Good is like water. Water is good, and all things are not disputed.
Most people think that this chapter is about water, but my understanding is that this chapter is more about goodness.
Goodness, first seen in Jin Wen, speaks like a sheep, representing auspiciousness and beauty.
The Chinese extended meaning also has the meaning of altruism, kindness, friendliness, goodness, fickleness, etc., so I think the goodness here can be understood as conformity, de-relativity, and acceptance of opposites.
Let's study water again, if you put water in a square cup, it will be square, if you put it in a round cup, if you put it in a round cup, if you put it on the vast earth, it will be the sea, below 0 degrees will be ice, and above 100 degrees will be air, this is water, the most important thing in the world that can abide by the laws of nature. That's why goodness is like water.
My personal understanding is that top-level ability to change is like water. The greatest instability in this world is change.
Therefore, the world can be closest to the laws of nature, the most moral, just like water, water can best show the altruism and indisputability of the laws of nature to all things, and water can also be at the beginning of the low-lying that people hate, so water is almost the closest to the laws of nature.
Therefore, only if the world gets rid of the distinction of self-interest and self-detriment, there will naturally be no such thing as interests being taken away by others. In summary, the method of coexistence in line with the laws of nature is that people can live together peacefully without strife.