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Chapter 77 of the Tao Te Ching, The Difference Between Heaven and Humanity

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Chapter 77 of the Tao Te Ching talks about the difference between the Tao of Heaven and humanity, and he talks about the way of heaven, and he talks about the way of heaven, and the way of man is not the same, and the loss is insufficient and there is more than enough.

Heavenly dao is like shooting a bow and arrow, when we shoot a bow and arrow, we often speak about this target in order to concentrate on the target, if we are high, we will go down a little, and if we are low, we will lift up a little. When the force is greater, we use a little more energy, that is, just right, the loss is more than enough and the deficiency is insufficient, this is the basic rule of the Heavenly Dao, but he talked about humanity, humanity is just the opposite of the Heavenly Dao, he talked about humanity is, the loss is insufficient and there is more than enough, so Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching talks about the opposite, the movement of the Tao, the use of the weak, that is, to further clarify the opposite of such a law between humanity and the Tao, and then seek reverse thinking, reverse movement, Thus realizing the unity of humanity and heaven and man in the Heavenly Way, this chapter exposes the ugliness of human nature, we say that at the beginning of man, nature is good, but as people continue to grow, the more knowledge they will go farther away from the Tao. Development is a process, a mental journey, of the journey from good to unwholesome, and then from unwholesome to good. Just as the so-called looking at the mountain is a mountain, looking at the mountain is not a mountain, and looking at the mountain is such a round trip to the mountain is a cognitive ascension and sublimation.

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