Seek truth and clear words, such as goodness is like water

Then you still read Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching".

"Good is like water" is from the eighth chapter of "Lao Tzu".

The original text goes like this: Good is like water. Water is good for all things, and it is not disputed; is evil to everyone, so it is more than the way. Dwelling in a good place, a good heart, a good heart, a good word, a good word, a good governance, a good work, and a good time. The husband is indisputable, so there is no especially.

Goodness is like water, and water benefits all things without fighting. It means that the highest level of good deeds is like the character of water, which is embraced by all things without fighting for fame and fortune. If a person is water, he is very good.

The water transpires as the curling water vapor, condenses into rain clouds of different shapes, and then descends from the sky, for the gurgling streams, for the rolling rivers, for the misty oceans, when it meets the square, when it meets the round, it is round, and the shape of the water changes in a thousand ways, each in its own place, each with its own wonderful. The big one is like the ocean, which can accommodate thousands of mountains and rivers on the land, and the things that the world cannot tolerate; Small is slight, penetrating, wet, pervasive, ubiquitous. The shape of water is ever-changing, not confined to form, not bound by concept.

The flexibility of water lies in inclusiveness; The nature of water lies in being at peace with what happens. With the power of his own softness, he can contain magical weapons and transform magical things.

"Kindness is like water": The highest level of good deeds is like the character of water, and it is surrounded by all things without fighting for fame and fortune.

"Ren": to bear, to bear.

Fangyuan": between heaven and earth.

The meaning of this sentence is: as long as a person has a high personality cultivation and a mentality of not fighting for fame and fortune, he will always be calm in the chaotic world.

By savoring the qualities of water, we can discover or derive beneficial truths or principles from it. Although we must be flexible and adaptable, the most fundamental one is "good for all things without fighting", which is the real "goodness" and the foundation of life. Advocating "goodness is like water", and nature "will" its "square circle".

The meaning of this sentence is that a person with high morals and good cultivation can still learn even if he does not have a trick or trick, but if he only has a trick and a person with low moral character, he can only stop at the current achievement and cannot go further, that is, he will be excluded and spurned by the world.

This sentence is a very classic explanation of the primary and secondary relationship between Tao and art, and it is also the basic premise of human life. Those who have "prepared for the stupid way" can control those who have "art", and those who have "art" will eventually be controlled by those who have "Dao".