Daily Reading Sharing: Tao Te Ching
The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching should be called the general outline of the whole "Tao Te Ching", a few years ago just began to contact the "Tao Te Ching", because the first chapter is obscure, so only read the first chapter without following, after a long time forced to re-read the "Tao Te Ching", the first chapter was the same did not understand, fortunately at that time for their own goals, must read it completely, whether you can understand it or not, see the back only to find that many of the original back of the content is simple and easy to understand, to the new contact with the "Tao Te Ching" book friends advice, You can skip reading, you can skip what you don't understand, and only read what you can understand, so it's much more interesting to read. Until now this book has also been read several times, in fact, there are still many places that do not understand, not to mention "enlightenment", many places feel that even the translation can not be understood, take it out to share, but also hope to communicate with the lovers of the "Tao Te Ching", can have a deeper understanding of this book.
Chapter 1:
Dao can be Dao, extraordinary Dao; name can be named, very famous.
None, the beginning of the name of heaven and earth; yes, the mother of all things.
Therefore there is always nothing, and I want to see its wonders; and I always have it, and I want to see it.
The two are the same name and the same name, the same name is xuan. Xuanzhi and Xuan. The Door of All Wonders.
The "Tao" cannot be expressed clearly in words, and if it could, it would not be what we call the "Dao"; if the form and concept of the "Tao" could be named, it could not be the eternal form and concept of the "Tao".
Anything between heaven and earth arises in uncertainty, and its state cannot be described in words, which is the source of the whole chaotic universe; yet everything has its own roots, and this part of the part that can be expressed in words is called the mother of conception.
Therefore, to maintain the state of nothingness is to observe the mysterious nature of things; to maintain the state of reality is to observe the superficial phenomena embodied in things.
In fact, "nothingness" and "reality" come from the same "Tao" but are different sides of the "Tao." When "nothingness" and "reality" are combined, there will be countless mysterious possibilities, uncertain combinations, such as the above and the bottom, the inside and the outside, and so on. These uncertain combinations are even more mysterious things that are the "Tao" In other words, "being" and "nothing" are like the "doors of all wonders" that support the Tao.
