Since it's health preservation, I'll let you know what's going on with your body first. There is a chapter in the middle, and he gives such an example:
Spring has sprouted and the grass is soft. Look at that child, just born. Is he soft? But he saw the leaves wither in autumn. When they are dry, are they soft or hard? That man left this world. Is his body soft or hard? So I used this natural phenomenon to tell you from the beginning that when something is soft and looks weak, it is full of vitality. When it becomes very tough and hard, it is like a person leaving this world, and his body slowly becomes cold and hard.
Plants are like this, and so are animals. This is a metaphor that he (Lao Tzu) uses the visible world to describe the invisible world, so he said that if a person wants to live forever, he must learn to be weak. This weakness is like whether you want to press your stomach (root therapy) here in the health center. You feel your stomach. If there is a lump, it means that you are also in a sub-health state. Look at the baby's stomach, it's very soft, not only the stomach, but also all parts of the meridians, especially our lady's breasts. If there is a lump in it, we call it hyperplasia, which will cause physical diseases after a long time.
Let's see how Lao Tzu talks about "softness". He gave three examples:
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Qu zequan
Many people say "the music is complete", but I am straight. Everybody try to have a look. Oh, if I go straight to the end. I can only take care of this row of people, only 10, so can others take care of it? If you can't take care of it, it's "incomplete", but you can see that I can bend over (the teacher walks around in rows) and everyone next to me is taken care of. So you see, you can't take care of everything without using the "bending" method. At this time, everyone found this softness. No problem with that? It's not that I have no opinion, but that I know what to do, and I have to take care of everything. This song is not a grievance. Your "Song" has become a grievance in his heart, and he is very uncomfortable. This "happiness" means taking care of everyone, and this is "happiness". So you see a smart person, he is not without personality, but he can consider all aspects when dealing with things.
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The waste is straight.
The second is that the same is true of "abolishing righteousness". If I walk here today, I will walk over (the teacher walks to the table), and I will be stopped when I walk here. "No, I have to push." You will find that I may have great strength to push this table forward, but I walk slowly. Then the second characteristic of weakness, "waste is straight", "waste" is turning (bending), the purpose of turning, have I deviated from the direction? I like driving, but I still have to go. The purpose of turning is to "go straight" and go straight there, so this is also the wisdom of being a man. Indeed, you said it was blocked here. I'm going to cut it down and cut the road. You have walked a lot (and spent a lot of time), so you might as well take a turn. This is called "correcting mistakes".
What do you find in "softness"? There is wisdom in it. Doesn't mean I'm wronged and weak by you. This weakness is the wisdom and strength. Just like grass sprouting, can you break all the stones? This softness is powerful, that is, family members encounter some pressures and challenges not only in life, but also in personal affairs. We ask you to be "soft" and solve problems with wisdom, not cowardice, weakness and evasion. That was not the case. That makes you "waste" and "bend" at the same time, not to make you lose your point of view, but to better adhere to your point of view and achieve your goal. At this time, it extends from the body to doing things.
03
Waze is redundant.
Many people ask what "depression" is. A "depression" is a pit. "Excess" means to be filled with water. You've heard many similar metaphors. For example, we meet too many people and say, "Milo, I have some questions for you." As soon as I sat down, I said, "OK, please sit down and I'll make you tea." . He began to say that he hadn't finished it for about an hour. I said, "Okay?" He said, "I'm not finished yet." I said, "It's almost time. Let's have another cup of tea." He said "Never mind" and left. In fact, during this hour, he didn't listen to others at all, but talked by himself (for an hour). Are there many such people? So he didn't have a hole, he didn't prepare himself into a bag, he was full, and he couldn't get what he wanted to hear at all.
So the third one is what we taught you over and over again. Stick to it. Weak, you see, this cup can only hold this shape, it is hard, but a cloth bag can be changed into various shapes. If a cloth bag makes it thinner and thinner, small cloth bags and balloons, so small, change from such a (semi-inflated) state to such a big state (full of air), thinner and weaker, but their carrying capacity is greater.
Therefore, there are different realms of weakness. When the music is complete, we can take care of it more, accept it more and be more tolerant. And when you know "waste straight", you find that you can achieve your goal effortlessly.
Because you avoid everything that needs to be avoided, not eliminated. You don't have to take the time to eliminate it. We meet too many people who say, what's my mother's personality and my husband's temper? No matter how bad your husband is, does he sometimes treat some people well? Then all you have to do is let him face you in a good way. You don't need to change him. Changing your state will make him face you on the other side. You didn't change him, but you changed yourself. He takes another face to you, and takes a good face to you.
When someone makes fun of him, he still gets angry. That's because he is responding to each other, but not to you. Therefore, this weakness has wisdom in it and strength in it, which can be sustained. Because you are weak, you don't need to work hard, so you only need 2 components to do 50 kilograms of force (weight), so you don't need to work hard. It's also good to come back to life, but what about strong? It is to prove (yourself). Life is weak, and death is strong. In other words, a person is strong, blocked, pushed hard, unable to move, and spends a lot of effort to cut things. You haven't walked fast. So what do you want me to do? I ran there, and you didn't run (develop) as fast as Qu Ziquan. (To be continued)