hi I'm Andy Today we'll talk about Laozi's philosophy

in his book

the Dow is half full and can never be used up

this is hard

to understand

because we can't find this stuff in our world

it's just like

our human being

if we do something with our full strength

and soon will be worn out

but the Dao he never uses 100% strength

just 50%

but his strength never be used up

it continued

it's like the water flew out from the spring

it's the ancestor of all the creatures

so I think a Dao

is a power

it continued

it's clear and transparent

it seemed that it really exists

we don't know whose child is it

but he was born earlier than the God of Heaven

okay so Laozi lived in 2,500 years ago in China

and about 3,000 years ago in the Shang Dynasty

the Shang peoples really believed in

god ghost and ancestors

so they worshiped them a lot

but Laozi

he thought

the Dao

was earlier than the God of Heaven

the book lasted for thousands of years

so it's written in ancient Chinese

it's really hard to understand

sometimes it's so weird

and there's a

few words it seems irrelevant to the content

but I will explain to you with a story

it written

polish the sharpness

mediate the struggles

dim it's brightness

and work together

so

I'll use my understanding

since the pandemic

I start to listen to a Chinese storytelling

they use a musical instrument and tell the story

but it was in the Shanghai dialect

Suzhou dialect

so people from north like me

we could not understand

but I watch a subtitle because the story is interesting

there's a young man

he and his wife is the performer

it's like the Peking Opera is dying art

young people not interested

only the older generation would watch it

this young man publishes video on the Chinese YouTube

but his performance his skill is just so so

so some other performers

don't like him

so he didn't have a good relationship with other

performers

but he keep posting his videos

the social media made him famous

so he was also invited by the CCTV

China Central Television for a show

so maybe other performance was jealous about him

untill one day he post a video on another channel

he said for last five years

all his video was gone and his

channel was unregistered

his channel was cancelled

he don't know who did it

but he said maybe is other

performers

okay

back to the words

polish the sharpness

because he was

too showing off

he was not the

best performers

but he was the one

use social media

to promote that kind of art

I mean this is good

but he have troubles with his other

friends or

colleagues

he's too shining

okay Polish sharpness mediate

mediate the struggles

dim its brightness

work together

if we want to do something

you have to polish your sharpness

just in case you hurt other people with a sharp angle

settle the trouble with your friends

and dim your brightness

because your light will hurt other people's eyes

and you make yourself not too shiny

and blend with other people

then you can work together

do something

okay I'm Andy

see you next time bye bye