interior cultivation(pī hè huái zhū)

interior cultivation

Beibu huaizhu refers to wearing coarse cloth clothes and holding a pearl. Metaphor, though born in poverty, has real talent and learning.

Use examples

He is a fake body labor illusory world stupid eyes, by brown huaizhu, contain vegetable Tibet repair. The fourth chapter of Chong Mo Zi by Zhu Quan of Ming Dynasty

usage

"Bei Wu Huai Yu" and "Bei Wu Huai Bao"

source

original text

My words are easy to understand and easy to implement. No one can know, no one can do. There are schools of speech (1), kings of affairs (2) and ignorance of husband (3), so I don't know. Those who know me hope, then (4) those who know me are expensive. So the sage was browned (5) and Huaiyu (6). Selected from chapter 70 of Laozi Daodejing

translate

My words are easy to understand and implement. But no one in the world can understand it, and no one can implement it. There is a purpose in speech and a basis in action. It's because people don't understand this inspiration that they don't understand me. There are few people who can understand me, so those who can learn from me are even more difficult. Therefore, the sage of Tao always wears coarse cloth with beautiful jade in his arms.

notes

1. Speech has a certain theme. 2. There is a king in matters: there is a certain basis for doing things. A "King" is the "master". "Jun" refers to something. 3. Ignorance: refers to people who don't understand. I mean I'm ignorant. 4. Rule. This is used as a verb to follow. 5. Quilt: quilt, wearing; brown, coarse cloth. 6. Huaiyu: jade, beautiful jade. Here it extends to knowledge and talent. "Huaiyu" means carrying knowledge and talent.

analysis

This chapter reveals Laozi's disappointment to the rulers at that time. A series of political propositions put forward by him are easy to understand and implement, but no one understands and implements them. It seems that his ideal of governing the world can only be realized by the "sage" in his fantasy. It can't be realized in reality. He did not understand that any plan for governing the country must be adapted to the interests of the ruling class, otherwise they would not adopt it or implement it. Therefore, Laozi has this theory of emotion. This chapter is for those in power, not for ordinary people. The words "I" and "I" in this paper can be described as the personification of "Tao".

Chinese PinYin : pī hè huái zhū