VOLUME VI, CHAPTER 5, SECTION 11

VOLUME VI, CHAPTER 5, SECTION 11

In the Saving There Is an Iron Line, Barred for Life, and Choosing Officials Rests Not on Testing the Letter but on That Heart

The last section made clear that to save him is to swap him down off that position of harming people lawfully, send him back to be reforged, to read the intent, to become a person anew. But that breath of yours has a last half left un-eased, swapped down, reforged, the intent patched in, then the people he lawfully harmed to death, lawfully hounded to death in the past, is it simply let go? The intent patched in, can he come back and go on sitting in that courtroom, that legislature, that law firm, behind that window? This section first sets up an iron, that the corrupt, those who harmed, and those who took the benefit, have that door of holding the law shut on them, forever. Then it tells what, going forward, choosing officials rests on, not on testing the letter, but on that heart, hold a license, be reviewed yearly, be reforged.

One. In the Saving There Is an Iron, Hard and Unbending

Let me set up an iron, hard, with not half a room for bargaining. The corrupt, those who harmed, and even those who took the benefit, have that door of holding the law shut on them, forever. Barred for life. Let me break down for you where the iron in this iron is.

First tell two things apart, saving him, the person, and whether or not to let him hold the law again, are two things. Saving him, the person, pulling him out of that lock that draws him to read the letter and harm people lawfully, sending him back to read the intent, to patch his character, letting him become anew a clean person who truly understands the law and has that heart, live on well, this, may be done. This is benevolence, the root of this book, use the pen and not the knife, not bringing him down, not grinding him to death, giving him a road to become a person anew. But whether or not to let him go back to that position of holding the law, be a judge again, be a lawyer again, be a lawmaker again, sit behind the window of law enforcement again, that is another thing. This thing, one word, no. Forever no.

Two. In the Benevolence There Is an Iron

Save you, the person, benevolence, may be done, read the intent, become a person anew, live on well. Let you hold the law again, that door, no, shut forever, barred for life. Benevolence, given in full. But that door of holding the law, welded shut. This is called, in the benevolence there is an iron.

Why must this door be welded shut? Think, if it were not welded shut, what then. A judge lawfully drives a person to a broken home and a dead family, is swapped down, goes back and patches the intent for a few days, and then is put back to go on being a judge. A lawyer drills through loopholes a whole life, lawfully runs over countless ordinary people, is swapped down, goes back and patches the intent for a few days, and then is put back to go on defending whoever pays. A lawmaker sets exorbitant taxes and levies a whole life, lawfully robs countless families, is swapped down, goes back and patches the intent for a few days, and then is put back to go on making laws. Then this reforging becomes a going-through-the-motions. Everyone sees clearly, harmed people lawfully? No matter, at most go back and patch a bit, and you can come back. Then who is afraid? That barrier of harm-people-lawfully-and-you-have-to-leave-the-position-of-holding-the-law-for-good is gone, and everyone dares harm people lawfully by the letter, for at worst, harm people lawfully and you go through a reforging and are back on post. This whole book's strength of saving people and undoing the lock, at this one step of putting him back to hold the law, all leaks away.

Three. This Door Has to Be Welded Shut

So this door has to be welded shut. The one who harmed people lawfully, reforged, reading the intent, becoming a person, living on well, all may be done, but that door of holding the law, on him, is shut forever. He may become anew a clean person who truly understands the law, but he may not become anew a person holding the law.

Think it over and you see the sense of it. A line of defense, if it leaves a back door, is as good as no line of defense. You say harm people lawfully and you have to be reforged, but reforged and you can be restored to office, and the one who harms people reckons it, this is a good bargain, when I harmed people lawfully I got an enormous benefit and sat firm in my position, and if I am swapped down, it is no more than a reforging gone through as a motion, and I can come back and go on harming. Reckoning it this way, who is afraid? So this door, not a crack may be left, it has to be welded dead tight. Harmed people lawfully, and to go be reforged and become a person is fine, but that door of holding the law, this life, do not think of entering it again. Only by welding this door shut does that reckoning of a good bargain not sound, does that line holding people back from harming people lawfully truly stand. Set this iron, and that stroke of luck of harm-people-lawfully-and-at-worst-reforged-and-back-on-post is cut off.

Four. Even the Ones Who Took the Benefit May Not Hold the Law Again

And this iron has to be one layer harder still, even the ones who took the benefit may not hold the law again. Not only the judge who with his own hands harmed people lawfully by the letter, the lawyer who with his own hands drilled through loopholes, the lawmaker who with his own hands set exorbitant taxes and levies, the low-level official who with his own hands grabbed money, but even those who, out of their harming people lawfully, took the benefit, got the good, shared that cup of soup, the same, that door of holding the law is shut on them.

For instance, the junior judge who tagged along with the judge who harmed people by the letter, and rose by standing in the right line. The assistant who knew full well the lawyer was drilling through loopholes to run people over lawfully, and still went along with this lawyer on his cases and shared his fees. The subordinate who knew full well the lawmaker was setting laws of exorbitant taxes and levies, and still went along passing the documents, walking the procedures, keeping this chain of lawmaking turning. The fellow at the window who saw plainly the low-level official using broken code to grab money by criminal means, and still went along signing and stamping and sharing the bounty, the same. That door of holding the law is shut on them.

Five. Who Told You Not to Wake Up

You will ask, the one who took the benefit did not, with his own hands, harm people by the letter, on what grounds may even he not hold the law again? One line, who told you not to wake up? When you took his benefit, tagged along with him, shared that cup of soup, in your heart, did you not know it came from harming people lawfully, was unclean? You were not unknowing. You held the knowing and played the fool, you kept one eye open and one eye shut, and went along and shared in that light.

At the time, you could have woken up, could have pulled back, could have said this case I will not take, this law I will not sign, this procedure I will not walk, this is not clean, but you did not. For that bit of benefit, for that position, so as not to offend those above, you chose not to wake up, to go along and share the light. Then no one else is to be blamed. Since you shared in that light of harming people lawfully, you have to bear the consequence of not waking up, and that door of holding the law is shut on you too. This is not wronging you, this is you yourself, at the time, for that bit of benefit, that position, choosing not to wake up.

Six. This Iron Does Not Bring People Down, and Absolutely Does Not Muddy the Water

You see how this iron is set, how hard, and how clean. It does not bring people down, the corrupt and those who harmed, the benefit-takers, may all be reforged, become people anew, live on well, this is benevolence. And it absolutely does not muddy the water, the corrupt and those who harmed, the benefit-takers, the door of holding the law is shut on them forever, this is iron. Benevolence lets this book keep the root of use the pen and not the knife. Iron lets this book's saving never slide into holding a hand high, into indulgence and cover, into letting him go on harming in his position. Saving you, the person, is benevolence. Not letting you hold the law again is iron. The two put together, and this saving stands, it has neither ground a person to death nor let the lawful harming of the people off in the least. It saves the person out, and it also cuts off, at the root, that chain of lawfully harming the people thousands of years long.

That breath in your heart, now, should be eased to the bottom. So it turns out saving him is not letting him off. Saving him, the person, reading the intent, becoming a person anew, is benevolence. But what he lawfully harmed, what he shared the light of in the past, has its consequence to bear, and that door of holding the law is shut on him forever, barred for life, and the benefit-takers the same. Those judges who sat in courtrooms and drove people by the letter to broken homes and dead families, the lawmakers who set exorbitant taxes and levies, the lawyers who drilled through loopholes to get the strong side off, the low-level officials who used broken code to grab money by criminal means, the subordinates who tagged along with them and shared the spoils, by this, one by one, are swapped down off those positions, reforged and becoming people is fine, but this life, do not think of holding that law again.

Seven. Choosing Officials Rests Not on Testing the Letter, Testing the Letter Picks Exactly the Illiterate in the Law

Then invite all these, the corrupt, those who harmed, the benefit-takers, out of the door of holding the law, and going forward, what kind of person is chosen to hold this law? Let me first break one saying, the most widely spread, and the one that sounds most reasonable. To choose judges, choose lawmakers, choose lawyers, choose law-enforcement officials, test them on the clauses, on the letter, on whether they know the procedures well, on whether they can win cases. The finer they test, the better they recite, the more they win, the better the candidate. This set is called testing the letter, and nearly all the examinations, selections, and promotions of the legal world in this world rest on this set.

Let me tell you, testing the letter cannot choose people who truly understand the law. Why? Look back, the illiterate in the law read law a whole life, passed the hardest law examinations, recite the most clauses, sit in the highest seats, do they understand the law? They do not. In their eyes there is only the letter, not the living person underneath. The more versed he is in the letter, the more practiced in procedure, the more familiar with the loopholes, the more cleanly he has forgotten the intent of the law. What testing the letter tests out is exactly not people who truly understand the law, it is the illiterate in the law. This set of testing the letter, the more it is used, the more it chooses the illiterate in the law; the more it is used, the more it crowds out the ones who truly understand the intent, who have in their hearts that heart of protecting people. They will not drill through loopholes, will not win the cases for the powerful side, will not be so practiced as to be versed in every line of the letter, and so they fail the tests, cannot rise, are left out in the cold. So this set not only cannot choose people who truly understand the law, it turns things around, and picks exactly the illiterate in the law, crowds out exactly the ones who truly understand the law.

Eight. Resting on That Heart, Hold a License, Be Reviewed Yearly, Be Reforged

Then what does choosing rest on? It rests on that heart. On that person having, in his heart, that heart of I hold this law to protect a living person. Whether a person understands the law rests, at the root, not on how many clauses he has recited, how high he scored, but on whether that heart of protecting people in him is still there. This heart there, and when he reads the letter it is to see, through the letter, the living person underneath. This heart gone, and however many clauses he reads, in his eyes there are only the words, and he cannot see the person. That heart, where from? Not born with it, and not got by testing, it is raised, by character education, that whole set from the second chapter, raised. So the root of choosing officials comes back again to the root of this book all along, character.

But guarding one gate only at the choosing, is it enough? It is not. The human heart can change. A person, chosen in, his heart is hot, is true. But sitting into that position, bound and ground day after day by that lock, will that heart of his slowly go cold, slowly be ground away? It will. So there has to be a set of ways to keep that heart, all along, watched, raised, not let go cold. Let me set this set of ways into three things, used together, locked fast to that line of hold a license, be reviewed yearly, be reforged, that runs all along the whole book. The first, hold a license. To hold this most important power of protecting the law for the people, you have to have a license first, and this license acknowledges not only how much of the letter he knows, but more, that heart of protecting people in him. The second, yearly review. This license is not valid a lifetime once got, it has to be reviewed yearly, a look at the cases he handled, the laws he set this year, whether that heart of protecting people is still there, still hot. Reviewed and that heart found gone cold, slid back to the letter, and this license has to be stopped. The third, going back to be reforged in character. In the yearly review, if that heart is seen to have gone a bit cold, there is no need to wait until he truly harms people lawfully, ask him back to that courtyard, to be reforged, to have that heart patched anew, warmed anew, wiped bright anew, just as an implement, used long, grows dull, and has to go back regularly to be ground. Hold a license, be reviewed yearly, be reforged, these three used together, and that heart is all along watched, raised, not let go cold to the point of harming people lawfully. This is exactly that line of the whole book, the student ID changed yearly, the license of each trade renewed yearly, the real person using AI holding a license and bearing the responsibility, the civil servant holding a license, reviewed yearly, reforged, come down onto the one who holds the law, and the most important power, all the more, cannot escape this line. But you have one last solid worry left, invite the corrupt, those who harmed, the benefit-takers, all out, and those positions, who fills them? The next section tells you, there are plenty of good people, lined up, waiting to step in.

Credit to the ancestors; the mistakes are mine: Tiger Lyon.

Twelve. There Are Plenty of Good People to Step In, and the Law Is Not Piled High