Laozi · Daodejing · 第七章
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天地所以能長且久者
The reason heaven and earth can endure.
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天長地久，
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天地所以能長且久者，Focus on what an action concerns ↗天地所以能長且久者，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗天地所以能長且久者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗是以聖人後其身而身先，Follow an explicit inference ↗是以聖人後其身而身先，Read the relationship between clauses ↗Watch recurrence: 其 × 5 以 × 4 身 × 4 長 × 3 能 × 3 天 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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The phrase asks for the reason or basis of endurance.
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莊子 · 天下第三十三天地所以施存雄而无術。南方有倚人焉曰黃繚，問天地所以不墜不陷，風雨雷霆之故。
韓非子 · 大體第二十九故能成其覆，心不地則物不必載。太山不立好惡，故能成其高；江海不擇小助，故能成其富。
韓非子 · 解老第二十是以聖人者，大罪也。故曰：「禍莫大於可欲。」是以聖人不引五色，不淫於聲樂；明君賤玩好而去淫麗。
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論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose使民以時論語 · Name the one, thing, or situation未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose為政以德論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose一言以蔽之Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_007.txt, lines 14–22. LAO 7.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 11 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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