Chapter 52 The fifty-sixth chapter is called Xuantong

Those who are truly knowledgeable and wise do not speak easily, and those who speak easily do not have much knowledge and wisdom. Close your door, close your eyes, blunt your spirit, reduce your disputes and differences with others, reconcile the colorful, and agree with the non-absolutely clean state of the world.This is the so-called vast and profound spirit of identification and advocacy. If you can have this kind of metaphysics, that is, a broad and profound identity, and a spirit of advocacy, you will not be able to be attracted by intimacy, nor will you be alienated and left out in the cold.It is impossible for you to be bought and used, and it is impossible for you to be framed and violated.You cannot be exalted, nor can you be degraded.

If you can do this, you will be the most noble and dignified person in the world. This chapter particularly emphasizes the so-called spirit of advocating the same, not seeking differences but adhering to the same, which is also a key point of the ancient Chinese sages' thoughts.Lao Tzu first talked about the relationship between speech and knowledge.He who knows does not speak, and he who speaks does not know. It is similar to Confucius' "Speak but not to do", Zen's "Don't speak, don't speak", and the Western proverb "Eloquence is silver, and silence is gold".In connection with Shang Tong's spirit, nonsense (exaggeration, one-sidedness, empty talk, boasting, and self-expression) is a cause of disagreement.

Of course, we also have other traditions, that is, the so-called tradition of insatiable learning and teaching, the tradition of indoctrination, the tradition of teaching every year, every month, and every day. Close your eyes and keep away from the secular world, and you will not follow the secular world, follow the fashion, and follow the wind.However, resolving disputes and sharing the same light is the reconciliation of the world (no matter how many weaknesses and negative things it has), and it is a gesture of affinity with the secular world, rather than blindly being drunk and sober. Everyone is turbid about my loneliness and indignation.

The premise here is the recognition of a unified and identical way.Since they are all manifestations of the Dao, there will be no irreconcilable contradictions among all things and phenomena, and there will be commonality. It is possible to find a common language and find a way to coexist harmoniously.Regardless of the refined and the vulgar, the elite and the masses, different ethnic groups, different religions, schools of thought, cultural traditions... all have their similarities but minor differences. Closeness, estrangement, benefit, harm, nobleness, and lowliness that cannot be obtained are good words of gold and jade, their meaning is deeper, their character is more noble, and their words are more kind.In that period of political turmoil and turmoil, people were sometimes guests and prisoners because of external forces and the environment; , Fate is unpredictable; passive everywhere, let others slaughter, let others play tricks, it's too difficult to deal with yourself.A few of Lao Tzu's are unavailable and too precious.

What are the meanings of incompatibility, estrangement, benefit, harm, noble, and cheap?It is to be stable, to have a stable environment, to have a stable mental state, to have a stable self, and only then can the Dao be manifested, can there be development, and only then can all the beauty be achieved. The biggest feature of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods was instability.At this time, you can only strengthen your concentration and static force, and recognize good and bad The principle of reciprocal rotation and mutual dependence of blessings and misfortunes, see through the non-morality, non-seriousness, and non-permanence of external forces and environments, and transform them into negative habits; see through the closeness and alienation, benefits and harms, promotion and harm of external forces and environments. The commonality of belittling: this commonality is to disturb your tranquility and rationality, reduce your personal dignity, increase your greed or fear, cancel your initiative and subjectivity, and make you use luck, catering, evasion, and Obedience, use as a show to adapt to the environment, strive for glory and prevent disgrace, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, think about the superior and fear the inferior, actually destroy one's own Dao Xin Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, and Dao.If you can resist all these, and you are not influenced by external forces such as intimacy, profit, harm, high or low, then you are a perfect person, a sage, and a philosopher!

The value of a person lies in the great way, not in the relatives, estrangement, honor, disgrace, gain or loss, high or low, misfortunes or blessings.This is too important and too difficult to do. Lao Tzu said that those who do this are the most noble in the world, the noblest, most precious, most precious, and most valuable people in the world.When Lao Tzu talked about other issues, he did not use such extreme compliments as "therefore the world is expensive". It can be seen that Lao Tzu yearns for, admires and advocates the realm where there is no closeness, estrangement, honor, disgrace, high or low, misfortunes or blessings.

It’s not that the official is expensive, it’s not that the money is expensive, it’s not that the reputation is expensive, it’s not that you can bluff and scare people, it’s expensive, but you can’t get close, you can’t be close, you can’t be honored, you can’t be humiliated, you can’t. It is beneficial to have it, harm it if it cannot be obtained, expensive if it cannot be obtained, and cheap if it cannot be obtained.Goodness!Especially if you can't get it and it's expensive, it's great.When a person gets it and gets it, it is synonymous with getting it and humiliating it.You think that a certain kind of power can add nobility to you, so if this kind of power takes actions in the opposite direction, it can just insult you, humiliate you and destroy you?If you have no desires, you will be strong, if you have no desires, you will be invulnerable to swords and guns, and the diamond will not be broken. This is the most precious and precious in the world.