Walking

When you are the leader, walk in the tao.
Never use force, nor try to conquer.
Because every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Resentments and fury appear when coercion is used.
Deprivation takes over after military victory.
Better to just do what is needed,
Instead of overpowering.

Do what needs doing,
Without expecting glory.
Without boasting
Or excessive pride.

Do what needs doing,
This is the job at hand.
Never using violence.

Force and torture show a weak person in a hopeless position.
This is not the way of balance and life.
Anger and force will crumble what it purports to protect.

Walk. This is a remarkable word. It comes from the O.E. wealcan, to roll; whence we get wealcere, a fuller of cloth. In Percy's Reliques we read:--

She cursed the weaver and the walker,
The cloth that they had wrought.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963 p. 940.