The recitation of Tao Te Ching made me enter the mysterious door for the first time.

Chapter 15

original text

The goodness of ancient times was a scholar, subtle and profound.

The husband is ignorant.

Therefore, it is strong: if you are involved in Sichuan in winter; However, if you are afraid of your neighbor; Hey, if it's a guest; If Huan will thaw; Dunxi, if Jane; Open Xi, if it is a valley; Muddy, if it is muddy.

Who can stop the turbidity and quiet?

Who can live in peace for a long time?

People who protect themselves in this way don't want to make a profit. Only when their husbands don't make a profit can they make new achievements.

The eighty-one chapters of Tao Te Ching are all described around the word "virtue", and the first word in the fifteenth chapter is "ancient". When I received this chapter to share the theme, I didn't write it until the solstice of winter, probably because I wrote a lot of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, so I suddenly felt that I should go back to the source to understand this chapter.

These two words existed in Shang Dynasty. Tao Te Ching was originally called Laozi, not this name. In the Western Han Dynasty, Han Jing ruled the country in the way of Huang Lao. After practice, he thought it was too clever, so he changed his name to Tao Te Ching, which was later called Moral Truth in the Tang Xuanzong era.

This chapter can also be said to describe the state of people who have a way in the past, or a self-portrait of people who have a way. It takes a long time to become a Taoist from an ordinary person, so few people talk about it, and not everyone can do it, just as not all caterpillars in nature can become butterflies.

As for the translation of the original text, I won't go into details, and the annotations of various versions are not much different. I feel "luck" in this chapter, or it also exists in every chapter. Tao and virtue are related to behavior from the beginning, and people walk in Tao. The radical of these two words originally meant to walk carefully, think while walking, and watch the road, but later it evolved into a seal script.

The word "virtue" means "harmony" and means "climbing high and looking far" Good conduct promotes a person's realm, an upright heart, and walking on the right path, that is, as the scripture says, you should take the right path, but only the right path. Therefore, each chapter is inextricably linked, and there is no way to completely separate it. Looks independent and complete. Like us, each part is independent, but when we move each part, we will feel it.

From studying with the teacher at the beginning of the year to now, I woke up from the teacher's unique chanting, and I have also made many changes and gains in real life.

The teacher often tells me that writing is also an exercise, so I have been writing. At present, there are nearly 90,000 words related to Tao Te Ching, which is relatively easy to write.

There are also sensitive poems, such as Tibetan poems, poems about scenery, poems about wine and solar terms, which are all improvised. Some friends entrusted hundreds of poems and various blessings, but they didn't count them carefully. I thought it was precious at first, so I had to sort it out. Later, I got used to it, became like talking, and sometimes forgot to tidy up.

It is an indisputable virtue to cultivate a normal mind and bear the burden of humiliation, which I often realize in my life. For example, on the solstice of yesterday winter, a close friend made an appointment to have tea and dinner together. However, I told my friend that the solstice in winter is a special day. You should visit your parents and then rest and recover. After my friend did it, I was happy to say that this suggestion was great at night, and I also gave it to my parents and myself. I also asked someone to buy jiaozi for my in-laws and send it home. It's too far for us to go. As a result, the delivery man didn't know me well, so he told the old man that it was from my husband. When I called, the old man told me that his son bought her a jiaozi and sent it. For a moment, I was very unhappy. I thought to myself, your son doesn't know about it yet. How did it become a gift from your son? However, I said calmly on the phone, oh, I contacted the hotel owner to have it delivered this morning. Have a nice holiday.

After I put the phone down, I felt very angry, but it suddenly occurred to me that the key to this was to let the old people eat jiaozi. What does it matter who gave it to me? I suddenly let go. At this moment, it is the kindness and irrefutable virtue in Tao Te Ching that inspires and helps me.

Things with friends are Zhi Zhi in the Tao Te Ching. Quiet, it works both inside and outside me. Because of the close relationship, I confide that it is better to do something more meaningful on this special day.

In the first round of sharing, the teacher also taught many methods of self-cultivation, but they were not very clear. I learned half and guessed half, so I tried. But there are many ways. If you understand it, you can "win and lose", just like learning to ride a bike, you can't forget it completely.

Although all kinds of scriptures are unfathomable and exquisite, they are sometimes clearly visible!

The reason why we don't have an obvious perception, to be honest, is because many people dare not analyze themselves and face their true selves!

Who will admit that he is unreasonable, restless, negative, has done many bad things, doesn't like reading, can't control his emotions and is selfish? All these are the biggest obstacles to Ming Dow's enlightenment, and these things are gradually accumulated in people's minds from tiny dust-like substances. In the body, there is no obvious big scar, just take it off, as subtle as the morality in the body.

The Tao is often nameless, the garden is small and the world is incompetent.

Therefore, if you practice monasticism, you must get rid of those bad things in your body and mind. Therefore, those who have attained the Tao look at those who have not attained the Tao, and feel very sympathetic, helpless and stupid. Vulgar people often hold things that enlightened people despise, just like the story of owl and owl in Keiko, Xiang Liang.

It's really our practice. Holding a bunch of vulgar ideas is truth and we don't want to let it go. Is it not difficult to want Ming Dow?

Laozi's Tao Te Ching is known as the true scripture, and every sentence is the truth, but most people in the world take it with a grain of salt, that is, if it exists, if it dies, or laugh at it.

Every age is the same, and some truth will lead to death! Laozi lives in an era when he left because of troubled times. The world is in chaos and there is a danger of division. Making such a book naturally saved mankind, and the role of Tao Te Ching still has such a function.

The Tao gives birth to everything, and everything can last long if it is done according to the Tao. If you deviate from the Tao, life is naturally full of obstacles!

People have the ability of self-healing, and heaven also has the ability of self-adjustment and balance. Every individual is the smallest cell, but it is also very important. Many times in history, one person has changed and influenced the world. Therefore, change needs to start from self-cultivation!