"You can know the world without leaving home; you can see the way of heaven without peeking into the door" comes from Chapter 47 of Laozi's "Tao Te Ching". It means: you can understand the world's national affairs without leaving home. If you don't peep at all your actions, you can do justice for heaven.

Original text: "You can know the world without leaving home; you can see the way of heaven without peeking into the door. It is far away when you go out, and it is little when you know. This is why the sage knows without doing, understands without seeing, and understands without doing." "In fact, the entire "Tao Te Ching" talks about "relativity", which is "yin and yang" in the words of the ancients. Once you understand relativity, you will let go of your attachments. Let's take a look at what the "Tao Te Ching" says again. What is.

What is "knowledge"?

Knowledge is the law of the universe, the laws of human nature, and the laws of nature that humans summarize from limited things.

Lao Tzu tells us at the beginning of the "Tao Te Ching": The laws of nature can give rise to infinite representations, while human beings can only process limited information and summarize limited things (the Tao can be Tao but not Tao, and the name can be named but not Tao). (name), the laws that people summarize will definitely have limitations, will definitely be incomplete and biased against the laws of nature/human nature.

When people accept this knowledge that refutes the laws of nature/human nature, they will have thoughts that refute the laws of nature/human nature. Coupled with the human nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, on this basis, the relativity of "benefiting me" and "unfavorable to me" is transformed. As a result, this knowledge, ultimately reflected in individuals, becomes self-serving concepts that refute the laws of nature/human nature. Once people accept this concept, they will easily reject other concepts.

The ancients called the phenomenon that people have more partial ideas due to the knowledge (partial and incomplete) under the action of the laws of human nature and changing relativity, making it difficult for people to accept other ideas. Obstacle in knowledge and vision.

The joke in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Empty Cup Mentality, is about letting go of attachments and overcoming barriers to knowledge and vision: Empty your teacup so that new water can be poured in, which is to ask people to put aside their own knowledge and views. obstacles and try to be open to other categories of insights and knowledge.

"You can know the world without leaving home; you can see the way of heaven without peeking into the door." I think it actually allows people to let go of their intellectual barriers. These two sentences are actually the application of "always have no desire in order to see the wonder" in the first chapter. That is, by removing the relativity of things, we can discover the laws of a higher level of things. With this, we can break out of the box of "using limited representations to explain infinite kinds of representations", and thus be able to "use unchanging laws to deal with ever-changing representations."

The further a person travels and the more things he sees, the greater the bias in his knowledge and opinions, and the smaller his cognitive set becomes.

“The sage knows without doing, understands without seeing, and becomes without doing. This is the reason that the sage knows without doing, understands without seeing, and becomes without doing.”

So: the sage Able to not be constrained by what they see while traveling, so that they can have comprehensive knowledge and insights;

Able to not be constrained by a limited perspective, so that they can look at problems comprehensively;

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Do not use "relative" behavior to exert an influence on the world, so you can restore the natural balance of the world.