It means: The cyclical movement changes are the movement of Tao, and the role of Tao is subtle and weak. All things in the world are produced from visible tangible qualities, and tangible qualities are produced from invisible and intangible qualities.
This sentence comes from Laozi's "Tao Te Ching". The original text is: "The opposite is the movement of Tao, and the weak is the use of Tao. Everything in the world is born from existence, and existence is born from nothingness."
< p>Notes:1. Opposite: the cycle goes back and forth. One word means the opposite, the opposite.
2. The weak: weak and small.
3. You: This refers to the tangible quality of Tao, which is the same as the word "you" in Chapter 1 "named the mother of all things". But it is not the word "you" in which existence and non-being are mutually generated.
4. Wu: It is the same as the "no" in "The Beginning of the Nameless World", but it is different from the "no" in "the existence and non-being". The "no" here refers to the metaphysical world. Tao.
Laozi, also known as Lao Dan and Li Er, was a great philosopher and thinker in ancient my country and the founder of the Taoist school. He was named Taishang Laojun by Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty and a world cultural celebrity. One of the 100 historical celebrities in the world, the extant "Tao Te Ching" (also known as "Laozi") is the essence of his works. He advocates simple dialectics and advocates inaction. His teachings have a profound influence on the development of Chinese philosophy. Lao Tzu is revered as the ancestor of Taoism.