CHAPTER XXI The way of nature is quiet, therefore all things in heaven and earth are born.

? Original: The way of nature is quiet, so all things in heaven and earth are born.

? [Translation]: Heaven and earth, the sun and the moon according to their natural laws of order, only to focus on their own quiet running, heaven and earth is precisely because of this stable and relatively static and actually organized movement in order to survive, grow and develop.

〈Author's perception〉:

? "The way of nature is still, therefore all things in heaven and earth are born." The emphasis of this sentence is on the word "stillness", which is not exactly the "dead" equilibrium of linear mechanics in the sense of physics in mechanics that refers to any material phenomena, including non-systems, but rather refers to a non-linear dissipative system that is far away from the "dead" equilibrium of linear mechanics, which is the "dead" equilibrium of linear mechanics. Instead, it refers to a nonlinear dissipative system and a "living" equilibrium state which is far away from the linear mechanical "dead" equilibrium! This is a misunderstanding. In modern scholars in the interpretation of Taoist culture, often the Chinese culture of "quiet" as immobile, negative, conservative, absolutist "static".

Even people will think of the modern French thinker Voltaire (Voltaire, 1694.11.21-1778.05.30), formerly known as Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (Fran?ois-Marie Arouet) put forward the motto of "life is in motion" and the philosophy of sports, such as the concept of movement and the concept of life and other important propositions against the Chinese tradition. In traditional Chinese culture, Yi and Tao, Yi and medicine, medicine and Tao, etc. have always been intertwined. In traditional Chinese culture, Yi and Tao, Yi and medicine, medicine and Tao, and so on, have never been interconnected, and traditional Chinese culture, with concepts such as Tao, Yin and Yang as its core, is in fact a self-consistent cultural system, so that concepts are often interconnected with each other. Between the concepts are often interconnected, behind the deeper kernel hidden in a far-reaching logical system of Western philosophy may be inferior to the kernel, rather than isolated from the superficial surface meaning of individual concepts to understand the author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, said: "Things grow old, it is not Tao, not Tao has long been." Means that things, including human growth and development (movement) to a certain extent, despite the surface of the strong (strong) big, but due to the over-compensation of the over-consumption and under-compensation, resulting in insufficient material and energy consumption to support the growth and development of the replenishment, so that the system's own internal ordering loss of equilibrium (static), that is to say, marginal effect (with) diminishing, which is prone to the opposite of things to produce the phenomenon of the end of the boom and the bust, while the "the natural way of static" (Tao is the above trajectory of this equilibrium state), so that deviates from the above over this balance is not in line with the natural way, and if I know this truth, in the process of growth and development of the utility return is not enough to compensate for the cost of the cost of payment, it should be appropriate to stop to concordance or stop, because. If then let the energy consumption to produce income does not offset the output, this phenomenon is not in line with the natural way of behavior; and as a human movement, whether it is as a physiological ego of physical exercise or material wealth on the social super I economic activities (labor) and investment gains and losses are also to follow this principle, in excess of the marginal utility (benefit) is zero this equilibrium state energy consumption is too much, to reduce the unrealistic desire to spend with the inputs produced by utility (Benefit) control in the marginal increase and marginal zero between, and do not go overboard to produce the inflection point to produce the phenomenon of diminishing margins, so Lao Tzu also said "the way of heaven, it is like a bow and? Higher suppression, the lower lift; there is an excess of loss, insufficient to make up for it" is the truth, the key is to regulate the state control in the "middle of the road" trajectory of the operation, the state is also "static". It can be said that not only the human body's physical exercise must also be appropriate to achieve the movement in the "quiet", work and rest, but not that against physical exercise, which is the Chinese "internal and external cultivation" and "life double cultivation "The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product, and you'll be able to do that.

So, this "Jing" that can cause "all things in heaven and earth to come into being", as described in the "Yin Fu Jing", can also be derived from the concepts of traditional Chinese culture, such as the concepts of the "Zhou Yi", the "Tao Te Ching", the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", and other classic works, such as "Tao", "Taoism", and "Taoism". Tao", "Yin", "Yang", or even "Wu Wei", "Qing", "Zheng", and so on. "Yin", "Yang" and even "Wu Wei", "Qing", "Zheng", "Zhong" and so on.

? First of all, let's take a look at the above mentioned concept of "movement" which is different from the traditional Chinese concept of "stillness" put forward by the French thinker Voltaire and these Westerners.

"Life in the movement of the connotation is: the emergence of life lies in the movement, the movement is the prerequisite for the birth of life, there is no material movement will not have the emergence of life; the existence of life lies in the movement, the movement is the basis for the existence of life, to maintain the existence of life, but also can not be separated from the material movement; the development of life lies in the movement, the movement is the power and the source of the development of life. The development of life lies in movement, and movement is the driving force and source of the development of life. It can be said that without the movement, people can not live.

? Its extension is:Life movement not only includes plants, animals, microbial movement, but also human life form movement; for human life, not only refers to mechanical movement, but also includes physical movement, chemical movement, social movement and thinking movement; not only includes macro body movement, but also includes microscopic cellular movement, molecular movement, and many other forms of movement. So life is said to be in motion."

Why do Chinese and Western cultures have seemingly completely opposite views of life and the universe? So who is right and who is wrong? In fact, the reason why a culture in some aspects of its explanatory power and guiding practical significance, itself shows that it implies a lot of reasonable ingredients, so we do not first to draw their own thinking position, to avoid making their own thoughts into an untenable dead end in the world of thought.

? People tend to think about the problem, easy to fall into the absolute, so that will ignore the relative nature of things change. This is also true of the debate we are now discussing about whether the development of life and the world is due to "stillness" or "movement"!

? In the ancient Chinese culture of Yijing and Taoist theory, "static" is actually the orderly and balanced rise of the combination of "two" material phenomena (one yin and one yang) prior to the creation of all things in heaven and earth, i.e., the optimized state of the system! The optimized state of the system! That is, when the two states of "yin" and "yang" are stable, harmonious, and compatible, and are in the orderly state of yin and yang harmony and unity, it is the state of "one yin and one yang is called the Way" as stated in the "Series of Rhetoric of the I Ching", and it is the state of "one yin and one yang is called the Way" with the introduction of the recent modernized concept of "one yin and one yang". In terms of the so-called dialectical materialism that has been introduced into the modern West, it is also believed that this idea of "one yin and one yang is called the Way" contains the idea that "development occurs in the unity of contradictions and opposites", but it is important to point out that this state of contradictions and opposites is reflected in the internal state of the system. However, it must be pointed out that this state of contradiction and antagonism can only be manifested in the internal system when it is benign and orderly in order to make the host-object, internal and external system move towards orderly optimization, which is also the idea of "Lone yang does not give birth to a solitary yin, and a solitary yin does not grow," which indicates that there exists an interdependent relationship between the elements of the system and their competition with each other, but with the "mutually dependent relationship. The relationship between the elements within the system, but with "mutual growth" as the main, "mutual opposites" as the second, so the competition is embodied in the "entropy increase" and entropy depletion tends to maximize the difference with the weak and the strong, you and me, different "benign competition", "healthy competition". "Benign competition", that is, manifested as "grams but not hurt" or "peace is precious, focusing on participation, mutual promotion, the overall appreciation of the" purpose, this is also embodied in the Confucianism and Taoism This is also embodied in Confucianism and Taoism, "benevolence, righteousness and morality". This is "a yin and a yang is called the road, following the good also, into the nature also." The original meaning of ah! Visible, Confucianism's sex goodness is "seeking goodness", the nature of similarity, the habits of the same far, close to Zhu is red, close to the ink is black, the pursuit of the benefit of people and things and the combination of self-serving is the harmony of human society and nature, is the realm of the unity of heaven and mankind, and is the "goodness of the nature of the" the original intention, not the common sense of the so-called blindness. Not common sense so-called blindly help others to "do good" is "good deeds", often in life there is no shortage of good intentions to do bad results, in fact, is because although from the "good intentions" to do things beyond the target. Start to do things beyond the object of the scope of tolerance and did not achieve the appropriate "in" role, which is now used in economic theory terminology is the labor force and means of production inputs to pay more than the marginal utility (should be), resulting in excessive waste, like a cup of this object can only be filled with one hundred milliliters of water, and you are too eager to fill up the pouring action too much. Fill up and pour when the action is too large and rough, thus causing the phenomenon of overflow, so, in line with the "Tao of movement" application of "weak", that is, to calm and orderly and gradual side of the trial run, which is precisely the "quiet "The essence of, otherwise, it will be" move over full and loss, overfilled and overflowing "and then, for example, some people blind faith in Buddhism's" release of virtues "initiative, and some foreign imports of pets, such as snapping turtles when the local turtle to the wild! As a result, the original ecosystem of the local community has been destroyed, and the list is endless. It can be seen that this excessive "good deeds" (movement, labor) due to too "strong" beyond the "static" a balanced a "medium" orbit margin range "orbit of the marginal range, then, deviated from the" Dao ″, not only no good intentions to do good things instead of evil deeds, so that "the opposite of the movement of the Road, the weakness of the use of the Road". It can be seen that this is not contradictory with the "sex evil" of suppressing evil, the latter is to prevent the slightest step. Songshu - Wu Xi biography: "and want to prevent the slightest gradual, worry in the early bud." It means that when there is a hint or a sign of wrong or evil thoughts and behaviors, they are prevented and stopped, and resolutely prevented from continuing to develop. Then, "good" thoughts and behaviors will arise, that is, in the cup of water is about to be full before stopping, will destroy the natural ecosystem and release snapping turtles want to accumulate virtues of the behavior to stop or the mind to extinguish, that is, "no action but for". Good and evil is the embodiment of yang and yin, the development of life and the use of things is to suppress evil (yin) Yang good (yang), in Laozi's words, "Negative yang and hold the yang, and the gas and". In the constant comparison and choice and behavior unity, this is Wang Yangming's "knowledge and action" of the unity!

? In the history of any social country, organization, to develop a stronger civilization development, if the incidence of internal vicious competition and the resulting internal consumption is too high and too large, the organization lacks cohesion and centripetal force such as scattered sands of a plate, the country will also be divided into pieces of the turbulence, the hearts of the people do not know how to, and each other calculating on the overall system of the society's orderly optimization is caused by the internal consumption of too large and too high, and the compensation of the mutually beneficial **** win is not enough to offset the internal consumption, and the mutual benefit of the winners. Compensation is not enough to offset this internal consumption, will produce the degradation of the system, degradation is sometimes because it can not afford to spend and compensate for the balance of the disorder that occurs when the self-initiated or passive system protection mechanism to choose to retreat, this is a kind of self-interested "recursive weak compensation" (this concept is a folk philosopher Wang Dongyue said, he was to oppose the evolution of the cost of the balance of the system, but also to protect the system. This concept is a folk philosopher Wang Dongyue said, in order to oppose the cost of evolution brought about by the lack of compensation and proposed that human society do not want to scientific and technological progress, but even the necessary needs to reduce the degradation of the society to the primitive stage, the beautiful name: return to nature! This understanding is to get many people on the traditional Taoist culture on the recognition of a certain market), of course, if the internal elements (between members) still can not be compromised, one of the party with high desire or ambition to produce excessive inequality in the distribution of materials and waste and increase the proportion of internal consumption. Then the system is one step closer to extinction. This is also the result of nature's (or God's) selection, and the strong just go to be the passive fittest and survive the role of their own, which seems to seem to be the same as Lao Zi in the Tao Te Ching: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, with everything as ruminants; the sage is not benevolent, with the people as ruminants." Later scholars always use the above words of Lao Zi to indicate that the natural way of the choice of the unfeeling and unkind, a kind of let nature and the people of the society of the self-growth and self-destruction of the meaning. But they forget the second half of the paragraph: "Between heaven and earth, it is like a bellows? It is like a bellows between heaven and earth, but it is not unyielding, and the more it moves, the more it comes out. It is better to keep the center than to talk a lot." Certainly, heaven and earth is a large system, which has its own laws of operation, so its operation is based on the operation of the heavenly way and cannot be based on the needs or purposes of all things as its components or elements, subsets, elements, etc., but rather as a "saint" with the sustainable development of the whole of human society and the natural system, too. In this way, it is impossible to take into account the subjective needs and purposes of some individual members of human society (the people) as the basis for behavior, the framework or realm is different, as a person in the large system of heaven and earth and nature or the use of the function of the large system of all things play a different role in the utility of the system, which should be played to the human and nature compatible with the "guardianship" initiative, so that the human and the nature of all things This is to give full play to the initiative of man and nature on the "keep the center", so that the best use of things people make the best use of their talents, Henan words "in" is "just the right application" of the meaning!

There is a story in Zhuangzi to this effect. One day, King Hui of Liang gave Huizi a seed of a big gourd. Huizi took it home and planted it, and after careful cultivation, the gourd finally grew.

Huizi rushed to call his good friend Zhuangzi to see it. When Zhuangzi came, he saw a rotten gourd.

? Zhuangzi was puzzled, "What are you doing hammering a big gourd to rot for good reason?

? Looking at the rotten gourd, which has a capacity to hold six hundred pounds of grain, Huizi told Zhuangzi about his troubles.

He said, "This gourd can hold hundreds of pounds of water, but it's not that strong and will be broken by the pressure of the water. If I split it in half and use it as a ladle to scoop up water, I don't have a big tank to put it in. So, I decided it was too big to be useful and simply hammered it to pieces."

Zhuangzi sighed when he heard Huizi's words, and said, "It is not that the gourd is useless, it is that you yourself will not use it."

Directly accusing one's good friend is, after all, inappropriate, so Zhuangzi tells Huizi a story.

Zhuangzi said, "A man in the state of Song invented a medicine that, if applied to a person's hand, the hand would not crack. As a result, the man and his family earned money by washing other people's clothes for generations. Then a man heard of this medicine and approached this family and said to them, "Sell me the prescription and I will give you a hundred gold pieces. The family had never seen so much money. The money their family had earned from washing clothes for generations added up to only a few gold pieces. They had a simple family meeting and agreed, sell! The man who got the prescription went to the king of Wu, the ruler of the state of Wu. This coincided with the invasion of the state of Wu by the state of Yue. The King of Wu's soldiers won the war because they fought in the winter water without cracking their hands because they used the medicine on the prescription. The king of Wu heavily rewarded the person who contributed the prescription by giving him a fiefdom. It was the same prescription, some people used it for washing clothes, and some people used it for a fiefdom. You see, the utility or value of use varies greatly depending on the method of use. You have a big gourd that can hold six hundred pounds of grain, and you are afraid that it is useless? You can tie it to your waist and go floating in the great rivers!"

Finally, Zhuangzi lamented, "Huizi, Huizi, your brain is still not enlightened."

? From the organizational structure of individual life or the coordination and order among elements, to the construction of order in the social system, and then to the harmony between society and the natural universe. Visible, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign thought is common, modern generation in the West's so-called "dialectics" in fact, in China's Yijing and Taoism and traditional Chinese medicine thought has been systematized, of course, perhaps the difference is that the Western thought is more vernacular and easy to understand easier to understand and accept it, but there is also a point is to come to the country's people on traditional culture in the The impact of the inferiority complex of the West, which is relatively solidified in modern times, it!

? Therefore, Lao Zi in the "Tao Te Ching" also said that "the Tao was born one, two, two was born three, three was born everything. All things are negative Yin and embrace the Yang, and the Qi thought and."

? Here Lao Zi said on behalf of the "three (more)" of heaven and earth, or the world is by "Yin and Yang (two)" in the contradictions and oppositions in the "unity" to form a harmonious This state is the state of harmony between yin and yang (two), which is the new "one", but it is different from the "one" represented by the disorder and chaos before the creation of "two". I have discussed this mathematically and iconically in previous chapters using the coordinate axes of modern Western mathematics. In plane coordinates, the first quadrant: {(yang) ten, (yang) ten}, of course, it is important to note that {(yang) ten, (yang) ten}, refers to the reciprocal or mutual benefit or birth of the two systems of the subject and the object, but it does not mean that this is absolute, but relative! That is to say, the two systems are to their respective measurement, analysis, the process of choice inducted into the collaborative process of the benefit (Yang) is greater than the disadvantage (Yin) that is, Yang & gt; Yin, the attribute is embodied in the self-benefit (Yang) or mutual benefit {Li (Yang), Li (Yang)}, so that the collaboration between the systems will appear as a whole will occur in this mutually beneficial and reciprocal * * * win-win situation, or else if there is a benefit of less than the disadvantage of the benefit {Li (Yang) that is Yang & gt; Yin, the property is reflected in the self-benefit (Yang) or mutual benefit {Li (Yang), Li (Yang)}, so that collaboration between systems will appear overall will occur in this mutually beneficial and reciprocal * * win situation, or else if there is a benefit is less than the disadvantage {Li (Yang) that is, Yang & gt lt; yin, the system will collapse and decompose into a scattered sand of their own, so, benefit themselves and people and things, is their own and people and things *** win the direction of evolution, represents the direction of sustainable "life" is the direction of the system optimization state of the apparent yang and orderly!

Therefore, the ancient cultivation (true) such as Lu Dongbin also known as Lv Chunyang, the ancient Danjing "Sen Tongqi" author called Wei Boyang, "Wujing chapter" author Zhang Boduan and the number of "Ziyang", it can be seen, ancient cultivation (true) more than happy to take the "yang" of the Road number, the name to the epitaph! It can be seen that many ancient practitioners of Taoism (true) preferred to take the Taoist name with "yang", the name of the law, to inscribe the will! Zhi in the inner Dan cultivation process to "take the Kan position in the heart of the real, pointing away from the Palace of the belly of the Yin", that is, the Kan in the Yang gas to point away from the Yin essence, is to run the rendezvous and return to the body of its Qianjian Pure Yang as the goal! This is from the perspective of the main body on cultivation, health and longevity. And Lao Zi said, "The sky is long and the earth is long. Heaven and earth can be long and long, because it is not self-generated, so it can be long-lived. That is why the saints after their body and body first; outside their body and body. It is not because they have no self-interest that they can become self-interested." This is discussed in terms of the relationship of sustainability between the subject and the object and all things in nature. In the third quadrant: {(yin)one, (yin)one}, it represents the direction of "death" of unsustainability, or the chaotic state of disorder in the darkness, which is different from the pure yang state of the first quadrant of the optimization of the ordered system, which is the turbid state of the disordered non-systematic "positive one. system's turbid "negative one" pure Yin state. Of course, this is a mathematical simple touch type of expression, the reality of the relativity, different people and different things have different positions of origin or frame of reference, in the process of the process are in the yin and yang of the mixed state of the "three" (more), but only more yin or more yang and their own.

? It can be seen from the above can be seen that life is "(movement) and movement is the driving force and source of the development of life which is certainly, but does not clearly point out that the direction or form of any movement is to make life sustainable existence and evolution, optimization and development of the necessary, because, in reality, in the life of the movement presented in the life of life itself may even can be harmful to For example, some want to exercise through the body and excessive exercise caused by the strain is, so the movement to bring about health is a necessary prerequisite is not excessive beyond the margins of the movement of the body to withstand, that is, it is the right amount of movement, otherwise, this movement should be moderate, it is not necessary must!

? Chen Shou "Three Kingdoms - Wei Shu - Hua Tuo biography": "The human body wants to get labor, but not to make the pole. Shake the grain gas to eliminate, blood circulation, the disease shall not be born. Like the household pivot, it will not be immortalized." Therefore, life lies in movement. It means that people in the process of regular activities and exercise to have a degree, rather than excessive exercise can also be obtained and maintained health, only moderate exercise can produce health of the greatest wealth of mankind, but if excessive will produce fatigue, and even make part of the organ damage, but harmful to health.

? Many human thinkers often in reaching a conclusion, always have to make some logical mistakes, the original logic is: A (A + is the appropriate movement, A - is improper movement), that is, A = A + UA - (A is A + and A - the concatenation or sum), A + (appropriate movement) → (lead to) B (health), A - (improper movement) → (lead to) C (injury), but the result is to only get out: A (exercise ) → (leads to) B (health), while the subset of A in A- (improper exercise) → (leads to) C (injury) reality is ignored, so the resulting judgment is unscientific, this kind of unscientific logic can be seen everywhere in our culture, and some of them are even evil to our socio-economic life, and to the advancement of our spiritual civilization has also created an obstacle, for example, there is a possible For example, there is a "labor theory of value" that may not have been influenced by Voltaire's logic, which also says that "labor is the only source of wealth"! Unlike physical exercise, which is the object of acquiring and maintaining physical health (the physiological ego), "labor", which is the object of acquiring and maintaining economic wealth in the possession of material goods (the social superego), is also a form of "movement", the difference being that in the former case, the object of "movement" is the "wealth". The difference is that in the former case the object of "movement" is the wealth value of one's own health (the utility of the physiological ego), whereas in the latter case the object of such movement is the socio-economic possession of material goods (the utility of the psychologically evaluated superego). But since all are wealth value, why we through the above logical argument can be concluded that the movement may not be able to obtain to maintain health, and only necessary (appropriate) movement can be obtained to maintain health of this more logical scientific judgment, then, by the same token, as the socio-economic material possessions (psychologically assessed super-ego utility) to obtain to maintain the labor is also a necessary and unnecessary boundary, so we in the original "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the". Therefore, in the original "labor theory of value", we have to amend or make a patch on the acquisition and maintenance of "wealth value lies in labor" to clarify "necessary labor" and "marginal labor". The concept of "marginal labor" to distinguish it from the general idea of "labor is the only source of value creation" in order to make the logic of the "labor theory of value" scientific!

? Then, if the formation, development, and health of life can be attributed to the physical, chemical, physiological (physical) nature of the results of the material movement, then, expanding, the universe of nature is the result of the development and change in the "movement", but only, one of the results or produce a form. Because, ① life is only one of the universe of natural things, this is the "life" form; ② and the universe of natural things in addition to life, there are non-living forms of matter and its embodiment of the movement of non-living forms of matter, this is the "dead" form; ③ In addition to this, there is also the movement of transforming from the form of life to the form of non-life, which is the movement of transforming from the form of "life" to the form of "death" towards degradation or extinction; ④ The last kind of transformation from the form of "death" to the form of "life"; ④ The last kind of transformation from the form of "death" to the form of "life". The last one is the transformation from "death" to "life", which is the movement towards the evolution or sustainable development of individual → society → unity of mankind (the world is the same)!

Therefore, Lao Zi in the "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 45 said: "The big Cheng if the lack of its use does not harm; the big surplus if the rush, its use is not infinite. Great straight as flex, great skill as clumsiness, and great defense as a nerd. Stillness overcomes impatience, cold overcomes heat, and tranquility is the right thing in the world. This also coincides with the Yin Fu Jing's "the natural way is quiet, so all things in heaven and earth are born"!

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