Many people interpret Lao Tzu’s inaction as doing nothing. This is a misunderstanding.

Lao Tzu's Wuwei means that things have to be done, but the way of doing things is particular, which is not the way we do things in our daily lives. In our daily lives, we almost always do things for a certain purpose. To do things for a certain purpose or desire is to do something;

Therefore, Laozi’s inaction is aimed at doing something, and there is something to do. Doing is the source of suffering. For example, Laozi opposes the three states of Youwei:

Therefore, Youwei refers to doing things for results, doing things for material and being powerful, and all animals are for Materials do things for the sake of being powerful, but people have another level of "doing", that is, they don't do things for the sake of material things or power, but for the sake of the thing itself.

I call this level of work Dawei, which can achieve great things, because it only pursues the highest state of the work itself, that is, giving full play to each person's independent value in the subdivided field to the extreme. Go and cooperate with this *** body to divide labor and achieve the highest efficiency.

Therefore, Laozi's "inaction" actually advocates nourishing all things like water. Water has no purpose in nourishing all things. It just does its job and goes all out to nourish all things. To make all things grow, but never with the purpose of possessing all things.

For example, Lao Tzu's sage "does not do it" does not mean that he does not do things, but does not do things for the three "doings" mentioned above. For example, a sage makes friends. He never wants to take advantage of his friends or want to be better than others. He does not fight or be greedy for material things. Any extra material things are a burden to him.

Therefore, the saint does not do things to get ahead, let alone to realize desires and material things. The saint does things to exert his value as a human being.

Therefore, Lao Tzu's state of "doing nothing": We should live actively, but we live actively not for results, not to realize the desires of the animal brain, but to get things done, for The thing itself, for life and work itself, because what is truly valuable and meaningful to the world is the social value created by the work itself. It is the value created by everyone's labor itself that drives the world forward. This is The evolution of all things and the nature of world development.

Therefore, when you work, you do not work for the salary, but for the social value generated by the work itself. In this realm, what you pursue is whether your work can help people. Whether it generates unique social value, improves people's survival, improves the efficiency of people's lives, etc., you only care about this level of things. As for the results, you don't mind.

Even a true saint is willing to do this work even if he has no income, as long as this work can truly help people.

This is the purpose of human life. Life embodies the meaning of life through the social value created by work, and the psychological state of this process corresponds to the neuron pathway of the prefrontal lobe, which produces pleasure and makes people feel happy. Our brains find such pursuits valuable.

However, the pleasure pathway of the prefrontal lobe is an advanced pathway, or a path that is more difficult to develop. In a normal state, what people can most easily feel is the pleasure pathway of the animal brain. We When eating, possessing material things, and feeling stronger than others, the animal brain immediately feels pleasure, which makes it easy for people to feel that living is for wealth and power.

But what a person owns does not reflect the value of the person. The true value of the person is expressed through the prefrontal lobe, that is, it is reflected in the uniqueness that a person's work creates for this society. value, when you can constantly mobilize and train your prefrontal lobe to perceive the social value brought by the results of your labor, your brain will also produce pleasure. This pleasure is enough to compete with your brain's pleasure needs, making you No more relying solely on animal brains for pleasure.

Please note that the key point here is that you need to continue to perceive until it is internalized into intuition.

When you achieve this state, you don’t need to rely on external objects or wealth to gain a sense of value. Your life itself is a sense of value.

This is why you feel fulfilled and rich when you do something valuable and meaningful.

The product is him, he is the product, the product becomes his incarnation, and he also becomes the product. Such a person and such a product have transcended reality and become an immortal spirit. People admire and miss him. This is the highest realm of life, when you enter the realm of artistic creation.

The world keeps moving forward because of this spirit.

This is the way of heaven created by Laozi’s inaction. It is the inevitable result under the law of energy entropy increase, and it is also the purpose of human life.

Therefore, the correct "inaction" includes two aspects:

Let me use an example of mine to let everyone understand more accurately:

I read " I have read the Tao Te Ching for many years, but I have only recently begun to be able to integrate the realm of inaction into my life. Although it is not perfect even now, I already know how to implement it, and I have felt the powerful power of inaction. ;

For example, my current career: learning, thinking and writing articles.

There are two purposes for me learning to think:

These two purposes are intertwined, and I can hardly tell clearly what I am doing is for the results. When doing other things, it is the career itself.

I found that we first clearly position the dream. After positioning it, refine the dream into specific operable steps, and then train these steps in life at all times until it is internalized into intuition.

For example, my original dream was very vague: I don’t want to waste my life, I want to live a valuable and meaningful life, I want to do something for this society, I want to bring out the unique value of life, these cannot be considered Accurate dream.

A true dream is powerful.

Its power principle is the emotional principle mentioned in the practical chapter. Others give you the happiness that originally belonged to them and help you bear your suffering, so you have the motivation to repay this person. , which is the real emotion.

For example, repay your parents, repay all the people who have helped you, repay all the people who complement you in work, and repay the thousands of people in this society who have formed a division of labor and cooperation with you. In essence, they all Extending your life.

This is the motivation that I want to repay, the real power in my brain. I try my best every day to discover those people and things that are worthy of my gratitude.

Therefore, the hardships I have experienced myself, I hope others can avoid, because I have taken too many detours on the path I have taken, and in fact, if I had made it a few years ago, If I can reach this depth of cognition and have this level of cultivation, I will be able to avoid a lot of pain.

These forces motivate me to constantly want to present the most effective knowledge to readers. I only present to readers the knowledge I need, knowledge that can truly change lives.

In order to realize this dream, I must continue to deepen my knowledge, so I must continue to learn, think and practice it in life.

Therefore, if my purpose is for this dream, then it means that I am constantly learning, thinking and practicing, even when writing articles. Writing articles is to learn from me. , the results of thinking and practice are presented to readers systematically and effectively.

These are the steps I take when I turn my dreams into concrete plans.

But that was not the case for me at the beginning. I studied and thought in order to write articles, even to cater to the themes of the platform. Then, my attention was more on the results, such as often Go check the data of the article, because the data is related to income, and once the income is not satisfactory, I will be anxious.

When my attention was on the results, I ignored the practice, and the depth of learning and thinking was also very limited.

As a result, I wanted to write more articles so that I could earn more income, and I began to be driven by material and desires. In fact, most of the time, I was basically driven by results, because I First of all, I still have to support my family. Sometimes this drive even makes me quite anxious, because when the article data is good, the income is okay, but when the data is not good, the income is not satisfactory. As a result, once it is time to publish the article, I will be very anxious. Worry about performing poorly.

On the day of publication, I would check the article frequently. Even when I was with my children, I would have a strong urge to escape and check it.

This is the shroud of desire over us. When this state keeps happening to me, I constantly mobilize the dreams of the prefrontal lobe to rectify the desires of the animal brain.

So, when I clearly saw the impact of these two on my life, I comprehensively practiced vigilance against any material and desires in the animal brain, and on the other hand, I practiced vigilance against any material and desires in the animal brain. On the other hand, it is a comprehensive moment to let yourself feel the social value of dreams and the work results brought about by dreams.

This process has made me understand more and more clearly how to get along with the world, how to find a foothold in life, and a sense of power in life.

This is the true state of Lao Tzu’s inaction, which makes people suddenly realize that if you want to achieve great things, you must first learn Lao Tzu’s inaction!

To fully connect the animal brain and the prefrontal lobe, it is recommended to first read through "The Thinking Model of First Principles", build your foothold in life from the lowest principles, and then use my practical chapter to These thoughts are internalized into intuition and form automatic instinctive reactions. Only when this state is reached can qualitative changes occur in life!