| 3.1.1 |
(By) not honoring the talented and
good,
let the people
not to be striving. |
| 3.1.2 |
(By) not valuing goods difficult to get,
let the people not to be thieves and
robbers. |
| 3.1.3 |
(By) not showing (what is) desirable,
let the
people not (to be) confused. |
| 3.2.1 |
This is why the governing of the sage
is: |
| 3.2.2 |
To
blank their mind,
(and) to fill up their bellies. |
| 3.2.3 |
To
weaken their will,
(and) to
strengthen their bones. |
| 3.3.1 |
(By doing so) will always let the people (to be)
without knowingness (and) without desire. |
| 3.3.2 |
(And) let the knowing ones dare not disobey (in
their) acts. |
| 3.3.3 |
Then nothing (will be) in
disorder. |
