“守一定律”：守住一，就守住了生命的根本

《道德经》第三十九章所讲的内容，都是老子送给大家的箴言警句和成功秘诀——这些都是宇宙规律，是真实的物质实相，在自然界、人类演化史中随处可见，并不是什么虚无的概念。只是“道”这个东西实在是不好用语言来描述，只能靠我们用心去体悟。但如果谁能不断向这种境界提升，以悟道、行道、合道为最高目标，那他的人生一定会与众不同。

第三十九章老子重点讲了三条宇宙规律：守一、低贱和无誉。

首先，守一定律。

“守一”是超越二元对立、接近道的境界。心守一了，就是守住了道，道是永恒的、唯一的；而德是千变万化的，德是万物常态中最稳定的那个状态。如果万物失去了“德”会怎么样？那就说明它们已经偏离了稳定的常态，接下来一定是失去平衡、改变自身的性质，甚至是走向灭亡。因为，失德就意味着它远离了道、远离了一；而非道、非一的东西就必然要接受“失”的结果，这就是事物灭亡的本质原因。

老子在本章反复举例来告诉我们“守道的重要”，是为了提醒世人：

心如果守于一，那么天下万物将自正，你所需要的将必然会到来。因为，心如果守一，就是守住了清静，有了清静才会有真正的智慧，那时就不会停留在好的坏的、贵的贱的、美的丑的、对的错的、正的邪的等源于二元对立的执着上了；所有的评判和争辩也将戛然而止，你的生命又回到了原本好命的轨迹中，一切都将自动化地运转起来，这就是守一的好处。反过来，如果人心失去了“一”的整体性，也就不再公正、不再清静；而内心躁动越多，人生也就跑偏越远。只有当人拥有清静这个最基本的德时，才能够让自己的生命保持长久。

这就是“守一定律”，守住一，就守住了生命的根本。

The Law of Keeping One': If you keep one, you keep the root of life《Sharing Chapter 39 of Tao Te Ching and Connecting Month》Serial 22

The content of Chapter 39 of the Tao Te Ching are all aphorisms and secrets of success given by Laozi - these are the laws of the universe, the real material reality, which can be found everywhere in the history of nature and human evolution, and are not some vain concepts. It's just that the Tao is not easy to describe in words, and we can only understand it by heart. But if anyone can constantly upgrade to this realm, with the highest goal of enlightenment, practice and harmony, then his life will definitely be different.

In chapter 39Laozi focuses on three laws of the universe: keeping one, lowliness and no-honor.

First, the law of keeping one.

To 'keep one' is to transcend duality and approach the state of Tao. When the heart keeps one, you keep the Tao, which is eternal and unique; while virtue is ever-changing, and virtue is the most stable state among all things. What would happen if all things lost their virtue? It means that they have deviated from the stable normal state, and the next step must be to lose balance, change their nature, or even go to extinction. Because the loss of virtue means it is far from the Tao and far from the One; and what is not the Tao, not the One, must accept the result of 'loss', which is the essential reason for the demise of things.

In this chapter, Laozi repeatedly cites examples to tell us the importance of keeping the Tao, in order to remind the people that:

If the mind keeps one, then everything in the world will be right, and what you need will surely come. Because, if the heart keeps the one, it will keep the quietness, and only with the quietness will there be true wisdom, and then it will not stay on the good and the bad, the noble and the cheap, the beautiful and the ugly, the right and the wrong, the good and the evil, and so on, which originate from the dichotomy; all the judgments and arguments will come to an abrupt end, and your life will return to the original trajectory of good fortune, and everything will work automatically, and this is the benefit of keeping the one. On the contrary, if the human heart loses the wholeness of 'one', it will no longer be just and quiet; and the more inner agitation there is, the farther life will go away. Only when a person has the most basic virtue of being pure and quiet can he maintain a long life.

This is the 'law of keeping one'. If you keep one, you keep the root of life.