This sentence comes from Laozi's Tao Te Ching. The original text is: "Those who oppose Tao are used by the weak. Everything in the world is born in existence and born in nothing. "
The cyclic movement and change is the movement of Tao, and the function of Tao is subtle and weak. Everything in the world comes from visible tangible quality, and tangible quality comes from invisible intangible quality.
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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.
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Baidu encyclopedia Tao Te Ching, the movement against Tao, the use of weak Tao.