From: Chapter 39 of Tao Te Ching
Original: Get one in the past, and it will clear up; Land is better than land; God got a soul; The valley is beneficial, and everything has spirit; Waiting for Wang Deyi to think that the sky is just right.
The reason for this is that it will crack if it is not sunny; If there is no peace in the land, it will be abolished; God has no spirit and will be afraid of rest; If the valley is not surplus, it will be exhausted; Everything is lifeless and will be destroyed; When Wang Zheng is straight, it will make him afraid. So, your base is the base on the base, and the base is under the height.
Therefore, Hou Wang claimed to be lonely and indifferent. Isn't this based on despicable evil? No? So, no reputation. So, I don't want to be like jade, like stone.
Interpretation: once upon a time, there was an aisle: the sky was high and the clouds were light; Get the word and be quiet; God (man) gets the word and is heroic; The valley is full of Tao; Everything grows by the word; Hou Wang got the news and became a world leader.
In other words, the weather is not clear, afraid of cracking; There is no peace in the land, and there is fear of collapse; People can't keep spirituality and are afraid of extinction; The valley can't keep running water, I'm afraid it will dry up; Everything can't grow all the time, I'm afraid it will be destroyed; Marquis can't maintain his position as a world leader and is afraid of being overthrown.
Therefore, nobility is based on meanness, and the following is the basis. Therefore, the governors call themselves "lonely", "widowed" and "not valley". Isn't this based on meanness? Isn't it? Therefore, the highest honor needs no praise. I don't want it to be as crystal clear as Baoyu, but I'd rather be as hard as a stone.
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Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts. The Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts, the first part is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, regardless of chapters.
The text of Tao Te Ching takes "morality" in the philosophical sense as the main line, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but most of them aim at politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" theory, which has profound meaning and wide tolerance and is known as the king of all classics.
Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest works in the history of China, which has a profound influence on traditional philosophy, science, politics and religion. According to the statistics of UNESCO, the Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated and published cultural masterpiece except the Bible.