The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XXXVII
The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]
The Tao—eternally actionless and the cause of all action!
Were princes and monarchs able to acquiesce the myriad existences would by degrees spontaneously transform. Transforming and wishing to function I would immediately guide by the simplicity of the nameless.
The simplicity of the nameless is akin to desirableness.
Desireless and at rest the world would naturally become peaceful. 1