Warden Silas pressed further. "You spoke of the diligent student hearing the eternal path and practicing it with all his might, yet you also advocate serene inaction. How can both be true?"
The Grand Sage replied, "The eternal path is forever aligned with the natural order, never forcing its will upon anything, and yet there is nothing under the heavens that it does not accomplish. If rulers could govern according to this principle, all things would transform and flourish of their own accord, living and dying in their proper seasons without interference."
Warden Silas listened carefully, but many questions still lingered in his mind. He opened his mouth to ask another, but The Grand Sage raised a weathered hand. "The eternal path and all its answers reside within these five thousand word
