The phrase life is like a dream is also from the book of Zhuangzi, from the second article of the inner chapter of Zhuangzi.
Taoism was the first to study the mental world and to study dreams.
Zhuangzi believes that whether it is a dream or a real life, it is the result of the conscious activity of our brain.
All the activities in dreams are thought up by our brains.
In real life, we also think about how to do and how to say it, and then we do it and how to say it.
Therefore, dreams and reality are the same, both are the result of the brain's consciousness and thinking, and the brain first imagines how to do and how to say it, and then how to do it and how to say it.
So life is a big dream That's how life comes to life In the theory of homogeneous things, it is said that life is like a dream with causes and consequences, not specifically that life is like a dream.
Before saying that life is like a dream, a person named Qu Quezi asked another person named Changwuzi, and it began.
Roughly speaking: Qu Quezi heard from Confucius' students that someone was talking about Taoism, talking about what Taoism said about supreme people, divine men, saints, and so on.
After hearing this, Kong Qiu said that this was nonsense.
And Qu Quezi said that he thought it was very good.
Changwuzi did not praise Qu Quezi, but also said Qu Quezi. said: Even if the Yellow Emperor hears these words, he will be puzzled, and how can Kong Qiu understand it, and you are too proud, as if you think of the rooster that announces the dawn when you see the egg, as if there is a rooster; When you see a slingshot, you think of grilled turtledove meat, as if you have already acquired a turtledove.
In fact, it was still a little early, and it had not yet reached the highest level of Taoist cultivation The highest state of Taoism is to look at problems, life and world affairs from the height of Taoism.
So if you stand on the level of the Tao, then you won't argue with people about right and wrong, right and wrong, and you won't listen to the conversations between Confucius and the students, and so on.
If we stand on the level of the Tao, there is no concept of life and death.
Why?
In the theory of all things, that is, in front of saying "life is like a dream" and Qu Quezi asked Changwuzi, that is, "Fang is born and dies", "Mo lives in the dead, and Peng Zu is dead", Zhuangzi has already talked about life and death.
Zhuangzi talks about life and death from the perspective of Taoism, while the world talks about life and death from the perspective of people.
One stands at the height of the Word, and the other stands at the height of man.
In the case of "life is like a dream", Zhuangzi has lowered the standard and talked about life and death from a human perspective.
Speaking of life and death from the perspective of the Tao is to ask us to look at life and death from a higher height and realm.
From the perspective of human beings, life and death are for us to face reality.
So how do we face life and death, and face life and death from the perspective of people Zhuangzi said: How do I know that people live greedily, and their lives will be free of confusion and distress?
The original text of this passage is: To give evil is to know that life is not to confuse evil, and to be evil to know that evil is to die without being weak and not knowing to return People are going to die, and we can't avoid it.
Fear of death is like a lost child who doesn't know where home is, doesn't know where he is home.
Death is our home, our destiny.
Afraid of death, can we not die?
And if we live greedily, will we not be confused and distressed?
The greedy life is because when we are young and we have money, we have the protection of our parents and elders.
When we are no longer young, when our health is getting worse and worse, when we have no money, when we lose dependence and care, will we still live greedily?
What's so bad about death?
How do we know that it will not be good after death?
In this regard, Zhuangzi gave another example, saying that there was a woman named Liji, who was the daughter of a man who defended the territory of Aidi, and because of her beauty, the Jin Kingdom captured her when they conquered Lirong and did not kill her.
She was crying so much that she was soaking through her clothes, thinking she was finished; When she entered the palace of King Jin, was pampered as a lady and slept in the same bed with the Marquis of Jin, and ate delicious dishes, she regretted crying so sadly at the beginning, and almost missed the good days.
A person is afraid of death, is it like this woman named Liji?
So how do we know that those who died, whether they will regret being so greedy for life in the first place, and how do we know if life after death is not as good as when we were alive?
It's like Lizzie who thinks it's over, but she enjoys glory and luxury.
The above is Zhuangzi's exhortation that we should face death bravely and not be afraid of death.
After saying this, Zhuangzi began to say that "life is like a dream".
Chuang Tzu said: People who drink and have fun in their sleep, when they wake up at dawn and face the hardships in real life, and recall the happy life in their dreams, they are likely to cry and cry bitterly; Those who weep bitterly in their sleep, when they wake up at dawn, go hunting round by round, and when they recall the pain in their dreams, they think it is so ridiculous; When you are dreaming, you don't know that you are dreaming, thinking that it is real, that it is real life; Sometimes I have a dream in my dreams, and when I wake up, I will divinate the good fortune and evil of the dream I just had.
When I really woke up, I realized that I had just had a dream within a dream.
When people are most awake, they know that life is like a big dream.
The ignorant person, on the other hand, thinks that he is very sober, as if he knows everything and understands everything.
In fact, their lives are no different from dreams.
Whether it is a dream or reality, it is our consciousness and mind that determine our actions.
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It's because we are aware of it, we think about it, and then we start acting.
So, dreams and reality are the same.
Life is like a dream, and in the world of dreams and in the world of reality, sometimes our circumstances are just the opposite In the real world, we may be shepherds, but in the world of dreams, we may be kings.
In the real world, we may be kings, but in the world of dreams, we may be shepherds.
Therefore, the concept of the king being superior and the shepherd being inferior is really shallow In the theory of all things, Zhuangzi did not specifically say that "life is like a dream", but mainly attacked Confucius and Confucianism.
Confucius, that is, the sage Confucius in later generations.
In the book of Zhuangzi, it is common to see criticism of Confucius, and often to use Confucius to talk about things, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively.
Let's not care about that, but we have to see the influence of Confucianism on that time during the Zhuangzi period, or in the time of the Zhuangzi's disciples.
Confucianism has gained the upper hand, and the influence of Taoism has passed.
Therefore, Zhuangzi should often mention Confucius in order to set the record straight.
Then Zhuangzi said: Confucius and you are both dreaming, living in the world of dreams, fantasizing about the beauty of the future, and being self-satisfied in their hearts.
I said that you are dreaming and living in the world of dreams, but in fact I am also dreaming, and what I said above is all dreams.
Why do we live in dreams, or rather in dreams?
That's what Zhuangzi is talking about Whether it's a dream or a real life, it's all thought up by the brain.
Why did you come up with all this?
People in the world say that only with dreams can there be a future Zhuangzi asked: Do we need dreams, do we need the future, do we need to live so complicatedly, we just want to live, to complete the process of this life The key problem is that we imagine a beautiful future, but we can't face the confusion and hardship of real life.
We all only know to live for our dreams, for the future, for a beautiful world in the future, but we don't know to live for ourselves, for the present, and for our life.
The key problem is that we imagine a beautiful future, but we can't face the confusion and hardship of real life.
If so, dreams are deceitful, and if so, then the dreams we weave, the doctrines and ideas of Confucianism and Mohistism, and the hundred schools of thought are all deceitful.
Or it is not the solution to human suffering, it is not the right way to think.
If it is not a lie, it is well-intentioned.
Then this kind of thinking is superficial Human beings need to have the right philosophy of life, not dreams We don't know what we really live for, and then living is just a shadow of others. ：。
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