The meaning of Lao Tzu, the ancestor of Taoism, is: Zhou system, Zhou etiquette, that is, laws and regulations, moral standards, etc., can only be effective if they are used to restrain a small number of people who do not abide by them when the majority of people abide by them. When most people don't follow it, the law, the law, and the moral standard will be rewritten. Otherwise! It restricts the behavior of honest people and allows those who are naughty to go free.

Or! Some people use laws, regulations, and moral standards to restrain others, and use state power and other means to pressure others to abide by them, while they themselves are above them. So! This law, regulation, and moral standard will be rewritten. Otherwise! He has restrained the ways of the world.

When the right to survive of the people can no longer be guaranteed, when it becomes a constraint on the behavior of others and affects the survival of others, you force others to abide by it, and others will not abide by it. As a result of coercion, it is to resist and break the old pattern.

So! Society began to become chaotic.

The Zhou Dynasty came to this point because the princes, kings, hereditary nobles and others did not abide by the Zhou system and Zhou etiquette, and used the Zhou system and Zhou etiquette to restrain others, which caused social chaos.

The meaning of Lao Tzu, the ancestor of Taoism, is: Zhou system, Zhou etiquette, that is, laws and regulations, moral standards, are needed. Without it, society would be chaotic. But! After the chaos was formed, the world did not follow the weekly system and weekly etiquette of the past, that is, laws and regulations, and moral standards. But! Survive!

Whatever is conducive to survival, how to live. All rules that are not conducive to one's own survival, even the highest moral standards, will not be taken into account.

Of course! This is from the point of view of survival, from the point of view of human instinct. Not from the perspective of sociology, from the perspective of catering to social management. You can't buckle your hat! It should not be criticized because it lacks "social morality" or "low moral quality."

Thinking that there is no "social morality" and "low moral quality" is a misunderstanding of cognition. Because this is from the perspective of catering to social management, not from the perspective of human nature.

Pandering to social management is lofty, but it must be in line with human nature. Society is a combination of people, and society and the state cannot be above people. So! It is biased to manage society and the state from the perspective of catering to social management. Only from the perspective of individual people and human nature, it is correct to first manage people and then combine them into society and the country.

Just like cooking, you have to have rice, vegetables and ingredients before you can process it into a delicious meal. If you don't even have rice, vegetables, ingredients, or even rotten rice or bad vegetables, how can you make a delicious meal?

To manage society and the country from the perspective of catering to the management of society, to ask others how to be, and to fantasize about the beauty of the future society is tantamount to: how can you make delicious meals if you don't even have rice, vegetables, ingredients, or even rotten rice and bad vegetables?

First of all, imagine how delicious the food that has not yet been made is, but it turns out that there is not even rice, vegetables, ingredients, etc., and there is no food, so where can you get delicious and delicious food?

There are no two leaves in the world, and there are no two people in the same place. Individual people are like rice, vegetables, and spices, and there are all kinds of people. Individual people are not subject to your management, is it not like there is none. If no one is in charge of you, isn't it like there is no rice, vegetables, and ingredients? If you don't even have rice, vegetables, ingredients, or even rotten rice or bad vegetables, how can you make delicious meals?

So! If we manage the society and the country from the perspective of catering to social management, our stance and perspective will be biased, and we will not be able to do good things and make delicious meals. No matter how tempting you describe the future, you can only deceive those who have no brains.

The meaning of Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, is that we should stand on the perspective of individual people, from the perspective of human nature, and from the perspective of survival, first solve people's thoughts, so that people can have a correct outlook on life. And then! Only then can individual people be combined into groups and countries.

In short! It is necessary to give others a certain space to live and give others a way to live. If you can't guarantee the survival of others, others will not listen to you.

The meaning of Lao Tzu, the ancestor of Taoism, is: Zhou system, Zhou etiquette, that is, laws and regulations, moral standards, are needed. But! Only in the prosperous times can the world consciously abide by the weekly system and weekly etiquette, that is, laws and regulations, and moral standards. In troubled times, if you kill others, others will not obey.

In troubled times, people in the world abide by the rules of survival, and live as much as is conducive to survival.

So? How to save troubled times?

The meaning of Lao Tzu, the ancestor of Taoism, is to educate the world to recognize themselves, recognize the essence of man and man. Recognize the source of the world, the source of humanity. Understand what people live for and what they live for.

And also! In response to the current state of society, he proposed to emulate nature.

How can we get the world to follow the example of nature?

Lao Tzu proposed.

Tao is the theoretical core and foundation of Laozi's philosophy.

Lao Tzu preached to King Zhou Jing for the second time, and it was also the second time to preach to Fang Jishi, and it was also his third sermon.

Zhou Jingwang listened to Lao Tzu's preaching, and was very touched and couldn't stop nodding.

Fang Jishi listened to Lao Tzu's sermon and was also touched a lot.

He traveled over 2,000 years later and was a man who was deeply influenced by Confucianism. is different from King Zhou Jing, and it is also different from Lao Tzu. Because! At the time! Confucius's Confucianism has not yet been formed, no! It's not started yet.

After listening to Lao Tzu's preaching, he seemed to understand something: Taoism is the philosophy of life, the ultimate philosophy, and solves the fundamental problems of people. Confucianism, on the other hand, is just a philosophy of governance. Confucianism stays at the level of personal cultivation and catering to social management. The purpose of Confucian self-cultivation is to cater to social management, not to the person himself.

That's what self-denial means. Restrain yourself, cater to the society, and cater to the weekly system and weekly etiquette. If you think that everyone in the world is like you, this society will be beautiful. It may seem lofty, but in fact it is a dream and a fantasy, and it does not solve the practical problems facing us, but fantasizes about a better future. And also! Confucianism does not take into account at all: the world is not you, and it is not like you.

You can repent, but others can't.

You can suffer yourself in order to cater to social management, but others can't do it, and human instinct can't.

We can live in a different way, why cater to social management and self-denial? Isn't it?

You think that society will become better after self-denial, but the world thinks that that the beautiful world will only exist in the invisible future, and it will not solve the reality in front of me. Right now! We are faced with the question of survival, what can we do to keep ourselves alive.

Taoism and Confucianism are not in conflict, on the contrary! Complement one another. Taoism governs people, and then uses the Confucian set to govern the world, standardizing the behavior of the world, so that the world has a standard to abide by.

To put it in simple terms, Taoism educates the world from the perspective of moral thought and outlook on life, while Confucianism regulates the behavior of the world from the perspective of law.

Taoism teaches us to understand life and then find the right way to live it. And Confucianism! It is to use a variety of specific behavioral standards to regulate the behavior of the world. So! If Confucianism sticks to the law, blindly caters to the needs of social management to regulate and restrain the world, and ignores or abandons the fundamental Taoist philosophy and outlook on life, it is "putting the cart before the horse".

Lao Tzu's thought is not to ask the world to "do nothing", but! Let the world imitate nature, learn from nature, and learn from other things.

The second part of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" says: All things are made and the Buddha begins, and the Buddha is born, and the Buddha is relied upon, and the success is not lived. Fu Wei Fuju is not going to go.

On the surface, all things do nothing and do not take credit, but naturally, selfless dedication, but in the end they have achieved fame. So! People have to learn from it.

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