Daoist Ethics: Feeling the Bellies

Daoist leader Laoza said that if you get hungry, that itself is enough to start the process. If you don't want people not to go down the road of knowledge, you've got to keep them well fed. None of these externalities are absolutely good or bad. It's only the only thing that could be good or bad is one state of mind,. You lose that and you've really lost something.