The meaning of this sentence is actually: If a person really wants to achieve Tao, he must first give up all Tao. The so-called Tao actually refers to all worldly things, including good and bad things, as well as good and evil.
The word "life in the world" in the original text does not really refer to all the bad things in the world, but to the heart that judges the good and bad of the world.
One of the famous sayings of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng: Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the beginning, so how can it cause dust.
This sentence best explains its meaning. If a person has no good or evil in his heart, then there is no need to argue between good and evil. If there is no good in anything in the world, then there is no evil.
Therefore, the phrase "If a person truly cultivates the Tao, he will not see the faults of the world" refers to: People who truly attain the Tao are often outside the Tao.
As for its impact on society, this sentence is very meaningful to real monks. This is a state of mind. But for society itself, it is a negative attitude. It is almost impossible and unreasonable for a person to completely separate from society. After all, if you live in the world, how can you be outside the world? What about outside?
As for the out-of-context part, it is not worth discussing at all. There are already some people in the world who like to oppose it for the sake of opposition. The misinterpretation of the sentence "not seeing the world" is simply ridiculous.
The premise of the saying "not seeing the faults of the world" is based on the fact that a person himself must give up his own good and evil. How could a person who could do no wrong himself destroy the world and do lawless things?
As for selfishness, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng himself advocated the principle that those who practice Taoism must have no self. Since there is no self, how can one be selfish? Only people who have an overly high evaluation of themselves and an overly strong self-awareness will have such a psychological state of selfishness, and these people will not choose the path of becoming a monk at all. In other words, it has nothing to do with the Buddhist commandments of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. relation.
To put it simply, as a stone, it will never understand what it means to be a cloud. As a mortal who doesn’t want to be born into this world, I will never understand the state of mind of someone who is born into this world.