Chen Dai said to his teacher Mencius: “You refuse to visit feudal lords – it seems overly modest, even petty. If you’d just go see one once, at best you could implement the Kingly Way; at least, you might help him achieve hegemony. And as the old saying goes: ‘Bend one chi (about a…
Chapter 17 of the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) establishes a hierarchy of governance where political excellence is measured by its operational invisibility.