45 Tao Te Ching General Explanation Chapter 45

45 Tao Te Ching General Explanation Chapter 45

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:

If Dacheng is lacking, it will not be used in money. If the big profit is like a cup, its use is not good. Big straight as a curse, big as a clumsy, big win as a . Zhao Sheng Han, Liang Sheng Jiong, please Liang can be the world is positive.

exegesis:

Dacheng is lacking: Dacheng, great achievement, great achievement. If, as if, as if. Lacking, broken, broken crock pots; broken, not enough. ☆ Dacheng is like a broken crock pot.

Its use is not a coin: coin pass "敝". We, in its original sense, refer to the old and broken; by extension, it means broken and decayed. ☆ Its use is not broken part.

Big surplus: surplus, full, full; by extension, more than enough, more than enough. Great profit, extremely full, extremely rich. Cup (the original word is "dish" on the addition of a "punch"), the vessel is virtual; the latter refers to the tea, drinking wine used without a handle of the small cup, tea cup, wine cup. ☆ Extremely rich like a small wine cup.

Its use is not 宭: 宭 (the original word is "county" plus "宀"), living in groups; through "embarrassment", poverty, embarrassment. ☆ Its purpose is not to be poor.

Big straight: big, the most, the most extreme, the real. Straight, the original meaning means not bent. For example, the original meaning is obedience, obedience, and compliance; later it is extended to "like", as, etc. 诎 (诎) (诎), the original meaning is blunt, not good at words; ☆ The ultimate straight with the bend. The song is curved, the straight is straight, this is the real, ultimate "straight". "Straight" is made up of an infinite number of "curves", and there are transformation formulas in engineering mathematics.

Great ingenuity is like clumsiness: qiao, the original meaning is skill, skill; by extension, skill, dexterity, refinement, beauty and proficiency. Clumsy, in its original sense, is clumsy and inflexible; by extension, crude. ☆ Extreme ingenuity to follow clumsiness.

Big wins such as: win, the original meaning refers to profit; by extension, win, more, more, more, more, loose. (nèn), flameless fire, meaning introverted, implicit but not revealing. ☆Extreme loose obedience introverted.

Zhao Shenghan: Toe, scurrying also, unstable, not quiet. Cold, the meaning of the oracle bone is "people hiding in the house, crouching on the grass" to indicate cold. ☆ Restlessness overcomes cold.

Liang Sheng Jiong: Liang, the ancient meaning is "summoning", "inviting", also known as "please"; also refers to the makeup is gorgeous and beautiful; through "quiet", quiet, quiet. "Beautiful" means "quiet". Hot, hot. ☆ Quiet to overcome dry heat. Calm and naturally cool.

Please be righteous for the world: please, meet, pray, make a request and hope to be met, hope that the other party will do something, show respect; accept, accept. To be upright is to pass through "politics" and to make the world governed. ☆ Hope to be quiet can make the world governed.

General:

If Dacheng is lacking, it is not used for money. If the big profit is like a cup, its use is not good.

Dacheng is like a broken crock pot, its use is not broken; extremely rich is like a small wine cup, its use is not to be poor.

★ In the past, people generally thought that "Dacheng Ruofeng" was "the most perfect thing seems to have a defect", and understood "Da Ying Ruopan" as "the most abundant thing seems to be empty". I would like to ask, is there a relationship between "perfect things" and "achievements"? Why doesn't Lao Tzu use "great beauty if it is lacking" and "great profit is like emptiness"?

Taoists advocate "ruling by doing nothing", "virtue is not virtuous", "for the sake of not having", and "for the sake of success"; therefore, the treatment of "great achievements" should be treated like "broken crock pots", and cannot be appropriated for oneself and especially cherished. Even if you've accomplished something big, the only thing that will work for you is that there's no "broken" part of it. For example, you are the founding father who has made countless great achievements, and if you do not take credit, the state will regard you as a meritorious person and treat you kindly; if you are proud of your achievements, the results can be imagined. In the same way, you have great ability and created countless wealth; if you can contribute your wealth to society and benefit the people, you will not only be able to remain poor forever, but also gain fame and fortune. If you take countless wealth for yourself, and you would rather let it rot and not use it for the people, you will inevitably be spurned by society, or even destroy your family. "Jin Yuying Room, Mo Zhi Shouya."

Contentment is not humiliating, and knowledge is not lost. In the midst of "great achievements" and "infinite wealth," you have to know that you can enjoy only a small part of them; this is "contentment, contentment."

People can pursue "big", but can't enjoy "big". For the human body and lifespan are limited, the needs of man are limited; more importantly, all "big" is made up of "small".

Big straight as a curse, big as a clumsy, big win as a .

The ultimate straightness follows the bending, the ultimate delicacy obeys clumsiness, and the ultimate looseness follows introvertedness.

★ Straight and curved, clever and clumsy, loose and tight, are originally relative; straight is composed of curves, clever is composed of clumsiness, and loose is composed of tightness. Why pursue "extreme" and "big"? Dacheng and Daying, how much can you enjoy?

Chapter Thirty-Four, "It is the power of the saints to become great, and it is not great that it is great, so that it can become great." To pursue "big" instead of "small" is to put the cart before the horse. In order to change qualitatively, there must be a process of quantitative change; and people seem to have forgotten this.

Zhao Sheng Han, Liang Sheng Jiong, please Liang can be the world is positive.

Restlessness overcomes cold, quiet triumphs over heat; I hope that silence can bring the world under governance.

★ Cold and hot are things that people don't want; people want the temperature to be suitable, lukewarm and hot. Thus extended to social governance.

If the people do not have enough to eat, it will definitely be "restless" and the society will not be at peace. If too much wealth causes extravagance and extravagance and waste, then society will fall into a state of "dry heat" and will not be at peace. Therefore, the key to governing society is to make it peaceful and quiet. The same is true for individuals, who have too much or too little fame and fortune to cause harm.

How much do people have to be no more, no less? It depends on your own ability. Those with greater abilities can have more, and those with smaller abilities can have less. What you have must match your own abilities. Virtue is not worthy, and he will be blamed. Piaf is innocent of his guilt. This is what the next chapter will talk about, "Contentment is enough, perseverance is enough."

Translation:

Dacheng is like a broken crock pot, its use is not broken; extremely rich is like a small wine cup, its use is not to be poor. The ultimate straightness follows the bending, the ultimate delicacy obeys clumsiness, and the ultimate looseness follows introvertedness. Restlessness overcomes cold, quiet triumphs over heat; I hope that silence can bring the world under governance.

keynote:

A preliminary explanation of the meaning of "contentment". If we can understand that "lukewarm quietness" is what people need, and do not seek greatness; we can understand contentment.

The next chapter goes into "contentment."