Laozi is the founder of the Taoist school. He had a profound influence on the development of Chinese philosophy. The core of his thought is simple dialectics. He left behind a "Tao Te Ching". Although it is not long, it contains From today on, let us interpret many wise sayings one by one to understand the philosophical theories contained in them.

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1. The power of flexibility .

Lao Tzu said: "People are weak when they are born, and they are strong when they die." This means that a person is very weak when he is alive, but he becomes very hard and difficult to bend after death.

Flexibility can be bent, compressed or stretched. We can also call this characteristic as pushing and kicking, pulling and pulling. These properties can only be achieved by soft cloth, but cannot be achieved by hard iron sheets. The same principle applies to being a human being. You must be able to bend and stretch, but you cannot be tough and do not know how to adapt.

2. Use softness to overcome hardness, use weakness to defeat strongness

Laozi said: "Nothing in the world is softer than water, and no one in the world can defeat the strong." This means that nothing in the world is weaker than water. It is a weak thing, but when it comes to overcoming difficulties, nothing can beat water.

Nothing can change the existence of water, nor can it change the unyielding nature of water. When water rushes toward a rock, it will be smashed into pieces. However, there is still so much water, and it will continue to rush up. After a period of time, the rock is destroyed by erosion. Softness overcomes hardness, and weakness overcomes strongness. This is a special aspect of things. reason.

3. Combination of hardness and softness

Lao Tzu said: "The weak overcomes the strong, and the soft overcomes the hard. No one in the world knows it, and no one can believe it." This means that although everyone can They know how to overcome strength with softness and defeat the strong with weakness, but few people can do it.

The advantages of softness have been discussed above, but the relationship between hardness and softness is very complicated. It can only be said that each has its own strengths. The so-called softness is sometimes a needle hidden in the cotton, and the so-called hardness cannot refuse all adjustments and turns, so the saying of combining hardness and softness is very reasonable.