Deep Soul Secrets in Tao Te Ching

Original text of Tao Te Ching: Can we leave the camp? Can it be as soft as a baby? Can you get rid of Xuanjian without defects? Patriotic governance, can't you do anything? Can Tianmen be opened and closed for women? Understand Starr, can you be ignorant? A living animal. Being born with nothing, doing without relying on it, and being long without killing it, is called Xuande.

The tenth chapter of Tao, almost in the form of SOP&SIP, instructs the world how to reach the realm of the other and how to change their own destiny.

Therefore, a weak suggestion: if you want to change your destiny, if you feel that your current life, work and study are not smooth, then deeply understand the tenth chapter of Tao.

Let's try to answer Lao Tzu's six questions in Chapter 10 of Tao.

Taoism and Chinese medicine believe that there are two things that have been working silently in our bodies, and our bodies and lives are inseparable from them: the soul (we can simply understand the "camp" in Chapter 10 of the Tao as the soul) and the spirit, which we usually collectively refer to as the soul.

The Four Books and Five Classics have been defined as feudal dross, which has been eliminated from our textbooks for a century, so that people today see the word "soul" or kill it with a stick as a demon word, or don't know what to say in the clouds.

Explaining the words soul and spirit a little first will help us understand and digest this chapter of Tao Te Ching.

Oh, it's easier to understand. Courage and verve are familiar words. Only one phenomenon is easily overlooked: a critically ill patient will never be perceived as having courage, because the spirit in the critically ill patient has died out and gradually disappeared.

According to the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and Taoism, the soul is called three souls and seven souls, the soul is yang and the soul is yin.

The Seven Spirits are responsible for leading us to the seven basic needs of maintaining life after falling asleep: breathing, heartbeat, digestion, water and liquid metabolism, restoring reproductive function, knowing cold and heat, and maintaining a certain degree of vigilance.

To explain a little, for example, during the day, no one snores while breathing, but after falling asleep at night, the snoring is generally in pieces.

Chinese medicine believes that snoring is too loud, which is generally a bit problematic. Traditional Chinese medicine usually adopts moxibustion to stimulate the relevant meridian points to repair the spirit.

As for the repair of digestion, metabolism and reproductive function, it is easy to understand. No matter how much you eat and drink at night, you can't sleep at night. When you wake up the next morning, you will still find that you need breakfast and water, and some places where you should erect are still erect. Spirit, spirit is the result of work.

Let's not talk about knowing the cold and knowing the heat. Kicking and grabbing the quilt while sleeping is a very common routine.

This is also easy to understand. Some people fall asleep at the slightest sound, and some people know nothing about thunder and rain after falling asleep. What's more, they drank too much water at night, dreamed of looking for toilets all over the world, and finally found them, and then drew a huge map of the world on the sheets. There is something wrong with the spirit. Taoism and Chinese medicine are very integrated. For the problem of lack of alertness after falling asleep, their basic move is: standing on a pile. Yes, let you practice a stage of standing piles, which can stimulate the spirit of one of the seven gods and help us improve our vigilance.

Regarding the soul, both Confucianism and Taoism admit that "heaven and man are one". In fact, the theory of harmony between man and nature is almost the pillar and the whole of China traditional culture.

It is very complicated to explain the unity of heaven and man, so we can simply understand that people can talk, communicate and communicate with heaven and earth, then the soul in the human body bears this great responsibility.

This is the soul.

Taoism believes that after meditation, you can feel the soul and three souls, and these three souls are red.

Taoism also gives names to these three souls: fetal light, refreshing spirit and quiet spirit.

I just want to answer Lao Tzu's first question in the tenth chapter of Tao.

The first question: "Can you leave the camp?"

Soul and spirit are unified in the body and integrated with the body that carries life. Can they be separated?

Of course, it can't be separated, and in fact it can't be separated. The moment of separation means the end of life.

In fact, what I didn't directly say was: can Tao and virtue be separated from the body that carries life?

Let's put this question here for the time being until chapter 8 1 of Tao is finished.

The second question: can it be as soft as a baby?

As we all know, letting the 40-year-old uncle cut off his leg can kill them. He must have strained his ligament and can't afford to lie down. But it is a relaxing thing to let children aged 3-4 cheat.

The baby can come out of the mother's birth canal smoothly, which is not unrelated to the baby's flexibility.

So why can babies be so soft?

According to the concept of Tao, it is because newborn babies can concentrate their essence and strength on one point without being distracted, thus forming tenderness.

This reminds me of a generation of talented person Nalan Xingde, who has great respect for goodness and water, and the classic sentence "Life is like seeing for the first time" in Mulan Ling, one of his masterpieces.

Therefore, a common phenomenon that we often ignore is that although the baby is soft, it cries loudly.

It is the result of special gases.

This is the Tao.

The first appearance of "Qi" and "Tao" in Chapter 10 will be mentioned and discussed later.

Answer the second question: we all have this ability from the beginning. At first, we can all devote ourselves to softness, but then it gradually disappears, and we will never be able to return to the state of babies. If we understand Nalan Xingde's "life is like seeing for the first time" from a philosophical point of view, that's what it means.

It doesn't matter if you can do it now, but remind yourself not to completely lose the state you once had.

The third question: can you get rid of the mysterious sword and be flawless?

At this point, we have finished reading the tenth chapter and nine chapters of Tao. If we have some correct understanding, understanding and digestion of the first nine chapters, then we can completely answer the following question according to the thought of Tao.

Is there anything spotless and flawless in the world?

According to Tao's idea, just answer yes or no,

There is also, for example, the above, whether the baby who is committed to softness is spotless;

No, for example, as mentioned above, whether the baby who is committed to softness has inherited something from his parents is not spotless, but it has not yet been revealed.

So this is the concept of Tao, which has always emphasized the existence of Tao and followed it, but never defined anything absolutely. Even in many places, Lao Tzu himself said frankly: I don't know.

Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, said: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. There is nothing, so there is no dust. "

Buddhists believe that there are flawless things, that is, brains and wisdom.

However, this is only a Buddhist concept. There are many great differences between Buddhism and Taoism in all aspects.

Let's try to answer the third question.

Clear your mind of selfish distractions and look at yourself like a mirror. Can it be flawless and pure?

A: What can be done is a saint among saints, and what cannot be done is a mortal among mortals.

Whether you are a saint or a mortal. The important thing is that you can clean up, take pictures, clean up regularly and take pictures like this, then you can compare with Tao, and then you can gradually enter the realm of concentration and selflessness.

The fourth question: can patriotism do nothing?

Follow the Tao, conform to nature, and govern by doing nothing. As mentioned above, there are not many.

Fifth question: Can Tianmen be a woman when it opens and closes?

In the sixth chapter of Tao, Laozi talked about the "Xuanzang Gate", and in the sixth chapter, we also talked about the relationship between women, motherhood, Xuanzang Gate and Tao. Now, in the tenth chapter, women appear in front of Tao for the second time as the spokesperson of Tao.

Looking back on the past and learning new things, let's explain the relationship between pottery and motherhood endorsed by "female" and "Xuanzang Gate" once again.

As we have explained in the sixth chapter, "Gu", "Xuan Zang" and "Female" in ancient Chinese all have the literal meaning of female genitalia, and their extended meaning is to breed life, but they are quiet and feminine. I think this is the Tao, or one side of the Tao. Just as "goodness like water" is also a kind of Tao, it is close to Tao.

After reviewing, we can try to answer the fifth question.

When all our senses are repeatedly turned on and off, can we still maintain a feminine or maternal state of tranquility?

The answer is the same as the last question. If we can, then we are saints. If not, then we are mortal. It doesn't matter whether you can or not, remember to keep yourself in that soft and quiet state.

Be modest, cut the crap, be quiet and be gentle. ...

The sixth question: can you be ignorant if you understand the big four?

This is relatively simple and easy to understand, and we can directly translate it into easy-to-understand language: after knowing and understanding all aspects of things, can we remain ignorant and have no desire instead of chasing with our brains?

Deja vu! The third chapter of Tao talked about this topic, "it always makes people ignorant and have no desire."

After being straightforward, we hardly need to answer, because the answer is exactly the same as the previous question.

After asking these six questions, Lao Tzu seemed to have predicted that the world would be speechless and unable to do so, so he advised the world to live with the above six questions.

What do you mean?

First, let Tao and virtue, like souls, always be with our bodies and lives;

Second, let the baby-like spirit soften and maintain;

Third, always keep quiet, look deep into the mirror and try to make it pure and flawless;

Fourth, go by the way, not according to the laws of nature (governing for inaction, governing for inaction);

5. Try to keep feminine and quiet like motherhood, even though there is a huge amount of information impacting our brains every day;

6. Even if you know a lot of things, you should keep yourself ignorant and lustless. Don't try your best to pursue endlessly, just to satisfy all kinds of sensory enjoyment.

Whether "one ... six" exists or not, even if it is not born now, it is too late. After "birth", pay attention to "survival" so that it will not die young and thrive (Chapter 10 of the Tao "Livestock").

If you can accumulate life in six aspects, you will inevitably enter a new realm, that is, "virtue": Xuande.

What kind of realm is Xuande?

Born without, do without, grow without killing.

Raise everything without selfishness; Serve all things without self-restraint; Command everything without domination. ...

Needless to explain, these are the spirits of heaven and earth, that is, good as water, that is, …, all of which are some contents of the previous nine chapters.

At the beginning of the tenth chapter, we talked about a point: the tenth chapter of Tao can make us extraordinary and change our destiny. Of course, the question is whether the world recognizes these and practices "the accumulation of life" on the basis of recognition.