The Tao is born, the animal is virtuous, the form of things is formed, and the potential is formed. Livestock, nurturing. Shapes, group shapes. potential, natural environment. The Tao produces all things, and virtue nurtures all things. Although all things take various forms, the environment makes all things grow.
It is noble to be noble in all things. Therefore, all things are revered and precious.
The dignity of the Tao, the nobility of virtue, the fate of Fu Mo and always natural. The reason why the Tao is revered and virtue is precious is because the Tao grows all things without interfering.
Therefore, the Tao is born, the virtuous animal, the long breeding, the pavilion poison, and the cultivation (4) of the cover (5). The poison of the pavilion is also the ripeness of the work, so that all things grow and mature. Nurture, love, nurture. Overwrite, maintain, protect. Thus, the Tao grows all things, and virtue nurtures all things, so that all things grow and develop, ripen and bear fruit, so that they are raised and protected.
To be born without being, to be for nothing, to be long and not to be slaughtered, is to be called Xuande. Xuande, that is, Shangde. Growing all things without appropriating them for themselves, nurturing all things without self-righteousness, guiding all things without dominating, this is the mysterious and mysterious virtue.
After all things are born of the Tao, who should raise them next? At this time, there was virtue, which was just able to assume this responsibility, and Lao Tzu called it "virtue animal". Together, Tao and Virtue constitute a complete system of "morality", in which all things are born of Taoism. Nurtured by virtue, the Tao and virtue are like the parents who gave birth to us. The original meaning of the so-called virtue is to get, and later extended to refer to the moral qualities that things should have in the process of development, which is embodied in the code of conduct of human beings.
All things except man show their virtue under the influence of the Tao. Because human beings have thoughts and desires, they are sometimes virtuous and sometimes unethical. But all things have a Way, and they are bound by the Word.
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