The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
Bend and you will be straight.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
Simple, like uncarved wood.