Just do your job, then let go!!

  Harmony... A very simple, well-known common goal to achieve... You might consider me/us, the Daoists, as believers against everything even harmony. However, as a matter of fact we are sharing the same house, even if our paths to way back home are different.
  Every single day of our lives, people are whining about the problems that they face; the unsuccessful, "bad", inoperative government; the flaws in our law codes, even the constitution etc. We have a simple solution, a simple repressive prevention to cover all these PROBLEMS!
As discussed in the passage "Dao De Jing" which is attributed to Laozi,

     Therefore the Master says:
     I let go of the law,
     and people become honest.
     I let go of economics,
     and people become prosperous.
     I let go of religion,
     and people become serene.
     I let go of all desire for the common good,
     and the good becomes common as grass.       

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     Free from desire, you realize the mystery
     Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations

So... The only way to unsee the manifestations of the parlament, of the government, of the PEOPLE, you should and even must be far distant from your desires. It is not that hard, since there's many of us.
I said "bad". Bad exist because we created the "good". We named it as good / bad. Contradictions define each other.
        Long and short define each other.
        Difficult and easy support each other.
       High and low depend on each other.
       Before and after follow each other.

STOP THINKING AND JUST END YOUR PROBLEMS!!
What difference does it make if you refuse someone or some idea? Nothing, you feel free.
What differs between yes and no? These are the concepts, the answers that YOU create in your mind. These depend on YOUR feelings, YOUR emotions, YOUR thoughts. Everything depends and influence only you... So why on earth should you choose what others choose, say what others say, and value what others value?
For every force, there is a counterforce. 

Peace... The highest and the most precious value in the earth, right? But it is just so hard to be found in these days... All of us, no matter what religious belief that we connect ourselves, dream how great it would be if there was peace.  
Our Master has a way, to solve this situation;

     Close your mouth,
     block off your senses,
     blunt your sharpness,
     untie your knots,
     soften your glare,
     settle your dust.

Doesn't it make sense?

The peace has not brought yet. Why? Because of all the lies that politicians pledge, all the contradictions that we face, all the immorality...We-the Daoists believe :
    
     Stop trying to control.
     Let go of fixed plans and concepts
     and the world will govern itself.

     The more prohibitions you have,
     the less virtuous people will be.  
     The more weapons you have,
     the less secure people will be.
     The more subsidies you have,
     the less self-reliant people will be.

People are the underlying reason why peace is far away. Desire, over-esteem, self-reliance, security, morality, virtue, grace, darkness... All these facts are because of you, because you named & you created them. However, what can you do if naming is the origin of all particular things :) These feelings, these terms are the reason why you cannot have what you want !  People just CANNOT learn or even understand how to live in harmony, can they !
HUMAN STRIVING HAD BROUGHT THE WORLD TO A STATE OF CHAOS!

Simply,

the less government, the better; the less ambition the less problems; the less interference to the natural principles the happier you get ! 


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