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"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs" This Lao Tzu famous saying is misunderstood by many people, because everyone likes to understand this Lao Tzu famous sentence literally. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Original sentence: Heaven and earth are unkind, all things are dogs, saints are unkind, and people are dogs―――――― Tao Te Ching

If you want to say this, most of the angry young people will tell you that the meaning of this sentence is: "Heaven and earth are cruel and unkind, and treat everything as lowly pigs and dogs, and those high-ranking so-called saints are no different, and they don't treat us ordinary people as pigs and dogs!"

Standard anarchist manifesto, standard discontent with society. This sentence can be seen everywhere in all kinds of angry articles, in the current third-rate online YY novels, the protagonist is usually weak and helpless, oppressed and unfair, so one day he suddenly woke up and shouted "Heaven and earth are unkind, take all things as dogs!" Immediately or enlightenment soars, or the body becomes a Buddha, or from a person who can be bullied by the small deflated three to a hegemon, and so on, and so on......

Basically, the thinking of these children can be summed up as an explosion of a sense of oppression that has been depressed for too long, as if even God owes them 180,000. On the other hand, these anarchist fellows don't have the courage to shout anything more bullish like "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning", and they don't dare to pull out a big banner and shout: "The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand!"

In the end, I had to shout the sentence "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs" to express a kind of grievance of being treated unfairly. To be honest, in fact, I sympathize with these people, anarchism is nothing great, a person has not experienced the stage of anarchism when he was a student, basically he can be considered to have no youth, I have also experienced the kind of thinking that I feel that no one in this world can get by with myself, the difference is that now I know that it is useless to complain about others, society is unfair, society is so unfair, if you feel that society is unfair, you only have to work hard to change all this.

But even if I understand their youth very well, I still need to say to these juniors that you are actually using the wrong sentence.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are regarded as dogs, which is not at all what you understand literally, saying that heaven and earth are cruel and unkind, and treating everything in the world as pigs and dogs, and the saints are unkind, and taking the people as pigs and dogs, it is not at all what you think about the so-called high rulers, who regard the people as lowly and humble.

In fact, the real meaning of this sentence is that heaven and earth do not treat things emotionally and treat all things equally, and saints do not treat things emotionally and treat the people equally. The original meaning of this sentence that you admire does not have the oppression and discrimination you need, but on the contrary, it says a fair truth, all of us, all sentient beings are equal in the eyes of heaven and earth, why are you now nibbling on dry bread, while others are eating seafood feast?

Child, before yelling at unfairness, why don't you want to think about whether you have sweated the same as him? If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it, why don't you try to reverse this "injustice" a little bit through your own efforts? Just shouting at the unfairness, screaming at the unreasonableness, waiting for a pie to fall from the sky to compensate for your grievances, your regrets, the youth you are losing forever, is it useful?

Some people may say that those rich second generations are born winners in life, but have you ever thought that his parents and grandparents also came from poor and white, and they have exchanged their blood and sweat for today's wealth, so that their next generation can make you envious, jealous and hate? No one's money is blown by the wind, and if you want to ask for it, you must pay it first, and it is just an equivalent exchange.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.

This one is for those confused children, if you misunderstand this sentence, you will end up in your own prison, unable to extricate yourself. If you know what this sentence really means, I congratulate you, child, and that's when you really grow up.