{"id":1419,"date":"2016-03-25T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saby.nextco.kz\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:39:07","slug":"advice-of-wise-elder-laozi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saby.kz\/en\/advice-of-wise-elder-laozi\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--TBegin:http:\/\/eng.saby.kz\/uploads\/posts\/2016-03\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg:left--><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.saby.kz\/uploads\/posts\/2016-03\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg\" rel=\"highslide\" class=\"highslide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/saby.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" alt='Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi' title='Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi'  \/><\/a><!--TEnd--> <b>Laozi<\/b> (<i>Laozi, Old Child, Wise Elder<\/i>) is a legendary philosopher-thinker who lived in the VI-Vth centuries B.C.E. He is considered to be the author of the Tao\u2013te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) &#8211; classic Taoist philosophical treatise, the founder of religious and philosophical Taoism, though today many scientists are skeptical about his historicity.<\/p>\n<p>Laozi was a contemporary of Confucius and his opponent, and a very significant wise man of the Chinese culture as well. Although the historicity of Laozi is doubtful, the respect of Taoist schools for him cannot be overestimated.<\/p>\n<p><b>Laozi\u2019s sayings popular with Taoist schoolers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>About truth: &#8220;He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About knowledge: &#8220;&#8221;No knowledge; that\u2019s why I do not know anything&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About abstinence: &#8220;&#8221;This is the first stage of virtue which is the beginning of moral perfection&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About life: &#8220;&#8221;The man has been dying since the birth&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About power: &#8220;&#8221;The soft and the weak overcome the hard and the strong&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About ambition: &#8220;&#8221;If you measure your success by someone\u2019s praises and censures, your anxiety will be endless&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About war: &#8220;&#8221;When you have no enemies there is no war&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About good and evil: &#8220;&#8221;When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About chattiness: &#8220;&#8221;He who speaks a lot often fails&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About life: &#8220;&#8221;It is short, that\u2019s why you should not waste your time, you should enjoy it&#8221;&#8221;.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--TBegin:http:\/\/eng.saby.kz\/uploads\/posts\/2016-03\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg:left--><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.saby.kz\/uploads\/posts\/2016-03\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg\" rel=\"highslide\" class=\"highslide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.saby.kz\/uploads\/posts\/2016-03\/thumbs\/1458899684_lao_tseu01.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" alt='Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi' title='Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi'  \/><\/a><!--TEnd--> <b>Laozi<\/b> (<i>Laozi, Old Child, Wise Elder<\/i>) is a legendary philosopher-thinker who lived in the VI-Vth centuries B.C.E. 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He who speaks does not know&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About knowledge: &#8220;&#8221;No knowledge; that\u2019s why I do not know anything&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About abstinence: &#8220;&#8221;This is the first stage of virtue which is the beginning of moral perfection&#8221;&#8221;.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudrost-velikih"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi - Saby Charitable Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/saby.kz\/en\/advice-of-wise-elder-laozi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Advice of \u201cWise Elder\u201d Laozi - Saby Charitable Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laozi (Laozi, Old Child, Wise Elder) is a legendary philosopher-thinker who lived in the VI-Vth centuries B.C.E. 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