To be precise, Tao is a rule of balance. Virtue is the application and manifestation of the Great Dao in the collective human being.

It has been mentioned in the plain book:

Taoist: What people do makes all things know their causes.

Virtuous: What people get, so that all things can get what they want.

Therefore, morality is a kind of rule in which human beings live in a group, and this rule is fair, so that everyone who abides by morality can get the benefits of morality. This rule is mutual, either good for both parties or fair to both parties, and it is not just good for one party or bad for one party, these are immoral. That is, the root cause of breaking the rules.

Lao Tzu once preached in the Tao Te Ching: Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. The saint is unkind to the people as dogs, and the focus is not on the dogs used in the sacrifice, but on the way they are placed in a stable manner during the sacrifice. The original meaning of it is fairness and equality.

And what is benevolence? Benevolence is good, how to distinguish the good, there must be contrast, there must be bad, or there must be bad, in order to reflect the good. So what's unfair doesn't mean what we think is bad in the conventional sense, and sometimes good is a way to break the rules.

The world knows that beauty is beauty, and evil is evil! What is good is good, and what is not good! Why? It is because of beauty that ugliness appears, and because of so-called goodness, there is evil. With benevolence, there will be contradictions.

During the Tang Dynasty, the world was full of beauty, but the world was born fat, thin, beautiful and ugly, all of them were the same, artificially separated from the aesthetics, then the thin and weak must be ridiculed, divided into ugly, and suffered from artificial unfair treatment, and in today's era, thin and weak are beautiful, then the plump will suffer injustice, all women pursue seven-foot men, and the other six-foot people suffer injustice, resulting in sadness, sadness, resentment and even the beginning of trouble.

How is the word benevolence reflected? It is good to a certain party, it can be called benevolence, how to judge? It must be bad for the other party, it is because heaven and earth are unkind, and there will be no misfortune if it is treated fairly, and if the saint is unkind, treat it fairly, and there will be no strife!

The morality we abide by is a kind of fair rules between people, and it is a stable, balanced and unflawed way of grouping and gregariousness. At present, all mankind can derive complete moral rules only if there is the land of China. This is all thanks to Mr. Lao Tzu, as well as Confucius.

In many cases, everyone knows the concept of morality, but if you go deep, you can't really understand it, and at this time, there will be a lot of pseudo-morality, moral kidnapping and other incidents, and the people can't tell the difference, and the scholars don't know the reason, so that they have doubts about morality, and then they don't abide by it, and even destroy it.

The main common causes are as follows:

In the eyes of ordinary people, morality should be noble, and noble morality is to do good deeds without asking for returns, which is the highest state of pursuing morality, in fact, on the contrary, the biggest mistake is this kind of pseudo-moral speech.

Ethics is about being rewarded for doing good, not not being unrewarded.

If they are reversed and confused, then the rules of morality will be broken, which is the source of chaos. The root of pseudo-morality.

For example:

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of Lu was very concerned about the slaves of Lu who were abroad, so he issued an order.

All the people of the Lu country who are away from home and meet the slaves of the Lu country in other countries must be ransomed, and they can be reimbursed by the state after returning to China.

At this time, Confucius had a student named Zigong who did not ask the state for reimbursement every time he redeemed his slaves, and the people praised him for his high morality, so they came to tell Confucius and praised him.

When Confucius heard this, he was not happy and thought that Zigong had done something wrong and undermined morality.

After the monarch gave the decree

First, the prestige of the monarch is increased, which is very beneficial to the king's further rule.

Second: the redemption of slaves is beneficial to every unfortunate slave of the Lu people.

Third: The slave redeemer did not spend a penny to earn high prestige and good karma in life.

[In terms of money, you can find the state for reimbursement, which is equivalent to not spending money, and the country will remember his goodness because he is rescued, and the slave will also remember his good. 】

Such a moral rule, which does no harm to anyone and is of interest, will be promulgated and everyone will do it.

And after Zigong ransomed the slaves and did not collect money, the rules were invisibly changed. So much so that later, when people redeemed slaves and went to reimburse, the people began to discuss:

You see that this person is doing things well for the sake of fame, and he is not really for the country and the people at all, compared with Zigong's noble morality of not asking for anything in return, these people are really ugly! Over time, no one wants to do it.

The consequences of changing the rules are:

One: The redeemer does not dare to ask for the reward he deserves, and does not choose to do such things again.

Two: The follow-up led to the monarch's lack of prestige, so the plan failed.

Three: And the slaves who were suffering outside became unhelpful because of this incident and continued to suffer.

What Zigong did was to be too benevolent to the slaves, which led to the tilt of the rules and changed from fair to unfair. So it breaks the rules of morality, thus hurting everyone and achieving themselves. Only the mediocre people who don't know why continue to admire Zigong's noble morality without knowing anything, and use this to coerce others to obey and do it, but they themselves do not obey it! So there is the so-called moral kidnapping, pseudo-morality.

Forcing others to not get anything in return by not asking for anything in return is ostensibly right, but at the root it is wrong.

Just like if you lose something very important, there is a small chance of getting the picker to return it in the name of morality, but if you run it according to the rules of paid returns, I think many times the loser will be able to find the lost item after paying some money to make up for the mistake they made. And the pickers can also do good things and gain benefits because of good luck.

The second story is that Zilu receives the cow.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius's student Zilu went out walking, he accidentally encountered an old man who drowned, and then sacrificed himself to save him, and then the old man gave him a cow to Zilu in order to repay him. At this time, Zilu was very happy, so he led the cow to the market and told everyone that he had saved people and got a cow, so he proudly showed off everywhere in the city.

At this time, many people felt that Zilu was too ostentatious, and thought that he should save people, and now not only asked for the benefits of others, but also did not know the modest swagger of the market, which was really excessive, so he reported the matter to Confucius, hoping that Confucius would discipline him.

But the answer he got was unexpected, Confucius actually said that Zilu did the right thing.

And why? Let's break it down

One: After Zilu saved people, others took the initiative to give things in return, which should be, because compared with life, things outside the body are not so important, and the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, let alone the grace of being saved by others? However, people think that it is the benefit that Zilu asks for, and criticizes it, and this concept of invisible change is the most evil place. Even if it is asked, it is as it should be.

Two: What are the consequences of Zilu leading the cow to swagger through the market? The consequence is that when people know that doing good deeds will be rewarded, then many people will do good deeds, and the next time they encounter someone who is worried about their lives, many people will come to the rescue. The previous story tells us that the moral rule of giving only and not giving back will not work, and that it is necessary to spread a good behavior at this time.

Humility is a virtue, but sometimes some things have to be high-profile, and it is fatal to block the spread of good rules under the guise of modesty.

Humility is for better stretching, and it is active, rather than passively accepting and forcibly suppressing in the name of modesty. If they are all so confused and modest, how can they recommend themselves?

From this story, we can see that morality is sometimes not what people think it is, it is just a appearance, and the most fundamental and deep laws are not visible, and it is easy to destroy the rules of morality.

So many times we can discern the disadvantages brought about by the so-called evil, but it is difficult to discern the disadvantages under the cloak of goodness. Only a sage like Lao Tzu and Confucius can tell the difference between a great wise man. Then it is not difficult for us to understand that the Tao Te Ching says that heaven and earth are unkind and all things are used as dogs, saints are unkind and people are dogs, and the world knows that beauty is evil and good is good. The deeper meaning of this is how to explain.

Morality is a rule, a good way to protect ourselves and protect them, and abiding by morality is never for others, but only for the better, smarter to protect ourselves. The law is loopy and unbalanced, so there are many people who will steal food like rats, and this kind of person is the source of trouble, dirty rats!

And morality is the only balanced human rule in the world, without any loopholes, and it is fair to everyone.

We have a saying that a rat poop spoils a pot of porridge! A person who does not abide by morality is like a rat droppings, he pollutes not only himself, but also the environment that all the people in our group strive to maintain, and when we see a person who does not follow morality, everyone has the right to accuse him and stop him! Because he has offended and harmed the interests of each of us!

When we encounter people who do not abide by morality, we are destroying our own interests and destroying the environmental rules that we all strive to maintain, and each of us has the right to stop it, and the reason why no one stops it is not because there are no good people, nor because we don't know how to protect ourselves, but because we can get fair treatment and fair rewards after we stop it. If good people uphold the rules of morality but do not receive good rewards and fair treatment, then this is the root cause of the spread of evil.

Criticizing people's apathy is not the root of the problem. This is a stupid and ignorant approach, and what chills people's hearts is that after doing good deeds, there is no one to protect and no one to reciprocate. What indifferently society is that the wicked are not punished with the intensity they deserve.

It is never an empty phrase that the wicked will be rewarded for their evil, but there are more people in our society who choose the so-called benevolence and tolerance to bear the consequences of their evil.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are destroyed by the fairness of the dog, and the avenue is lost, and benevolence and righteousness are what it means!

We don't need to be bad, but we don't need to be good to a certain party, or force us to choose tolerance and forgiveness to a certain party in the name of morality, which is unfair and evil, I call it hypocrisy!

The great evil in the world, the first thing to promote hypocrisy, those who persuade people to be kind, tolerate mistakes, condone evil, and destroy the balance are the biggest and most disgusting bad people in the world!

Therefore: the end of goodness is not evil, but because of goodness is not rewarded! Evil is constant, not good and nothing, but because evil is not punished!