{"id":177260,"date":"2021-01-25T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=177260"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:17:14","slug":"the-best-warriors-do-not-use-violence-the-best-tacticians-try-to-avoid-confrontation-the-best-businessmen-serve-the-communal-good-the-best-leaders-become-servants-of-their-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/the-best-warriors-do-not-use-violence-the-best-tacticians-try-to-avoid-confrontation-the-best-businessmen-serve-the-communal-good-the-best-leaders-become-servants-of-their-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The best warriors do not use violence. The best tacticians try to avoid confrontation. The best businessmen serve the communal good. The best leaders become servants of their people&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Tao 68:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The best warriors<\/em><em> do not use violence.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The best tacticians<\/em><em> try to avoid confrontation.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The best businessmen<\/em><em> serve the communal good.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The best leaders<\/em><em> become servants of their people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All of them embody the virtue of non-competition.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not that they don\u2019t love to compete,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but they do so in the spirit of play.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In this they are like children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This since ancient times has been known<\/em><em> as the ultimate unity with heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The <\/em>Tao Te Ching<em> is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi also known as Lao Tzu. However, the text&#8217;s authorship and dates of composition and compilation are debated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tao-te-ching-laozi.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tao-te-ching-laozi-191x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tao-te-ching-laozi-191x300.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tao-te-ching-laozi.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi also known as Lao Tzu. However, the text&#8217;s authorship and dates of composition and compilation are debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":177261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[1178,2255,1179],"class_list":["post-177260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-lao-tzu","tag-quotes","tag-tao-te-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}