Author | Jingbo Guoxue
Source | Jingbo Guoxue (ID: jingboguoxue)
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Chu Qiao
"Zhuangzi" has a saying:
"The manifestation of right and wrong is also the reason why the Tao is lost." The reason why the Tao is lost, the reason why love is accomplished. ”
This means that the way of life is determined by people's concepts of right and wrong and preferences.
The level of cognition, self-confidence and conceit, lack of knowledge and ignorance, is one of the biggest differences between the excellent and the mediocre.
The four fables in "Zhuangzi" vividly explain for us the four cognitive realms of man:
Don't know that you don't know, know that you don't know, know that you know, don't know what you know.
"Zhuangzi Getaway" has a saying: "Pengzhi migrated to the south of the earth, the water hit three thousand miles, and the one who shook the rock was ninety thousand miles." ”
It is said that there is a fish called "Kun", which is transformed into a bird and is called "Peng".
Peng's body is huge, and its back is thousands of miles wide.
When it migrates south, it can fly three thousand miles with one hit of water, and rise up with the wind for ninety thousand miles, fight in the long sky, and soar through the heavens and the earth.
When the birds on the ground saw this, they laughed at Dapeng:
"We fly from the ground at great speed, stop when we touch a branch, even if we can't fly up, we can just fall to the ground, why do we have to fly ninety thousand miles to the South China Sea?"
In fact, how can those birds that can only fly to the branches of the trees imagine the magnificence of thousands of miles in the sky?
In life, people who think they are well-informed always love to talk in front of people, but in fact they are nothing more than a bird that laughs at dapeng, self-righteousness, shallow and ignorant.
If a person sees only an acre and a third of the land in front of him, he will never be able to see the original appearance of the world, nor will he be able to perceive what is called "there are people outside the people, and there is a sky outside the sky."
For people, the wisdom is smaller than the wisdom is large, and the shallow ambition is not as good as the ambition.
You can't live in the world of the self and be complacent, the more humble you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have.
In this way, we can take the strengths of others and make up for our own shortcomings, but we will not be trapped in the limitations of ignorance and ignorance, and we will not fall into the situation of poverty at dusk.
In "Zhuangzi Qiushui", the story of the god of the Yellow River, "Hebo", is described.
It is said that autumn is coming, thousands of rivers are rushing into the Yellow River, and Hebo is happy to think that all the beauty of the world is here.
So he followed the current east to the North Sea. But when he looked east, he could not see the end of the sea.
At this time, he finally understood that the North Sea was much wider than his own Yellow River, and he sighed at the god of the North Sea:
"I thought I knew a lot of truths, no one could catch up with me, and if I hadn't come to you and seen your vastness, I would have been ridiculed forever by knowledgeable people." 」
When I saw the Riverbo of the North Sea, I realized my own smallness and narrowness.
The real world is much bigger than we think.
The so-called "well frog can not speak the sea, summer insects can not speak ice", the frog at the bottom of the well does not know the sea, the summer insect does not understand ice and snow, it is exactly this meaning.
Those who are arrogant and proud and complacent always think that they are more knowledgeable than others.
But in fact, in the eyes of people with deep knowledge, it is not worth talking to them.
It is very rare that a person can have self-knowledge like Hebo in one lifetime.
Be aware that everyone's cognition is limited.
If you don't know how to pretend to understand, so you make things up, you will only deceive yourself in the end and laugh generously.
Reflecting on one's own shortcomings and facing up to one's own shortcomings can we leave room and space for life to rise.
In "Zhuangzi Dasheng", there is such a story:
Confucius went to the Chu Kingdom, and when he passed through the woods, he saw a hunchbacked old man sticking cicadas with bamboo poles, as easy as picking them up with his hands, so he asked the old man, "You are really dexterous, is there any doorway here?" ”
The old man replied:
"Yes, there is a doorway. I practice laying projectiles on bamboo poles, and when I practice until I can't drop five projectiles, sticking cicadas is particularly easy.
In addition, I stood motionless, only the wings of the cicada in the center of my eyes, and everything in the world could not change my concentration, how could I not stick to the cicada! ”
Confucius turned back to his disciples and said, "The intention is not scattered, the spirit is concentrated and single-minded, and it is this hunchbacked old man who is talking about it!" ”
Yes, in this era of materialistic desires, people who are so ambitious and eager for success and quick profits abound, and what is missing is the person who is like an old man, who is fully focused on doing one thing.
The road of life is not a 100-meter race, there is no shortcut to speak of, and there must be no frivolous heart.
The more frivolous it is, the easier it is to be opportunistic; the more opportunistic, the easier it is to plant a heel.
Maintain the tenacity of the heart, keep the stability of the self, in order to have a clear self-knowledge, understand the way to success, is nothing more than a foot of stupid work.
We must dare to think and dare to do, but also concentrate on it, only in this way can we do things well and achieve our own wishes.
In "Zhuangzi Qiwu Theory", there is a dialogue between Luo Que and Wang Ni.
He asked Wang Ni three questions:
"Did you know that things have a common standard? Do you know what you don't know? Is there any way that all things can know the above two problems? ”
To the question of the lack, Wang Ni replied in all: "How do I know?" ”
Subsequently, Wang Ni asked Qiao Que again:
"People who live in damp places with waist pain, will loach?"
People who live in trees are afraid, but apes are afraid?
People eat meat, elk eat grass, centipedes eat small snakes, crows eat mice, which is more delicious?
Recognized beauty, the fish saw the sinking bottom, the bird saw the flight away, the elk saw the run away, who is more beautiful? ”
Although Wang Ni did not give a direct answer, he had actually answered the question of the lack.
He made us understand that there is no real meaning of gain and error in this world, and that different positions and different angles have different answers to things.
Truly open-minded and wise people never cling to their own opinions, do not treat others with themselves, do not argue with others about right and wrong, and do not compete with others to win or lose.
As Keiko said, "Son is not a fish, but the joy of knowing fish?" ”
When dealing with people in the world, when faced calmly, some things cannot be discerned by themselves, and some things they cannot do anything about themselves.
Treat the views of others sincerely, tolerate the stones of others, and broaden the pattern of life.
Click "Watching", may this life, you and I are not proud of being knowledgeable, nor ashamed of not knowing anything.
Author | Jingbo Guoxue
Source | Jingbo Guoxue (ID: jingboguoxue)
Typography | Zheng to the north
Music | Chen Guoliang - Lost
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