Interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

Chapter 63

[Doing nothing, doing nothing, tasteless. 】

The Case of Modesty: Cheng Xuanying, Zhuangzi Xiaoyaoyou, the first two sentences of the quotations of Xun Shuang in the Later Han Dynasty, the first two sentences of the original article of Wen Zidao are the same, and the third sentence is "knowledge or not", and the word "taste" is suspected to be "knowledge". The word is planted upside down and wrong.Knowing ignorance is the purpose of Chapter 71 "Knowing what I don't know".

[How big or small, complain with virtue. 】

Yao Nai said: "How big or small" has a missing character, which cannot be interpreted by force.

The case of modesty: "how big or small", that is, the following statement "difficult things in the world must be done in the easy way, and big things must be done in the small", friendship is not incomprehensible. Chapter 64 "A nine-story platform starts from the pile of soil; a journey of a thousand miles starts from a single step", which is also the case.This is called big because of small, more out of less.Han Fei said: "For things that have form, the big must start from the small; for things that last a long time, the family must start from the small."

In another case, Liu Xiang's new preface to miscellaneous matters quoted four sentences "repaying grievances with virtue".The Analects of Confucius Xianwen: "Or say: 'How to repay grievances with virtue?' The Master said: 'How to repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightness, and repay virtue with virtue.'" Kang Youwei said, "Repaying grievances with virtue, his learning comes from Laozi."

【Import is more difficult than easy, it is greater than fine. 】

Yan Kejun said: "Every book has the word "Qi" under "Yu".

Luo Zhenyu said: Neither the Jinglong version nor the Dunhuang Xin version has the word "Qi".

The Case of Modesty: Han Fei Yu Lao and Difficult Three Chapters, and the continuation of Hanshu Wuxingzhi cited Ma Rongji, and there is the word "Qi". Gu Huan, Qiang Ben Cheng Shu, Rong Zhu and Yi Lin Yin do not have the word "Qi".

[The difficult things in the world must be done in the easy way; the big things in the world must be done in the small way. 】

Takeuchi Yoshio said: Dun and Sui's two books are "fine" and "small".

Luo Zhenyu said: Dunhuang Xinben does not have the word "tianxia".

The case of Qian: According to the Zhensongtang collection of western frontier secret books Cong Cangxue Dunhuang Renben has the word "天下", but Suizhou does not.In addition, Peng, Zhao, Fu, Fan and Han Feiyu's old articles all have the word "Zhi" in "difficult things" and "big things".In Yanben's two sentences, "difficult things are done in the easy way, and the big things are done in the small", Gao Sui's "fine" is both "口".

[It is because the sage does not become great in the end, so he can become great. 】

Takeuchi Yoshio said: There are no such two sentences in Dun and Sui.

The Case of Modesty: There are these two sentences in the Renben of Dunhuang.

Xi Tong said: The two sentences are 34 chapters, and they come from here again.

[If you are light on promises, you will be ignorant of your faith. When things are easy, they will be difficult. It is difficult for a sage, so there will be no difficulties in the end. 】

Yan Kejun said: "Therefore there will be no difficulties in the end", and Wang Bi said "There will be no difficulties".

Wei Jiasun said: "It's still difficult", and the imperial note "Yu" is "you".

Luo Zhenyu said: Jinglong, Yuzhu, Jingfu, and Dunhuang Geng, Xin, and Ren editions do not have the word "Yi".

The case of Qian: Yan Zun does not have the word "husband" in the book, and the word "zhe" is on the two "must", which is the same as Fu and Fan.Suizhou, Funxi, Louzheng, Yan, Gu, Heshang, Naijuan, Wang Xizhi, and Gaohong also don't have the word "Yi", just like this stone.

[Phonetic Rhyme] Jiang's rhyme in this chapter has no rhyme.Xi Tong: Wei, flavor rhyme, easy, fine, easy, fine, big, big rhyme.The case is that the taste is actually non-rhyme.

There are 76 characters in the Youjinglong stele version, 71 characters in the Dunhuang version, 78 characters in the Heshang version, 79 characters in the Wang version, 85 characters in the Fu version, and 84 characters in the model version.Heshang titled "Enshi No.60", Wang Ben titled "Chapter 63", and model title "Weiwuwei Chapter No.60".

(End of this chapter)