It emphasizes the spontaneity and the accommodation to being natural. The central theme of Taoism is ‘being natural without coercion’.
- Give up the desire sage and abandon 'wisdom'
- And the people will benefit a hundred times over.
- Give up the desire to ‘be benevolent' and abandon 'justice'
- And the people will regain their old kindness
- Give up the desire to be cunning and abandon material gain
- And there will be no more robbers.