It means: goodness is like water, the highest state of goodness, like the nature of water, does not strive for fame and fortune, and is favored by all things.

Laozi: "Goodness is like water. Water is the goodness of all things, and it is the evil of all things, so it is the goodness of Tao." Refers to: the supreme character is like water, does not strive for fame and fortune, and is favored by all things.

Don't be knowledgeable with the world, don't compete with the world for a while, be gentle but tolerant of the world's mind and tolerance.

In Taoism, water is the best and the softest; Watertight, silent, and turbulent; No dispute with others, compatible with everything. Water has the virtue of nourishing all things, so that all things can benefit from it without conflicting with all things. This is the way of life.

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Lao Tzu said, "Good is like water. Water is good for all things without dispute, and evil for all, so it is a few words. Living in a good place, kind-hearted, kind-hearted, good at words, good at politics, good at doing things, good at dealing with people.

Husband is just indisputable, so there is nothing special. "It not only carries forward the spirit of water, but also expresses a philosophy of life: men should be as flexible as water.

Because it is soft, it can be deformed. In the ocean, it is the shape of the ocean, in rivers, in cups and plates, in bottles and jars.

Men should be like water, with a firm, clean, tolerant and tolerant mind in softness. The ancients had a couplet: "Water can only make the sea below, and mountains can't be proud to go to the sky." Do things like a mountain. Mountains are shaped by trends and deformed by situations. Everything is tall and straight because of it.

Mountain, from towering peaks, beautiful valleys and waterfalls, twists and turns in the sea of clouds, showing the majestic atmosphere; The mountains, steaming from the clouds in Xia Wei, are smoky or clear and clean, revealing a wide and distant, ethereal and subtle. Therefore, doing things must be like a mountain with its mind, character, connotation and principles.

The ancients said: "All rivers run into the sea, with great tolerance;" The wall stands thousands of miles, and there is no desire. " Once people can be open-minded, they can gather all rivers and become Wang Yang; If people can achieve nothing, nothing and nothing, they can stand in the sky like a cliff.

But the words are incomplete, and the various realms of water are infinite, so you have to experience them yourself.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-as good as water.