You said it was a legend about an old man with a philosophy. This is western egoistic focus of the individual. In the east, it's the collective. No Chinaman wrote the Tao Te Ching the way Shakespeare wrote Twelve Nights. Chinese thought is the product of the culture and not the egoistic deliberations of indiviuals.
When you can’t respond to the point, pretend you know Chinese. Classic Sree move there.
And what point is that? I do understand and speak colloquial Chinese. But a stanza of classical Chinese is something else. Look at this stanza from Gia Fu Feng:
The wise therefore rule by emptying hearts and stuffing bellies, by weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Your version says "emptying people's minds and filling their cores, weakening ambitions and strengthening resolve" because "stuffing bellies and strengthening bones" make no sense to the white man. And yet, our Department of State would strut beyond our shores imposing liberal values on all and sundry to protect human rights.