"Deserted wisdom, people benefit from Baixin; Desperate, the people are filial; Never give up profits, thieves have nothing "comes from Tao Te Ching, the philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Excerpts from the original text:
Abandoning wisdom, people benefit a hundred times; Desperate, the people are filial; Never give up profits, thieves have nothing. These three, I think, are not enough. Therefore, the order belongs to you: simple and simple, with little selfish desires and no worries about learning.
Translation:
Destroy the authoritative concept in your mind, let yourself not be superstitious about anyone's point of view, and abandon the subjective point of view that you think is correct, and the people will gain a hundred times of benefits; Abandoning the reputation of so-called benevolence and righteousness, the people will restore their filial nature; Abandon the wind of greed and thieves will disappear.
Sages, benevolent people and cleverness are all ingenious decorations, which are not enough to be used as the laws to control social diseases. Therefore, only by making people's thoughts and understanding belong, maintaining their pure and simple nature, reducing selfish desires and distractions, and abandoning the superficial prose of sages, wisdom and etiquette can we avoid pain.
Extended data:
Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts.
Laozi tried to apply dialectics to social governance. In chapter 19, Lao Tzu put forward that "abandoning wisdom and wisdom will benefit people a hundred times;" Desperate, the people are filial; Never give up profits, thieves have nothing. These three people think that there are not enough words, so each has its own; Simple and simple, selfish; There is no worries about learning. " In this chapter, aiming at the social pathological condition, the governance scheme is put forward. In the previous chapter, Lao Tzu said that "wisdom comes out and there is a big fallacy."
So this chapter advocates abandoning this cleverness. It is considered that "holiness" and "wisdom" lead to legal fraud, and it will be a "promising" policy to deceive the country by using the legal system. Only by abandoning this political action that disturbs the people can the people get tangible benefits. Many books in this chapter end with "less selfish desires" and begin with "study without worry".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Laozi