A lame, sloppy, and mouthless man lobbied Wei Linggong, and Wei Linggong liked him very much. eㄟw1 After getting used to seeing this lame, backed, and mouthless person, I looked at those people with complete bodies, and felt that these people's necks were too thin and thin.
A person with a neck tumor as big as an urn lobbied Qi Huangong, and Qi Huangong liked him very much.
After getting used to seeing this person with a neck tumor as big as an urn, and then looking at those people with complete bodies, I felt that the necks of these people were too thin and thin.
Therefore, there are places that are out of the ordinary in virtue and there are physical defects, and others will only remember your virtue and forget your physical defects.
What is meant by forgetting not forgetting what should be forgotten, and forgetting what should not be forgotten is called real forgetting.
Therefore, the saint can always travel contentedly, without worry and drag.
Because they see wisdom as a bane, and do not easily show it off; Covenants are seen as imprisonment and are not easily promised; The promotion of virtue is regarded as a means of handing over external things, and great virtue is invisible, so why should it be deliberately promoted.
Regard craftsmanship as the behavior of businessmen, and it is natural that there is no need to take tricks.
The saint never thinks about where to use wisdom The saint never cuts, where is the need for glue The saints never feel that they are deficient, and where is the use of promoting virtue The saints never buy and sell for profit, where is the use of doing business These four practices are called Tianyang.
The so-called natural nourishment is to be fed by nature.
Since he is raised by nature, where can he use artificially to have the form of a human being, but he does not have the true feelings of ordinary people. has the form of a human being, so it forms a group with others; There is no such true feeling as ordinary people, jumping out of the cognitive realm of ordinary people, and looking at life from the height of the Tao, so right and wrong will not converge on us.
You are small, you think of yourself as a human being, great, although I am a human being, I am the same as nature.
Accepting the invitation of King Wei Hui, Zhuangzi followed Hui Shi, and Hui Shi was responsible for eating and drinking along the way.
Along the way, they talked as they walked, and they also debated endlessly along the way.
Taoists believe that man is a thing, the same as everything in heaven and earth, just a species.
Therefore, man and all things should live in harmony, do not take themselves seriously, and do not think that man is the master of heaven and earth.
The position of human beings in heaven and earth is like the five internal organs in our body, which is mutual, and no one dominates anyone, and no one is the boss.
If you want to say who is the boss in heaven and earth, then Dao is the boss.
Since man is a species between heaven and earth, then man should be ruthless.
Do things have affection, do animals have affection, so people are also ruthless.
Therefore, Hui Shi asked, "Are people inherently merciless?"
Zhuangzi said, "Yes".
Hui Shi said: "If a person has no affection, can he still be called a human being?"
Zhuangzi said: "The Tao gives people a look, heaven and earth give them a form, and people are different from other things, different from cattle and horses, how can people not be called people."
Hui Shi said: "Since you have been called a man, how can you not be merciless?"
From obvious benevolence, there is a change in concept.
At the beginning, the "ruthlessness" was from the perspective of the Tao, from the perspective that human beings, like all things, are a species between heaven and earth.
And now Hui Shi jumps the concept to the concept of people.
Zhuangzi replied, "This is not what I am talking about.
By ruthlessness, I mean that man is just a species in heaven and earth.
Therefore, man should not harm his own nature because of likes and dislikes, man should let nature and not add anything at will, man is just a species between heaven and earth.
Life is just a process of life, and to live is to accomplish the task of being born as a human being.
So people are ruthless. ” Hui Shi said: "If you don't add anything, what do you rely on to maintain your body, what do people rely on to live, and you can't do it without eating."
Zhuangzi replied: "The Tao gives people a look, heaven and earth give them a form, people cannot harm their own nature because of likes and dislikes, people should follow nature and do not add anything at will, man is just a species between heaven and earth."
That's why people are ruthless.
Now you show your mind again, spend your energy, chant against the trunk of the tree all day long, rely on the back of a few cases and close your eyes and fake sleep, aren't you tossing the form that nature has granted you, life is just a process of life, living is only to complete the task of being born as a human being, but you are smug with a white argument and think that you will say yes."
Almost stopped by Hui Shi again, Zhuangzi was very angry and had to say two sentences to point out Hui Shi's mistakes.
I really kindly persuaded you to let you give up the external things, stand on a higher height to understand life, teach you the great principles of life, and let you cherish the opportunity to be born as a human being, but you are talking nonsense with me.
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