Tao Te Ching originated from Laozi and is a summary of the ideological connotation of Tao Te Ching by Taoist scholars. ? Simplicity means that the truth (basic principles, methods and laws) is extremely simple, as simple as one or two sentences.

Tao is an important concept in China's philosophy, which means "ultimate truth". This concept is not only valued by hundreds of philosophical schools, but also used by Taoist schools of religion. ?

The road to simplicity means "few but fine", while the opposite is extensive and profound, meaning "many and wide". They are a pair of contradictions and two sides of an organic whole.

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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. It has a profound influence on traditional philosophy, science, politics and religion.

Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts, which is an important source of Taoist philosophy. The first part of the original Virtue Classic and the second part of the original Taoist Classic were changed to the Taoist Classic in the first 37 chapters and the last 38 chapters, with a total of 8 1 chapter.

"Taoism is natural" is the essence of Laozi's thought in Tao Te Ching. As the most abstract concept category in Tao Te Ching, "Tao" is the source of power to create everything in the world. "Virtue" is the development and expression of "Tao" in the field of ethics. "Tao" and "law" have similarities in rules and common sense, but they are different from western natural law. "Law" should imitate the way of nature and play its role in the reverse transformation of syndrome differentiation.

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