What do you mean, always white and always black?

I know what light is, but I am content with a dark position.

Source: Chapter 28 of Laozi-Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period

Original: It is a world trend to know his male and keep his female. For the world stream, Changde is inseparable. Changde never leaves, and belongs to the baby. Knowing its glory and keeping its shame is Amagai. For Tiangai, Changde is enough. Changde, that's enough. Go back to the park.

Knowing its white and keeping its black is the world wind. Changde is not special to the world. Changde is not special, and it is infinite. Park scattered for the device, saints use it, is an official, so the big system is not cut.

Interpretation: I know what is powerful, but I am willing to be a stream in the world. Willing to be a stream in the world, eternal virtue will not be lost and return to the state of innocence like a baby. I know what light is, but I am content with the dark position and I am willing to be a model for the world.

I hope to be a model of the world, and the eternal virtue will remain unchanged, returning to the inexhaustible truth. Knowing what glory is, but guarding a humble position, I am willing to be the valley of the world.

May the eternal virtue be enough for the world and return to the simplicity and innocence of nature. Simple and primitive things are made into artifacts, and there are ways to use them. Simple people are the best among the hundred officials, so perfect politics is inseparable.

Extended data:

Laozi said, "It's heaven to know its white and keep its shame." This sentence is also a well-known saying. "Insult" is a loanword, meaning black spot, or extended to obscurantism.

Knowing that it is bright, but content with obscurity, can become the rivers and valleys of the world. Passing on the past is a metaphor, which we can understand as popularity. This is to describe a state of mind. Here, it seems that we can do some play and expand several truths contained in it.

First of all, we have to admit that we understand the good side. Some people understand Laozi, and when they see that Laozi denies enrichment, they refuse to enrich it, or even turn a blind eye.

Laozi said: "It is better to persist than to have it; It is impossible to keep a keen mind, and it is really to persuade people to "retire after work". But if you are full and turn a blind eye, obviously this person makes people feel a little "obedient". We should keep an objective and sober pragmatic attitude towards this, and only by seeking truth from facts can we solve the problem.

Secondly, "keep its shame." Knowing that it is bright, even in a dazzling state, then we need to make appropriate choices. Although I don't have to do what I said, his words are a good reminder. Third, know its transformation.