairs. ”

6 Dear readers, the natural course of events was admired by the ancient people and was eulogized by Yellow emperor, Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun. Their governance of country and people is nothing but follow the natural course of events.