Youyou: What should I do if I feel that I have little strength and can't help too many people? Very guilty.
Sir: When we talk about the Tao Te Ching, we repeatedly talk about the size and quantity, what do you mean? All big things start small. So don't feel that your strength is small, and the strength of any one person is not small. The so-called small is that we compare a large one. For example, I can pick up something that weighs fifty pounds, but I have to run for the one that weighs two hundred pounds, so I have little strength. If you take one within fifty pounds, is the strength still small?
We have to learn to do what we can, start from the things around us, start with the things I can do. And don't think I'm small or that I'm inadequate, these things are all due to the contrast of our own excessive desires. No one's strength is small, and no one's strength is great, in fact, we are still being ourselves.
So what does it mean not to be yourself? It's that I obviously don't have that much power, but I still have so much ambition, and that's painful. I obviously can't move such a heavy thing, but I still have to move it, so isn't this my own desire? This desire will deform us.
So what are we going to learn? Live elegantly and leisurely. What does it mean to be elegant and relaxed? It's that I can lift fifty pounds of things, and I lift thirty pounds, is it elegant? Leisurely or not? If I had to lift a hundred-pound one, I would end up grinning, exerting force, and deforming. In the end, I came to a conclusion: I am worthless. No, it's the wrong place, the wrong thing.
For example, the action of opening the door, it is elegant and relaxed. But I had to push a 300-pound iron door, and my body changed shape and my expression changed, because what I did was beyond my ability. So it's not that our strength is small, it's that we choose the wrong direction.