I have a surname of Li and a courtesy name of Dan. The founder and main representative of the Taoist school is revered as the ancestor by Taoism. Together with Zhuangzi, he is called "Lao Zhuang".

Cui Qu, one of Lao Tzu’s disciples.

One day, Cui Qu asked Lao Dan: "How can we make people's hearts good without governing the world?"

Lao Dan said: "It's very simple, you must Be careful not to disturb people's hearts, because when people are excluded and suppressed, their emotions will be low; when they are praised and valued, their emotions will rise.

People's hearts will rise and fall due to external forces. It will make you haggard.

Moreover, when people face rejection, they often show a soft attitude, hoping that strong-hearted people will pity them. The so-called steadfastness of such people in daily life. At this time, the clouds had already disappeared, and his heart was as anxious as fire and as timid as ice. The speed of this change was like reaching the world in a moment. Therefore, people must not be disturbed.

The human heart is different from the restful to the uncontrollable. When it is quiet, it is as silent as the abyss. When it is excited, it is as high as the sky. This is the human heart of the Yellow Emperor in the past! They began to use benevolence and righteousness to disturb people's hearts, so Yao and Shun's thighs were so thin that there was no flesh, and their calves were worn away from hair. They worked hard all their lives to support the bodies of the people of the world. They promoted benevolence and righteousness with frowning faces, and restrained their emotional activities to establish laws, but they still could not subdue the world. .

Yao then banished Hui Dou to Chongshan, Sanmiao to Sanbi, and Lianggong to Youdu, hoping to suppress them, which would not be able to subdue the people of the world. Typical performance.

Extending to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the people of the world were even more disturbed. There were big thieves like Xia Jie and Robber Zhi, benevolent people like Zeng Shen and Shi Loach, and the Mohists and Confucianism also emerged.

As a result, happy people and angry people began to doubt each other, stupid people and smart people began to deceive each other, and people who did good and people who did evil began to criticize each other. The absurd people and the honest people ridicule each other, and the world has declined since then.

People's natures are different, and the innocence in life has disappeared. They were obsessed with wisdom and lost their natural nature.

Therefore, the rulers used ax-like instruments of punishment to punish the people and used rituals to harm the people. The root cause of the chaos in the world was that it disturbed people's hearts. >

Therefore, wise people live in seclusion deep in the mountains, while the king of ten thousand chariots is worried and fearful in the court.

In today's world, people are beheaded and put on shackles one after another.

Alas, they are so shameless and shameless! I still don’t know whether sages are the crossbars on the shackles, and whether benevolence and righteousness are the mortises and tenons on the shackles. How can I know whether benevolent and righteous kings like Zeng Shen and Shi Loach are the predecessors of Xia Jie and Robber Zhi?”

So it is said: "Throw away intelligence and ingenuity, and the world will be governed!"

Zhuangzi borrowed Laozi's words to describe the method of managing the country: throw away cleverness and ingenuity, and the world will be governed.

In Zhuangzi’s view, not only should we not be wise, but we must also maintain our pure nature for a long time.

In the story, Laozi said to Cui Qu: "Stop teasing people's hearts. Among all things in the world, the most uncontrollable thing is the human heart."

It can be seen that the human heart is the least restrained. Those who are stable are also the easiest to be provoked, so health care should focus on nourishing the heart.

When people are calm, they will be at ease with nature, everything will go smoothly, and they will eventually achieve their goals.

When people are not calm, they will become anxious and restless, lose their rationality, and make some illogical actions, which will eventually lead to failure.