{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt33.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt33.htm","text":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\nWhen one uses the Tao in assisting his sovereign, he will not employ arms to coerce the state. Such methods easily react. 1\nWhere military camps are established briers and thorns flourish. When great armies have moved through the land calamities are sure to follow. 2\nThe capable are determined, but no more. They will not venture to compel; determined, but not conceited; determined, but not boastful; determined, but not arrogant; determined because it cannot be helped; determined, but not forceful.\nWhen things reach their prime, they begin to age. This cannot be said to be the Tao. What is NOT the Tao soon ends. 3\n\"I am weary of your quarrels,\n \u00a0Weary of your wars and bloodshed, p. 54\n \u00a0Weary of your prayers for vengeance,\n \u00a0Of your wranglings and divisions;\n \u00a0All your strength is in your union,\n \u00a0All your danger is in discord;\n \u00a0Therefore be at peace henceforward,\n \u00a0And as brothers live together.\"\nArmies when contending seem to be the most commanding forces in the universe, yet is their strength unequal to the Spiritual Force\u2014electricity.\n53:1 \"With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.\"\u2014Luke.\n53:2 Although the Tao Teh King is now little read, so manifest is the Law of Retribution that this sentence has become one of the commonest proverbs in the Chinese colloquial.","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XXX","type":"page"}