眾所周知，法令多如牛毛，而人事更是變化萬千。因此，人類社會法律事務自然是非常複雜多端。然而，老子《道德經》第一章有言：『道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名』。《大學》第一章〈大學之道〉則謂：『物有本末，事有終始，知所先後，則近道矣』。其實，便點出掌握人類社會法律事務的執簡御繁之道。本文即擬探求《老子》、《大學》中所闡述對人類社會事務的執簡御繁之道，藉此提供法律初學者通曉法律學習的執簡御繁之道，使法律初學者能夠獲得「下學上達」的效用目標。即從初淺的事物學習基本道理，然後最終能貫通一切。

As everyone knows, the statutes and regulations of law are like the hairs of ox, but the legal affairs of human society are especially every changing. However, ”Lao-Tzu” Chapter 1 says: ”The Way that can be experienced easily is not the eternal Way. The Concept that can be constructed is not the eternal Concept.” ”The Great Learning” Chapter 1 ”The Way of the Great Learning” says: ”Things have the fundamental and the incidental. Affairs have the ending and the beginning, knowing what comes first and after will take closer to the Way.” These Books have the way of holding simplicity to control complexity for dealing with the legal affairs of human society.This article will explore the way of holding simplicity to control complexity of these books, and associate the beginner of the legal study can master the way of holding simplicity to control complexity for the legal study in order to gain the benefits of ”studying basically and reaching highly”.