68).

_Not to act_ is, therefore, the secret of all power (Sec.Sec.3, 23, 38, 43, 48, 63).
We find here the same doctrine of opposites which appears in the Phaedo, and which has come up again and again in philosophy.

We shall find something like it in the Sankhya-karika of the Hindoos.

The Duad, with the Monad brooding behind it, is the fundamental principle of the Avesta.
The result, thus far, is to an active passivity.

Lao teaches that not to act involves the highest energy of being, and leads to the greatest results.