If you're unable to decide an issue,
There is no ground to worry about--
You can't find the way out anyway.
But if you can, all the more so, man.

He who feels himself constrained
To engage in the issue of the day
Will find it as his best way
Of doing-no-ado for that.

As a saying fairly runs,
'Action relies on inaction
Which envelops all actions.'

In that policy of doing-no-ado
One can rest in the instincts
Of the nature with which
He is endowed greatly.

He who tries to win the world,
Honouring it as he honours
His own good self, may have
That ruling committed to him.

He who rules the nation, loving it
As he loves his own children,
May have it entrusted to him
Unconditionally and in any issue.