28 Tao Te Ching General Interpretation · Chapter 28

28 Tao Te Ching General Interpretation · Chapter 28

The original text is mainly based on the book "Lao Tzu" excavated from Mawangdui. The red font is the original mutilated and replaced by posterity.

original:

Knowing its male and female, it is the creek of the world. For the world's creek, Hengde is not far away. Hengde is inseparable and returns to the baby. Know its glory and honor, and bathe for the world. For the bath of the world, Hengde is the foot. De Nai foot, return to Park. Know its white and keep its black, for the world style. For the world style, Hengde is not shy. Virtue is not stubborn, and it returns to Wuji. The ragged is the instrument, and the saint is the ruler. There is no cutting.

exegesis:

Knowing its male and its female: male, the original meaning refers to the male bird; generally refers to the animal that provides "sperm", that is, the male animal; by extension, masculine, unyielding, strong and so on. Female, the original meaning refers to the female bird; generally refers to female animals; by extension, feminine, weak, bent and so on. Defend, defend, defend, hold, hold. ☆ Know masculine and keep feminine.

For the world's creek: stream, the original meaning refers to the small river ditch in the mountains, valley. ☆ It is the valley of the world.

Hengde is inseparable: virtue is to get; to get. The original meaning of moral "virtue" is to obtain. The original word for the word "away" is "雞", which is suspected to be "away". Away, apart, scattered, escaped, lost, etc. ☆ Not to lose is to gain eternally. For example, when a proton acquires an electron and pairs it with it, it becomes a hydrogen atom, and as long as it does not lose its electron, it is an eternal acquisition for the proton.

Returning Baby: Baby refers to the pristine state of birth. ☆ Return to the original state.

Know its glory and keep its humiliation: honor and humiliation are opposite. Glory, glory, glory, glory, prosperity. Humiliation, reputation damage, tarnishment, grievance, burial. The status of the honorable is high and ostentatious; the humiliating is low, restrained, and low-key. ☆ Know the glory and insist on low key.

Bath for the world: Bath, bathing in a large vessel; gutong "valley". The characteristics of the valley are to accommodate and absorb. As mentioned earlier, "Ceres does not die". ☆ It is the valley of the world.

Hengde Naizu: Eternal attainment is abundance.

Know its white and keep its black: white and black are opposites. White is reflected light, by extension light, radiation; black is the absorption of light, by extension dark, absorption. ☆ Know the radiation and insist on absorbing.

For the world style: formula, the original meaning refers to the rules and standards on which things are based, and by extension refers to demonstrations, models, role models, etc. ☆ It is the rule of the world.

Hengde is not greedy: Gonggu is the same loan; loan is opposite to borrowing; loan is to temporarily give property to others for use; borrowing is to temporarily use other people's property. What is missing, not enough will be borrowed. ☆ No lack is eternal gain.

Return to Wuji: Wuji Sheng Tai Chi, Tai Chi Sheng Two Instruments; Wu Ji refers to the source. ☆ Back to the original state.

Hawthorn scatter is a vessel: hawthorn, a tent made of wood, a wooden tent. ☆ The wooden tent is scattered, and the wood becomes an instrument.

Saints use officials: officials, houses; by extension, officials, officials. The chief officer, the pillar of the house. ☆ Wood used in the hands of a saint can become a pillar of the house.

Fu da system without cutting: system, the original meaning is to prune branches; through cutting, polishing, extrusion to make it into the shape people want; by extension, manufacturing. Large system, the highest level of system. ☆ The highest level of manufacturing does not require cutting and grinding.

General:

Knowing its male and female, it is the creek of the world. For the world's creek, Hengde is not far away. Hengde is inseparable and returns to the baby. Know its glory and honor, and bathe for the world. For the bath of the world, Hengde is the foot. De Nai foot, return to Park. Know its white and keep its black, for the world style. For the world style, Hengde is not shy. Virtue is not stubborn, and it returns to Wuji.

Knowing that masculinity pays and insists on feminine absorption is the valley of the world. It is the valley of the world, and the eternal gain is not to lose. Without losing, we return to our nascent state. Knowing that assertiveness and insisting on convergence is the valley under the heavens. It is the valley under the heavens, and the eternal gain is the abundance. Plenty is back to simplicity. Knowing radiation and maintaining absorption is the model of the world. It is the model of the world, and the eternal must be not lacking. If there is no lack, it returns to the original state.

★ Masculine (male), zhangyang (rong) and radiant (white) all have the characteristics of giving and giving. Feminine (female), astringent (insulting) and absorbed (black), all have the characteristics of acceptance and absorption. The fierceness of the male must be nourished by femininity; the exuberance of grass and trees (rong) is the absorption of the underground root system (humiliation); the light comes from the movement of non-luminous matter.

All things are the unity of contradictions, the two sides of contradiction are interdependent; only by accepting can there be giving, and radiation and absorption are eternal. Radiation and absorption must establish a balance, that is, no loss is "constant gain"; otherwise the two sides of the contradiction will be unbalanced and collapse.

Health care should be good at absorption. Only those who are good at absorbing can establish a balance of payments, always keep the body without loss, and return to the original state of the newborn baby.

The ragged is the instrument, and the saint is the ruler. There is no cutting.

The wood that the wooden tent is broken up into (it looks like waste) can be made into a pillar of the house by the High Man. Cutting is not required for the highest level of manufacturing.

★ People who are good at absorbing can turn what others think is waste into treasure. As said in the previous chapter, "No one abandons others, and no things abandon wealth", the key is to see whether people will be used. Therefore, manufacturing at the highest level does not cut off the parts that people think are useless.

If we must extend to "social governance", that is to say, there are no useless waste people in the world; clever rule will not kill those who oppose it, at least make them a negative teaching material for the living.

Translation:

Knowing that masculinity pays and insists on feminine absorption is the valley of the world. It is the valley of the world, and the eternal gain is not to lose. Without losing, we return to our nascent state. Knowing that assertiveness and insisting on convergence is the valley under the heavens. It is the valley under the heavens, and the eternal gain is the abundance. Plenty is back to simplicity. Knowing radiation and maintaining absorption is the model of the world. It is the model of the world, and the eternal must be not lacking. If there is no lack, it returns to the original state. The wood that the wooden tent is broken up into (it looks like waste) can be made into a pillar of the house by the High Man. Cutting is not required for the highest level of manufacturing.

keynote:

Eternal gain (Hengde) is not to lose. Everything is in motion, and giving is inevitable and eternal. Therefore, being good at absorption is the key. If you are good at absorbing and balancing the body, you can return to the original state of the newborn baby.

The previous chapter explained how to absorb the wisdom of others and make your own wisdom theosophical. This chapter emphasizes that being good at absorption is the key to balancing the body.

Virtue is not virtuous; virtue is not lost, it is virtueless.

Don't be sentimental and think of "virtue" too complicated; virtue is gain.