Chapter 79

Chapter 79

Difficulties remain, even after solving a problem.
How then can we consider that as good?

Therefore the Master
does what she knows is right,
and makes no demands of others.
A virtuous person will do the right thing,
and persons with no virtue will take advantage of others.

The Tao does not choose sides,
the good person receives from the Tao
because she is on its side.

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“Difficulties remain, even after solving a problem.”

Watching the American drama series “John Adams,” I thought that indeed problems are non-ending. Adams’ primary purpose was to emancipate the United States from the “chains” of Great Britain. Even after hard earned liberation from the colonial rule of England, however, political problems ensued in his own new independent country. He had family problems and was involved in lots of messy, complicated political issues. As long as you are alive, you will continue to have problems in life.