"The Tao is eternal and nameless. If the princes and kings can guard it, all things will transform themselves. If you want to transform, I will keep it with the simplicity of the nameless. If you keep it with the simplicity of the nameless, you will not be humiliated. If you will not be humiliated with tranquility, the world will be self-righteous."
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It took Xia Yu half a month to read the "De Dao Jing" carefully.
After reading, Xia Yu put the "De Dao Jing" on his knees, closed his eyes, and fell into deep thought.
After more than ten days, Xia Yu put the De Dao Jing back to its original place and picked up the second book.
"Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao; name can be named, but it is not named. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, there is name, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always no desire to observe its wonders, and there is always desire to observe its pleasures. These two are the same
They have different names, but they are all called mysterious. The mysterious is mysterious again, and it is the door to many wonderful things."
When he first entered Taoism, Xia Yu also read this book.
Reading it in a superficial way is like swallowing a jujube in one gulp.
Today, when I read it again, I felt completely different.
In other words, what kind of different perceptions shocked Xia Yu himself.
How could this be?
The same article, different mentality, different ages, different experiences, what I read are completely different.
When he was reading the De Dao Jing just now, he also had this feeling, but it was not as strong.
At this moment, his feeling became extremely strong.
Just the first chapter made Xia Yu fall into endless thoughts.
Suddenly, Xia Yu felt that just these few words seemed to explain it.
If "Tao" can be expressed in words, then it is always "Tao".
If the "name" can be named with words, then it is a regular "name".
"Nothing" can be used to express the situation when the heaven and earth are in chaos.
And "you" is the name of the origin of the creation of all things in the universe.
Therefore, we must always observe and understand the mystery of "Tao" from "nothing".
We should always observe and understand the clues of "Tao" from "being".
Nothingness and Being have the same origin but different names. They can both be called mysterious and profound.
It is not ordinary mysterious and profound, but mysterious and mysterious, profound and profound. It is the general door to the mysteries of the universe, heaven and earth and all things.
From the "named" mystery to the invisible mystery, "Tao" is the way to understand all mysterious changes.
Xia Yu felt that now that he was reading this first chapter, he discovered how superficial he had been in the past.
On this day and this chapter alone, he had been thinking about it for a month.
But in the end, he didn't get the answer he wanted.
However, he kept the Tao Te Ching firmly in mind.
He knew that this was what told the essence of the myriad avenues, but now, he still couldn't understand it.
I understand, I seem to understand.
But do you really understand?
And he doesn’t seem to understand.
It was an extremely confusing argument, but Xia Yu knew that he didn't really understand it yet.
After pondering for a long time, he started to read the second chapter.
"Everyone in the world knows that what is beautiful is beautiful and what is bad is bad. Everyone knows that what is good is good and what is bad is bad. Therefore existence and non-being come together, difficulty and easy complement each other, long and short complement each other, high and low lean to each other, sounds harmonize with each other, and front and rear follow each other. This is
A sage does nothing, teaches without saying anything, works on all things without hesitation, is born without being, does without relying on it, and does not live when his achievements are accomplished. He only does not live in it, so he does not go away."
Everyone in the world knows that beauty is beautiful because of the existence of ugliness.
We all know that good is good because evil exists.
Therefore, existence and non-being transform each other, difficulty and ease form each other, long and short appear each other, high and low enrich each other, sound and sound harmonize each other, front and back follow each other - this is eternal.
Therefore, the Great Sage treats worldly affairs from a non-action perspective and imparts enlightenment in a silent way.
Let all things arise naturally without initiating them, do something without adding your own inclination, and do not take pride in your achievements.
Just because you don’t take credit, there is nothing to lose.
After reading this paragraph, Xia Yu fell into deep thought again.
My thoughts are flying, but it's not the same as before.
Day after day.
Xia Yu often ponders for a long time after reading a chapter.
At this time, he discovered that he had only read books but had not really learned the knowledge in the books.
Even now, when he read the book again, he only understood it superficially, but did not fully understand it.
At this moment, he was extremely shocked to discover that it was not that the truth was missing, but that you simply could not discover the truth.
Because of personal naivety, even if the truth is right in front of you, you can't grasp it and you can't learn it.
This time, Xia Yu was not impetuous and thought quietly.
A few months later, he picked up the third book.
Xia Yu himself knows that I can recite the first two books backwards and forwards, but if I want to fully understand them, it will not take one day, one month, and one year.
Every time I look at it, there is something new to gain, and that is enough.
He planned to continue reading books and gain new insights. If he didn't understand something, he wouldn't force it. He would just wait for a while and then read it again.
Xia Yu opened the third book.
"One is nothing; two is the division and combination of yin and yang; three is the source of life; four is orderly movement; five is present at all times in time and everywhere in space; six is metaphysically embodied in
Physically."
“Tai Chi is formless and bodyless!”
"Nothing does not mean absolute emptiness, nor does it mean the relative correspondence between existence and non-existence."
"The nothingness of Tai Chi is full of infinite vitality; the nothingness of Tai Chi cannot be compared with the actual existence. Everything in the universe and the first man and woman were born out of nothing. The nothingness is so vast that thousands of solar systems can easily be
Accommodate it.”
"Tai Chi's yin and yang are divided into two parts and merge into one. Tai Chi's external expression is the combination of yin and yang into one, and its internal expression is yin and yang divided into two parts. One part divides into two and then merges into two to become one. The two elements are contradictory and interdependent.
Inseparable. Together they are alive, apart they are dead.”
"The source of life and life. The emergence of Tai Chi means that we have found the metaphysical creator - the source of life and life. Tai Chi's life and life, "Xici" describes it as "One life is two, two is four, four is eight, eight is sixty-four"
"Tao Te Ching" states: "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."
"Orderly movement. Absolute movement and relative stillness are the movement characteristics of Tai Chi. The movement of Tai Chi is orderly movement. The way of movement is defined in "The Book of Changes" as "repetition" and "original anti-finality", and "Morality"
The Sutra defines it as "reactionary action"."
"The movement of Tai Chi is, firstly, orderly movement, and secondly, overall movement. In the orderly movement, Tai Chi and its derivatives maintain integrity and systematicity. The eight trigrams and the sixty-four hexagrams, independent hexagrams do not exist independently.
, pull one hair and move the whole body.”
"In the eight hexagrams, one can see the movement of two pairs intersecting with each other, and the other is the movement of the entire circle. Among the sixty-four hexagrams, one can also see the movement of going up and down in one hexagram.
Movement. The orderly movement of the Bagua shows spring, summer, autumn, winter, east, west, north, and south. The orderly movement is inseparable from time and space."
"Tai Chi appears to have no beginning and no end in time, and appears everywhere in space. The eyes cannot see it, but it does exist.
Tai Chi is located in the metaphysical, but it can be seen everywhere in all things in the metaphysical. The heaven and earth, all things derived from Tai Chi, as well as a man and a woman, not only cannot be separated from the mother body, but also reflect the characteristics of the mother body - one yin and one yang.