大威至时

作者:change?  于 2023-12-8 05:22 发表于 最热闹的华人社交网络--贝壳村

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民不畏威,则大威至矣。
无狎其所居,无厌其所生。
夫唯不厌,是以不厌。
是以圣人自知不自见,自爱不自责。
故去彼取此。

《道德经》第七十二章

【白话】
当人民不再畏惧统治的威压的时候,那么,反于统治者的大权威就临头了。不要逼迫人民不得安居,不要阻塞人民的谋生之路。只有不去阻塞人民,才不会有出之于人民的反阻塞。因此,圣人但求自知,不去自我炫耀;但求自爱,不去自显高贵。所以要有所取舍(见第十二章)。

英译 Chapter 72

Never mind if the people are not intimated by your authority. . A Mightier Authority ( heaven) will deal with them in the end. Do not narrow their dwellings(I.e. put them in prison) or harass their lives( livelihood, that whereby they live ); and for the very reason that you do not harass them, they will cease to turn from you.( There’s a pun on ‘harass’ and ‘turn from’. The root means originally ‘to press down from above’. Hence (1) to oppress (2) to have food crammed into one, to be ‘fed up’ , to turn away in disgust). Therefore the Sage knows himself(I.e. knows his own power, but does not display it) but does not show himself. Knows his own value, but does not put himself on high. Truly, ‘he rejects that but takes this(see chapter 12).



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