Interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

Chapter 38

[Tao often does nothing but does everything.If the Hou Wang can keep it, all things will be self-transformed. 】

Yan Kejun said: "Be able to keep", Wang Bi's "Shou" may have the word "Zhi".

The case of modesty: "Hou Wang" in the Fu and model editions is "Wanghou", and "Ruo" in Jingfu's edition is "And". The word "zhi" is absent in Jinglong, Yuzhu, Yinglun, and Fu Yi, but it is in the model edition and Muromachi edition. "Doing nothing without doing nothing" is the way of Guan Yin and Lao Dan described in Zhuangzi's Tianxia: "There is no dwelling in oneself, and the shape and objects are self-contained. It moves like water, it is quiet like a mirror, and its response is like sound." Inaction also, And do nothing.Ruan Jitong also said in an old commentary: "Tao follows the law of nature and is transformed. If princes and kings can guard it, all things will be transformed by themselves. It is called Taiji, Spring and Autumn is called Yuan, and Laozi is called Dao."

[Cultivate and want to make, I will suppress it with nameless simplicity. 】

Yan Kejun said: Yu Zhu and Wang Bi made "Zhi Pu".

The case of modesty: Fu and the model are also called "Pu".Bi Yuan said: "'Pu' is originally written as 'Pu', the same." "Changing and wanting to make", "doing" and "nothing" are opposites.Erya explained: "to do, to do." It is also "change".In the Book of Rites, Ai Gong asked "to do sex and be right", and note: "to change." "Pu", Shuowen: "Wood is simple." Shu Zicai "is diligent and simple", Ma's note: "It is not yet a tool." In the chapter on weighing knowledge, it says: "Those who do not have a knife and ax to break are called simple. "

[The nameless Pu will also not want to. 】

Yan Kejun said: "The general will not desire", and Wang Bi said "The husband will also have no desire".

Luo Zhenyu said: "The nameless simplicity", according to the interpretation, Wang Ben seems to have no such sentence. "The husband will also have no desire", the interpretation: "No, the simplified text is not." In addition, Jinglong, Yuzhu, Jingfu, and Yinglun all have no "husband", and "wu" is also "not".

Yu Xingwu said: According to Laozi, the word "husband" was mostly added by later generations. "No" is "no".Heshang Gong's original work is "I also don't want to, and I don't want to be quiet".Now, with the example of ancient books emphasizing prose, it is verified that "I will not want to, and I will not want to be quiet", which should have been "Yi will not = desire = to be quiet", which is the proof that "nothing" should be "not".

[If you don't want to be quiet, the world will be self-righteous. 】

Qian's case: "The world will be self-righteous", each book has the word "general", but Suizhou does not. "Zheng", the Wang editions and the Heshang editions of the Song Dynasty are "Ding", and the Wang Xizhi edition, Fu, Fan edition, Gao Sui edition and all stone editions are all written as "Zheng". "Zheng" and "定" have the same meaning, and the sound of "Ding" is similar to that of Zheng.Lao Jian cited the word "Zheng" in the ancient text of Shuo Wen as the mouth, and Xia Song's ancient Chinese rhyme with the word "Ding" cited Han Jian as the mouth.

[Phonetic Rhyme] The rhyme reading of Jiang's family in this chapter: Wei, Wei, Huayun (Gebu, for the sound, Huayin), Pu, Pu, Yuyun (Houbu), Jing, Zhengyun (Gengbu).Xi Tong: Wei, Hua rhyme, Zuo, Pu, Pu, Yu rhyme, Jing, Ding rhyme, covering "Zheng" as "Ding".Gao Ben Han Tong, both "Zheng" and "Ding".Deng Tingzhen is the same, but the word "zuo" is not included, saying: "Zheng, a book is set, and static and fixed also rhyme." Qian's case: Chapter 57 "I do nothing and the people transform themselves", which is also rhyme. .Great Master Zhuangzi: "Great good fortune! And will you take it as your own?" Chapter Zaiyou: "Where there is no action, the people will transform themselves." Chapter Heaven and Earth: "Inaction and all things are transformed." Chapter Autumn Water: "Why do you do it! Why not do it! Fugu will transform itself." All of them are transformed into rhymes.Youjing and Dingyun are the rhymes, and Chu Ci's big move is Jingjing and Dingyun, which is an example.Gu Yanwu said: "Pu", the ancient Pu Mufan.Lao Tzu: "When it is open, it is as simple as it is, when it is open, it is like a valley, and when it is muddy, it is like muddy." Keeping its humiliation is the valley of the world; being the valley of the world, constant virtue is sufficient, and it returns to simplicity." "When I want to make it, I will suppress it with nameless simplicity; I will not desire the nameless simplicity." "I have no desire." , and the people are simple." (Tang Yunzheng three candles) Jiang Yougao said: "Quiet", and I am sick.According to the ancient times, there were only two tones of Ping Qu, and the Shang tones were pronounced in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which should be combined with the two parts of Qing and Jin.Lao Tzu's political chapter "I don't want to be quiet" is associated with Zhengxie, Hongde's chapter "Quietness" is associated with Zhengxie, Chunfeng's chapter "I love tranquility" is associated with Zhengxie, and "returning to the root is quiet" is associated with fate.Up and down sound (Tang Yun's four tones are forty quiet).

You Jinglong stele version has 48 characters, the English version and Heshang version have the same characters, the Fu version has 49 characters, and the Wang and Fan versions have 30 characters.Heshang's title is "Weizheng No.37", Wang's title is "Chapter 30", and the model title is "Taochang Wuwei Chapter No.29".The scriptures on the Jinglong Stele were originally empty in six frames, and then the title "Former Chongguang Guandu Jianzhai and Zhiwei Ritual Events to the First Year of Shenlong Named into Longxing Guanjian School Temple Advocate Action" has a total of 71 characters.On the front of the stele above, there are a total of [-] lines of the Taoist scriptures: the first [-] lines, [-] characters; the last three lines, [-] characters.

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