The original text of chapter 41 of the Tao Te Ching
The sergeant hears and acts diligently;
The sergeant heard, if it survives, it is better to die;
The corporal smelled and laughed, but not laughing was not enough.
Therefore, there are suggestions: if the path is clear, if the path is retreated, if the road is retreated, if the path is like a road.
If the upper De Ruogu, if guangde is insufficient, if Jiande steals, the quality is real.
Great white is insulting, generous and boundless, great instrument is late, big sound is xisheng, elephant is invisible, and the road is hidden.
Husbands are the only way, good loans and success.
paraphrase:
The sergeant hears the Tao and acts diligently; the Sergeant hears the Tao, if he survives; the Corporal hears the Tao, laughs, and it is not enough not to laugh.
The previous chapter talked about the direction, technique, and road map of cultivation, and what kind of situation will occur when the king uses this to cultivate? Through the description of the attitude of the worldly people to cultivate the truth and the state of the enlightened people, this chapter allows the king to further understand how to cultivate the truth and how to keep the way.
The sergeant, the wise man, understands everything and knows everything. They know that the Tao is the sect of all things, and only by following the laws and settings of the Tao can all things get their own place, the world will not be chaotic, and there will be the best order and long-term future. Therefore they are not burdened by the worldly things, but they keep the road and follow the tao completely. Diligence, exhaustion, here is the meaning of total, full strength. To walk is to walk on the avenue.
Sergeants, the wise men, although they know people but cannot reach the heavens, they do not have a constant understanding of the Tao, they do not keep the Tao unswervingly like the sergeant, they change from teaching, they are not only prisoners of the world's wind, but also the backbone of society, the executors and administrators of social affairs, and the connector between the king and The Li Shu.
Corporals, ignorant and rude people, who know neither man nor heaven, are self-righteous, always looking at the world with the eyes of well frogs and bugs, and everywhere is strange and inappropriate. Not to mention that after they heard these words, "The movement of the anti-Tao, the use of the Tao of the weak," they could only laugh at them as vain and nonsensical remarks: This person who preaches the "Tao" theory is a fool, how can there be such a fool in the world! In fact, they don't know that they are the real poor people who have lost themselves to things, their heads are empty, they are addicted to the sea, and they can never turn over. If they don't laugh, it means that the cultivator has not yet attained the true interpretation of the Tao.
So someone said:
Because people of the Enlightened Path perceive the Tao's nothingness, namelessness, and formlessness, they will appear as if they are ignorant and ignorant; the direction of the Tao is to know things apart from things, and only by retreating from the famous things can they realize the true perfection of the Tao; the Dao is vast and inexhaustible, and it seems that there are infinite paths to reach, but they are as seamless as a silk knot, and they cannot be separated from the Tao.
This sentence is an interpretation of the "movement of the opposite path", that is, a more specific method of application and operation.
In the upper Deruo Valley, the highest virtue of the king is like the river valley and the river and the sea, omnipresent and omnipotent;
If Guangde is insufficient, the king Shi Tiande is in the world, omnipotent and omnipotent, and allows the world to be natural, but does not reveal any of his own aspirations to the world, as if his own holy virtues are insufficient;
If Jiande steals, the king's body is great and has heavenly virtue, and with heavenly virtue supplementing the nature of all things to become the great merit of the world, the king uses non-self-possession, cures non-self-merit, if he steals the heavens, so Jiande steals;
The quality is true, the king Shi Tiande is in the world, "born but not there, for the sake of not ashamed, long and not slaughtered", and the Tao is one, returning to the truth. Yu, also polluted, describes the chaotic state of the unity of heaven and man after the king's body path.
This sentence is about the specific operation and application of "the use of the weak way".
The great white is humiliating, the great whiteness, the nature of all things, refers to the power of all things and the image of all things; humiliation, pointing to the tao of nothingness and no image, the state of no name and no honor. The Dao is born of everything, everything, and everything under the heavens, and is the supreme of all things, but it is not nameless, it is not honorable, it is nothing, it is humiliated by great whiteness; it is a king who cannot stand in name and matter;
Generous and unsurpassed, square, refers to one aspect of the avenue, all things are formed by the square of the avenue; generous, that is, the road; the avenue is integrated, no square and no corner. It is the king who cannot divide the world;
The great instrument is late, the great instrument, refers to the world's artifact; the world is made of all things, and all things have the world, so the world has all things first, and then there is its great instrument. If the king also wants to "come before his body, and exist outside his body", if there is no world of achievement, how can he come from the name of a king?
With a loud voice, everything under the heavens is prosperous and orderly, so who is giving indoctrination to such an artifact? It is the Word, and all things are from the Word. The Great Avenue gives the world an unspoken teaching, all things do not respect the Tao and be virtuous, the world is endless, prosperous, and the people are said: I am natural. It is the king who will also practice the unspoken teachings of the Heavenly Dao;
Elephants are invisible, elephants, elephants of artifacts, elephants of the Avenue; the Avenue is invisible, but its deification can do nothing and do nothing. It is that the king should also follow the way, and do not give virtue to the world, so that the world will be natural, so that he can do nothing to achieve the great work of the world;
The Tao is nameless, the Tao is not nameless, the Tao is not nameless, there is no object and no image, in the world", "born of the animal, born without existence, for the sake of not ashamed, long and not slaughtered", clothing and raising all things without the Lord, success without fame, so it is said that the Tao is hidden without name. It is that the king should also get rid of the burden of famous things, but give heaven to the world.
Only the Tao can cast heavenly virtue in the world, and transform all things into great achievements under the heavens. Therefore, only by retreating to the whole way can the king perform the great deeds of heaven and earth!
postscript:
1. Why study the Tao Te Ching?
The Tao Te Ching is a collection of ancient Saint King thoughts and Taoist techniques, and it is also an indispensable classic for cultivating the way of the Inner Saint and outer kings. With the Tao Te Ching as the body and the Tao Te Ching as the body and the "virtue" as the use, the cultivation of Qi Zhiping is all-encompassing, which can guide us to understand and grasp the world from the root, essence, and whole. In the world we live in, the Tao is the root, virtue is the foundation, all things are the end, all things cannot be born without the Tao, and all things cannot be achieved without virtue. By understanding the Tao and virtue, we can understand the fundamentals of all things and make more beneficial choices. Cultivate in the body, its virtue is true; cultivate in the home, its virtue is yu; cultivate in the township, its virtue is long; cultivate in the country, its virtue is abundant; cultivate in the world, its De Naipu! This is the essence of studying the Tao Te Ching!
2. How to study the Tao Te Ching?
First do psychological construction, long-term ism, hold the mentality of Taobao, take the Ming Tao as the aspiration, take pleasure in seeking, read often and often, and strive for quantitative change to qualitative change; 2, pay attention to the exploration of righteousness and Taoism, do not stick to sentence reading, evidence and other crumbs; 3, with problems to learn. Three questions: what, why, and how to use it. With curiosity and the desire to seek truth, learning will be more effective with half the effort. 4. The "Q Dao" plan is written in three parts, version 1.0 solves "what", 2.0 solves "why", and 3.0 solves "how to use". Currently version 1.0, welcome to comment, correct and forward!