What do you mean by "Tao is enough to forget things and get spring, and ambition is enough to rise and fall in one breath"?

"Tao is enough to forget things, and ambition is enough to rise and fall in one breath" means that if a person has enough thoughts and directions (Tao), he can forget the gains and losses of the object; If ambition is strong enough, it can dominate the rise and fall of individual mental state.

1, from Su Shi's "He Ouyang Shao Shi Shi Zhi Qi", the original text "Everyone knows his ignorance, benevolence is enough to love himself, Tao is enough to forget things, and ambition is enough to rise and fall. Then who can see a few blessings first and get rid of the dirt? I am often afraid of the world and I don't see him. "

2. Translation:

If you are not wise and omniscient enough, if you are not benevolent enough to respect yourself (cherish your reputation), if you are not noble enough to be unaffected by external things, and if you are not ambitious enough to affect the rise and fall of your destiny (once or for a generation), how can you meet good karma without being contaminated by earthly dirt? I'm afraid there is no such person in the world.

3. Background

In April of the fourth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 107 1), Ouyang Xiulei resigned and became attached to "Three Tables and Three Books". In June, the bachelor of the official literature hall and the prince entered the official position (resigned and returned to their hometown) and returned to their hometown in July. In June of the fourth year of Xining, Su Shi was sent to Hangzhou as a general and left Beijing for his post. Through, Zhang stayed, and Su Zhe was a professor of Chinese studies. When he left Zhou Chen in September, his brother Su Zhe sent him to Yingzhou, where he visited his former teacher Ouyang Xiu and wrote this article.

4. Introduction to the author

Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi yue Zhan, no Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, extremely high talent, and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing style, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is also called Ou Su with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poetry is fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and its artistic expression is unique. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called Su Huang. The uninhibited school has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji. Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and it can be innovative. Writing with a pen is ups and downs, full of childlike interest. And Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are also called Song Sijia. Painting is the same as literature. In painting, we advocate spirit likeness and "literati painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.