The meaning of this sentence is that a person with high morality and good cultivation can learn even if he doesn't have a unique skill. But if he has only one trick, he can only stop at his current achievements and can't go any further. In other words, he will be rejected and spurned by the world.

This sentence is a classic explanation of the primary and secondary relationship between Tao and art, and it is also the basic premise of being a man. The performer who can be controlled by the enlightened one will eventually be controlled by the enlightened one.

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Laozi said in Tao Te Ching that "Tao can be Tao, but extraordinary".

Several characteristics of Tao:

1, Tao is the origin of everything from scratch, the lowest platform, and it is unchanged;

2. Everything in the Tao has Yin and Yang, which blend, unity of opposites, prosperity and decline, decline and rebirth, and endless;

3. Tao is three-dimensional and multidimensional, and it is a synthesis of ideology and materialism;

4. The law of Tao is wave-like and spiral;

5, there are days, people are human, the macro-control of heaven, and human nature is free to play;

6. Tao is empty, empty, empty, but it can generate everything.