Governing a great state is like cooking small
fish.
Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes of the departed will not manifest their spiritual
energy. It is not that those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it will not be employed to hurt men. It is not
that it could not hurt men, but neither does the ruling sage hurt them.
When these two do not injuriously affect
each other, their good influences converge in the virtue (of the Tao).