The so-called inaction does not mean doing nothing, but actually means not doing things that change the natural form of foreign objects.
The so-called "Tao is natural" is natural, and inaction is the right way. If you do something and force something to change, you will get the opposite effect.
Of course, this theory can only be used in the ideal social world. The world today has long been riddled with "action". Take environmental protection as an example: if human beings want to survive, they must return the earth to green according to the principles of Taoism and nature; If you want to make the earth green, you can only do something. We can no longer do nothing like in ancient times.
"Sick Plum Restaurant" and "Camel Planting Biography" are both Confucian works, but both of them vaguely have this Taoist thought of "governing by doing nothing".
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Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Laozi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as the moral truth, with five thousand words and five thousand articles by Laozi. It is a work of China before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times.
It 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 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. ?