Tao Te Ching, the fourth chapter of the original text
Author Laozi's Spring and Autumn Period
Daochong, but it works.
Deep, like the ancestor of all things.
Defeat its spirit, solve its disputes, and its light, with its dust.
Zhan, like still existing, whose son I don't know, like the former emperor.
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The avenue is empty and invisible, but it has endless functions. Far-reaching influence! It's like the ancestor of all things. Kill its sharpness, remove its disturbance, harmonize its light and confuse its dirt. Disappear, it seems to exist. I don't know whose descendant it is, but it seems to be the ancestor of the Emperor of Heaven.
2. Introduction to the author of Tao Te Ching
Lao Zi, surnamed Li Minger, is called Bo Yang. Huaxia nationality, a native of Qurenli, Li Xiang, an ancient county of Chu, was a great philosopher and thinker in the Spring and Autumn Period and the founder of the Taoist school. Laozi is a world cultural celebrity, one of the world's 100 historical celebrities, and has the classic Tao Te Ching. The essence of his works is simple dialectics, and his theory has a far-reaching impact on the development of China's philosophy. In Taoism, Laozi is regarded as the ancestor of Taoism. Laozi and Zhuangzi of later generations are also called Zhuang zi.
3. Introduction to Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts. 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 Wanjing.
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 a cultural masterpiece that has been translated into foreign languages and published in large quantities besides the Bible.
4. Translation and understanding of famous sentences in Tao Te Ching
1. If you want to get rid of it, you must solve it. If you want to be weak, you must be strong. If it is to be abolished, it must be revitalized. If you want to take it away, you must fix it.
-Source: Chapter 36 of Tao Te Ching
Translation explanation: to make it shrink, it must be opened first; To weaken it, we must first strengthen it; If we want to abolish him, let him make a fortune first. If you want to take him, give it to him first.
I realized that Laozi expounded his dialectical thought through the analysis of four contradictory movements. He attributed this principle to "the weak wins the strong" and thought that fighting and governing the country could not be separated from this principle.
2. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. The winner is strong, and the winner is strong. Those who are satisfied are rich, and those who are forced are ambitious.
-Source: Chapter 33 of Tao Te Ching
Interpretation: Being able to understand others is called wit, and being able to know yourself is called cleverness. Being able to defeat others only shows strength, and defeating yourself is strength. Those who know contentment (always feel) that they have money, and those who do things (only show) that they have lofty aspirations.
I feel that this is Laozi's theory of spiritual cultivation. It is the most important thing to know yourself, reflect on yourself and overcome yourself. "Know yourself and know yourself, and fight every battle" is a famous saying throughout the ages.
3, generous and naive, late bloomer, loud voice, elephant invisible.
-Source: Chapter 41 of Tao Te Ching
Interpretation: the most square thing can't see its edges and corners. The more expensive the equipment, the slower it is, the inaudible sound and the seamless image.
Understanding this sentence is intended to explain why the existence of Tao is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Because the avenue is infinite, it is difficult for ordinary people's senses to observe, so it is "invisible, like everything."
4. The world is the softest, and galloping is the strongest in the world.
-Source: Chapter 43 of Tao Te Ching
The softest thing in the world can also pass the hardest thing in the world.
Feeling that "weakness is stronger than strength" is Lao Zi's feeling of nature, which profoundly reminds the essence of "Tao".
5, love will pay a lot, hide too much and die. Content is not shameful, content is not dangerous, and it can last for a long time.
-Source: Chapter 44 of Tao Te Ching
Paying too much attention to fame will bring great harm, and too much property accumulation will bring misfortune to yourself. A contented person will not be humiliated. If he knows enough is enough, he will not bring danger to himself, and he will be safe for a long time.
I feel that ordinary people are more intellectual and arrogant, greedy for fame and fortune, and are at stake. "Contentment" and "Zhi Zhi" should be a principle that people pursue in their lives.
5. Translation and understanding of famous sentences in Tao Te Ching
1, the diagram is more difficult than easy because it is more detailed.
-Source: Chapter 63 of Tao Te Ching
Interpretation: To deal with difficult things, we should start from easy places and do great things from subtle places.
I feel that only from easy to difficult, many a mickle makes a mickle can achieve great things.
2, the world is difficult, there must be easy; Great things in the world must be done in the details.
-Source: Chapter 63 of Tao Te Ching
Interpretation: The difficult things in the world are bound to happen easily, and the great things in the world are bound to start from the subtleties.
It is impossible to realize that there are great things in the world, and to focus on the overall situation and start from small things. People who are always promising have never achieved great things, but they have achieved great things. If you don't do small things, you can't do big things!
3, if you don't do it, you will not be chaotic.
-Source: Chapter 64 of Tao Te Ching
Take precautions before they happen.
I realized that Laozi put forward the viewpoint of the change and development of things. Things are in the process of quantitative change, but before qualitative change, some things are still in the bud, so we should solve them as soon as possible.
4, holding the wood, born at the end; Nine-story platform, starting with tired soil; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
-Source: Chapter 64 of Tao Te Ching
Interpretation: The hugging tree starts from germination, and the nine-story platform is piled up with baskets of soil; Wan Li Road is also coming out from the foot step by step.
Perception reveals the profound truth of quantitative change and qualitative change Proceed from reality, every little makes a mickle, and you can achieve great things.
5. Be cautious to the end and not fail.
-Source: Chapter 64 of Tao Te Ching
If you take the last job as seriously as you did at the beginning, nothing is unsuccessful.
I think persistence is the key to doing things. He who laughs last laughs.