第七章 天长地久

天长地久。天地所以能长且久者，以①其不自生，故能长生。是以圣人后其身而身先，外其身而身存。非以其无私邪②？故能成其私③。

名词解释：

以：因为

邪：同“耶”，疑问语气词。

私：这里指个人利益

通篇解释：

天地永远都存在。天地之所以能长久，是因为它不是为了自己而生存，所以才能永远存在。因此得道的人凡事把自己的切身利益置后，反而能成了人群的首领；凡事把自身的安危置之度外，反而保全了自己的身家性命。这不正是因为他不自私？所以可以更好地成就他自己。

引申扩展：

1、百姓如何效仿天道做到“以其不自生，故能长生”？

天道是不仁爱的，是不以自身生存为目标，才因而获得永存的。那我们该如何效仿天道做到置自己利益于度外呢？

用普遍的二元论调解释，就是做到不计个人得失，先满足集体利益最大化时，个人自身利益就会相应随之解决，进而升华体现出个人的价值。以中国国策而言，我们也经常可以看见这类概念的运用，比如让一部分人先富起来，然后带动更多的人步入富裕的生活。

但具体落实到操作上，还是在一元目光中处理，更为高效便捷。用一元论解释，这个外在的集体利益其实也是你的个人利益，每个人都掌控着属于自己的世界，这个世界绝对对你服从，绝对是独一无二的存在着的。所以其实并无集体利益和个人利益之分。两者是融为一体，不可能清晰分割的。一旦你区分考虑集体和个人利益不同处时，那你所遇到的问题总是在不断刷新你个人利益的承受底线，直到你发疯，觉得自己被集体利益无情剥削到了极致。

比如，公司接了笔大订单，你不得不加班加点。当你开始思考公司能从这笔大单中获取多少利益，而自己最多只获得一点加班费或只能奢望老板年终能多给你点奖金。那你一定会变得越来越加班无动力，活得越来越累。

正确的一元论想法中你应该考虑，在这个大单中你能获得怎样的资源即所谓的经验。例如你知道了大公司的内部审核标准，你又突破了自己工作效率的瓶颈，你对领导、同事、客户的定位度、关联度等又有了更深刻的认知。当这个一元混合利益积累到达质变点时，你自然会遇到为你打开一片新天空的机遇，让你厚积而薄发。

这个机遇的产生也绝对是有据可循的，因为我多次讲解过当你自己一直处于这个精神喜悦的磁场环境中时，你的高频会幻化吸引到与你同频的好事发生。

所以学会凡事运用一元目光去思考，绝对是大势所趋，无往不利。

2、政客如何效仿天道做到”以其不自生，故能长生“

政客除了处理日常生活和工作中，达到老子所言的圣人标准” 后其身而身先，外其身而身存“即类似范仲淹的” 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐“观点外。还应做到以下三点：

b.位高责重而不可滥用；政客的一大法宝就是拥有国家级的职权力。当你开始肆意使用而不约束你的职权时，那赋予你权位的君主即当下的人民群众就会讨厌你，这又是你陨落的先兆。

c.俸禄优厚而不可贪图；做人凡事都应要知足感恩，作为一名政客更应如此。否则祸患就会降临到你头上。

史书记载，春秋楚国名臣孙叔敖辅佐楚庄王治国安邦，政绩斐然。在临死前，他告诫儿子，死后楚王必定封你城邑，你届时不要接受别人都争夺的城邑，你申请楚越边境的一个叫寝丘的小地方就行。那里地势低洼、土地贫瘠，历来无人争夺，但可保你未来衣食温饱无忧。果然这块封地一直传了孙叔敖十几代子嗣，一直没被收回，而封别人的城邑不出两代后被争夺收回重新封赏了。后人称其为“不争肥缺而得长利”。

达到这三点的政客，自然活得受他人爱戴，并精神永存。

Chapter 7

Heaven is eternal, the Earth everlasting

How come they to be so? It is because they do not foster their own lives.

That is why they live so long.

Therefore the Sage

Puts himself benefit in the back; but is always to the fore.

Life remained outside; but is always alive.

Is it not just because he does not strive for any personal pursue?

That all his personal pursue are fulfilled.

Extension:

1、How does the common people follow the WAY to reach eternal state “not foster their own lives” ?

As we all known, the WAY is ruthless, it is not the goal of its own survival, that is why it obtain forever. So how do we follow the WAY track to put ourselves benefit outside?

In binary view theory, we should do regardless of personal gain and loss, to meet the collective interests, then individual interests can be solved accordingly, so promote your value of the individual. In case of Chinese national policy, we can also see this theory used, such as letting some people get rich first, and then driving more people into the rich life.

However, it is more efficient and convenient to carry out these problem in unary view.

In unary view theory, other’s collective benefit is equal with your personal benefit. Everyone holds the belongs to his own world. It is obedient to you and it is definitely unique. Both of benefit are integrated and can not be clearly separated. Once you start to distinguish them, your bottom line will be refreshed again and again until you go crazy to feel being exploited ruthlessly.

For example, the company took a big order and you had to work overtime. When you start to think about how much money the company can get from the big bill , you can only get a little overtime pay or you can only expect the boss to give you a bonus at the end of the year. Then you will become more and more unmotivated and more and more tired.

The correct thinking way is you should concern what can you lean from this big bill, that so-called experience. eg. You know the big company’s internal audit standards, you broke through the bottleneck of your work efficiency, you have a more in-depth understanding of the correlation between leadership, colleagues, clients, etc. When this kind of accumulation reach the point of qualitative change, you will naturally encounter the new opportunity to open up a new sky for you.

This opportunity happened is well documented from my previous articles. When you keep yourself in the joy spirit environment, the good things will be attracted by your high frequency.

Therefore, it is absolutely an irresistible trend to use unary view on all things thinking

2、How do politicians follow the WAY to reach eternal state “not foster their own lives” ?

Politicians are not only deal with daily life and work in the standard of the saint of the Laozi said, but also do below three things：

a.Being honorable but not proud;

All politicians are elected by the masses.When you are proud of others, the people will no longer be close to you. Then you will be put on the shelf without knowing it, and when the people from the lower-class are completely disconnected with you, that’s when you fall.

b.High responsibility but not abuse;

One of the great things about politicians is that they have national power. When you begin to use your authority freely without any restraining, the sovereign who gives you power will hate you and this is the beginning of your downfall.

c.Salary is good but not coveted;

Be grateful for everything especially as a politician. Otherwise the bad things wil happen to you.

The history books recorded that a famous minister of the Chu, assisted the king of Chu in running the country. Before he died, he warned his son that the king would raise your town, and that you would not accept the town which others were fighting for. You had better ask for a border town, this town land is low-lying and barren. There is no competition, but you can make a living enough in this town. As expected, this town is handed over to the minister’s son for more than a dozen generations, but other town land is been repossessed in two generations after rewarding. The latter called it “not fighting for but gaining rich”

The politician who achieves these three points will naturally live to be loved by others and will live forever.

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