Once upon a time, there was a man surnamed Zhu who was bent on learning a technique that no one else had, so he went to a man named Zhi Liyi to learn the skill of slaughtering dragons. He spent all his family assets and spent three years finally learning the technique of slaying dragons. The surname Zhu triumphantly returned home. But where in the world is there a dragon to kill? As a result, the technique he learned did not use at all. This story is the famous dragon slaying technique, from "Zhuangzi".
This story alludes to many people in life who are not based on reality, are only willing to fantasize, and finally only make jokes. Such people are most likely young people who have not experienced much of the beatings of society. When you reach middle age, maybe you have achieved a little, maybe you will be willing to be mediocre, maybe you still have a foolish heart in mediocrity.
"Zhuangzi" is a strange book worth reading 100 times. Teenagers read, from which they read boldness and arrogance; middle-aged reading, from which they read calm and open-minded. I think that when I read it again in my old age, I will be able to read another taste. Today let us walk into "Zhuangzi", and jointly taste the calm and open-mindedness in Zhuangzi, people reach middle age, remember these six points, and benefit for the rest of their lives
1. Those who have lost themselves to things and lost their nature to the world are called upside-down people.
If one allows oneself to be lost in material desires and one's nature to be lost in the world, then one is an upside-down person—he has lost his original heart and reversed himself.
Red dust rolls and the world is noisy. When people reach middle age, we must distinguish between two external obstacles, one is material and the other is worldly. Matter is often a benefit that can lose our conscience. And the secular is often a kind of speech, a kind of vision, which can disturb our values.
2, big knowledge idle, small knowledge between; big talk Yan Yan, small words Zhan Zhan Zhan.
People with great wisdom are always leisurely and open-minded, and will not be good teachers; people who are a little smart, but like to argue, will be worried about a little right and wrong. The speeches that conform to the dao are like a raging fire, beautiful and grand, and people are satisfied and convinced; those who talk about small truths are always trivial and long-winded.
3, get its ring, to respond to infinity.
Only by grasping the key and key of things can we adapt to the endless changes of things. Zhuangzi believes that the development of things is regular, contradictions are divided into priority and subordination, conform to the law, grasp the main contradictions, you can do it with unchanged response to changes, as long as you can be stable yourself, no matter what you encounter, you can be at ease.
4. With an end, there is no end, and it is already gone.
The first half of this sentence "My life also has an end, and knowledge has no end", more famous, people use this to motivate themselves to learn and forge ahead, but in fact, Zhuangzi emphasizes the second half of the sentence, human life is limited, with a limited life to pursue unlimited knowledge, will make themselves very tired. Zhuangzi here is not against learning and enterprising, but emphasizes not always pursuing goals that are difficult for him to achieve, but knowing how to act according to his ability and stop at the right time.
5. Man does not hurt his body with likes and dislikes, and often does not benefit from nature.
Man does not damage his own nature because of his personal likes and dislikes, and he can gain himself by conforming to nature. People's life, good and bad, sad and happy, is like the ebb and flow of the tide, like the unpredictable wind and rain, not human control, people can only control themselves, so in the face of everything external, it is most important to maintain a normal mind.
6. If a husband follows his heart and teaches, who is alone and has no teacher?
Zhuangzi believes that each of us should have independent judgment standards for things, not to be influenced and manipulated by others, not to follow the crowd, but to maintain the true color of ourselves. Each of us is a unique being, you are yourself, you do not always have to imitate others, maintain your own nature, in order to experience the joy of survival.
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The whole book of "Zhuangzi" takes "allegory", "tautism" and "卮言" as the main forms of expression, inherits the doctrine of Lao Tzu and advocates liberalism, and defies the etiquette and the magnates and advocates freedom of leisure, and the inner parts of "The Theory of Qiwu", "Getaway" and "The Great Grandmaster" reflect this philosophical thought in a concentrated way.
Zhuangzi's philosophy advocated spiritual freedom, so physically he also tried to achieve a state of freedom that could be achieved without relying on external forces.
Zhuangzi believes that everything in the universe has an equal nature, and that man is integrated into all things, thus ending with the universe.
Zhuangzi advocated that the lord of life, that is, the human spirit, should obey the laws of nature and be at peace with time.
Zhuangzi demanded that attention be paid to the cultivation of inner virtue, that virtue was sufficient, and that life naturally flowed with a self-sufficient spiritual power.
Zhuangzi is not only a famous philosopher in the history of Chinese philosophy, but also an outstanding literary scholar in the history of Chinese literature. Whether in terms of philosophical thought or literary language, he has given a profound and tremendous influence to the thinkers and writers of all generations in China, and has an extremely important position in the history of Chinese thought and literature.
Therefore, friends who have time may wish to read this book of Zhuangzi.