heaven and earth, they don't treat everything with benevolence. They treat everything in the world as a dog made of hay for sacrifice, and saints don't treat everything with benevolence. They treat people as dogs made of hay for sacrifice. Between heaven and earth, isn't it just a huge bellows? There is emptiness in the middle, and the wind in the middle is inexhaustible. The more you encourage, the more wind there will be. The more knowledgeable and wise you are, the more you can realize your incompetence and smallness. In the end, there is no way to go. It is better to keep your heart and keep quiet.
heaven and earth are things born from the Tao, which exist and come from no change. In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu showed that his thoughts were
so he lost his way and then his virtue, and he lost his face and then his benevolence, then his benevolence and then his righteousness, and then his courtesy. Those who are courteous to their husbands are thin in loyalty and trust, but the first in chaos.
It can be seen that Laozi ranked morality, benevolence, righteousness and propriety in a sequential order, and thought that Tao came first, then virtue, and then benevolence, kindness and affection. -"Shuo Wen"
Benevolent people are fond of loving others, so they are benevolent. -
Lao Zi
So for heaven and earth, it is naturally unrealistic to treat everything with this kind attitude. Spring is spring, summer is long, autumn is long, and winter is long. It is a natural law that everything grows, breeds and slowly disappears. For people, it contains their own needs and has thousands of connections with their own interests.
Everything in the world is always good and bad, which may be favorable weather or natural and man-made disasters, and the rise and fall of things in a hundred years is just a blink of an eye. With the vastness and grandeur of heaven and earth, his life cycle is extremely long, but for human beings, his life cycle is only about a hundred years.
The attitude of heaven and earth towards everything is benevolent or heartless, which is relative to human beings. However, heaven and earth have never been benevolent, and neither can they live. Heaven and earth are just quietly watching everything develop and let everything develop and change. This is not indifference, but a natural state.
Heaven and earth don't treat everything with kindness or unkindness at all, so it can be called unkindness here, and saints also follow the Tao. As a saint, his attitude towards the people is naturally natural, without any intervention, and even the people won't know that there is such a saint. Between heaven and earth, it is like a huge bellows. The more you encourage it, the stronger the wind is. This kind of movement can be done for a long time, even without end.
A carrier of bellows is a container that needs a box to carry all the wind, and its interior is naturally empty. It is precisely because of this nothingness that this bellows has a great function. There is nothing between heaven and earth, and it is because of this that all kinds of things can be evolved. With tall buildings, fields and transportation, it is very convenient for all people, and the development of civilization depends on all.
Therefore, if human civilization develops to a certain extent, if a person wants to exhaust his thoughts and be well informed, then he is chasing the products after exhausting changes, and the products after exhausting changes are also undergoing endless changes and evolution. If he tries his best to chase them, he will definitely enter an irreconcilable path, because the life cycle of human beings is only a short hundred years.
Endless evolution is like the square of 2. From a small place, there can be countless states, countless kinds of knowledge, countless kinds of things and truths. If you exhaust a person's life, it is impossible to fully understand it.
If you pursue those last things, you might as well return to your original heart and keep your own road, because if you have Tao, you will have the foundation of nature. If you let nature take its course, everything will naturally develop and keep Tao, and then everything will naturally reach.