hi i'm Andy

today we'll learn Laozi's thinking together

in his book

it's written

all the people under heaven

said that the Dao

I mentioned is big, enormous

it doesn't look like anything

it's just because it's enormous

so it doesn't look like anything

if the Dao looks exactly like something

it would not matters long ago

I possessed three treasures

which had been treasured for a long time

the first one is called mercy

the second one is called thrifty

the third one is called do not there be the first one

because of mercy

so I could be brave

because thrifty

so I can be abundant

because I do not dare

to become the first one under heaven

so I could be the leader

of all the creatures under heaven

people today abandoned mercy and seek for bravery

they abandoned thrifty

and seeking for abandance

they abandoned last

and seeking for first

they are going to doom

in this paragraph

I just want to mention one point

in our Chinese culture

in China we have saying

枪打出头鸟

the gun shoot the leading bird

and another saying the

rafter beyond

the roof would be rotten first

so being first is very risky

this is like a research and development

you put a huge amount of money for research

maybe the product will be successful

or maybe maybe

it's a failure you waste

a lot of money

so i think Laozi's philosophy

really influenced the Chinese people and Chinese culture

so even today

you see China

they copy a lot of the technology and product from the West

because the ancient

Chinese civilization is based on agriculture

so Chinese people settle down farming

this is quite different with the marine civilization

so Chinese people are not very aggressive

they don't want to be the first

they want to follow other people and learn from them

it written

that mercy if you use the mercy to fight

and you will win

if you use the mercy to guard

you could guard steadily

if the heaven want to save a country

all the people have used mercy to cooperate

with the heaven to protect the country

this words emphasize the importance of mercy

so be mercy you could have a virtue

the virtue is the key for ruling

because in ancient China

every dynasty collapse

it doesn't matter it's peasant uprising or defeated by nomadics

it's all because they lose their virtues

the God of Heaven want to get rid of them

replace them with a new ruler

who have virtues

and show their benevolence and mercy to the people

okay

see you next time bye bye