If you boost of your own wisdom and strength, and try to control others by that power, their reaction against you will inevitably occur. When you push others by the hardness, they will push you back by the hardness. In this case, the battle will continue until either of them loses. Even if you won, you would become exhausted and suffer loses accordingly. Here, it is meaningless for you whether you win or lose. Then, even if you have your rich wisdom and strength, you should not display that power. When you are pushed by the hardness, respond to it by the softness. By the softness which holds the hardness inside, handle the conflict in order that you will not lose. That is the way to use the wisdom and strength in a manner of martial arts.
May 28, 2018
After Reading Lao Tsu: Chapter 72 老子：第七二章を読んで
自らの知恵や力を誇り，その威力で他者を制しようとすれば，必ず反発が生じる。剛で押せば，必ず剛で返ってくる。このやり方は，どちらかが敗れるまで続く。たとえ勝ったとしても，相応に疲弊し損害を被る。これでは勝っても負けても意味がない。だから知恵や力はあっても，その威力を誇示してはいけない。もし剛で押されれば，そのときは柔で返す。剛を秘めた柔でもって，負けないところで事を収める。それが武術的な知恵と力の使い方である。
If you boost of your own wisdom and strength, and try to control others by that power, their reaction against you will inevitably occur. When you push others by the hardness, they will push you back by the hardness. In this case, the battle will continue until either of them loses. Even if you won, you would become exhausted and suffer loses accordingly. Here, it is meaningless for you whether you win or lose. Then, even if you have your rich wisdom and strength, you should not display that power. When you are pushed by the hardness, respond to it by the softness. By the softness which holds the hardness inside, handle the conflict in order that you will not lose. That is the way to use the wisdom and strength in a manner of martial arts.
If you boost of your own wisdom and strength, and try to control others by that power, their reaction against you will inevitably occur. When you push others by the hardness, they will push you back by the hardness. In this case, the battle will continue until either of them loses. Even if you won, you would become exhausted and suffer loses accordingly. Here, it is meaningless for you whether you win or lose. Then, even if you have your rich wisdom and strength, you should not display that power. When you are pushed by the hardness, respond to it by the softness. By the softness which holds the hardness inside, handle the conflict in order that you will not lose. That is the way to use the wisdom and strength in a manner of martial arts.
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