{"id":1396,"date":"2012-02-14T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2012-03-24T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T00:14:06","slug":"%e9%81%93%e5%be%b7%e7%b6%93-the-tao-de-ching-explains-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"\u00e9\u0081\u201c\u00e5\u00be\u00b7\u00e7\u00b6\u201c The Tao de Ching explains the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/laozi_pointing623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1399\" title=\"laozi_pointing623\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/laozi_pointing623-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>61<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.<\/p>\n<p>The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility. Humility means trusting the Tao, thus never needing to be defensive.<\/p>\n<p>A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it.<\/p>\n<p>He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.<\/p>\n<p>If a nation is centered in the Tao, if it nourishes its own people and doesn&#8217;t meddle in the affairs of others, it will be a light to all nations in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>61 When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it. The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility. Humility means trusting the Tao, thus never needing to be defensive. A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135,1,177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}