What does it mean to "live in the world with the golden mean, and live in the mind with the free way"?

Use the golden mean that is impartial and unbiased to deal with the world, and purify your heart with the Lao-Zhuang way of being free and easy, cultivating one's moral character.

Only by treating things according to the Confucian golden mean and achieving inner detachment by Taoism can one enter the world as a Confucian and emerge as a Taoist, and even blend Confucianism and Taoism into one furnace, allowing for relaxation and relaxation, and freedom to advance and retreat.

Confucianism and Taoism have completely different basic characteristics in their attitudes towards life.

One is vigorous and promising, the other is pliable and obedient; one is enterprising and enterprising, while the other is hidden and retreating, but this is precisely the real prerequisite for them to achieve similarity and complementarity.

In fact, Confucianism and Taoism are not completely isolated and unrelated, but they blend with each other and complement each other internally and externally.

Confucianism and Taoism complement each other and are an ideal life model.

Confucianism dominates the external worldly progress of life, while Taoism dominates the internal psychological comfort of life.

Therefore, Confucianism is manifest and Taoism is hidden, Confucianism is external and Taoism is internal, Taoism is within Confucianism, and Confucianism is within Taoism. This is also the most common life attitude among ancient Chinese scholars.