Lao Tzu's second chapter:

The world knows that beauty is beauty, and evil is evil. We all know that what is good is good, and what is not good is good.

There is no symbiosis, difficulty and ease are mutually compatible, long and short are dwarfed, high and low are mutually beneficial, sound and sound are harmonious, and they follow each other. Heng also.

It is to do what the saint does not do, and to teach without words;

All things are made and the Buddha begins, is born and is born, and is born for the sake of the Buddha, and the success is not lived. Fu Wei Fuju is not going to go.

The literal translation of Lao Tzu's second article probably means:

The world knows that beauty is beauty, because there is ugliness, ugliness as a comparison, a foil, so that beauty appears. The same is true of good and evil, where good is compared and foiled, and evil is revealed.

Similarly! Presence and absence, difficulty and ease, length and shortness, high and bottom, sound and sound, front and back, etc., are all mutual, one.

Existence and non-existence are mutually generated, and nothing comes from nothing, and nothing comes from being. Difficulty and ease are mutually beneficial, and there are difficulties and there are difficulties. Both length and shortness are only a kind of scale, just a representation of shape. The combination of high and low builds up the size of the space. The combination of sound and sound is in harmony to form rhythm and rhyme. The front and the back go hand in hand, and there must be a front and a back. And so on, it is an eternal and unchanging truth.

The saints act according to these principles.

According to the current social environment and the current situation of human history, the saint should do the opposite. So! Saints are generally inactive and unspoken. That's the only way! in order to maintain balance and maintain the wholeness of things.

The saint imitates nature and imitates all things.

Everything is like this: from birth, it is as if there is no ambition and only natural growth. When it comes to the final achievement, it is not considered to be their own credit, they are not appropriated, they are just completing the process of a life.

It is precisely because they do not take credit, but instead achieve their fame.

So! We need to imitate nature and all things. Because! It's the same with people, who just come to complete the process of this life.

Zhuangzi was very dissatisfied with the interpretation of his sister-in-law and Zhang Shan, so! This chapter has been reinterpreted.

Unfortunately! Most of Zhuangzi's interpretations of Laozi's "moral scriptures" have been lost and have not been handed down in their entirety. Only a small part of the interpretation is preserved in a fragment of his own article.

Just as Zhuangzi worried: Later generations made a big fuss about the sentence "It is a saint who does nothing and does not teach".

In order to achieve the goal of the culture war and to achieve the goal of dominating the world with their own academic thoughts, those "cultural gunmen" of later generations deliberately misinterpreted Lao Tzu's moral scriptures and deliberately interpreted them out of context.

In fact! Lao Tzu did not teach others to "do nothing" and "teach without words". We can see from the context that Lao Tzu did not mean that.

At the beginning of this article, Lao Tzu made a foreshadowing, writing that beauty and ugliness are relative to each other, and writing about good and evil is also a relative and subordinate relationship. And then! He also wrote about the relationship between existence and absence, difficulty and ease, length and shortness, high and low, sound and sound, front and back. After writing these, Lao Tzu wrote, "It is a saint who does nothing and does not teach".

Such! Lao Tzu was still not at ease, and was afraid that others would not understand, so he immediately made further explanations. wrote: "All things are made and begin, born and been, and succeeded but not lived." Fu Wei Fuju is not going to go. ”

If we interpret Lao Tzu's article as a whole, we will not think that Lao Tzu's thoughts are passive, inactive, evasive, and so on. Opposite! Lao Tzu is teaching us to maintain the integrity of things.

We can also understand it this way: Lao Tzu taught us to maintain the integrity of things. When the world is active, we can live with ease. When the world is negative, our life can be positive. Or! We can be a little more proactive. Such! Isn't society more harmonious? Is it possible to maintain the integrity of society as a whole?

In fact! The above understanding is one-sided, and there is no correct understanding of Lao Tzu's meaning!

So? What is the correct meaning of Lao Tzu?

In fact! Lao Tzu is telling us: imitate nature and follow the Tao.

After reading the full text of Lao Tzu's moral scriptures, we will understand the meaning of Lao Tzu's writing of this article.

However, the "cultural gunmen" and those academic spies dressed in Taoist cloak grasp the "literal meaning" and take the words out of context. They don't talk to you about the integrity of the article, they don't tell you about the overall thought of Lao Tzu, and they don't tell you about the integrity of Lao Tzu's article, but they just grasp what you say about "doing nothing" and "teaching without words".

And then! You will be labeled as "inaction", "inaction", "passive avoidance" and other hats to suppress you. At last! Suppress your academic claims. The ultimate goal is that your cultural ideas are not conducive to social development, GDP, and human survival. So! Block you.

In fact! It's not that Lao Zhuang's philosophy is wrong, it's a war between academics.

The war between schools is an invisible war, a war without gunpowder, a war that kills people in the invisible, a war in the ideological circles, a war in which political means are used to promote one's own academic ideas, and a war in which academic ideas are used to seek one's own superiority over others' lives.

Plainly! It's a battle for survival!

The right or wrong of academic thought is not a matter for some people, but about their right to live. More "cultural gunmen" and academic spies who don't care about the right or wrong of academic ideas. But! Care about how they use this academic battle to achieve their personal survival goals, to achieve their goal of superiority over others!

This is the root of this war!

In the past, these people used academic battles to show that they were talented, then became officials, and then they could live a rich life superior to others. In fact! There is no need for them to argue about academic rights and wrongs, but to use this debate to seek a prosperous life superior to others.

In modern times! These people take advantage of academic battles, show that they are talented, and then publish several "monographs". And then! is just waiting to get the manuscript fee, copyright fee, and state allowance. The purpose is the same: to live a prosperous life that is superior to others. In fact! There is no need for them to argue about academic rights and wrongs, but to use this debate to seek a prosperous life superior to others.

In fact! It's all about survival!

Lao Tzu wrote moral scriptures in the same way as to survive. Of course! He is not an old man for his own personal survival, but! For the survival of mankind, make suggestions and point out the direction for the survival of mankind. And most of the sentient beings are just seeking personal survival and ignoring the survival of others, even! Suppress the survival of others.

The same is for survival, and the results are different for different purposes. Lao Tzu is for mankind and hopes that mankind will be happy. And some people are only for themselves, and as a result, the society is even more chaotic.

In fact! The main purpose of the second article written by Lao Tzu is to ask us to imitate nature and the Tao.

Lao Tzu has such words everywhere in the Tao Te Te Scripture, teaching people to imitate nature and the Tao. It can also be said that imitation of nature is the main content of the moral scriptures.

In the twenty-fifth chapter, Lao Tzu directly wrote: Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the law of nature.