Chien wu went to see chief yu. chief yu said, "what was chung shih telling you the other day? " chien wu said, "he told me that the ruler of men should devise his own principles, standards, ceremonies, and regulation, and then there will be no one who will fail to obey him and be transformed by them." chief yu said, "this is bogus virtue! to try to govern the world like this is like trying to walk the ocean, to drill through a river, or to make a mosquito shoulder a mountain!