Chapter 16 The South Wind Does Not Compete, Zhuangzi Laozi

The south wind does not compete (galloping to the north and the horse is arrogant, and the song is dead to the south wind)

The immortal madman who lives in the mist has an extreme personality, has a paranoid thinking and maverick style, and will never allow others to touch his belongings.

Because of his love for the Girl, he wanted to unravel the petrification, but he was ruthlessly rejected after recovery, and in order to get the approval of the Girl, he began a series of actions.

A guy who is hated by the world, his dedication to love has hurt many innocent people, and he has also made himself bruised. Looking at his uncomplaining dedication to love, the most embarrassing future generations were moved by his stupidity, and then fell in love with him.

"How to stop? How can you stop? Love has already burned like a prairie fire, teach me how to clean up?" Now that it has stopped, is it liberation? Or is it unwilling?

Running around for love, coming and going, I mislooked at the place where the spring love fell, and now there is no owner in prosperity, and the empty year is chasing in vain. The snow is gone, the south wind doesn't compete for this name, who else cares?

"Crazy for love, dead because of stupidity" was mistaken for a villain until he died, which really made people give up for him.

Its martial arts - the image of divine destruction, the scene of divine transformation, and the shock of divine killing. Weapon - Feather Sword. Possession - Scroll of God.

Say goodbye together, wind and rain will not look back, I love you and I am willing to wait, even if it is a few years later. Fight alone for love, abandon the worldly faith, believe that true love lasts forever, but there is nothing left after the end.

Loneliness is destined to be fruitless and makes promises, deeply trapped in the whirlpool of feelings, fighting alone for love, leaving the worldly faith, believing that true love lasts forever until the end of the day, but there is nothing.

Youlan Experience: No dreams last night. In the early morning, the wind knocks on the window and wakes me up, and I miss you early

Zhuangzi (c. 369 BC - 286 BC), known as Zhou, was a native of Song Guomeng (now northeast of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, one said Mengcheng, Anhui) during the Warring States Period, and served as a Qiyuan official.

A famous thinker, philosopher, and writer, he is a representative of the Taoist school and the inheritor and developer of Laozi's thought. Later generations called him and Lao Tzu "Lao Zhuang".

He was also known as the Mong, the Mong, and the Mong. Reportedly. I also tasted seclusion in Nanhua Mountain. Therefore, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty Xuanzong Tianbao, Zhuang Zhou was named a real person in Nanhua, and his book "Zhuangzi" was called the Nanhua Sutra.

Known as "Lao Zhuang", Zhuangzi and Lao Tzu are both representatives of Taoism. Zhuangzi's thought is inherited from Laozi. The similarities are mainly in the view of "Taoism and Nature". Zhuangzi said, "There is great beauty in the sky, but it is not said that there is no reason why people do nothing. The Great Sage does not do it. It is also said to look at heaven and earth. 」

There are also views such as inaction and opposition to war. In terms of health preservation, although Lao Zhuang talks about health preservation, Zhuangzi attaches more importance to it. In "Let the King" there is "two arms heavier than the world".

But there is still a difference between the old villages. Han Fei of the Legalists quoted Lao Tzu. And Zhuangzi abandoned the Legalist side of Laozi's thought of power. Zhang Taiyan's "On the Study of Zhuzi" has "His technique seems to be the same as Lao Tzu's, and his heart is absolutely different from Lao Tzu."

Therefore, the "World Chapter" describes all the families, and it has been divided into two with Guan Yin and Lao Dan. Those who praise it as "extreme" and respect it as "broad and true people" will take the law for themselves according to their natural sayings. It is divided into two, and does not want to defile itself with Lao Tzu's power. 」

Zhuangzi believed that if one could achieve "all things", then one would be able to achieve the state of "leisure". This is another important concept in Zhuangzi's philosophy, which is the realm of individual spiritual emancipation, that is, the existence of the world without contradictions.

Zhuangzi does not deny contradictions, but only emphasizes the subjective liberation of contradictions. Zhuangzi uses the term "wu wei" to explain this term, which is different from Lao Tzu, where "wu wei" refers to the state of freedom and freedom of the mind from being dragged down by external objects.

This state, also known as "non-waiting," means that there is nothing relative. At this time, people abandoned the pursuit of fame and fortune, and "took advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the debate of the six qi to swim endlessly". This sentence is generally regarded as the main theme of "Wandering Away", and it is also the main theme of the book "Zhuangzi". This is a state in which the mind and the Tao are one.

Zhuangzi believes that ordinary people are very hypocritical, "People's hearts are dangerous in the mountains and rivers, and it is difficult to know the heavens." There is still a period of spring, autumn, winter, summer and twilight, and people are affectionate. 」。

He criticized Confucianism for "cultivating people's hearts with benevolence and righteousness", which would lead to "great chaos in the spine of the world". And the despotic rule of the monarch and his love of knowledge will only make the hearts of the people more corrupt, "The people are very diligent in their interests, and the sons kill their fathers, and the ministers kill the king. 」

Liushahe believes that Zhuangzi has four main points of character, "One is to stand and stand in the ring. The second is the method, believing in inaction. The third is ideal, chasing Zezhi. Fourth, it is said that cultivation and fasting are kept. 」

The so-called ring in the ring means that it does not hold any position. In "The Inner Chapter: The Theory of Things", there is "get its ring, so as to respond to infinity", and in "Miscellaneous Chapters, Zeyang", there is "get its ring to follow it".

Wuwei often appears in "Zhuangzi", and Zhuangzi believes that no matter how you govern the country or how you are a person, you must do nothing. But Wuwei is quite difficult to explain, and the quicksand river believes that it means "fake" or "artificial".

"Ze pheasant ten steps and one peck, one hundred steps and one drink, not the animal in Fanzhong", is the pursuit of freedom. "If there is a will, there is no hearing with the ears but listening to the heart, without listening to the heart and listening to the breath! Those who are angry are also those who are empty and treat things. Only the Tao gathers the void. The void is also fasting. The so-called fasting is to eliminate all kinds of distracting thoughts in the heart.

Zhuangzi's philosophical thought can be roughly summarized as an ontology with Tao as an entity, and a relativist epistemology of "all things are one", which gives rise to his unique tendency of subjective idealism and relativist sophistry.

This kind of theory and ethics based on nature provided the possibility of another way of life and values for later generations of Chinese intellectuals.

Zhuangzi's philosophy advocates the elimination of the "physical self" and the "cognitive self", and pursues an aesthetic attitude beyond the transcendent object, leaving no trace in the matter.

In Zhuangzi's philosophy, Tao is the essence of the universe and an infinite concept. From the Tao gave birth to all things in heaven and earth, and the Tao itself is the source of all things.

"The husband has affection and faith, nothing is invisible, can be passed on but not received, can be obtained but not seen, from the root to the root, there is no heaven and earth, and it has been fixed since ancient times. Gods, ghosts, gods, and emperors were born by nature. 」。 If a person attains the Tao, he has attained infinity and freedom.

Zhuangzi's idea of "Tao is one" is the same as the modern philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin in that he sees the universe as an organic whole. This view is clearly closer to twentieth-century science than Newton's mechanistic idea of seeing the universe as a pinball impact.

Lao Tzu believes that "the Tao is the Tao is very Tao", and Zhuangzi also believes that the Tao is unspeakable. But the Tao cannot be spoken, and it has to be spoken, so Zhuangzi adopts the method of "sayings", "Fable 19, Tautology 17, and Sunrise." and to the sky. 」

In this way, Zhuangzi's mind is like water. There will be no fear of dismemberment by posterity. At the same time, his views will not be obliterated by history. Reading in different periods will give you a renewed meaning.

Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly, chaotic enlightenment, Ku Ding Jieniu, Hui Shi Xiangliang, and the praying mantis catching cicadas are all excellent fables. Zhuangzi's writings can be called a wonderful masterpiece in the history of Chinese literature, pushing pre-Qin prose to a new peak.

Relative to Lao Tzu. Zhuangzi's thinking is inclined to the pursuit of art and freedom. It can be seen from Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly, Hao Liang's debate (Zi Fei Fish Anzhi Fish's Pleasure) and other things.

Lao Tzu (year of birth and death unknown) surnamed Li Ming'er. The word Boyang. Thinker of the Spring and Autumn Period in China. He is the author of the book "Tao Te Ching", which is a classic work of the Taoist school, and his teachings were later developed by Zhuang Zhou, Yang Zhu and others.

Confucius once asked Lao Tzu about etiquette. The descendants of Taoism regarded Lao Tzu as a grandmaster, compared to the Confucian Confucius.

The early Taoist priests believed that Lao Tzu was too pure. During the Tang Dynasty, Lao Tzu was designated as the eighteenth incarnation of Taishang Laojun, one of the three Qing gods.

Lao Tzu has two possible identities, one is Lao Dan (who served as the "keeper of Tibetan history") and the other is Lao Laizi. The exact place of birth is unknown, but historical records record that Lao Tzu was Qurenli, Li Township, Ku County, Chu State.

According to Lao Tzu's original intention, he didn't want to leave any words, but he couldn't withstand Yin Xi's persuasion, and finally stayed in the letter for a few days, seriously summarized his thoughts, and left a 5,000-word work (now known as the Tao Te Ching) and rode a green ox away.

The essence of Lao Tzu's work is the simple dialectic. For example, the famous sentence: "Woe is the place of blessing, and blessing is the place of evil." things or losses and gains, or gains and losses".

This Tao Te Ching, which has been circulated for more than 2,000 years, is a work that transcends the ages, and in different eras, this work will be interpreted with different meanings. According to statistics, the Tao Te Ching is the most translated work after the Christian Bible. The Tao Te Ching has been translated into many languages.

In terms of self-cultivation, Lao Tzu is the ancestor of Taoism's dual cultivation of life, and advocates nature in our life, pays attention to the practice of being extremely empty, keeping quiet and not fighting with others.

Politically, Lao Tzu's advocacy of inaction is the same as the initiative of modern consensus. There is a passage of Lao Tzu that is often regarded as a proverb to the rulers: "The way of heaven is to make up for what is lacking, but the way of man is not, and the loss is not enough to give more." "The hunger of the people is as much as the food tax on it, the light death of the people is the thickness of survival on it, and the people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death." 」

Religious conceptually, the most noble belief at that time was heaven, so heaven was basically "consciousness heaven", but Lao Tzu broke it down and turned heaven into "natural heaven". In the original text of the Tao Te Ching, it can be seen that Lao Tzu's view of heaven is natural and inaction.

In the first line of the fifth chapter of the extant popular text, it says: "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs." The unkindness here is not unkindness, but refers to unintentional action, and as mentioned in the text, "for the sake of not worrying" and "long but not slaughtering" are the concurring connotations, so in fact, many of Lao Tzu's expositions at that time were to destroy the theory of gods and ghosts, rather than the concept that later generations worshiped them as gods.

In general, Lao Tzu's thoughts are not negative and stagnant, but a positive and positive requirement for us to conform to our own heart and give full play to our own abilities, and he wants people to "do" but "do it unintentionally" without attachment to fame and fortune, and give full play to their own initiative, so that people have the greatest autonomy to give full play to the strengths of their own lives.

"Hanshu, Art and Literature" said: "The Taoist stream, cover from the historian, remember the success and failure, the blessing and misfortune, the ancient and modern way, and then know that Bing should be the original, clear the void to self-control, the weak to self-control, this gentleman's southern art also." 」

Sima Xi, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, said in "On the Essence of the Six Schools": "Taoism makes people single-minded, moving and intangible, and supporting all things. It is also a technique, because of the great shun of yin and yang, the goodness of Confucianism and ink, the key to naming the law, migrating with the times, responding to the changes of things, establishing customs, doing everything, pointing to the appointment and easy to operate, doing less and doing more. 」

"Its technique is based on nothingness, and it is used according to the law. There is no form, there is no permanent form, so it can investigate the feelings of all things. It is not for things first, not for things after, so it can be the master of all things. 」

In Taoism, Lao Tzu is revered as the Taoist ancestor. Starting from "The Legend of the Immortals", Lao Tzu was listed as an immortal, and it was also said that Lao Tzu attached great importance to the art of the room.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Fu, a native of Chengdu, wrote "The Tablet of Our Lady of Lao Tzu", which combined Lao Tzu and Tao into one, and regarded Lao Tzu as a god who incarnated heaven and earth. It became the prototype of the Taoist creation theory. During the time of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty personally sacrificed Lao Tzu and regarded Lao Tzu as the ancestor of the Immortal Dao.

Its Taoist honorific title is "Daode Tianzun", commonly known as "Taishang Laojun", and it is also one of the three Taoist ancestors. (To be continued......)