Warring States: Dao Zheng

The seven heroes and hundreds of schools of thought in the Warring States Period were both a struggle for the world and a struggle for the Tao. Legalists say: Take the law as your teaching. Confucianism says: Return with etiquette. Taoism says: nature is inaction. The Mohists say: Love is universal, not aggressive. … However, the way of hundreds of schools is one of the great ways; but the power of the great way does not belong to any one family. The one that escapes is not the hidden Taoist fruit, but the possibility of eternal upward growth in the human world. The Tao is not in heaven, but in the human heart. If the human heart is immortal, the Tao will never be destroyed.