Maintaining order

Maintaining properties of evenness, regularity, or discipline of elements or of their relationships.

1. Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one already feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun.

1. Maintaining

1. Maintaining social order
2. Cultivating the sacred balance

1. Restoring order

1. Order
2. Disorder