Learning is getting worse every day, that is to say, learning every day can increase knowledge every day, while seeking Tao requires getting rid of feelings, desires, greed, hatred, delusion, dreams and so on.
Juexue tells the twentieth chapter of Laozi's Tao Te Ching in the Spring and Autumn Period. The original excerpt is as follows:
Juexue has no worries. Just by ah, out of geometry? What is the difference between good and evil? What people are afraid of, we must not be afraid, and it is desolate and not in the center! Everyone is bustling, like a prison, like a stage in spring. I am a person, it is not a sign, such as an unborn child of a baby; It's embarrassing, if there's no return. Everyone has more than enough, only me.
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Only by cutting off from cultural knowledge can we avoid troubles. Promise and reprimand are both one voice. At first, there was only the difference between politeness and slowness. How much difference can it make? But in its development, there was a distinction between good and evil. How big should the difference be? I can't help but fear the evil that people are afraid of. Since ancient times, I don't know when this trend will stop!
Everyone's life is so happy, as if attending a grand ceremony, so happy and excited, as if on a pavilion in spring and Jingming, so happy. Only me, cold and indifferent, as ignorant as a baby who hasn't opened his mouth to laugh; Tired, seems to have nowhere to go. Everyone has something extra, but I seem to lack something.
For learning, it is said that Chapter 48 of Laozi's Tao Te Ching in the Spring and Autumn Period says: To learn is to lose one's way. Damage and damage, make inaction, inaction and everything. Take the world by storm, it is often nothing, take the world by storm. ?
Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Learning every day can increase knowledge day by day, while seeking the Tao requires getting rid of feelings, desires, greed, hatred, delusions, reversing dreams and so on. Even damage to inaction. "Get more help from the Tao, get less help from the Tao" and therefore "do nothing". Governing the country should always be quiet and undisturbed. As for those complicated and demanding politics, they are not worthy of governing the country.
Extended data
This chapter is Laozi's theory of life, and it is a satirical poem full of philosophy. There is no need to worry about learning, that is, don't follow the famous schools that were popular at that time, so as not to shock the world. In Laozi's view, the development from the slight difference between "Wei" and "A" to the great opposition between "good" and "evil" is the result of disturbance. People are afraid of this uncontrollable development, and I can't help but be afraid.
Compared with me, the three groups of people named "Everyone is bustling", "Everyone has more than enough" and "Everyone has something to offer" are all ironic. Finally, it is pointed out that what I value is different from the fleeting clouds that laymen value, and that I value "Tao", thus showing my independent values.
And learning is getting worse and worse, so that doing nothing, doing nothing, is in the middle. Laozi explained that learning can only increase knowledge and selfish desires, so it will be full of hypocrisy and concern for all beings. Seeking Tao will damage knowledge and desire. If you are quiet and open-minded, you will naturally do nothing outside. It's not that you don't learn, but that you should learn from nature.
Learning refers to the general knowledge-seeking activities of exploring foreign objects, and the pursuit of knowledge about specific physical things. This knowledge can be acquired through sensory experience. The gain is expensive, and every little makes a mickle, so it is said to be "increasing".
Becoming the Tao, also known as smelling the Tao, refers to understanding and grasping the highest avenue through meditation or experience. Being a Tao is different from being a student. Tao is metaphysical. It "turns a blind eye", "turns a deaf ear" and "cannot beat". Because it is super-sensory and super-experiential, it is impossible to get it by knowing specific things. The accumulation of experience and knowledge not only does not help to make a road, but also easily leads to prejudice, prejudice and even desire and ingenuity, which hinders the understanding of the road.