Read "tao Te Ching in Silk Script" with One Book
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This book is based on the Tao Te Ching, a silk scroll unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha in 1973, and reveals how this precious manuscript over 2,000 years ago subverted traditional understanding and showed the most primitive aspects of Laozi's thoughts. Different from the Wang Bi version and the He Shang Gong version that were passed down in later generations, the silk book has a unique structure with "De Jing" in front and "Dao Jing" in the back, which highlights the emphasis of Huang-Lao thought on realistic governance in the Han Dynasty. Its simple words such as "Feihengdaoye" are closer to the dynamic balance of the universe than the handed down version "Feihengdao". The book provides an in-depth analysis of the original philosophy of "Tao follows nature", the political wisdom of "governing by inaction", and the dialectical thinking of "the weak prevails over the strong". Through hundreds of textual differences between the silk script and the handed down version, it restores Laozi's profound criticism of power boundaries, desire restraint, and social alienation. From the ruler's self-cultivation principle of "little selfishness and few desires" to the ideal social picture of "a small country with few people", this ancient wisdom on silk spans time and space, providing modern people with the ideological resources to return to nature in response to ecological crisis, power expansion and spiritual anxiety, completing a double enlightenment from cultural relic archeology to life awakening.
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