"Staff sergeant heard this word and worked diligently; The sergeant heard that living is death; What do you mean when you hear the Tao in the afterlife, laugh it off, and it's not enough to laugh?

Interpretation: the staff sergeant listens to the Taoist theory and strives to implement it; The sergeant listened to Tao's theory with a grain of salt; Corporal laughed at Tao's theory. If you are not laughed at, it is not enough.

Source: Chapter 41 of Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching in the Pre-Qin Dynasty

Original: Staff sergeant is diligent and diligent; The sergeant heard that living is death; The corporal smiled. Just laughing is not enough. So there are suggestions: Ming Dow is ignorant; If you flinch; Yi Dao Ruo; Sage is humiliating, Guangde is insufficient, and Jiande thief is true; Generous; A late bloomer; Great voice and happy voice; Elephants are invisible. Tao is hidden and nameless. Only when the husband is the Tao, can he succeed.

Staff sergeant listened to Tao's theory and worked hard to implement it. The sergeant listened to Tao's theory with a grain of salt; Corporal laughed at Tao's theory. If you are not laughed at, it is not enough.

Therefore, people who made statements in ancient times all said: Ming Dow is like darkness; The way forward is like going backwards; A smooth road is like a rugged road; Noble virtue is like a canyon; The vast virtue seems to be insufficient; Virtue is better than laziness; Simple and pure, as if turbid. The whitest thing contains dirt instead; The most square thing has no edges and corners; The loudest sound sounds silent instead; The largest image has no shape.

Tao is hidden and nameless, nameless and silent. Only Tao can make everything have a good beginning and a good ending.

Extended data

First, the creative background of Tao Te Ching

Laozi was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, the environment was weak in the Zhou Dynasty, and various governors constantly competed for hegemony. The violent turmoil and changes made Lao Tzu witness the sufferings of the people, which was regarded as the Tibetan history of the Zhou Dynasty, so he put forward a series of thoughts on governing the country and protecting the people.

Second, appreciate

Tao Te Ching is a poetic text with neat sentence patterns and rough rhymes. It is catchy to read, easy to memorize and easy to remember. It embodies the phonological beauty of Chinese characters in China. Reciting scriptures is a kind of beautiful enjoyment, and we can appreciate profound philosophy in the beauty of phonology.

The language of Tao Te Ching is very artistic, and various rhetorical methods are used to make the text accurate, vivid, well-founded and infectious.

The language of Tao Te Ching is extremely incisive, and it is a wise saying, which has formed many idioms, aphorisms and aphorisms. Such as: Forever (Chapter 7), Good as Water (Chapter 8), Selflessness without Desire (Chapter 19), Weak as Strong, Soft as Strong (Chapter 78).