In the past, I recommended Mr. Yu Qiuyu's interpretation of "Lao Tzu", and today I will tell you about Mr. Lin Yutang's interpretation of "Lao Tzu". Lin Yutang is a leisurely and casual person, advocating humor, advocating the fun of life, reading a lot of books, and learning from Both Chinese and Western. This "Wisdom of Lao Tzu" is wise in humor, blazing new trails, "solving the old with Zhuang", putting aside the tedious debates, using the experience of life and the enlightenment of life to taste the philosophy of Lao Zhuang, giving the original obscure and incomprehensible words to flesh and blood, giving a new soul.
Lin Yutang said that Taoism is a game posture of Chinese, and Confucianism is a working posture. Every Chinese, when the spring breeze is successfully developed, it is a Confucian, and once it fails, it becomes a Taoist. Taoist naturalism is an analgesic that soothes the wounded Chinese soul.
Lin Yutang said that the Tao Te Ching contains the essence of playful wisdom and is the most brilliant self-preservation conspiracy philosophy in the world. Western scholars believe that Lao Tzu is the representative of Chinese "intelligent, profound, and intelligent". The first reaction of people who have read the Tao Te Ching is to laugh, then laugh at themselves, and finally to understand the lessons. Lao Tzu advocated humility, repeating over and over again softness, patience, the uselessness of argument, weak strength, and low tactical superiority. He preached the path of self-sufficiency and focused on Ezhu Kegang.
The book is divided into two parts, the first half of the forty chapters expound on Lao Tzu's philosophy, and the second half of the forty-first chapter on Lao Tzu's utilitarian theory, which can directly affect the various problems we encounter in our daily lives.
If I argue with you and you defeat me, it does not mean that you are right, that I am wrong; if I defeat you, it does not mean that I am necessarily right, that you must be wrong. If we have our own opinions, who can judge us? Therefore, only by seeing through right and wrong can we forget the name of right and wrong, and pin our hearts on the infinite realm.
Nothing is flatter than water, so use water as the law. Still water, no waves on the outside, transparent on the inside. The same is true of the human heart, if the heart can remain calm, it will not be shaken by external objects.
Shameless people are mostly rich.
There is no spare place in the house, and it is inevitable that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will quarrel between each other. If the heart is not empty, the seven passions and six desires will surely compete with each other. Seeing the deep mountain jungle feel refreshed, all because of the narrow-mindedness and discomfort of the heart on weekdays.
Two people herd sheep together, one lost his sheep because of reading, one lost his sheep because of gambling, the two lost their sheep for different reasons, but the result was the same. Therefore, because of the struggle and pleasure that bring the body down, although the paths are different, the ending is the same.
The little sparrow laughed at the roc bird, you want to fly there. I soared, but fell a few dozen feet high, laughing in the basil, wasn't I also free? That's the difference between big and small. Here Lao Tzu does not mean to belittle the sparrow, but only to expound an attitude towards life. Moreover, Dapeng has the strength to travel the sky, but the sparrow does not. Barely flying high, you will only fall to your death.
Tigers and leopards are targeted by hunters because of their bright fur; monkeys are leashed to play because they are lively, and dogs are tied up to play because they can catch foxes.
Fish must not leave the abyss, and the weapon of the state must not be easily revealed.
In order to prevent thieves, people tied the cabinets with thick ropes and locked them with huge locks, thinking that they were very clever, but when the big thief came, they carried the cabinets and boxes away together, lest the ropes were not firm and the locks were not strong. In this way, all the efforts of the wise man are precisely to make preparations for the thief.
Human life is finite, but knowledge is infinite, and it would be dangerous to pursue infinite knowledge with a finite life. Knowing that the danger is still desperately pursued, it is even more dangerous.
Lao Tzu and the student Yangzi lived in the hotel, and suddenly looked up in the middle of the night and sighed, I always thought you could still educate, and now I know that it is not enough to create. Yang Ziju quickly knelt down in front of Lao Tzu and said, Please make it clear what mistake i made. Lao Tzu said, you have a proud attitude, no one in sight, no one dares to approach you, they are all hiding from you, alienating you, can you still have room for progress? Yang Ziju listened to Lao Tzu's teachings and quickly changed his attitude, and by the time they left the inn, the clerks had already dared to joke with him.
Confucius traveled around the world without success, his relatives alienated him, his disciples left him, he was very upset, and he asked Zi Sang for advice. Zi Sang said that there was a fake countryman, the fake country died, he abandoned the family wealth and ran away with the child on his back. Some people say, are you trying to make money or are you afraid of being cumbersome? If it is for money, then the child is not worth the money; if it is afraid of dragging, the child is more dragged down than money. This fake countryman said that money is something outside the body, but children are my flesh and bones. Therefore, those who have fellowship with you Eli will leave you ungrateful. Confucius listened, returned to his hometown after a fourteen-year absence, and lived with his children.
nest in deep forests and occupy no more than a branch; rats drink water by the river, but fill their stomachs. Lao Tzu said that the greatest evil is insatiable greed, and the greatest sin is that desire is difficult to fill. The Augmentation of the Sages also says that even if you have a thousand mansions, you can only lie in a bed seven feet long; even if you have ten thousand barrels of fine wine, you can only drink one scoop at a time. Therefore, in life, we must learn to be content.
As learning increases day by day, desire decreases day by day, and in the end, when desire is exhausted, it can do everything. This truth is actually very easy to understand, take learning, "two ears do not hear things outside the window, only read the books of the sages", what beautiful clothes and food, what men and women, all abandoned, as long as you are admitted to college, you will have a smooth future. If you don't pay attention to reading, drop out of school and move bricks halfway, then the days ahead will be very sad.
There was an old man who raised monkeys in the Song Dynasty, and he gave chestnuts to the monkeys to eat, and first told them to eat four in the morning and three in the evening. The monkeys thought it was too little and started to get angry together. The old man said, well, eat three in the morning and four in the evening. The monkey listened and jumped up happily. In fact, the number of chestnuts has not changed, but the monkeys' moody emotions are used to conform to them.
The difficult things under the world must start from the easy times; the great things under the world must start from the very small things. Therefore, successful people are not willing to give up their big things in small things, and they are not willing to think that they are big, and finally they can become big. Those who make promises easily must lack credit; the easier they see things, the more difficult they will have. The big trees that hug each other grow from small buds; the nine-story platform is built by baskets of dirt; and the thousands of miles away are taken out of the steps under the feet.
A barking dog is not necessarily a good dog, and a man who can talk is not necessarily very intelligent and virtuous. A learned person does not have to have insight; a person who is good at debate does not have to have wisdom.
The Wisdom of Lao Tzu is a classic written by Lin Yutang in English to popularize Chinese culture to foreigners, and was later translated into Chinese. Lin Yutang said that my strength is to talk about Chinese culture to foreigners and foreign culture to Chinese. His writings are humorous and wonderful, serious and cheerful, true and profound, and philosophical, and have been listed as textbooks by many universities in the United States, and he is another Chinese literati besides Confucius who is well known to Westerners.
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