Laozi's True Words on Dealing with the World: 54 Yin-Tender Wisdoms for Spiritual Navigation

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 stratagems, avoiding direct confrontation with opponents. The characteristics and functions of stratagems are like using four pounds of force to move a thousand pounds, winning through cleverness, outnumbering the few, and overpowering the weak. Throughout history, successful stratagems were always preceded by hiding one's talents and pretending to be weak, in order to steady, confuse, and paralyze the opponent, then seizing the opportunity to use corresponding tactics to win. If you spend days reading this wisdom book written in plain and interesting language, you will gain a deep understanding of the yin-soft essence of Laozi's stratagems. Of course, if you have the interest, foundation, and time to read Laozi's original classical Chinese, that's great. His Tao Te Ching has only over 5,000 characters and can be read in half an hour. But 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 work by the highly learned Dr. Lin Xu.