The serious alienation brought by material civilization directly threatens the survival and development of mankind. Vigorously promote naturalism: advocate returning to nature, not being divorced from nature, and living in harmony with nature.
To this end, Lao Tzu put forward the idea of human law and nature. All people's thoughts and actions are in harmony with nature, and they can't go against nature, let alone destroy the harmony of nature. Maintain and carry forward people's primitive and simple natural nature: advocate returning to simplicity, honesty and simplicity, and oppose glitz and frivolity. Flashy and frivolous manners are the chief culprit of world chaos.
Therefore, people should be "simple, less selfish and less desire" and realize that greed and more selfishness are the root of evil. Governing by doing nothing: the rulers in the world should govern by doing nothing. "Doing nothing" means "conforming to nature". "Sages have no intention, but take the people's hearts as their hearts." When the saints rule the world, they should conform to the people's hearts, not interfere with the people, and let the people get the natural development they deserve. Pursue spiritual peace and freedom. This is particularly prominent in Zhuangzi's thought.
Taoist thought can guide us to adjust the relationship between man and nature in modern society and keep it harmonious. Due to the high development of industry and the rapid development of science and technology in modern society, people have mastered the powerful force of conquering nature and gained great wealth. On the other hand, it has brought great damage to nature, disturbed the harmony of nature, destroyed the ecological balance, brought great disasters to mankind, and mankind is destroying itself.
How to protect the ecological balance and the harmony of nature has become an important topic in the world today. This requires us to adjust the relationship between man and nature in modern society.
Taoism can guide modern people to realize self-psychological adjustment and promote the healthy development of modern people's psychology.
The mental health of modern people is an important topic in the construction of modern civilization. In modern industrial society, the rapid update of new technologies and the surge of information, fast pace, high speed, environmental pollution, intensified competition, bankruptcy and unemployment ... make people in a state of high mental tension and fatigue all day, which will destroy a person's psychological balance and cause psychological obstacles, thus generally causing modern industrial diseases in society, such as mental illness, mental disorder, heart disease, hypertension and so on.
These thoughts can be used to connect with people's psychological cultivation, such as the theory of subjectivity and tranquility and the theory of detachment put forward by Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi. Through these efforts of psychological cultivation, people can adjust their psychology and maintain psychological balance, so that people will not lose their psychological balance and lead to psychological and physical diseases when facing psychological conflicts caused by various complex social contradictions.
It can be seen that Taoist psychological cultivation theory will play an important guiding role in realizing self-psychological tuning and promoting mental health of modern people.