Journal of Asian Restudy 2021 Fall

officials can stay uncorrupted, the people would stay upright
themselves also.
They looks like very simple things to people, nevertheless, not
everybody can do it. It is the attitude and mentality that decides the
matter. Laozi believed that the best politics is aimed to make the
country look as if nothing particular is going on since everything
works out and everybody is living a normal life, which idea is a little
exaggerating and idealistic, especially won’t fit to situation of modern
world with a much bigger social scale and much higher level of
complexity. However, what he said that the trick of governing is
non-action that too much action would lead to failure of their mission,
while the hasty steps to grasp the success with too much expectation
would make them deemed to lose the game, is very
thought-provoking and worthy to be borrowed into their policy. This
type of politics is not as dull as it looks like at all. The right attitude
and mentality will lead the person into its kingdom, and in each
kingdom, there is its own mechanism. The government mentioned by
Laozi seemed quiet and simple at the surface, however, the simplicity
is toward the civilians and the executors, who don’t have to engage
themselves into meaningless task or go through complicated
procedures with frustrations or difficult life experience with ordeals,
but it would need right and determined people to maneuver it. It is not
difficult, but it just need follow the rhythm of the nature, some
principal laws of the civilization, and the basic social values
respected by people and all generations. And the government won’t
need hire so many people to work around the simple –to- follow
policies, which would only add to the troubles and ruin the odd of
success or their own projects and the things of ordinary people.
The same way works for military too. It says in Daode Jing:“ 兵 乃 不
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