After today's lecture, I went back to my poem and tried to find some similarities with the values we learned in class. The more obvious one was that the Daoism likes to embrace opposites which is Something I had already figured out last night. I was able to understand the last part of my chapter which is explaining that leaders shouldn't rule with too much power because desiring power isn't a virtue of the Daodejing. It also says that when a leader leads well, no harm is done. It says: “ And so the greatest carving cuts nothing off ”.