Zhuangzi is deliberately embarrassing Zhang Shan and making Zhang Shan ugly.

In fact! He had already heard it from Zhang Shan's sermon, and Zhang Shan really understood the sermon. It's not that Zhang Shan is rote and doesn't understand, but that Zhang Shan's thinking mode is a little rigid and won't be flexible. So! I deliberately gave him an ugly one to make him remember it for a long time.

After knowing what the Tao is, it is not difficult to understand people and the Taoist outlook on life. But it is difficult for Zhang Shan to answer the question of why Taoists have different outlooks on life.

The question that Zhuangzi asked Zhang Shan to answer, that is, why would their living conditions be different if they were fellow Taoists? Why are some people "hidden in the court", while some people are "hidden in the city", and some people are "hidden in the wild"?

A person who is hidden in the court should belong to the superior kind in terms of material life. Regardless of how frugal the family is, the life they live is the life of the upper class, the trendy life of the city.

And the people who are hidden in the city, they are ordinary people, that is, the people around us. If you don't pay attention to these kinds of people, you won't know that they are Taoists. Some of them are also superior in material life. And some people may be very poor. There are also people whose lives are very unstable, with an upper-middle standard of living for a while, and a lower-middle standard of living for a while.

And the little hidden in the wilderness is the kind of life that has no quarrel with the world, is at ease, and is free. And often this kind of person is called Taoist.

Zhang Shan saw that the master asked him this question, and thought for a long time before he spoke.

He really didn't expect that Master would ask him such a profound question. In Master's eyes, he is still a person who has not even figured out what the Tao is, so how can he answer such a profound question?

Master is deliberately embarrassing me!

Master is embarrassing me!

I'm definitely not ashamed! I don't lose my face, and I can't lose my master's face!

That's right! If I can't answer, I won't be ashamed.

But! It's Master's face that is lost!

Master!

Zhang Shan suddenly seemed to understand something? It seems like? It seems that the master is deliberately embarrassing him and making him ugly!

No! It's Master's good intentions!

Zhang Shan, a stupid brain and rice bucket, finally thought of this problem. And no, he resented the master for deliberately embarrassing him.

"A person's outlook on life mainly depends on his education and living environment, and a person's mature outlook on life depends on his life experience......"

"Nonsense! Nonsense! ”

Zhuangzi shouted: "What I asked you to answer is the Taoist outlook on life, and what Taoism accepts is Taoist doctrine and thought." Where do you see you're here? I asked you to talk about the family's outlook on life, but you got to the world's outlook on life.

Stop! Stop! Just by virtue of you, Zhang Shan, you dare to say the world's outlook on life, can you analyze the world's outlook on life in detail? Don't tell me in general? Who doesn't know? A person's outlook on life depends on the education, environment, and life experience they receive? ”

Mrs. Sister-in-law didn't understand for a while, why Zhuangzi was always embarrassed by Zhang Shan. Seeing that Zhuangzi was embarrassing Zhang Shan again, he was very anxious.

Seeing that Zhuangzi was embarrassing Zhang Shan, the mayor of the town sat on the side and looked at Zhang Shan's jokes, with a disdainful smile on his face, and mockery in his eyes.

The subordinates of the family, seeing Zhuangzi embarrassed Zhang Shan, there are people of all kinds of moods. There are people who have a good impression of Zhang Shan, and they sweat for Zhang Shan. There are people who look down on Zhang Shan, but they are gloating on the side.

"When we all accept the ideas of Taoism, our outlook on life should be the same, all believe. Taoists believe that we, like other species on earth, are just a species born at the right time. We are just passers-by of life, and we are born as human beings, and we are only here to complete this life.

So! Let's not exhaust ourselves by pursuing things outside of our bodies.

We want to live a healthy and happy life, and we want to live freely and spontaneously.

But? Due to the difference in the external living environment, our ideal outlook on life is to live a healthy and happy life, live freely and spontaneously, but the reality does not give us this living environment. So! In order to live healthily, happily, freely, and on our own, we have to choose. Wherever it suits us, we go to live. We live as we adapt to our environment.

Some people think that the small seclusion is the most suitable for them, so they hide in the countryside and deep in the mountains. And some people, they feel that living in the market is very suitable, they live in the market, live around us. There are also people who are more suitable for being above the court, or for officials and businessmen, and they live in that environment.

We are Taoists, and survival is the bottom line of Taoism. But! It's not that we just need to solve the problem of food and clothing. When we can live a privileged life, we can also live a life of the upper class. The standard of living has improved, why do we Taoists still live on the food and clothing line? Isn't it?

In a word! We have to live on the same starting line with the people around us, live the same life as the people around us, and integrate into the lives of the people around us.

In other words, if you are an official above the court, you will have to live the same material life as other officials. You have to fit into the circle of life of an official. If you are the king of a kingdom, you have to live a material life like other kings.

You are an ordinary citizen, you have to live the life of an ordinary citizen and integrate into this circle of life. If you're poor, you're going to live in the slums......"

"Wait!"

The town elder interrupted, "Taoism also has kings? How could a Taoist be a king? ”

"Yes!" Zhang Shan replied.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Zhuangzi and his sister-in-law also replied almost at the same time.

"There are also Taoists who are officials?" The mayor asked again.

"Yes!"

Zhang Shan said: "The king can also be a Taoist, using Taoist doctrine and ideas to govern his people. Taoists can also be officials, using their own doctrines and ideas to manage their subordinates. Imagine? You can be a king, but why can't you be an official? ”

The mayor asked, "So?" I always think that if the king or the official is a Taoist? That? Doesn't it violate the Taoist morality of non-action and conforming to nature? ”

Zhang Shan replied: "That's because you don't understand the real inaction and conform to nature!" I heard Master say that there is indeed the idea of 'non-action' and 'conforming to nature' in Taoist thought, which is understood by the world, and that may have been influenced by the early thought of the patriarch Lao Tzu, rather than the thought of Lao Tzu in his later years. Lao Tzu's thoughts on 'doing nothing' and 'conforming to nature' in his later years were different from those in his early years......"