Follow us on Facebook to receive important updates Follow us on Twitter to receive important updates Follow us on sina.com's microblogging site to receive important updates Follow us on Douban to receive important updates
Chinese Text Project
Search details:
Scope: Request type: Paragraph
Condition 1: References "道德經7" Matched:4.
Total 4 paragraphs. Page 1 of 1.

先秦兩漢 - Pre-Qin and Han

Related resources

道家 - Daoism

Related resources

道德經 - Dao De Jing

[Warring States (475 BC - 221 BC)] English translation: James Legge [?]
Books referencing 《道德經》 Library Resources
Source
Related resources
[Also known as: 《老子》, "Tao Te Ching", "Laozi"]

7 道德經:
天長地久。天地所以能長且久者,以其不自生,故能長生。是以聖人後其身而身先;外其身而身存。非以其無私耶?故能成其私。
Dao De Jing:
(Sheathing the light)
Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are able to continue and endure. Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?

老子河上公章句 - Heshanggong Laozi

Library Resources

道經

Library Resources

韜光

Library Resources
1 韜光:
天長地久,說天地長生久壽,以喻教人也。 天地所以能長且久者,以其不自生,天地所以獨長且久者,以其安靜,施不求報,不如人居處,汲汲求自饒之利,奪人以自與也。故能長生。以其不求生,故能長生不終也。是以聖人後其身,先人而後己也。而身先,天下敬之,先以為長。外其身,薄己而厚人也。而身存。百姓愛之如父母,神明祐之若赤子,故身常存。非以其無私邪。聖人為人所愛,神明所祐,非以其公正無私所致乎。故能成其私。人以為私者,欲以厚己也。聖人無私而己自厚,故能成其私也。

出土文獻 - Excavated texts

馬王堆 - Mawangdui

老子甲 - Laozi A

老子甲道經

7 老子甲道... :
天長地久。天地之所以能□且久者,以其不自生也,故能長生。是以聲人芮其身而身先;外其身而身存。不以其無□輿?故能成其私。

老子乙 - Laozi B

老子乙道經

7 老子乙道... :
天長地久。天地之所以能長且久者,以其不自生也,故能長生。是以聖人退其身而身先,外其身而身先,外其身而身存,不以其無私輿,故能成其私。

Total 4 paragraphs. Page 1 of 1.