Laozi said in Tao Te Ching: "Virtue is thicker than purity. Poisonous insects don't bite, and wild animals don't bite. "
Laozi
This sentence means that a person with profound morality is like a baby. Poisonous insects won't sting him, wild animals won't hurt him, and no one will hurt him.
Laozi thought: "The way to keep in good health is to be calm and clear-headed. God's peace lies in clearing the dirt from his heart. One of the scales in my heart is material desire and the other is curiosity. "
The general idea of this passage of Laozi is: Only quietness can preserve health. If you want to be completely clean, you must have no desire or desire, and do not pursue material interests or knowledge.
Have the desire to pursue material interests and knowledge, success will bring happiness to yourself, and failure will bring anxiety and frustration to yourself. And the higher the goal, the more energy you spend. In the process of pursuit, suffering is often greater than pleasure, which is not conducive to health.
Tao Te Ching
But for the average person, as long as there is something you don't understand, you will naturally want to study it. Therefore, if you want to achieve your desire not to pursue knowledge, you must study and understand all the truths in the world before you can stop thinking and studying.
In other words, only those great wise men who have studied and understood all the principles of life can stop studying knowledge.
When people thoroughly study and understand how to do business, they no longer want to do business and pursue fame and fortune. At this time, I reached the "inaction" that Laozi said, that is, I no longer have anything to do.
Reaching the highest state of health preservation means that there is no desire to pursue knowledge and learning in the heart and no desire to pursue fame and fortune outside, which is also the perfect state of life.
At this time, people's state is similar to that of babies, and at this time, they have reached what Laozi called "returning to babies" in the Tao Te Ching.
baby
Baby has no pursuit of fame and knowledge, so everyone likes it. Poisonous insects and beasts will not hurt it, and no one wants to hurt it.
Nobody wants to hurt the baby because he doesn't want to hurt others. The great wisdom of no longer pursuing fame and gain has reached the innocence of a baby, so it will not be hurt by poisonous insects and beasts.