Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty-two

If you can endure grievances, you will be able to preserve, complete, and accomplish certain goals.Instead of refusing to make concessions, detours and flexibility, you can reach your destination relatively straight.Being able to be humble and self-confessed is low-lying, and the gathered things and popularity are full instead.If we can cherish the old and cherish the history, we will be able to update the new and establish the new and seek the new.Ask less, be less greedy, and gain more.And the result of too much activity, too much talk, too much request, too much calculation and too much calculation can only add trouble and confusion, be at a loss, and accomplish nothing.

Therefore, a sage has certain rules, and if he adheres to his consistent principles and paths, he can become a model for the world. Don't always stare at yourself and express yourself blindly, what you see and think will be more clear.Not self-righteous, so can have influence and prestige.Don't brag about yourself, show yourself, that's why you really make a contribution.Not conceited, so the image is tall and can inspire others.Precisely because he does not fight for fame and small profits, there is no one in the world who is his opponent. The ancients had this saying: Only by compromising can we preserve it. This is not empty talk, and its effectiveness has been fully proved.

This chapter will cause controversy and even protests, because Lao Tzu only talks about the principle of compromise and compromise, and does not talk about resistance at all, and does not talk about the persistence of knowing what is impossible, and the sense of mission that if I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell, and I don’t talk about bending rather than bending. It does not talk about the inevitability of sacrifice and dedication, and does not talk about the lofty aspirations of writing spring and autumn with blood and blood, without heroism and heroic spirit.It is even suspected of the cowardly philosophy of surviving.

There is a premise here, there is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, we cannot use today's dichotomy of right and wrong to analyze the various situations Lao Tzu is facing. Secondly, from the discussion in this chapter, we can see how sinister the political and social environment of Lao Tzu's time was.Lao Tzu is full of confidence in his own wisdom and insights, but he has no confidence in his own strength and whether the environment he is in is so reasonable and benevolent.He has seen through the ever-changing ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, success and failure, and everything is reversed.He is used to seeing through the success and embarrassment of those who are eager for success, self-sellers, domineering, and fast-paced.He couldn't help but give advice, to those petty, blah, narrow-minded, short-sighted fellows, and those rash, pretentious, boastful, bullshit fellows to be sober, calm, and restrained.

What can I do? Twenty-five or six hundred years have passed, and Lao Tzu's advice is still of reference value to such a mediocre fool who is born endlessly. In the summer of 1980, when Deng Xiaoping answered a question from the Italian female journalist Farage, he mentioned some of Zhou Enlai's statements with himself, which can be used as an understanding and reference for this chapter of "Laozi".There is also a premise here, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping are not facing Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, but their own party and leader Mao Zedong after the success of the revolution.Their choice can only be that the curve will be complete, the vain will be straight, the depression will be full, the hole will be new, and the few will be successful.When talking about his "secret" of ups and downs, Deng Xiaoping emphasized "patience".

The Western world, which has absolutely no tradition of Laozi and Zhuangzi, also advocates and praises patience.Due patience can also be universally accepted. Because many roads in the world are not straight.Many good things that are taken for granted have to be done with time, price, hardships and twists and turns. Of course, we respect the protesters and victims, such as Zhang Zhixin and Yu Luoke, and we can also understand the decisive role and actual results of those who endure humiliation and compromise, especially leaders.We cannot assume that there is only one option, only one model.

Speaking of the newness is quite depressing. During the "Cultural Revolution", new things were trumpeted, and utopian things and personal superstitions were regarded as new things.At the same time regard the old as the enemy.It seems that mere newness, oldness, or oldness is not the criterion of value judgment. Underneath the newness is the essence. It needs to be identified whether it is a real new thing or a decayed feudal thing resurrected. At the same time, new and old are not diametrically opposed.For the treasure of history, historicism is just a relatively new concept and a new fashion; while impetuous pursuit of newness and impetuous abandonment of the old are just outdated stupidity.

As for the proposition of "If you don't fight, you can't fight with it", it's wonderful.There is a question of Tao here, that is, a question of understanding objective laws. Everything about a person is not obtained by fighting for it, but depends on his reality and achievements, his character, wisdom and career.Of course, there are still opportunities, as well as external uncertainties. "Xinfei's advertising is not as good as Xinfei's refrigerator", no matter how effective you are in your fight, it is not as convincing as your existence, performance and record.A person who cares about pennies and pennies cannot be a generous, confident, sure, stylish and image-oriented person, but can only be a Aunt Zhao-like character who is too selfish, narrow-minded, and full of half a bottle. .Aunt Zhao's characteristic is that her husband must fight, so she can't get anything; her husband fights all of them, so she can't do anything;

I also have a very personal experience.Do you have time to fight?With that time, how many more books can you read, how many problems you can think about, how many works you can write, and how much more work you can do!Which benefit is greater, which effort is worthwhile, and which time expenditure is more economical?Do you still need to ask? It is quite humorous to say that Mo Neng can argue with him.Competing and calculating will cause a vicious circle.The result of your fight is his fight, and the result of his fight is her fight.Conflict can also turn into vicious destruction.I can't get it, and I can't let you get it anyway. In the end, both sides will suffer. Are there not many examples like this?

And I just don't want to fight. Aren't your tricks to fight against me all aimless, fighting against the windmill?What are you arguing about, my brother, take it easy, it's all yours, okay?All I want is style, performance, avenues, and the true value, meaning, and happiness of life. The result of your struggle is a full stomach, a lawsuit, a hundred failures, a thousand grievances, and ten thousand grievances. I do not dispute the result is a clear mind and the best possible fruit. Of course, the struggle mentioned here is a struggle for self-interest, not for the truth and for the people.

Besides, there is a boring impulse in human nature to fight for strife, not even a petty profit, but a strife of emotions, of words, of slapping (read three times, the donkey's lips are wrong with the horse's mouth), The battle of making fun of, the battle of using strong words to show oneself, the battle of bad reviews, the battle of being full, the battle of being bored and having nothing to do, and the battle of being afraid that others will forget you.This kind of dispute is unavoidable between husband and wife, and there is also a dispute called sister-in-law Boxi, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.There are also many such disputes in the literary world among literati, and there are even more boring little literary ruffians who use competing with people who are bigger than themselves as a shortcut to debut.Can you accompany me?Absolutely not.It can only be treated as ignorance. There is also a realization that it is okay to express one's own opinions with edges and corners, but there is no need to argue at all.If he wants to make a false accusation, it is not a debate of verbal logic at all, but a different background and starting point, and it is invalid to reason with it and break logic.Moreover, the true nature of things cannot be changed by any ulterior motives. The best way is still to work hard, cultivate and harvest your own crops, strive for your own harvest, and show your tolerance and tolerance. Just as taboo as defaming and slandering is entangled debate.It is completely useless to argue about many things, and it is still possible to be helpless in the face of stalkers who are 100% reasonable.The reason is that a person's claims are absurd, inappropriate arguments, malicious attacks Criticism does not follow the truth, and its substantive reasons are often neither logical problems nor empirical or material collection problems.What an enthusiastic contender says or writes does not explain the real reason for his stubborn opinion, let alone the whole reason.No one should try to change who influences whom through debates, and even many bystanders will not decide their own choices based on the situation of arguments.Behind the superficial truth, textual research, factual aspects, and perspective disputes, there are often conflicts of interests, sentiments, factions, and backgrounds.Only a fool indulges in arguing and misses all business. The indisputable result is still the best response and challenge.You take petty gains and fame and power as important as Mount Tai, but I take them as light as a feather, and I don't care about them at all, what else can you do?The result of your fighting for everything is impossible to add a catty or two to you, and my policy of not fighting but doing is not in an invincible position? Lao Tzu's intention in this chapter is to make something out of nothing, and to advance through retreat.You have retreated in terms of fame, secular affairs, money, and limelight. Only by improving and contributing can we make progress, obtain something, create something, and make a difference.Of course, explaining this kind of truth to Aunt Zhao's men and women is playing the piano to the cow.However, there are countless such examples and results, how can it be a lie! As for not being self-aware, one is clear; not being self-righteous, so one manifests;Lao Tzu judged that the biggest obstacle for a person may be himself. If he only pays attention to expressing himself and selling himself, can he understand the world?Can he see and understand those who are stronger than him, and the truths that are better than he understands?Guang is self-righteous, and he has fallen into his own pit. Is there any brilliance in him that is worth showing?For a person who only knows how to brag and profess his achievements, who would want to admit his achievements?The more conceited you are, the more proud you are, the more you overwhelm others, the more no one buys you, are there not many such things? Laozi also expressed some emotion about this, that is, he blocked his own way, covered his own eyes, plugged his own ears, made himself ridiculous, lonely, out of the way, out of life, out of the way. crowd. Lao Tzu said that in ancient times there was a saying that music is perfect. This is not a lie.This shows that Lao Tzu's thinking also has a foundation.There have been similar summaries and similar examples in the Chinese folk past or since.If a man is capable of bending and stretching, if haste makes waste, if he can't bear it, he will mess up and make big plans.Such as Han Xin's humiliation under the crotch.Such as Fan Ju's feigning death, not to mention Yue Wang Goujian's self-defeating.