WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Good government must be in harmony with each person’s desire to prosper and expand the range of choice. By emphasising the principle of non‐intervention, Lao Tzu also recognised that when government leaves people alone, then “without being ordered to do so, people become harmonious by themselves”.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who around 500 B.C.E. wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe. Taoists believe in spiritual immortality, where the spirit of the body joins the universe after death.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, in the mind of Laozi a good leader behaves in a gentle or soft manner instead of a forceful or hard one. Softness and hardness are opposite to each other, and it is preferable to behave softly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lao-Tzu’s Taoism – or, at least, the Taoism of the 6th century BCE – emphasized the importance of non-action, non-resistance, “going with the flow” to live an elevated and transformative life.