Original text:
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and everything is a grass dog; Saints are ruthless and treat people like pigs. Between heaven and earth, is it still ambiguous? Empty but not bent, I moved out. Better be poor than stay in the middle.
Chapter purport:
This chapter is a continuation of the previous chapter to further discuss "Daochong". Here "humanity" is inferred from "heaven" and "society" is inferred from "nature". The core idea is to explain the benefits of quietism.
This chapter uses metaphors to explain how to correctly understand and treat nature, and discusses that heaven and earth belong to nature, and society should conform to nature and keep quiet and vivid.
Precautions:
Chú dog: A dog made of grass. It was used for sacrifice in ancient times. After the sacrifice, throw it away or burn it. Metaphor is cheap and useless. The metaphor of this paper is that heaven and earth are indifferent to everything, and saints are indifferent to the people and let them die. As Wu Cheng said in the Yuan Dynasty: "Grass dogs are tied into the shape of dogs with grass, which is also used to pray for rain. After praying, I abandoned it, with no intention of cherishing it. Heaven and earth have nothing to love, let it live; The sage has no intention of loving the people, but let it die, so he uses an straw dogs as a metaphor. "
Tuó yuè: Yuda, a figurative word, meaning "like" and "as if"; In ancient smelting, the combustion-supporting appliances used to blow fire-ladle and air duct-were ancient bellows.
G incarnation: Do your best.
Yu: Tongyu means more.
Smell more and count less: sense of smell, experience and knowledge. Lao Tzu thinks that knowing a lot is wise, on the other hand, government decrees are cumbersome, conan the destroyer. Numbers: The word "speed" means to accelerate. Poverty: trapped and poor, working hard, there is no way to do it.
English: "Chong" means inner emptiness. Keep the center: keep silent.
Translation:
There is no love between heaven and earth, it regards everything as a dog tied by grass; Sages have no kindness, treating people like grass and binding dogs. Isn't heaven and earth like bellows? There is no end to it, and the more it encourages, the more it creates wind. Broadening one's knowledge will accelerate poverty and will not keep inner peace.