道德经叶曼讲义第2章(国外英语资料).docVIP

道德经叶曼讲义第2章(国外英语资料) Second chapters It is known to all that beauty is beauty, but vice is well known. Therefore, there is no mutual generation, difficult and easy to phase, long and short phase, high and low phase, sound phase, and back and forth. It is the act of teaching a saint to do nothing. All things are done instead of words. Instead, in order to not rely, and occupies gongcheng. The husband is the only one who is unable to live. Here let us briefly review a lecture, a mainly discussed several points: the road is widespread, with permanent nature; its subtle, metaphysical, ineffable, cannot be named; Tao gave birth to all things, in everything. Lets continue with the second chapter. It is known to all that beauty is beauty, but vice is well known. Therefore, there is no mutual generation, difficult and easy to phase, short and long phase, high and low phase, sound and phase, and the same, constant also. As we have said before, Lao Tzu has a strong dialectic ability, and some people say that his thought is ancient simple dialectics, which makes sense. You see, this passage is well written. The people of the world know that beauty is beautiful, because there are ugly and foil; the people of the world know the good things is good, because not to compare and contrast; and so, difficult and easy, long and short, high and low are interdependent, and never leave a talk to another. Just like sound, harmony, phase, front and back, everything has its relativity. Thats a good point to understand. For example, we say this matter is very difficult, and difficult is compared with those easy things, and this is difficult and easy to change. The length is long because there is shorter than it, short because it is longer than it, this is a little longer than that, but this long meet longer, long becomes short. This short one is shorter than that one, but meets a shorter one. It grows again. We say Taishan is very tall, but how about compared to Mount Qomolangma? Its nothing at