Tao Te Ching

Chapter 71
[Original text]

My words are easy to know and easy to do.There is no way in the world to know, and no way to do it.

Words have their ancestors [1], and things have their rulers [2].Husband is ignorant, so I don't know.

Those who know me hope, then [3] I am expensive.So the saint was brown [4] Huaiyu [5].

【Note】

[1] Zong: Zongyuan, purpose, fundamental.

[2] Jun: According to, the purpose.

[3] then: imitate.

[4] Brown: coarse cloth.

[5] Jade: This refers to Taoism.

【Analysis】

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to implement.It is a pity that no one in the world can really understand my words, and no one can really implement them well.

What I say is well-founded, and what I do has a purpose.It is precisely because people in the world do not understand these things, so they will not understand the real me.

There are very few people who understand me, and those who imitate me are even more precious.Therefore, a sage is like wearing coarse clothes while carrying beautiful jade. It is difficult to meet people who have insight and can discern their inner brilliance.

Lao Tzu's ideological realm has a taste of "too high to be too cold".An ideal state of governance is like a paradise, but a country ruled by this idea seems to be unable to satisfy the selfishness of the king, so even if the ruler really understands this, it is difficult to give up his selfishness to implement it.

【Explanation by Famous Artists】

Mr. He Shang:
Lao Tzu said: What I say is easy to understand, and what I say is easy to implement.People are evil and weak, but they are strong and strong.

What I say has the root of the ancestors, and the matter is up to and down with the emperor and his ministers. If the world does not know it, it is not because of my immorality, but because my heart is against me.The ignorance of the world's people is the ignorance of my virtue, which is invisible to the outside, and is extremely subtle, so I am ignorant.

Xi, at least.Only those who have reached the Tao can know me, so it is precious.Those who are brown are thin on the outside, those who are pregnant with jade are thick on the inside, they hide treasures and virtues, and do not show them to others.

(End of this chapter)