If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Yielding is the manner of the Way.

When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.