Appreciation of Sentences that Help Get Lost More and Help Get Lost Less

Appreciate the sentences that help the Tao more and help the Tao less. The contents are as follows:

We usually use the phrase "get more help from the Tao, get less help from the Tao" to explain that people who are in line with justice can get support and help from many sides, and those who violate justice will fall into isolation and helplessness. Here, we understand "Tao" as "righteousness". So, what is justice? Modern Chinese Dictionary says: "Justice" means "just truth that is beneficial to the people". This is a modern understanding, but it comes down in one continuous line with its original meaning.

Mencius Gong Sunchou said: "Those who gain the Tao will help more, while those who lose the Tao will help less. When there is little help, relatives will be there; Help more, and the world will be at peace. Take the world as you like and attack your relatives, so the gentleman wins without a fight. " This passage means that there are many people who help the right people; For those who have lost their way, fewer people help him.

When there are few people to help, even relatives will oppose him; When so many people help, the whole world will obey him. Take the obedience of the whole world to attack those who even oppose their relatives, or win the first world war without fighting.

Mencius' "virtuous" and "immoral" people here do not refer to ordinary individuals, but to the king of a country. The king of a country is both the commander-in-chief of the war and the political leader. Mencius, by discussing the victory or defeat of the war, led to the view that "getting more help from the Tao and getting less help from the Tao". But in Mencius' view, "people's hearts turn back" is of fundamental significance to war and equally important to politics.

Mencius said, "He who gets the people gets the world." There is a way to win the people: win their hearts and win the people. "Meaning, win the hearts of the people in the world, win the hearts of the people first. The so-called "winning the hearts of the people" means winning the support, support and help of the people. The so-called "winning the world" means "ruling the world" through benevolent government, rather than striving for the world by force alone. Benevolence is to convince people with virtue, make them convinced and join in automatically; Persuading people with strength can't convince people.