Tao Te Ching Notes 16.17.18
Chapter 16: To the Void Pole
original:
{To the void pole, keep quiet.} All things work together, and I watch them return. Each returns to its roots (Lü Ben's "Each returns to its roots"). In the final analysis, it is quiet, and it is quiet and restored. Resurrection is often known, and knowledge is often known. I don't know how to do it, I am presumptuous. Knowing The constant, the tolerance is the justice, the public is the whole, the whole is the heavens, the heavens are the Tao, the Tao is long, and there is no body. }
(Lü Ben's "Gong Nai Wang, Wang Nai Tian") Interpretation:
This chapter is the magic of each path, one layer deep, one section and one mysterious section, so that people should be transparent and bright. To the virtual pole, why not? Where does emptiness come from? Come out of nowhere. What is Pole? Thoroughly cleared to the extreme. What is void pole? The body and mind let go for the sake of the cause, the body and mind forget, for the sake of the void pole. What is stillness? Nothing to behold. What is Tuk? Pure refinement is tuk. What is keeping? Single-mindedness is always the same. What is all things? There is nothing in the void and nothing in the middle of everything. What is a merger? All in one, for the sake of doing together. What is I? One point in the spirit is me. What is it to see its repetition? The inner photo is original. What does it mean? Return to god. What is a thing? All the qi are chaozong, things come to chaozong, and the steaming is a little divine light. What is each root? Born from nothing, born of nothing, born of nothingness, beaten into a piece, pure yang always dwells in the middle. What is the ultimate tranquility? There is nothing in the middle, the truth within the void, the stillness of the taihe, and the spirit of heaven and earth is the stillness. What is resurrection? Returning to its origin is fate; realizing its original nature is fate; and the void thunderbolt is the infant (creating a word. "囡" within the "female" should be "force") a sound, is fate also. Man has this life, and the immortal has this way. What is constant? Get it right. What is "knowing and knowing"? The one who is enlightened (this) is the one who is clear, who understands this principle, who understands this wonderful, who refers to this mystery, who has attained this path. What is permanence? Those who do not know are unknown. What is murder? I don't know its quietness, I don't know that I am quiet in my pursuit, I am in motion, I am in motion, I am still fierce. Neither know the silence, but also know the movement? Knowing that there is this movement, this existence, from the still life of Ji, from the movement to find something, there is a movement, and andrew is not fierce? What is Zhi Chang Rong? Knowing the magic of constant silence, knowing the subtlety of constant movement in the quiet. Moving in silence, omniscient, intolerable, saying that it is broad, thick, high, bright, yo, jiuye, micro, miao, majestic, and magnificent, just like Ru Jingyun: "Quiet and then can be safe, safe and then can worry, worry and then can get." Another example is Zi Siyun: "Those who are also Taoists, do not deviate from them." To neutralize, heaven to the heavens, and all things to nurture.". Another example is Yan Zi Youyun: "Look up to the migao, drill the mijian, look at the front, and ignore the yan in the back." Another example is Mencius Youyun: "He who does his best knows his nature." Another example is Shi Dianyun: "There is no confusion, and there is no end to ignorance." Another example is Dafayun: "No out, no entry." This is all tolerated. What is Public? No one has no self, no sound and no smell, it shines in all directions, but it is only clear. What is a king? Yi Cheng is a duke, the public has its will, the ruler is vain, returned to the chamber of secrets, and cham is silent and inactive, and is for the king. What is heaven? The intercourse of gold and wood, the true god of Silence, the innocence, the nothingness, the nothingness, the yin and yang, the void of the five elements, the sum of heaven and earth, the wonder of the body, the truth of infinity, is a day. What is the Word? Quiet as emptiness, completely clear, for Xuan, Xuan for Xuan, for Tao. The Tao is nameless, borrowing the Tao to speak the truth, returning to the beginning of chaos, there is no word to speak, there is no Way to go, it is for the Tao. What is long? Speechless, it is Kuya. What does it mean to be undead? If there is no word, there is no way, and what is the body? Nothing is lost? It's a thought. Wow! Siming understands:
Make the mind thinkless, and achieve the maximum degree of emptiness; Make the mood safe and simple and unobtrusive, can meet the standards of micro, Xi and Yi. At this time, the "Yuan Qi" will accompany and operate like the biochemistry of all things, and I only need to quietly observe their reciprocating movements with a quiet mind. This "Yuan Qi" is moving in a flurry of movements, all looking for their respective roots to return to their roots. At this time, tell yourself: Be quiet! Only by keeping quiet can we restore the mission that the mind should have. The mind has restored its proper mission, so that it can be reasonable; Knowing that the mind should keep quiet common sense is to understand the norms of the way of health. If we do not know that the mind should keep quiet common sense, then it will form the delusional behavior of "Yuan Qi", and the vain behavior of "Yuan Qi" will bring danger to the body. Knowing the common sense of peace of mind, all parts of the body will be tolerant, all parts of the body will be tolerant, the "qiless" market can be fair, the distribution of "no qi" will be fair, and the body will be in a unified and balanced state. It is the state of unity and equilibrium that conforms to the fast state of nature. The unified equilibrium state of the natural fruit is the non-plank of the Tao, and the non-existent state that is in line with the Tao can exist for a long time, so that there will be no danger in life, Chapter 17: Too High and Low To Know
{Too high, the lower knows; second, the relatives and the honor; second, fear; second, insult.} There is not enough faith, there is unbelief. Leisurely and expensive words. When the work is accomplished, the people all say: I am natural. }(Pass this work "I don't know what to do")
Commentary:
What is the purpose of this chapter? In the clear desire to clear the heart. What is Taishang? After Cheng Jing returns to purity, at the beginning of the Yuan, it is called Taishang. What is "knowledge of what is known"? After the condensation of the gods, all the people return to the sect, which is said to be known below; condensed in the inside, it is said to be there; and the lower is also the sect. Knowing what is, its sex melts also. Melt, kiss, honor, why? Be on guard against it. Pro also, fear of loss, close to (back). Yu Ye, I want to contain taihe to cultivate it, and to keep the extreme quiet to cast it. The key to forging swords is all obtained in forgetting, quietly picking, forgetting in picking, is pro-also, honorary also. If you are close to it, you are honored, why should you be afraid of it? Why? I am not alarmed, I am afraid of falling into the stubborn emptiness, its emptiness is stubborn, the fire is scattered, and there are many harms, but I am afraid to survive. Fearful and insulting, why not? A little impurity, its medicine bursts out, insulting my spirit, God is scattered, is insulting. Respect and perseverance, cultivate its true tranquility, pure essence, embrace the yuan and the void, do not let it be insulted, the north is really interesting, the faith is still insufficient, there is no belief and there are those who move? Quiet and faithful, but also noble words, why not? I believe in the truth and be quiet, as if I were silent. It is speechless, just like a noble word. What is a success? Isn't it a feat for the Dragon to get the pearl? Cai Feng Li Zhu, isn't it a matter of fact? If the veins return to the Sect, the sensuality is one, the unity is too harmonious, and the inaction makes it so. It's all about it: I've got it naturally and for myself.
Understand:
The immense power over the natural world, from top to bottom, is known to everyone as objectively existing. Some of them have the psychology of coming to the power of nature, and some of them have a fear of the power of nature, and the existence of these psychologies is actually the basic method by which he abandons the essence of the power of nature from his meditation. It is precisely because of the lack of integrity in the method of experiencing the way of nature that it is impossible to experience the essential information of the way of nature. Please be serious and pay attention to the importance of this karmic word to practice the faith! When you really practice according to the norms, then you can accomplish everything and send quality, thus reciting the power essence of the Path of Sound and Nature, and then you will say, "It turns out that my Yuanlu and the Way of Nature were originally the same disk you."
Chapter 18: The Avenue is Ruined
{The great road is ruined, there is benevolence and righteousness; wisdom comes out, there is great hypocrisy; there is discord among the six relatives, there is filial piety; the country is in turmoil, and there are loyal subjects.} }
What does this chapter mean? This is a good idea. What is avenue? Silence, silence and ignorance, called the road. The past is not the Tao, and why waste it? Not to abolish is not to be the Tao, and to abolish is to be infinite. If it is abolished, why is there benevolence and righteousness? Waste to the point of ignorance, all the veins, follow the rules, one by one, do not wait to be forced to come. Not to speak is to be benevolent, and not to be righteous is also to be righteous. Without saying or doing anything, it is combined into one place, in which there is benevolence and righteousness. With inaction, its virtue contains tolerance, and its quantity is restored, is there no benevolence and righteousness in it? What is "out of wisdom, there is a great hypocrisy"? Only by practicing oneself with foolishness and practicing with foolishness can one become Dan. There is wisdom, coupled with deeds, intentions, barely doing things, demons stacked on top of each other, obstacles are rampant, all are false, and great hypocrisy is born. If wisdom is born in foolishness, and demons do not invade, and obstacles do not arise, how can there be hypocrisy? If you are foolish and do not know, you are also false. The human body is false, the human god is true, there is a great falsehood, and it is called a great falsehood to remove its body and keep its god. What are the Six Relatives? Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, heart, mind. What is discord? Not seeing, not listening, not smelling, not smelling, dead-hearted, forgetting, called discord. If there is discord, what filial piety? Filial piety is obedient, and compassionate love is also. Loving the spirit in obedience, returning to the root of heaven, having the root of heaven, filial piety and motherly kindness, harmony of flesh and bones, mother holding her son, and motherhood of the child, is said to have filial piety. What is a country? The body and mind are also, the void is also also, and the life is also. What is coma? The mind is uncertain, entering the world and fainting; the mind is uncertain, and the situation is chaotic. Dust wants to gather inside, and I am in a daze. Qi is continuous, congenital is not born and faints; all lives are not spared, and the truth is absolute and chaotic. Body and mind are fixed, void is quiet, life should be, dingjing should be, Yuan Shenqing; faint in the middle, taken from the outside, outside chaos and inner darkness, gold and wood are close; external darkness and internal turmoil, water and fire are combined. The dimwitted meditate, the chaotic one intercourse, one meditate and one intercourse, the way of the gods. What is a loyal subject? The loyal servant is Yi Anya. Fine Chinese, white in Hao, intersecting and pure, combining and meditating, restoring the gods in the middle, and merging the heavenly form inside, is for the loyal subjects.
If we do not believe in the general norm of the path of cultivation, and when we abandon this great norm, there will be a sense of discernment between righteousness and righteousness; When the explanatory power of the consciousness is powdered by the star view, it will make the mind and mind produce unnatural, man-made complicated cultivation orders, so that the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind will each show their functions of card knowledge, thus forming a whole unmixed, unpolarized, so it is necessary to nourish and nourish the harmony of the whole: when the "godless" state city loses its neutralization and nourishment, it is necessary to be quiet and not fat, and to be loyal to the "Yuan God" to be neutralized.