Chapter 606: Lao Tzu
"Meet the masters!" Seeing the appearance of these people, all the martial arts teachers of the elite academy shouted very respectfully, and at the same time showed a very happy look.
In addition to these martial artists in the Elite Academy, there are also a group of peculiar people, their level of existence is that those demons in the academy dare not make a mistake in front of them, even if Zhou Kai allows them to summon these people, but the demon military masters of the academy do not dare to call these people around, let alone ask them to do anything, it can be said that they are sideways characters in the Elite Academy, of course! These people are not the kind of domineering characters, on the contrary, they are amiable, with their strength and status, they can teach any scholar they want, but they are willing to teach those disciples who are just getting started, and they are also willing to communicate with other martial arts teachers, and in the end, they are actually the same way, and these people can give them some help even if they are martial artists, and they are also respected by all the teachers of the academy as masters.
Lao Tzu, surnamed Li Ming'er, the character Dan (pronunciation: dān), the character or said 谥博阳. Huaxia nationality, born in Chen Guoku County during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty[1], was born about 571 BC and died in 471 BC. Lao Tzu was a great thinker, philosopher, scholar and historian in ancient China, the founder and main representative of the Taoist school, and was posthumously regarded as the ancestor of the surname Li by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Lao Tzu is a world celebrity, one of the world's 100 historical celebrities, and there is a "Tao Te Ching" (also known as "Lao Tzu") in the world, and the core essence of his works is simple dialectics, advocating the rule of inaction. In the 80s of the 20th century, according to the statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the largest number of pseudonyms in the world was the "Bible", followed by the "Tao Te Ching". Lao Tzu's thought has a profound impact on the development of Chinese philosophy, and is one of the works with the largest number of publications and circulation in the world. In Taoism, Lao Tzu is revered as the ancestor of Taoism. Lao Tzu and the later Zhuangzi are called Lao Zhuang. Lao Tzu is known as the first of the three great sages of the East, and the New York Times of the United States named him the first of the world's top ten writers in ancient and modern times. Confucius greeted Lao Tzu several times and prayed for the Tao. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Lao Tzu's first in the world". In terms of self-cultivation, Lao Tzu is the ancestor of Taoism's dual cultivation of life, and pays attention to the practice of being humble and honest, and not fighting with others. Politically, Lao Tzu advocated the rule of inaction and teaching without words. In terms of power, Lao Tzu pays attention to the principle that things must be reversed. Because Lao Tzu is the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu was also called "Taishang Laojun" by the ancients.
Lao Tzu was a great thinker, philosopher, scholar and historian in ancient China, and was respected as the ancestor of Taoism and a world-class celebrity. Lao Tzu's thought advocates "Wu Wei", and "Lao Tzu" explains the evolution of all things in the universe with "Tao", "Tao" is an objective natural law, and at the same time has the eternal significance of "independence without change, and Zhou Xing without dying". The book of Lao Tzu includes a large number of naïve dialectical views, such as the belief that things have both positive and negative sides, and can be transformed from opposites, which is "the movement of the opposite", "the positive and the complex is strange, and the good is the demon", "the blessing of misfortune is relied on, and the blessing of fortune is lurking". He also thinks that everything in the world is the unity of "being" and "nothing", "existence and non-existence are born together", and "nothing" is the basis, "all things in the world are born from being, and some are born from nothing". His aphorisms about the people are: "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency with more damage, but the way of man is not, and the loss is not enough to give more than enough"; The hunger of the people is as much as the food tax";" The light death of the people is the thickness of survival on it"; The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death." His philosophical ideas and the Taoist school founded by him have not only made important contributions to the development of ancient Chinese thought, but also had a profound impact on the development of national ideology for more than 2,000 years. Regarding his identity, some people believe that he is Lao Laizi, and he is also a native of Chu, and at the same time as Confucius, he wrote fifteen books to promote Taoism.
Lao Tzu wrote the book "Lao Tzu" with 5,000 words before he sent a letter to Guguan, also known as "Tao Te Ching" or "Tao Te Ching". The Tao Te Ching, the Book of Changes and the Analects are considered to be the three great works of thought that have had the most profound influence on the Chinese people.
"Taoism and Nature" is the essence of Lao Tzu's thought in the Tao Te Ching. As the most abstract conceptual category of the Tao Te Ching, "Dao" is the power source for the generation of all things in heaven and earth. "Virtue" is the development and performance of "Tao" in the field of ethics. "Tao" and "Law" have similarities in terms of rules and common sense, but they are different from Western natural law. The "law" should follow the way of nature and play its role in the reverse transformation of dialectics. Philosophically, "Tao" is the mother of the beginning of all things in heaven and earth, the opposition and unity of yin and yang are the essential embodiment of all things, and the opposite of things is the law of the evolution of all things. Ethically, the Tao of Lao Tzu advocates the virtues of simplicity, selflessness, quietness, humility, gentleness, weakness, and indifference. Politically, Lao Tzu advocated the rule of inaction at home, the absence of trouble and disturbance of the people, peaceful coexistence with the outside world, and opposition to war and violence. These three levels constitute the theme of the Tao Te Ching, and at the same time, they also make the Tao Te Ching progressively through the logic of "physics to philosophy to ethics to politics" in structure, from the way of nature to the virtue of ethics, and finally to the idea of ideal politics and the way of governance. That is, to find the right path to the ideal social order from the natural order.
The content of the Tao Te Ching covers many disciplines such as philosophy, ethics, political science, and military science, and is respected by later generations as a treasure book for governing the country, uniting the family, cultivating oneself, and learning. It has had a profound impact on the philosophy, science, politics, and religion of the country, and embodies the worldview and outlook on life of the ancient Chinese people. There is no pre-Qin prince, the people's thoughts, etc., that are not influenced by Lao Tzu. Its impact is also multifaceted, including political, chemical, scientific, religious, and so on. According to the incomplete statistics of the Yuan Dynasty, since the pre-Qin Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 kinds of old works by the Yuan Dynasty, and no less than 1,000 kinds of representative works, which illustrated the great influence of the Tao Te Ching.
And the sentence 'Tao, but Tao, very Tao.' Name, name, name. Nothing, the beginning of heaven and earth, and yes, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always none, and I want to see its wonder, and I always have, I want to see it. These two have the same name and different names, and they are the same mysteries. Mysterious and mysterious, the door of all wonders. The beginning of the book is the wise sayings of countless Taoist locks, of course, the wise sayings of the Tao Te Ching are not only this.
It can be said that in the elite academy, whether it is a martial arts student or a scholar, as long as someone related to the root Taoist family sees Lao Tzu, they will respect him for having a master, there is absolutely no problem with him, even if it is Xiaoyaozi, Zhang Sanfeng is like a disciple in front of him, and he doesn't even dare to make a little louder, because this is disrespectful to the master.
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