What is the meaning of the phrase "man follows the law of the earth"?

1. This sentence is from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, which means that in the vast and boundless universe, human beings should follow the example of the earth as they are carried by the earth; and the earth is covered by the sky, so the earth should follow the laws of the sky at all times. These are the secret words of the great master, the essence of Laozi's thought.

2. However, the Tao is also the source of the heavens, so the heavens follow the laws of the Tao; the Tao is the mother of all things in heaven and earth. Tao is the mother of all things in heaven and earth, and its nature is inaction, and its development and change are natural, which again seems to be the behavior of Tao in imitation of nature, and thus it is said that "Tao follows nature. In fact, "nature" is the nature of "Tao", and "Tao" is originally natural and inactive.

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1. "Man is the law of the earth" means that he is able to be at peace with himself according to his own limitations, i.e., he is able to clarify the full energy of his own existence from the equivocal contrasting emulation, and to ascend to the meaning of the law.

2. "The law of the earth is the law of heaven," which means that the earth's full load is nurtured by the work of heaven in carrying out the four seasons, and that this is only a way of clarifying the full energy of one's own existence from the equal and opposite emulation of the law of ascension, rather than saying that the earth acquires something other than its own existence in the form of emulation of the heavenly form.

3. "The law of heaven is the law of the way," and the law of the four great powers is only the law of themselves in relation to the greatness of their nature, and the meaning of the law of heaven is the same as in the two preceding places. The significance of the heavens is more ethereal than the earth because our understanding of the heavens is a cyclical concept summarized from the alternation of the sun and moon, the four seasons, and the changes of the six qi, but in any case, compared to the Tao, it still only has these can be. And there can be no transcendence.

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? Tao Te Ching - Baidu Encyclopedia