Cui Qu, one of Laozi's disciples.
One day, Cui Qu asked Lao Dan, "If you don't govern the world, how can you make people do good?"
Lao Dan said, "It's very simple. You must be careful not to disturb people. Because when people are excluded and depressed, their mood will be depressed; When you are respected and valued, your mood will be high.
When a person's heart goes up and down, it will be haggard because of external forces.
Moreover, in the face of rejection, people often show a gentle and charming attitude, in order to let a person with strong inner feelings pity him. This kind of person's so-called loyalty has long since vanished, and his inner anxiety is like fire and his courage is like ice. The speed of this change is like reaching the four seas in an instant. So, don't disturb people's hearts.
People's minds are different from thoughts, and it is difficult to control them. When they are quiet, they are as silent as an abyss. Fly to the sky when you are excited, excited and proud. This is the heart!
Before the Yellow Emperor began to disturb people's hearts with benevolence and righteousness. Therefore, Yao Shun has skinny thighs and hairless calves, and worked hard all his life to feed the people all over the world. They pull a long face to preach righteousness, restrain emotional activities and establish statutes, but they still can't subdue the world.
Yao then exiled Gou Dou to Chongshan, Sanmiao to Sandong and Youdu, hoping to suppress them. This is a typical performance that cannot subdue the whole world.
Continued to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the world became more chaotic, with thieves such as Xia Jie, benevolent people such as Zeng Shen and Shi Qiu, and Mohism and Confucianism also rose.
As a result, happy people and angry people began to doubt each other, stupid people and smart people began to cheat each other, good people and evil people criticized each other, absurd people and honest people mocked each other, and the world declined from then on.
People's nature is different, and the innocence in life has disappeared. Everyone in the world likes to be smart, but people lose their natural nature by absorbing wisdom.
Therefore, the rulers punish the people with axe-like instruments of torture and hurt them with etiquette. The chaos in the world is rooted in disturbing people's hearts.
Therefore, the wise man lives in seclusion in the depths of the mountains, and when he becomes a king, he fears the court.
In today's world, people who are beheaded and shackled are one after another, while Confucianism and Mohism are eager to stop the chaos and talk about it between shackles.
Oh, that's too much. They are shameless to the extreme!
I still don't know whether sages are bars in chains, whether benevolence and righteousness are mortises and tenons in chains, and how can I know whether benevolent kings like Zeng Shen and Shi Qiu are predecessors of Xia Jie and stealing feet? "
Therefore, "only by giving up cleverness and cleverness can we rule the world!" "
Zhuangzi used Laozi's words to talk about the way of governing the country: rule the world without cleverness.
In Zhuangzi's view, we should not only attach wisdom and ingenuity, but also keep a pure heart for a long time.
In the story, Lao Tzu said to Cui Qu, "Stop stirring people's hearts. The most unconstrained thing in the world is the human heart. "
It can be seen that the human heart is the most unstable and easily angered, so health care should focus on nourishing the heart.
When people are calm, they will naturally feel comfortable, everything will be smooth, and finally achieve their goals.
If people are restless, they will be anxious, lose their rationality and make some illogical actions, which will eventually lead to failure.