Motif
Rule or order through inaction
rule_or_order_through_inaction
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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daoist
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER XI. / ON LETTING ALONE. / CHAPTER XII. / THE UNIVERSE.; lines 5005-5139 confidence: high
“Of old, the empire was under the sovereignty of inaction.”
The passage says the ancient empire was under the sovereignty of inaction and that action and speech by means of inaction are linked with God and Virtue.
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