Source: "Laozi"
Creation year: Spring and Autumn Period
Author: Laozi
Its security is easy to keep, but not easy to seek. Crispy and easy to spread, but slightly easy to disperse. Do it for nothing, treat it in disorder. Broken wood is born in the end; Nine-story platform, starting with tired soil; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. People's sense of participation is often defeated by several achievements. If you are careful to the end, you will never fail.
General idea: it is easy to maintain and maintain when the situation is stable, and it is easy to plot when there is no sign of the incident; Things are easy to dissolve when they are fragile; Things are easily lost in subtleties; Do things well, nip in the bud; To govern the country, we should be prepared before the disaster happens.
A hugging tree with tiny buds; Nine-story platform, built on each pile of soil; The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. People who do one thing will fail, and those who persist will suffer. Therefore, saints do nothing, so they will not lead to failure, nor will they be hurt by persistence.
People will always fail when they are about to succeed, so when things are about to be completed, they should be as cautious as they were at the beginning. Nothing is impossible. Therefore, the wise pursue goods that people don't pursue, don't get hard, learn from what others don't learn, and remedy the mistakes that people often make. This follows the natural nature of all things, without arbitrary intervention.
Extended data:
Truth: it shows that every little makes a mickle, and quantitative change causes qualitative change! It also shows that to achieve great things, we must start from small things.
Creative background: According to the literature, Laozi is quiet, studious and knowledgeable. In the process of teaching knowledge by his teacher, Shang Rong, Laozi always gets to the bottom of the matter and is very eager for knowledge. In order to solve doubts, he often looks up at the sun, moon and stars and thinks about what the sky is, so that he often can't sleep.
Yin also played a great role in the compilation of Tao Te Ching. When he was young, he was fond of astronomy, reading ancient books, and had a profound cultivation. Yin moved Lao Tzu, who traced his life experience, the success or failure of the dynasty and the safety of the people, and wrote two books, Tao Te Ching, with five thousand words.
Laozi, the philosophical works of Laozi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching and Laozi's 5,000 words and 5,000 articles, is the works of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China before their separation, and is an important source of Taoist philosophy.
Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original text is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to the Tao Te Ching in the first 37 chapters, and the Tao Te Ching in the last 38 chapters, divided into 8 1 chapters.