Chapter 52 Chapter 10 Eradication of Heroes

Those who are good at building will not be pulled out, those who are good at holding will not be removed, and the descendants will not stop offering sacrifices.If you cultivate it in your body, your virtue will be true; if you cultivate it in your family, your virtue will be superfluous; if you cultivate it in your country, your virtue will grow;Therefore, observe the body by the body, the family by the family, the village by the village, the state by the state, and the world by the world.How do I know what the world is like?With this. —Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching · Chapter 54" Everything in the world is born from "being, and "being" is born from "nothing". In Laozi's philosophy, any material and spiritual things have "nothing" as the highest state. This "nothing" is not necessarily "nothing". Just like "emptiness" in Buddhism, "nothingness" in Taoism is a state of "existence", a formless, formless, colorless, tasteless, and incomprehensible "existence".

Everything that exists is not as real and permanent as "nothing". In the world, what is built on the outside is easy to be pulled out, and what is held in the hands is easy to be taken away. Therefore, those who are good at building build their foundations in the invisible, and those who are good at embracing also embrace the invisible.What is built in the invisible is the virtue in the heart, and what is embraced in the invisible is the Tao in the chest.This kind of building morality and holding the Tao can not only be enjoyed by oneself, but also benefit the descendants, for generations to come.

With this kind of invisible moral self-cultivation, this person's virtue must be true enough. If this kind of invisible morality is promoted in the family, this kind of virtue must be more than enough. If this invisible morality is extended to a country, its virtues will surely be abundant.If this kind of morality is extended to the world, true virtue can be widely spread in the world. Only those who have moral self-cultivation can view others from themselves, view other families from their own family, view other countries from their own hometown, view other countries from their own country, and view the real world from the world they feel.

It is with such a mentality and standpoint that a man of virtue can see through everything in the world and truly understand the principles of permanence and barbarism in the world.