Laozi's True Words on Dealing with the World - 54 Yin and Flexible Wisdoms for Spiritual Connection with Life

Author: Lin Xu
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The essence of "yin-soft" lies in: showing gentleness to others, defeating them through cunning. It teaches people to lower their hearts and use strategies, avoiding direct confrontation with opponents. The characteristics and functions of strategy are like using four ounces to move a thousand pounds, winning through cleverness, outnumbering with fewer forces, and overpowering the strong with the weak. Throughout history, successful strategies have always involved hiding one's talents and pretending to be weak before implementation, in order to steady, confuse, and paralyze the opponent, then seizing the opportunity to deploy corresponding tactics to win. If you spend a few days reading this wisdom book written in simple yet engaging language, you will gain a deep understanding of the yin-soft essence of Laozi's strategies. Of course, if you have the interest, foundation, and time to read Laozi's original classical Chinese text, that is even better. His Tao Te Ching has only over 5,000 characters and can be read in about half an hour. However, to grasp the rich and exquisite thoughts and sentiments from this book, it requires even more time—because this book is the crystallization of hundreds of days of diligent labor by the highly learned Dr. Lin Xu.