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Chapter 805: Zhuangzi's "Theory of Things" Vernacular Text (8)


If I have a debate with you, and you win over me, and I don't say that I can't say you, then what you say is right, and what I say is wrong If I defeat you and you can't talk about me, then, what I said is right, is what you say wrong?

Which of us is right, and if you're right, then I'm wrong.

If I'm right, then you're wrong; Or are both of us right or both wrong You and I don't know who is right and who is wrong, and the world is already ignorant and prejudiced, so who can we let make the right judgment about our arguments Let someone who has the same opinion as you judge, since he has the same opinion as you, how can he make the right judgment?

Let people who have the same opinion as me judge, since they have the same opinion as me, how can they make a correct judgment?

How can we make a correct judgment if we have a different opinion from you and me?

How can we make a correct judgment if we have the same opinion as you and you?

In that case, you and I have no way of knowing who is right and who is wrong.

Then we have to wait for someone else to judge us Just when our debate is a voice, not a rhetoric.

For example, like the sound of the wind, the sound of birds, the sound of leaves, the sound of wild animals, and so on.

If that's the case, what are we arguing about, do we still have to argue and debate?

Our argument is just a voice Just like the call between birds, we need to distinguish what the bird means and what the bird means Since we can't tell who is right and who is wrong, then let's not dwell on this, let's jump out of the circle of debate, and talk about why we are arguing about right and wrong, why we are debating As a result, we will find that the purpose of our debate is only to survive, to survive better.

The controversy between Confucianism and Mohism is nothing more than that In this case, everyone is for a better survival, so why should we debate, let's go with the flow, adapt to the environment, and work hard to live, which is our pursuit If we can give up those meaningless arguments, give up those meaningless pursuits, and live for the sake of living, we can live to the end of our lives, and complete our life process as human beings this time.

What does it mean to go with the flow, to go with the flow is to go with the natural development of things, without human intervention.

From the perspective and position of different things, there will be a difference between right and wrong.

It is right to look at the problem from the perspective and standpoint of this matter.

But if you look at the problem from the perspective and standpoint of another thing, then it must be wrong.

Therefore, if we step out of this circle and look at things from the perspective of Taoism rather than from the perspective of people, then your arguments, including those between Confucianism and Mohism, will be in vain.

There is no right or wrong, right or wrong in your arguments.

Because your arguments are nothing but to live, to survive.

If we jump out of this circle and look at life from the height of the Tao, then we will find that human beings, like all things, are just one thing in heaven and earth, and they are just a process of life.

So there's no need for us to argue Therefore, we still stand on the height of the Tao, forgetting death and life, and forgetting right and wrong.

Let us take the realm of our knowledge to a higher level, to reach the realm of infinity, just like the Tao, endless.

Therefore, the saints do not argue with others about right and wrong, right and wrong, they stand on a higher level of cognition and look at the affairs of the world.

Look at things from the height of the Tao, look at things in the world. ” The shadow of the shadow asked the shadow, "You were walking so well, why did you stop now; You were sitting there just now, why are you standing up again now?

You shadow, why don't you have your own discipline?"

The shadow replied, "I am the shadow, and there is a shadow when the sun shines."

When the angle of sunlight changes, or if things move, I change and move with them, so why don't I have discipline?

If you want to say that I don't have discipline, then the thing I rely on has no discipline, and if you want to say that the thing I rely on has no discipline, then the sunshine has no discipline Is the thing I rely on like the scales of a snake and the wings of a cicada growing on the body of the sun, so that my shadow will not be visible?

How do I know why this is the case, how am I becoming a shadow, how do I know why this is the case, what is wrong with me being a shadow?"

In fact, the world is a shadow, or a shadow of a shadow.

The shadow of the shadow depends on the shadow and exists, and the shadow depends on others and other things.

Other people and things are dependent on the sunlight and exist.

The world is a shadow, so who is the sunshine?

Sunshine is the people to whom we are attached Who are the ones to whom we are attached?

The people we are attached to are Confucianism or Mohistism, the people who teach us how to live.

The world is a shadow, or a shadow of a shadow.

We are all shadows, or shadows of shadows, all dependent on others.

We are all shadows, we don't have ourselves, we exist dependent on others.

We are all shadows, we don't have our own discipline, we do what others do, others walk and we go, others stop and we stop We are all shadows, so we don't have brains, and we are attached to others because we are shadows, so we are attached to others.

Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was a butterfly, dancing, a butterfly at ease, he felt particularly happy and comfortable, and felt that he didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou, and thought he was a butterfly.

Suddenly, he remembered, and was immediately frightened: Am I Zhuang Zhou or a butterfly, I don't know if Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream, or a butterfly became Zhuang Zhou in his dream There must be a difference between Zhuang Zhou and a butterfly, Zhuang Zhou is Zhuang Zhou, and a butterfly is a butterfly.

Both humans and butterflies come from the Tao and have evolved over countless years.

One became a human being, became Zhuang Zhou; One evolved into an insect and a butterfly.

This is called materialization, and everyone has evolved from the Tao and evolved into different species.

Man is a species, butterflies are a species, trees are a species, beasts are a species, everyone is a species. aa2705221: