Chapter Seventy-Five, Original Text:
If you dare to dare, you will kill, and if you dare not, you will live. Whether these two are beneficial or harmful, and the evil of heaven is known, which is the reason? The way of heaven is to win without fighting, to respond well without words, to come from the call of the Buddha, to be frank and good at planning. Skynet is restored, neglected but not lost.
Translation:
Dare to dare to die, courage to dare to live. Both attitudes are either beneficial or harmful. Why does Heaven hate to dare, like to dare not dare, who can know its sake? The natural way of heaven and earth can achieve victory without fighting, respond in time without words, come from without calling, and be open-minded and good at planning. The tianluo network is infinitely wide, and the longitude and latitude are sparse but there is no leakage.
explanation:
Lao Tzu continues from the previous chapter to discuss the causal relationship between the Way of Heaven and the Way of Man. And I hope that people will understand and discover life enlightenment that has great value from these causal relationships, so as to guide their own practice.
From the analysis of the contents of the previous two chapters, it is people who do not know that they know the problem; the people are not afraid of prestige, it is a problem of people's minds; and this chapter talks about courage and courage, but it is a problem of people's disposition. But all of this boils down to the question of self-grasping and greed. From understanding, to the mind, to the cultivation of temperament and habits, Lao Tzu has completely reproduced the most fundamental human defects of self-awareness and greed, causing people's endless nameless troubles, wandering life and death, and the causes and processes. At every stage of this process, as long as self-grasping and greed are dominant, without exception, it will bring about confusion and troubles, and the evil consequences of life. But in the various stages of this process, the sooner it is easier to weaken and eliminate self-grasping and greed, the lighter the damage to confusion and evil results, the later it is to weaken and eliminate self-grasping and greed, and the heavier the damage to ignorance and evil results. In the early stage, as long as you change your concept and understanding and change your mentality, you can reconstruct the consequences and avoid the consequences. In the later stage, it will be difficult to change the disposition and habits of beginninglessness, and it will be difficult to bear the damage caused by ignorance and troubles, and it will be "great power is coming."
"If you dare to dare, you will kill, and if you dare not, you will live." Courage is courage, dare is courage. Bravery is a restless heart that strengthens the courage, and it is a manifestation of being strong and old. Lao Tzu said, "If things are strong, they are old, but they are not Tao, and they are not Already." Chapter Seventy-Eight, "Man is born weak, and his death is strong." The birth of all things, grass and trees is also soft and brittle, and its death is also withered. Therefore, the strong one dies, and the weak one also dies." Lao Tzu deduced from the stage of all things from birth to death, from weakness to strength, that things are strong and old, which is a universal truth that is not Tao, not Tao. From this natural way of heaven and earth, we have realized the way of people who dare to die and those who dare not dare to live. Therefore, the courage to dare to die is the stage when things go to death, close to the end, and do not go to the stage; the courage to dare to live is the stage where things are full of vitality and tend to develop and grow. Only this stage is in keeping with the spirit of the Tao.
Whether these two are beneficial or harmful, and the evil of heaven is known, which is the reason? "If you dare to dare, you will die, and if you dare not dare, you will live." One of these two results is favorable, the other is harmful, and no one can know why it is for. Lao Tzu's same questioning appears in chapter 24. "Say it naturally. Therefore, the wind does not end, the rain does not last forever, why is this? What Lao Tzu means is that these natural phenomena, people only see the results, but they can't ask what the causes are. As the fourteenth chapter says, "See what is not known, hear what is not known, and fight without being known." These three cannot be cross-examined, so they are mixed into one. "There is neither end nor point in further questioning. After this passage, the passage adds the phrase "it is difficult for a saint to be a saint." Ma Wangdui Shu A and B do not have this sentence. It is suspected that the same sentence of chapter 63 is usurped. "It is difficult for the saints" means, which is why the saints are so cautious about it.
"The way of heaven is to win without fighting, to respond well without words, to come when called, and to be frank and good at planning." Skynet is restored, neglected but not lost." The natural way of heaven and earth is like this: to win without fighting, to respond without words, to come without calling, to be frank and well-planned. In a word, "If the prince can keep it, all things will be self-made" (chapter 37). The way of heaven is to do nothing, it is to benefit and not to harm, and the way of man should be in line with the way of heaven, it is to do nothing, to do nothing, to fight without dispute. But people have the courage to dare, but they are promising, and they must fight for it. Such a person's way, which is abruptly opposed to the way of heaven, will be punished by the way of heaven. The Heavenly Dao is magnificent, with sparse longitude and latitude but no omission. Against the Heavenly Dao, do not think that you can escape punishment. "Zhuangzi Gengsangchu" says: "KoMo is greater than yin and yang, and there is no escape between heaven and earth." The greatest harm to people is the transformation of yin and yang, the constraint of the five elements of life and death, because nothing can escape between heaven and earth. The five elements of yin and yang are the nets of heaven and earth. You can't escape between heaven and earth, and nature is in the net of heaven and earth.