Chapter 17: The Taoist View of Life and Death (3)

The "Qi Life and Death" in Zhuangzi's "Theory of All Things" also tells us that life is eternal! It depends on the perspective from which we look at life and death.

If we stand purely from the perspective of human beings, human life is limited. It is difficult to find a 100-year-old person in the world, and the most you can live in life is 100 years old.

If we stand in the perspective of the Tao, life is eternal. Man, like the life of all things, is eternal.

Because! Man and all things die, as a person or as a thing, this life is over, but it still exists, but in a different form and matter.

Like people! Although a person is dead, he does not disappear completely after death, but there are still corpses. When the corpse decomposes, it becomes another substance, endless, forever, but in a different form and substance.

If we have this state of life? Will there still be confusion in our lives?

Of course! This realm is too high for the vast number of beings in the world to understand, let alone reach this height. All right! We don't require you to have to reach this level of cognition, to reach this lofty realm.

So! Let's talk about people!

As human beings, life is finite, and this is an inescapable fact. So! We must cherish life, cherish this opportunity to be "born as a human being", and cherish the process of this life.

It is an indisputable fact that we are born with only one chance, and none of us can start over in life. There is no regret medicine in this world, and there is no chance to be born again.

And also! Nor can we stop life from coming.

We can't do it if we want to start over again, we can't be human if we don't want to be human, these are not transferred and changed by our will.

So! We must cherish our rare life.

Since you were born as a human being, then! We must live well and cherish the process of this life. Our journey from natural birth to natural death is a complete process of our life. Needless to say, the arrival of life is something we can't stop. There is a definition of natural death, what is natural death?

According to Taoist theory, death is not caused by human factors, but by natural causes.

For example, dying of old age. A person lives to old age and dies of old age, which is the most natural death. Of course! The lifespan of people is not uniform, and it is impossible for all of them to live to a certain number of years. Some people live to be more than a hundred years old, while others only live to be thirty or forty years old. Even! Some people died.

Legend has it that the longest-lived person was Peng Zu, who lived for more than eight hundred years. Of course! That's a legend, not something we saw with our own eyes. From a scientific point of view, it is not possible.

For those who died young, it can only be said that it is a pity that they have not been able to experience a complete life as a human being. Even! They don't even have consciousness, they don't even feel.

And as a normal life, from birth to old age and death, at least a few decades, right? We've been through a lot in the intervening decades. It's true! Some people say life is short. In fact! Life is not short. It's not boring either, and it's informative.

From birth to death, we usually have to go through so many things. We have the happiest and most peaceful life in our mother's womb; We had happy, happy childhoods; We have free-spirited teenagers, and we have our youthful passion years. We have a good time when we pursue the opposite sex and find a life partner, and we become fathers and mothers. As sons of man, we honor our parents and fathers; As fathers and mothers, we receive support from our children. There are many things in our lives, such as our personal interests and hobbies, and so on.

If we all get through it seriously, it's not easy. It's true! It's just that! Most of us have sloppy life, we don't have this feeling about our life, and we don't experience the life that belongs to us, the process of life experience.

Most of us are shadow beings. Attached to others, they live as others live, just like the shadows of others. They think this is life, but in fact! They are shadow lives, lives without their own.

Why can't we experience the joy of life? Why can't we live to old age?

The reason is simple! We, our parents, our elders, and the people around us have all chosen the wrong outlook on life. Therefore! Our lives have lost joy and freedom. Even! We lost our lives halfway.

When we position life as "life is just a life process", when we just come to experience life and complete a task, our outlook on life and our attitude towards life are suddenly enlightened?

Will we give up a lot of superfluous pursuits?

Most people's lives are spent in the pursuit of superfluous things and give up enjoying life. In other words, there is no time to enjoy life and understand the meaning of life.

Don't listen to what others preach in front of you about future generations, your own life is not good, and there are problems with survival. Or rather! You don't understand what life is, why you live and what you live for? What the hell are you going to do with future generations, even thousands of years from now, you, you! You're not worrying?

No matter how beautiful the future is, you can't enjoy it. Whether the future is good or not is something that future generations will face. Future generations are not fools and don't need you to worry about it. You still have to worry about what you're facing, what you have to solve.

So! No matter how beautiful the future is, you are fooling others.

What we are dealing with is our life. On the premise of not affecting the survival of others, we can enjoy life as much as we want.

Don't listen to what others preach to you about the "quality of life", the quality of life, the grade of life, and the taste of life are all things that fool people. Being able to ensure daily nutrition and keep yourself healthy is the quality of life, or the quality of life, the taste of life. Happy, free, and secure every day, this is the quality of life, the grade of life, and the taste of life.

Are you happy? Are you free? Do you feel secure?

If you live not happily, without freedom, and without a sense of security, except for money and self-satisfied vanity, you don't say anything about the quality of life, the grade of life, and the taste of life in front of me.

Before human beings solve the problems of life and poverty of the old, weak, sick and disabled, we should not be fooled by the quality of life or the quality of life and the taste of life. Those who are old, weak, sick and disabled and those living in poverty, they also dream of a good life, or the quality of life and the taste of life. When their wishes are not fulfilled and their living space is squeezed, they will begin to rebel.

As the song goes, "Get up! Those who do not want to be slaves have built our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall......"

Someone may want to label Taoists as "hating the rich" because of this! Daoist family does not pursue superfluous things, and others are not allowed to pursue them.

In fact! Taoists just see the essence of life!

Pursue the superfluous, create greater value and profits, if it is used to help others, then! Beyond reproach.

If you pursue superfluous things and create greater value, it just seems that you have a big ability, and you are just hoarding. What's the meaning of your pursuit? You just think it's interesting! But behind your interesting pursuit, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened. The gap between rich and poor is wide, and the rules of the survival game are about to be rewritten. The rewriting of the rules of the survival game is the beginning of social unrest.

The rules of survival are that simple!

It's all about survival! It's just to complete the process of this life!

What do you say you've been tossing around all your life?

Do you say that you are for your children and grandchildren, and your children and grandchildren are fools? If they are fools, no matter how much wealth you leave them, they will not be able to keep them. Our fathers, our fathers' fathers, our ancestors, who of them is not like this? I am trying to save money and hope that my descendants will have a better life. The result? Each generation has to work on our own.

So! The ideas and practices for the sake of future generations are all wrong and are disturbing society. Most of us are not for future generations, but for the vanity of our own lives. They live in their own world, self-satisfied, and self-righteous.

In fact! We live for ourselves. It is said that it is for future generations, for the surrounding people, and for the common people in the world, most of them fool people. Obviously what you are doing is wrong, why are you doing it for others?

When we are tired from work, we want to rest; When our hearts are tired, we have to rethink our lives.