Lao Tzu said, "I have the Three Jewels, and I keep them." ","Treasure", Magic Weapon; "Holding", holding; "Guarantee", keep. Lao Tzu said, I have three magic weapons, and I must carefully keep them and keep them.
Which three magic weapons? Lao Tzu said, "One is kindness, the second is thrift, and the third is not daring to be the first in the world." "Why did Lao Tzu see them as magic weapons? Why carefully hold on and keep it?
Lao Tzu said, "Kindness, therefore courage; Frugality, so can be wide; Don't dare to be the first in the world, so you can become a long. "Each of these three magic weapons has its own importance.
First, "kindness" can make people brave
"Kindness, so be brave." The Sayings note, "Kindness, love also." The original meaning of "kindness" is love. Loving-kindness is the love of the elder to the young, and this emotion has infinite tolerance, willing to give unconditionally, without complaint or regret.
"Loving-kindness" is the moral foundation of life. With a loving heart, you will have compassion for everything under the world, and if you can help, you will try to help, which is the basic driving force for people to get along with each other.
The "kindness" advocated by Lao Tzu and the "benevolence" advocated by Confucius both contain the meaning of love, but they are different.
The benevolence advocated by Confucianism is a kind of love based on the relationship between relatives and relatives, which is based on the love of one's own relatives and then pushes oneself and others, "the old and the old, the young and the young and the young."
The love that Lao Tzu spoke of, without distinction, is selfless love, natural love, and great human love that repays grievances with virtue, which is higher than the love of the poor and so on advocated by Confucianism.
Lao Tzu believed that loving kindness could inspire people to love each other. He said, "Kindness, so be courageous." "It is because of charity that we can go forward bravely."
"A woman is weak, but a mother is strong." A woman's body is weak, but when she has a child and becomes a mother, because of her natural maternal love, she becomes strong and often exerts unimaginable willpower.
Only when a person has a loving heart will he have a sense of justice and responsibility, and when he encounters unfair things, he will bravely stand up, will fight injustice, and will not be afraid of personal safety. If there is a lack of love, when encountering other people's things, it will not care about yourself, hanging high, especially when encountering danger, you can hide as far as you can.
However, in real life, Lao Tzu found that some people are "kind and courageous", only courageous and not "kind". Loving-kindness is the basis of people's behavior, and if there is no love, there is no restraint in action. If you act out of control and act arbitrarily, there will be very bad and serious consequences, in the words of Lao Tzu, "death".
Loving, making people brave and fearless; At the same time, it is also a kind of constraint on people's behavior, and does not let people be unrestrained and reckless.
Second, "frugality" can make people rich
"Frugality, so can be broad." "Frugality", "Shuowen" notes, "Frugality, about also." "It is precisely because of stinginess and cherishing of all things under the world that we can be generous."
"Frugality", in another term of Lao Tzu, is called "啬", and all the things given by heaven should be stingy, not wasted at will, save manpower, material resources and energy, useful but not exhausted, and be implicitly cultivated.
Chinese good face, some people love to talk about pomp and pageantry, than magnanimity, and when they encounter the pomp and circumstance of the scene, there is no frugality, extravagance and waste, which will inevitably cause huge consumption.
Any item is not easy to come by, and we cannot but cherish the blessings. The ancients said: "A tea and a meal are not easy to think about; A wisp of it, the constant thought of material strength is difficult. ”
Lao Tzu's "frugality" contains two meanings, one is frugality, stinginess, life should be diligent and thrifty, not extravagant and wasteful. The second is to restrain and restrain, never be greedy and indulge oneself, restrain and restrain one's own desires, and do not act recklessly.
Keigo Higashino wrote in "Fate": "All the accidents in life are actually fate, and even more fatalistic. ”
The blessings of life are all fixed. We must know how to cherish blessings and never squander them.
And some people are "frugal and broad", abandoning frugality and only pursuing broadness. Regardless of consumption, there is no frugal gathering, where will there be abundance and breadth? In the long run, the result must be as Lao Tzu said, "dead.".
Third, "do not dare to compete for the world" in order to become the chief of all things
Lao Tzu said, "I don't dare to be the first in the world, so I can become a long one." ”
"Don't dare to be the first in the world" cannot be simply understood as retreating and not thinking of making progress, but the meaning of humility and non-contention, and also the meaning of retreating and settling down. "Apparatus", object; "Long" is the chief. It is precisely because I dare not compete in the world, so I can become the chief of all things.
Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching: "After the body comes first." "Put yourself behind the people, and in the end you will take the lead and become their leader."
Chapter 66 of the Tao Te Ching: "If you want your ancestors, you will come after you." "If you want to become the leader of the people, you must put your own interests behind the people.
Lao Tzu repeatedly stressed that it is necessary to be humble in doing things, not to ask people to shrink back when they encounter difficulties, and not to dare to be an example and leader of the people of the world, but to teach people to be humble in their dealings with the world, not to show their sharp edges, in order to win the support of more people, so as to "become a long instrument".
In real life, some people "give up the latter and go first", abandoning the virtue of humility, only seeking to compete for the first, and refusing to be humble at all. Fight around like this, make enemies everywhere, and the end result is to put yourself on the road to death.
If you can't be charitable and you have to go forward, if you can't be frugal and widely abused, if you can't compete for the first place, it is to find death.
Lao Tzu explained the importance of the three magic weapons for a person to stand in the world from the three aspects of loving heart, frugal style, and indisputable virtue. With "kindness", people will be kind to others; With "frugality", people will be rich for a long time; With "humility", people will humble themselves.
These "Three Jewels" are the magic weapons for man to stand in the world, and with these three magic weapons, people are rich and peaceful, and if they lose these three legal masters, people will go to death.
Among these "Three Jewels", Lao Tzu believed that "compassion" was the most important. Lao Tzu said, "Husband, if you are kind, you will win by fighting, and you will be firm in your rules." "Loving-kindness, to fight can be victorious, and to defend can be strong."
Because of their love for people, they have the courage to take responsibility, do not fear when they encounter difficulties, do not shrink back, but find ways to solve difficulties, attack invincible, invincible; It is the responsibility to guard the soil, to guard the soil with due responsibility, and to keep everything solid.
Lao Tzu went on to say, "Heaven will save them and guard them with mercy." "If Heaven wants to make a man perfect, he will defend him in a loving way.
"Kindness" is a kind of mind, but also a kind of realm, not selfish, kind to others, responsible for society.
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