In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.

There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

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