Dec. 17, 2017
《老子》第十六章
致虚极,守静笃,万物并作,吾以观其复。
夫物芸芸,各复归其根。
归根曰静,是曰复命。
复命曰常,知常曰明。
不知常,妄作,凶。
知常,容。
容乃公,公乃王,王乃天,天乃道,道乃久,没身不殆。
【译文】
尽可能地使自己的心灵空虚,尽可能地使自己的身体保持安静,在万物的事态演变中,我们来观察它们的循环反复。事事物物虽然纷纭繁杂,但它们都归结于它们的根本。归结到根本它们就显示出安静,这就叫做重复周期。
万物有根的归根向静的周期性重复运动叫做常,知晓了解这个常叫做明,如同黑暗中点起了火把。不知常如同人在黑暗中,如果盲目作为就会充满凶险。知常,进一步就看到了万事万物的样子,叫做容。认识了万物的容,就能认识万物的共同特性,叫做公。公以后更进一步就可以做万物的主人,叫做王。王进一步就可以认识到天。天再进步就是道,道可以永久存在,我的身体消失了万物之道的运动也不会停止。
Make your mind empty as much as possible, keep your body as quiet as possible, and in the course of events we observe their cycles. Things are complicated. But they all come down to their root. When they come down to the root, they show quiet, which is called the repeated cycle. The root of everything in the periodic motion to the static is called Chang, knowing that understanding this is often called the Ming. Like a torch lit in the dark. I do not know often like a man in the dark, if blind action will be filled with danger. Know the constant, further see the appearance of all things, called Rong. Knowing the face of all things, we can understand the face of all things The common characteristic of all things is called the public. After the public can be the master of all things, called the king. The king can further realize that heaven. Heaven progress is the Way, Way can exist forever. The movement of my body that has disappeared from the path of all things will not stop.