[The extras I wrote in my spare time in the past have nothing to do with this book. I sorted out and sent them out as compensation for various leave requests before. If you don’t want to read it, you can skip it.]

Previously, a reader asked me to write the extras of Buddhism and Taoism, which I placed at the end of the book "Blue and White Society", calling the principles of Taoism and the enlightenment of Buddha.

The extra chapter describes the principles of Taoism. I started it and drew a frame. I didn’t go into it in depth, and at most I calculated the order.

I said at that time that if I had to talk about it, I might not finish it in my life...

Take [Tao] for example. One word can be used to explain one article. If you want to preach, you must first talk about [Yi]. If Yi wants to make you understand in a popular way, God knows how many extra chapters you need... My own research on the Book of Changes may be just an introduction.

Some things are in my heart, but if you want to break them apart, you still have to understand them with interest. It is so difficult to reach the sky.

Otherwise, the Tao cannot be said.

After thinking about it, I have been struggling with all my thoughts. I have no idea where to start, because if I want to understand one, I must first understand another, and the other will unfold, and I need to first understand a lot of pre-contents.

It is connected in series and circumference into a huge ring, which is like a galaxy in the mind, and countless forces affecting it is very difficult to tell.

I can only downplay some of them first and highlight a certain part.

To sort out a directory:

The mother of nature in the universe is the Tao, and the source of birth and death of all things is virtue.

The core of Chinese culture is Yi, and the light of human civilization is etiquette.

I won’t talk about this extra chapter, I will talk about this directory first, otherwise I will not be able to talk about it later.

The Mother of the Universe and Nature is the Tao, which is easy to understand but not easy to understand.

I have said in the previous episode that [Tao] is the most source, most essential, and most inactional existence. It can be understood as the law of nature, but in fact it is even bigger.

It should be the ultimate truth of the universe. It does nothing but does everything, exists silently, and everything moves for it.

We can only see the essence through phenomena and let you realize Him through other concepts, and I cannot speak directly.

For this reason, I gave a division in the previous episode, which is determined as: Tao, principle, law, and technique according to the depth level.

It is recommended to read the extra "The Enlightenment of the Buddha's Enlightenment of the Tao: The Literature of the Tao" and then understand this article.

The Tao of Tao is called nature, the principles of Tao are called Yi, the laws of Tao are called law, and the art of Tao is called technology.

Why I divide it like this is due to my understanding of the Tao Te Ching. I don’t say much, but only talk about the conclusion. I built a model based on Lao Tzu’s “Four Elements in the Domain”.

"Laozi": Dao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and people are also great. There are four major elements in the domain.

Tao, principle, law, and art are its basic models.

The domain is very simple, and can be regarded as the universe. Lao Tzu is talking about the principles and magic of the universe, namely Tao, heaven, earth, and man.

Translation: The Tao of the universe is called nature, the principles of the universe are called heaven, the laws of the universe are called earth, and the art of the universe is called man.

In fact, the Tao of the universe is called Tao, and its manifestation is nature, which is considered a forced description.

The "Heaven" and "Earth" here do not refer to the sky and the earth, it is only part of it.

Humans do not refer to our late Homo sapiens. We are only part of the concept of ‘man’. Forced translation can refer to intelligent creatures.

That is just a title. As the times change, the concept needs to be updated. This is the truth of Yi, that is, change.

Lao Tzu talks about the essence of concepts. The concept of earth is to carry all things, and everything is reproduced and flourished. It is extremely stable and is a platform for movement for everything.

So it was called Earth in ancient times. Now that we have a broad vision, we will know that time and space themselves are "earth", and "Heaven" is the thing that covers time and space beyond time and space.

Heaven and earth are just names, synonyms, and use phenomena to convey that concept.

Someone may ask, aren’t you forcibly substituting this?

No, the Tao Te Ching talks about concepts throughout the chapter, and all the specific references are just examples.

The beginning of the article clearly states, set the tone for the entire Tao Te Ching: "The Tao is good, the Tao is not, the Tao is not, the Tao is not, the Tao is not. The name is good, the name is not, the name is not, the name is not.'

The concept of Tao can be defined or not, this is the most natural manifestation of Tao.

A thing can be symbolized by a certain name, but it cannot be symbolized by that thing. This is the longest-lasting appearance of the name.

That said, you may not understand.

For example: Zhang San feels that life must be vigorous, like fire, and Li Si feels that life must be gentle and peaceful, like water.

Is it like fire or water? It's OK, nor can it be.

One person thinks a stone looks like a tiger, the other person may think it looks like a leopard. After a while, it cracks, and some people call it Flowering Steamed Bun Rock.

Can something have an eternal name? Impossible, will a certain concept always be correct? Impossible.

Newton laid the foundation for mechanics and felt that he had found the truth, and was then overturned.

The definition of kilograms has changed again and again, and the number of planets in the solar system also changes according to the definition. These changes are "Yi" and are the principles of Tao.

Just like in "The All-information", I wrote that the cloud ghost has a different vision than that of humans. Humans think that the earth is a ball, but the cloud ghost thinks that the earth is a radio arc, like a fire.

Therefore, Lao Tzu's concept of "land" refers to essence, not the land itself.

Knowledge will continue to change, be eliminated, and be updated, but wisdom will not. The culture left to us by our ancestors is wisdom, not knowledge.

In fact, there is nothing right or wrong in any behavior, only whether it should be or not.

Names, symbols, etc. are virtual and defined by humans. Everything in the world is changing, and only the essential things remain unchanged.

The essential changes are always there, and they can be named, but not named. Everything is right, nothing is right.

This is Tai Chi, and one yin and one yang are called Tao. Everything is like this, right, right, right, right, right, right, neither left, right, the great way is changeable and moderate, ruthless and extremely emotional.

This is: "The Tao can be, the Tao is not, and the Tao is not, and the Tao is not. The name can be, the name is not, and the name is not, and the name is not, and the name is not!"

There is a distraction here. Why do I have to break the sentence like this? It is purely because I think this is more reasonable and is more like my typeface.

Because he wrote later on, "No name, the beginning of heaven and earth, name, and the mother of all things. Always "no desire" to observe its wonders, always "desire" to observe its destiny."

All are symmetrical parallels of "existence" and "no".

Then the beginning of the previous one should also be Tao, Tao, name, name, name, this kind of parallelism.

In comparison, the mainstream pronunciation now is very awkward, "Tao can be told, but it is extraordinary", which means that what Tao can be said is not the long-term Tao.

In the same sentence, the word Tao in the first sentence refers to a noun, and the word Tao in the second sentence refers to a verb. It feels like it does not match the following text. After all, the word Tao in the whole chapter of the Tao Te Ching is only used to refer to the mother of nature.

It seems like I am deliberately speaking in an obscure direction, but in fact I have always tried to speak in a simple direction.

Of course, this is the same as my sentence, and the meaning is basically unchanged, so it doesn’t matter. You can believe in any kind of thing. This is the invisible way and the invisible sky.

I even suspect that I have a fun job here, and I really have a very meaningful statement. No matter how you break this sentence, the meaning is almost the same... the essence is the same, it is really amazing!

Even if Tao can be, Tao is very good. Name can be very good. This is a good sentence! (The concept of definition must not be a long-term concept, and the name of definition must not be a long-term name).

This is so awesome...it is impossible to misinterpret his meaning.

Going back to the main topic, Tao is Tao. It has existed since ancient times, where everything is the source of all things. I just gave him a name and tried to describe it.

Even so, I will tell you at the beginning: What I am talking about is not Tao.

What does it mean? It means that he wrote a paper and told everyone at the beginning: Just look at it, don’t take what I said too seriously.

This is the realm of Taoist sages.

Those who are willing to believe in me will be regarded as the norm, and those who are unwilling to believe in me will have fun.

In fact, this kind of thought has long been integrated into our bones: no struggle, no action.

Note that it is not about never fighting, nor about inaction forever. Just knowing to blindly act is not about inaction, that is not about inaction, that is a dead person.

Blindly doing nothing itself violates the concepts conveyed by the Tao Te Ching, itself violates the Tao and the principles of Yi.

To change, be flexible, and to guide the situation. Water is the thing that knows how to guide the situation best, so I said that the best good is like water. He did not say that the best good is not moving!

The original saying is "doing nothing but doing everything". You can do nothing and do anything. Do what you want, do what you don't want to do, and don't do what you shouldn't do.

Do not do extra things, do what you deserve.

Do not do anything that cannot be done.

It is necessary to do what you should do! Even if there are thousands of people, I will go!

This is the orthodox thought of Tao. It is a fusion of act and non-doing, and it is Tai Chi.

Swing left and right, searching up and down, but it is not a fence-bearing, but a wavy line, which is [~]. The inverted S, what is this? This is the dividing line in Tai Chi!

Confucianism calls it the doctrine of the mean, Taoism calls it the "Yi", which was symbolized by the "dragon" in ancient times!

A dragon can rise and hide, a big or small one, but not a tail when it sees the head. A dragon must regret it! The lonely yin does not grow, and the lonely yang does not grow!

This is a very mysterious state, sometimes it is yang, sometimes it is yin, and when it is yang, it is yang, it is actually neither yang nor yin. One yin and one yang are called Tao.

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Then what is what should be done and what should not be done must be explained clearly.

What is virtue? The word "动" is "动", "动" and "动". It is the simplest and most direct truth of the human heart.

Indeed, the different characters of De are called "正".

But this is just a superficial virtue, and its different characters appeared in the Han Dynasty.

The original character De is actually an extended character after the sublimation of the concept of "de".
To be continued...