A Study Of Enrichment Of Laozi’s "Inaction" Thought Based On Yizhuan

The thought of Laozi is broad and profound,"Tao" is the core content of Laozi’sphilosophy, and it is the idea of Laozi’s "Inaction". The author thinks that the writer ofYizhuan is influenced by Laozi’s "Inaction", and adopts this thought while explaining thebook of changes, injecting personal understandings meanwhile, which enriches and developsLao zi’s "Inaction".This paper starts from the historical background of Lao zi’s "Inaction"; the authoranalyzes the social situation of the terminal stage in spring and autumn period when Lao lived.According to various records, the royal family of Chou declined and the country was changedat that time, Meanwhile, each dukes didn’t follow the empire, in order to win the mostbenefits, they began to fight with each other, with the result that the fragmentation of acountry by rivaling warlords came into being; At the same time, Senior officials within thedukes were ready to do something, including controlling the various nation politics, militaryand economic. Many factors lead to turbulent society and homeless people.In this historicalbackground, many people who wanted to save the fragmented social environment began to trytheir best, Laozi was no exceptional, whose "Inaction" thought was born with the influence ofexterior social factors. At the same time, Laozi, as a historiographer of the Chou dynasty, readwidely and had accumulated a wealth of valuable knowledge. He had gained an insight intothe sinister of human world, and was able to size up the world with calm and objective sight;he also knew the dialectical thought that being soft is to restrain firm, being modestly retreatis to further on and inaction is to all action.Due to the factors of turmoil social environmentand sedimentary deposit of knowledge, the thought of inaction is to all action came into being."Tao" is the core content of Laozi’s philosophy thought, and it is also the idea of "Inaction",which means that the natural law is natural. In practical terms,"Inaction" has three meanings:the first one is to follow nature, which means that anything in the world is following its ownlife.People should follow this objective law, and do anything by following the nature; thesecond is to do anything not for privacy, that is to say “inaction” is not to for private benefits, and personal motivation should not exist; the third is to do anything not so excessively.Everything has a limit and people can do within this limit, people have rendered great servicebut not by hard work, people can do half of the work and will double the result. If people dobeyond the degree, nothing will be gained after fatigue or result will be doubled after action.The author of Yizhuan mixed Laozi’s “Inaction” when explaining the book of changes.The writer states systematically the “Inaction” thought based on the explanation from theYizhuan hexagrams of khwan, along with the hexagrams to Sui Ming i, and Hang, Kan, Khien,Sun, Kien, Pu. For example, the hexagrams of kun reflects Laozi’s “following the nature”;Kan reflects Laozi’s “Knowing stop”; Khien embodies Laozi’s “Modestly retreating”; Sunreflects Laozi’s loss thought. From these hexagrams, the author of Yizhuan was reallyinfluenced by Laozi’s “Tao” thought, and the author of Yizhuan enriches "Inaction" thought.Firstly, the author of Yizhuan added a limit of "the time" when using “Inaction” thought;people do something with the time, but not to do blindly. Secondly, with the reference to theLaozi’s “play with the witness of signing thought”, people are in a more broad cosmologybackground and in search of moral rational root and the rationality of life existence. Making aperson’s limitation of life filled with spiritual quality, by the possibility of the universe andwin the openness and promotion; The virtues of people are directly cutting through "sky","land" and the natural life in the universe, gaining the spirit of whole life enterprising attitudeand the tolerance of all the things. This is different from the negative thoughts of Laozi, whichmakes "Inaction" a new start. Finally, from the Laozi’s “harmony between man and nature”,and with the reference to the development of Taoism thought of Zhuangzi, the writer putsforward the thought of integration of the nature and human.