A Must-read Book for Life —— Chapter 6 of The Gate of Tao Te Ching Xuan Zang

Since I decided to read Tao Te Ching, I have spent 8 1 day learning an article as planned. Form 8 1 article, and have a more perceptual comprehensive understanding of Tao Te Ching, and then draw key chapters and study them carefully. That is, I advocate sitting in the white.

I learned Chapter 5 at the beginning before, so today I will start with Chapter 6. I looked at it carefully and was a little shocked.

The sixth chapter of Laozi actually involves talking about sexual reproduction. I recall that Bai listed the Tao Te Ching as a must-read book for life. Maybe he also learned something from this chapter.

I wanted to go beyond this chapter, because some content made people blush. But when I think about it, people's saints and celebrities are so openly studying. Why don't we talk about these feelings when we are unknown people? So, let's write, be correct, be indifferent to color and be a gentleman.

Chapter 6 of Tao Te Ching

original text

1. The immortal is called Xuanzang.

2. The gate of Xuanzang is the root of heaven and earth.

3. If it is continuous, it is not often used.

This chapter actually contains three meanings. I marked it with numbers to make it easier to distinguish the grades.

Literal translation:

1. The mysterious road of nothingness, like the spring in the valley, will never stop changing and will never disappear. This is the mysterious matrix.

2. Mother's life door is the foundation of all things in the world.

Continuous, it just seems to last forever, and its function is endless.

My explanation is:

This chapter still emphasizes the "emptiness, emptiness and nothingness" of Tao and its divinity, strangeness and magic. But it is visualized through metaphor and metonymy.

What does Tao look like? This is a matrix, a great matrix. This invisible matrix space will never disappear. It has a strong reproductive ability. Its mysterious reproductive door is the root of all things in the world.

Some people say that one day when I was traveling in the mountains and rivers, I saw the stream gurgling in the valley, stopped and stared for a long time, and thought of the birth of a woman, so I had such a metaphor for Tao.

It is also said that the "Gu" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions actually looks like a supine female body, and the middle and lower part is the magical "reproductive gate".

Others explained that the valley is actually a desire. Most ancient people lived on grain. There is a word "owe" on the right side of the valley, which means that people are short of food and have poor harvests every year. In order to eat enough, people always have an innate worry about food, so it has evolved into the word desire.

Literally, this explanation also makes sense. Man's desire will never disappear until Valley God dies. This kind of desire is two basic desires, which are most obvious in primitive society: food and color.

Have a full meal and have sexual desire. It is these two desires that enable human beings to thrive. Therefore, Confucius said: eating color is also important. This is not only the root of human beings, but also the root of all living things.

Let me make an analogy. Why is the panda that we regard as the apple of our eye endangered? One of the most important is poor sexual fertility.

Only food without work. According to scientists, the estrus of giant pandas is only a few days a year, and the pregnancy rate after pairing is very low. If it hadn't been conceived by people, it is estimated that this giant panda would have become a photo.

If we understand it from this angle, then we can cover up some man-made ideas according to the exposition of the sages and be ashamed to express some scientific laws confidently.

For example, female compatriots often use some derogatory terms to denounce male compatriots, such as sex maniac, lewd, lewd and so on.

In fact, according to Lao Tzu's old man's house, everything is endless, and it is precisely because of the immortality of the Valley God that it has evolved into such a colorful world. It is this lust of human beings that makes human beings stand out among all animal populations.

Some people say that dinosaurs died out because of changes in geological and climatic conditions. In fact, I think it is very difficult for such a huge body to mate once, which will inevitably lead to a decline in fertility. Over time, coupled with changes in the external environment, it will disappear on the earth, which is definitely rolling the Yangtze River eastward.

There is a TV entertainment program. The host asked a woman: Choose one of the four apprentices to be the husband of the Western Heaven. Who should I choose? Most women choose Pig Bajie! Why is this?

Tang Priest closed his eyes and recited scriptures all day, only knowing Amitabha. Monkey Sun only cares about playing every day, even if he stops the beautiful fairy who picks the flat peach, he will act in collusion. Friar Sand can only carry burdens and sell coolies. Only Pig Bajie is interested in women. Commonly known as lewd.

Imagine, if you don't choose the lecherous pig eight quit, I estimate that it is a problem for human beings to continue. The so-called man is not lustful and the woman is worried; Men and women don't commit adultery, and God cries.

It is natural for men and women to be lascivious. However, this naturalness is regulated by social attributes. You can't be slutty at will. You can only be slutty to your own share.

In this range, your colorful lust is no problem. Moreover, it should be strongly advocated. Scientific research shows that only when men and women have sexual intercourse and get pregnant in a state of extreme excitement can the children born be the healthiest, smartest and cutest.

If you eat from a bowl and look at the pot, it is against social morality. This is absolutely forbidden.

In fact, when studying the Tao Te Ching, we must put nature, human beings and human society together to study. The relationship among them is inseparable. That is, how people show their natural and social attributes in front of this Tao.

This chapter is a model for Laozi to discuss the attributes and characteristics of Tao. He compared Tao to a mother, and everything was transformed from the reproductive door of this mother, which made people have a basic understanding of Tao. The original mysterious exposition became clear.

No matter how great Laozi is, he is also a person who has experienced the completion of a life cycle from birth to growth, and then to marriage and rebirth. Therefore, it is natural to use fertility as a metaphor for the Tao that has disappeared without a trace.

So there are many explanations in this chapter, and I have looked through the information, no less than a dozen. But the most fundamental one: yin and yang intercourse, reproductive door can not be solved. The gate of Xuanzang.

The theory of Yin and Yang in Laozi's Tao Te Ching is the cornerstone of his whole Tao Te Ching. Actually, it is the most consistent theory with Tao. There is yin and everything begins to live, and the door of Xuanzang is endless.

Let's imagine that animals are like this, especially humans. What about plants? Plants must be pollinated by female and male flowers to bear fruit. There are seeds in the fruit.

Every spring, you can see many beekeepers keeping bees among flowers. Its indirect function is to help plants pollinate and increase fruit yield.

This is the way of nature. A few years ago, some people with crooked brains engaged in monomer breeding. Cells can be extracted from hair, skin and bones for artificial reproduction. This is against nature and should be strictly prohibited. Fortunately, people are aware of this violation of the law, and now no one is silent.

Lao Tzu compared Tao to Xuanzang, the door of Xuanzang, from which everything was born. There are two important ideas in this chapter.

One is the love of nature. The second is to respect women.

Because Tao is natural and the source of all things, it is just like a mother. Everyone who walks out of Xuanzang's door should love, protect and cherish her. Never hurt her.

It is a harmful behavior for human beings to destroy nature. Let nature be full of holes and scars.

A few years ago, an arrogant private entrepreneur proposed to blow a huge hole in the Himalayas, introduce warm air from Southeast Asia, melt icebergs, and solve the water shortage problem in the western region. Although it is nonsense, it also shows that people can't stop asking for nature from time to time. This is extremely harmful to our harmonious coexistence with nature.

This mother is not all kind and weak. If you offend her too much again, you will be punished by heaven. Frequent earthquakes, floods and plagues will always hang over your head.

Therefore, we should love her as much as we love our mother.

Some people always envy men's respect for women in western countries. In fact, I expressed this idea in this chapter thousands of years ago. It's just that in the long history of China, I don't know which pier and which idiot abandoned it.

Instead, it is cruelty and contempt for women. Such as "three obedience and four virtues", "seven go and seven don't go", "women have long hair and short knowledge" and "beauty is a disaster" and other things that despise women. What's more, foot binding is harmful to women's health.

This pernicious influence still exists until now. Some enterprises clearly indicate that women are not admitted when recruiting personnel. There are such restrictions when women enter any position. It is more difficult for women to find jobs than men.

I think I use Xuanzang's door as an analogy. It's a bit vulgar, but it's not rough. I also say rude words, everyone in our world, which one didn't climb out of a woman's stomach? Didn't you fall from Xuanzang's door?

So, why are we so contemptuous, so rude and so cruel to the mother who gave birth to our life?

Of course, there are also some people of insight calling for it. For example, Lao Tzu, for example, Cao Xueqin.

When reading A Dream of Red Mansions, I always had a question: Why didn't Cao Gong use the story of a fool moving mountains as the opening of this classic handed down from ancient times, but the myth of a goddess mending the sky as the opening?

This question has been lingering in my mind. I read the expert works on studying the red chamber and eating in A Dream of Red Mansions, and I didn't see anyone clearly answer this question.

This shows two problems: first, it is to despise women's thoughts. People don't want to work hard on it, but only pay attention to the ambiguous and lingering love behind it. The second is to study the one-sidedness of the red chamber.

In fact, the beginning of who is the red chamber reflects Cao Gong's most basic thought. He respects and praises women.

Think about it, when that day comes, where are those heroes and hot-blooded men? Why let the weak The goddess patching the sky? It is this gentle Nuwa who fills the sky in times of crisis, and the genius becomes a complete sky, so that the world can be safe and avoid catastrophic collapse.

In fact, loving nature, respecting nature, loving mother and respecting women are in line with Lao Tzu's so-called Tao. Facts have proved that whoever keeps this road will be ahead of history. Whoever violates this Tao will be mercilessly punished by the Tao. It will even bring great disaster.

To put it more seriously, this is a sign of whether a society is civilized or not.

Embrace nature, live in harmony with nature, love your mother and respect women. I believe that as long as we wake up, we will never be worse than others.