Answer:
b. empties their minds
Explanation:
From the passage, the Sage/leader's only way to achieve harmony is by keeping the masses ignorant hence feeding them full and making sure that there are no ambitions since there is no knowledge.
Therefore, according to Laozi, Dao De Jing the masses can only stay in harmony if there is no contention( as a result of knowledge) in the aim to acquire value. For example if the people do not know that gold is valuable and worth a lot of money, there will be no contention to get gold or theft of gold.
They are recorded for people to follow them and passed on for the same reason but also to maintain the country safe
The answer to this question is <span>Precontemplation
</span><span>Precontemplation refers to someone who believe that they do not need to change their current behavior for the forseeable future.
</span>This phenomenon usually caused by that person still hasn't subjectively felt the negatiive effect of the behavior which do not give them enough motivation to change it.