| The Superior Superior power does not emphasize its power, and thus is powerful. Inferior power never forgets its power, and thus is powerless. Superior power never interferes nor has an ulterior motive. Inferior power interferes and has an ulterior motive. Superior humanity takes action but has no ulterior motive. Superior morality takes action and has an ulterior motive. Superior custom takes action, and finding no response, stretches out arms to force it on them. Therefore when the Way is lost, power arises. When power is lost, humanity arises. When humanity is lost, morality arises. When morality is lost, custom arises. Now custom is a superficial expression of loyalty and faithfulness, and the beginning of disorder. Foreknowledge is the flowering of the Way and the beginning of folly. Therefore the mature dwell in the depth, not in the thin, in the fruit and not in the flowering. They reject one and accept the other. |
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