Know yourself and know your opponent, and compare your heart to your heart.
Wine is drunk by confidants, and poems are sung to people.
Acquaintances all over the world, how many people can know each other?
Meeting is like a first acquaintance, and there is no resentment when you are old
Why do you need to know yourself?There are no more than two motives, one is a dispute, and the Art of War is what it saysThere is no dispute between the two, such as teaching students according to their aptitude. As a social animal, human interaction with each other is a natural attribute, similar to the social needs in Maslow's needs theory, so the essence of contention or non-contention is the interaction needs of people, but the difference in ways and means, fighting each other is an extreme approach, and Lao Tzu also resists it;Do not do to others what you do not want to do to others is to compare the heart with the general understanding, and then evolve into the level of empathy at the moment, this aspect does not expand much, the essence of such solutions is likely to point to the attribute of contention;"Than" also has the meaning of proximity, "I Ching" hexagram to take this meaning, we can understand that in the context of no dispute to strive to practice the seal of the heart, so knowing oneself and knowing the other is the way and way, the heart is the motive, which is just the opposite of the idiom seeking common ground while reserving differences. Regardless of the motive, it is necessary to know oneself and the other, so it is enough to practice knowing oneself and knowing the other from the level of action. From the perspective of human social needs, "pro" is easier to land.
The conditions required for drinking wine and reciting poetry are quite harsh, with a slight taste of self-appreciation and conscience. The connotation of the words and sentences is the act of drinking and chanting poetry under the subjective will, which is not a confidant, but there is also a suspicion of unilateral demand, the act of drinking and chanting poetry between literati and is only the use of spiritual needs, so the bosom friend is difficult to find and refers to the spiritual level, no matter which era the prerequisite for pursuing spiritual needs is that the material conditions are satisfied to a certain extent, Confucius, Wang Yangming, Zeng Guopan, etc., but the competition in this field is the most intense, the so-called confidant, the value orientation needs to resonate, so the confidant, The connotation of knowing the heart is the convergence of values, similar to the argument that it is not my race and its heart must be different.
The meeting is like a first acquaintance, and the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water;No resentment or loss, light as water is for the future without hatred, and it is back to the motivation of comparing hearts to hearts. "Light as water" is exactly like water?What is the specific connotation of light as water?Lao Tzu admires the indisputable virtue of water, and the indisputable virtue is also the middle way thought, since it is the middle way thought, it must be nothing to lose in the end. The four sentences all point to the motivation of "comparing the heart with the heart", no matter which motive, we can practice the two necessary ways of "knowing each other and knowing oneself" and "not fighting".