Tao Te Ching

Chapter 55
[Original text]

Those who are good at building will never pull it up[1], those who are good at hugging will never get rid of it[2], and the descendants will not stop offering sacrifices.

If you cultivate it in your body, your virtue will be true; if you cultivate it in your family, your virtue will be superfluous; if you cultivate it in your country, your virtue will grow;

Therefore, observe the body by the body, the family by the family, the village by the village, the state by the state, and the world by the world.How do I know the nature of the world?With this.

【Note】

[1] pull out: pull out.

[2] Take off: to leave, to let go.

【Analysis】

Those who are good at establishing faith are not easy to be shaken, and those who are good at holding on to faith are not easy to give up. As long as children and grandchildren follow the spirit of the Dao, they will be sacrificed and will never be cut off.

If you use the concept of "Tao" to repair yourself, your virtue will be pure and simple; if you repair the whole family, your virtue will be abundant; if you repair the whole village, your virtue will last; if you repair a country, your virtue will be rich; Can reach everyone.

Therefore, observe the cultivation of others with your own cultivation, observe the morality of others with your own morality, observe the morality of other countries with the morality of your own country, and observe the morality of other countries with the morality of your own country. , to observe the whole world in terms of its moral influence.What do I rely on to understand the changes in everything in the world?It relies on this method evolved from "Tao".

【Explanation by Famous Artists】

Mr. He Shang:
Build, establish also.Those who are good at building a country based on Tao cannot be attracted and pulled out.Those who are good at embracing the spirit with the Tao will not be able to pull out the liberation.Stop, never.If one's children and grandchildren can practice Taoism like this, they will live forever, and they will worship their ancestors and ancestral temples for a long time, without end.

Cultivate the Tao in the body, love Qi and nourish the mind, prolong life and prolong life.If his virtue is like this, he is a real person.Cultivate Taoism at home, father is kind and son is filial, brother and friend are obedient, husband is trustworthy and wife is chaste.If his virtue is like this, he will have Yuqing and his descendants in the next life.Cultivate the Tao in the village, respect the elders, love to raise the young and the young, and teach the foolish.Its virtue is like this, and it can cover everything.Cultivating the Tao in the country means that the monarch will be trustworthy and the ministers will be loyal, benevolence and righteousness will be self-generated, rituals and music will be self-prosperous, and the government will be peaceful and selfless.If its virtue is like this, it is also rich.Human beings cultivate the Tao in the world, transform without speaking, govern without teaching, follow the superior with the subordinate, trust is like influence.If its virtue is like this, it is Pubo.

Observe the body of non-cultivation with the body of cultivating the Tao, whichever dies and which survives.Take the home of cultivating Taoism, and observe the home of non-cultivating Taoism.Take the land of Taoism as the land of non-cultivation.Take a country that cultivates the Tao, and look at a country that does not practice the Tao.Take the master who cultivates the Tao, and see the master who does not practice the Tao.Lao Tzu said: How do I know that those who practice Taoism in the world prosper, and those who apostate perish?It is also known from the perspective of five things.

(End of this chapter)