《Laoziamp;Tao Te Ching》.ppt

Chinese Culture LaoziTao Te Ching Yushan liu College of Public Administration 2012209026 Main content Part 1: laozi Part 2:Tao Te Ching 1、Tao 2、wuwei 3、Worship of Femininity 4、Personality of a person 5、Principle for rulers 6、Change Tao Te Ching 道德经 Dao De Jing Dao (Way)道 a stable, unified, and enduring social order (metaphysical sense) an undivided unity the ultimate source of the universal beings De (Virtue, Power) 德 peculiarity or specificity of Dao What are the characteristics of Way? The Way is a thing impalpable, incommensurable. Incommensurable, impalpable, Yet latent in it are forms; Impalpable, incommensurable, Yet within it are entities; Shadowy it is and dim; yet within it there is the essence,… (Chapter 21) 道之為物，惟恍惟惚。惚兮恍兮，其中有象；恍兮惚兮，其中有物；窈兮冥兮，其中有精 ③Worship of Femininity (贵柔守雌) Nature: softness and modesty, non-competition, deference, hence essentially feminine  Hierarchical society = patriarchal society = unnatural When he is born, man is soft and weak; in death he becomes stiff and hard. The ten thousand creatures and all plants and trees while they are alive are supple and soft, but when they are dead they become brittle and dry. Truly, what is stiff and hard is a “companion of death”; what is soft and weak is a “companion of life”. Therefore “the weapon that is too hard will be broken, the tree that has the hardest wood will be cut down.” Truly, the hard and mighty bends down; the soft and weak sets high. 人之生也柔弱, 其死也坚强。草木之生也柔脆，其死也枯槁。故坚强者死之徒，柔弱者生也徒。是以兵强则灭，木强则折。强大处下，柔弱处上。（Ch.76） 天下最柔软的东西,能驾驭天下最坚硬的东西. 无形的力量能穿透没有间隙的东西. 我因此知道 “无为”的益处. “不言” 的教导, “无为” 的益处,确天下很少有人能做到. What is of all things most yielding, Can overwhelm that which is of all things most hard. Being substanceless it can enter even where there is no space; That’s how I know the value of action that is actionless. But that there can be teaching without words, Value in action that is acti