Source "Lao Zi"
Author Laozi
Creation in the Spring and Autumn Period
original text
Those who have won in the past: the sky is high and the clouds are light, the ground is flat, the gods are full of grain, and the Hou Wang thinks that the world is right. Reason: it will crack if it is not sunny; If there is no peace in the territory, it will be frightening; 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; Marquis is too noble to be noble, and he will be afraid.
Therefore, your foundation is the foundation on the foundation, and your foundation is high. Therefore, the princes call themselves lonely. This is not based on meanness, is it? Don't! So, there are no cars. If you don't want to be like jade, you will be like stone.
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From the changing process of Tao, we can see that Tao gives birth to one, which is a relative whole of Yin and Yang. If yin and yang are balanced and integrated, it is a state of balance and stability. At this time, the change and development of the sky is clear, and the change and development of the earth is also stable. People's spirit can be balanced and quiet, and life is modest and practical.
So people's innate wisdom is revealed, and so is the change of the valley. It can also reflect the changes in the balance of yin and yang. Empty space can be full, and hollow space can be full. Governing the country by the monarch can make the people humble and solid, so the world is stable and stable.
If the change is extreme and there is an imbalance between yin and yang, the change of heaven and earth will be irregular. When heaven and earth change, there will be ups and downs, and contradictions will be fierce. It seems that it will be turned upside down, and so will the psychological imbalance. If you are obsessed with what you have, or with nothing, it will form a powerful trend and promote drastic changes. People will consume a lot of spirit, and the change of Sichuan and Valley will not be spared.
When its depression becomes higher, water will be lost, and everything is the same. Waiting for the king to govern the country without doing anything, but fame and fortune are popular, which naturally leads to social unrest and instability. Therefore, the high is based on the low, and the high must be based on the bottom. Where there is relative, there is foundation. If there are opposites, we must balance them and balance the two forces. This is one.
In governing the country, you humbly call yourself lonely, that is, based on humility, attach importance to the people and establish opposition. In order to achieve balance and get one, when people advocate cars, society will create many colorful cars with various colors. When cars are out of fashion, people will abandon them and give them no priority, so there will be fewer cars in society.
When people discover the beauty of jade, you will find that jade is so rare, so jade becomes a valuable thing, ordinary stones will be abandoned, and you will see countless stones, because jade has been dug away. These phenomena are all due to imbalance and paranoia, and they are unbalanced.
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1, content introduction
Tao Te Ching, also known as the True Classic of Morality, Five Thousand Words of Laozi, and Five Thousand Articles of Laozi, was a work of China before the separation of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times, and was highly praised by the philosophers at that time. This legend was written by Laozi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period and is an important source of Taoist philosophy.
Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original text is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to the Tao Te Ching in the first 37 chapters and the Tao Te Ching in the last 38 chapters, divided into 8 1 chapters? . The text takes "virtue" in the philosophical sense as the key link, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but most of them focus on politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" theory, which has profound meaning and is inclusive.
2. Value impact
Tao Te Ching covers philosophy, ethics, politics, military science and many other disciplines. And was revered by later generations as a treasure house of governing the country, managing the family, cultivating oneself and studying. It had a profound influence on China's philosophy, science, politics and religion, and embodied the world outlook and outlook on life of the ancient people in China.
The cultural thoughts of pre-Qin philosophers and China people were all influenced by Laozi, and were praised as the king of all classics by Chinese ancestors. The influence of Tao Te Ching is also various, including politics, culture, science, religion and so on. According to the incomplete statistics of the Yuan Dynasty, from the pre-Qin period to the Yuan Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 kinds of works that studied and annotated the old, among which there were no fewer than 1000 kinds of representative works, which showed the great influence of the Tao Te Ching. ?
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