This passage fully embodies Laozi's philosophical thought of "weakness conquers strength". Learn to keep a low profile, lower your self-standards appropriately, and don't compete with others in everything. In the big environment we live in now, people who are indisputable are more likely to be praised and recognized by others. An indisputable person will not get cold feet, but use a more ingenious way to solve disputes and let things develop in a direction that is beneficial to him.
The predecessor of this sentence is an article in Laozi, Jiang Hai can be the king of hundreds of valleys. The whole sentence is: "I don't see myself, so I know;" Self-evident, so obvious; Do not cut yourself, have merit; Not complacent; So long; The husband does not dispute, and the world cannot compete with it. " It means: don't show yourself, don't be self-righteous, it will be more brilliant; Do not praise yourself, so you have achievements; Don't think you are talented, so you are respected; Only those who don't argue with others, no one in the world can argue with him.
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. 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 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.
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Baidu encyclopedia, Tao Te Ching