Lao Tzu Many people are hijacked by the rigidity of their minds.

老子许多人被化的思想所禁锢。

It's too easy to say he's just ideologically rigid.

你可能说只是思想化。

No, except that rigidity and closed minds can be detrimental.Not dogma but feeling is important.

重要，只是化和封闭的思想可能是有害的。重要的是，是感觉。

Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.

她什么时候想大宴宾客，就可以发出邀请，这些客人和那些反对她的思想化的老糊涂相比，心情愉快得多，衣服也漂亮得多。