Chapter 18: Zhuangzi

(Everyone, the content of this chapter of the poppy lecture is Zhuangzi's view of life and death, drawing on some information on the Internet and adding his own views to integrate, if you feel bored, skip directly, the next chapter of the sword and sword, the poppy was seriously injured by a sneak attack, Qingxian took the stolen pill to make the poppy deeply poisoned, and his life hung by a thread, so stay tuned!) Ask for a recommendation, a recommendation! )

The poppy, who had returned from Qingqiu again, fell to the ground exhausted, leaned on the trunk of the ancient sycamore tree, put his hand to his eyes, and looked at the dazzling sun in the air, hiding something in his heart, as if something had not been done......

After thinking about it for a while, I still can't remember what it was that wasn't done, what it was......

took out the balsa wood from his sleeve, looked at the human figure on the balsa wood, and suddenly remembered the true god of the willow, and the poppy suddenly secretly screamed, "Suffer, today is the ......" Poppy counted his fingers and muttered, "Today is the moonlight day, and it's almost time." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I was going to teach those noble kids, and I almost forgot about ......"

The poppy put away the wood, summoned the clouds, jumped on the clouds, conjured a mirror on the clouds and looked at his appearance, and when he saw that there was nothing inappropriate, he lay down on the clouds and rested for a while, while thinking about what to talk about in class later. Talking about the history of the wild? No, it will teach bad students! Talking about villain books? What's more, it has no nutritional value, and it will bring bad students! What about Zhuangzi? Well!

Zhuangzi, who is it? The genius of the world. The words are unbridled, the imagery is majestic, the imagination is peculiar and rich, and the feelings are moist and expansive, giving people a feeling of otherworldliness and sublime beauty. Her view of "pure inaction" is quite in line with her heart. In the end, he is a very interesting person, and if he is alive, she must communicate with him more.

Poppy was thinking about what lessons to come. Singing with a drum? Well, it's interesting.

After making arrangements, Poppy made up for a night's sleep, and then came to the misty Nine Heavens, where there were four guards guarding the Nantian Gate, and rows of handsome palace ladies went in and out.

The poppy took out the sign from the wide sleeve and showed it to the guards, politely, the lotus step moved lightly, and walked into the heavenly temple, in the huge space, the poppy got lost, walked and walked, and actually walked to Jingyi Palace.

The strange thing is that there is not a single fairy outside the palace gate.......

Poppy looked up at the sun in the sky, it was almost hour, and Poppy walked into Jingyi Palace, "Is there anyone?" ”

.......

No one answered, and the poppy's feet entered the courtyard of the palace, only to see a peach tree planted in the courtyard, and a stone table and chairs were placed under the tree, and a bird cage was placed on the stone table, and there was a canary-like bird in the cage.

The poppy actually gave birth to a trace of sadness, and shook her head sadly at the canary, at this time, a delicate female palace lady in a turquoise dress walked out, "Who are you?" Why come to Jingyi Palace. ”

Poppy nodded to the female palace e, "I am the master of Xue Sizhai, the first time I came to the Heavenly Palace, I got lost today, can you please give me guidance?" ”

Nu Gong'e glanced at the dazzlingly red and charming poppy, and nodded uncertainly, "Well, you are going the wrong way, go out and turn right, just go straight." ”

After hearing this, Poppy thanked gratefully, "Thank you." He glanced at the canary sympathetically, smiled weirdly, walked out of Jingyi Palace, walked to the door, glanced at the corner of the courtyard slightly, turned his palm outward, and hit the corner of the courtyard, and a palm wind slashed towards the birdcage through the wall.

As soon as the poppy took a step, there was a sudden pop in the back, and then the canary flew out of the birdcage, and the poppy smiled at the canary, you are free......

Poppy glanced up at the sky again, "Oh my God, I'm late for the first day of class......"

The poppy didn't care about the image of the lady, her steps were windy, moving quickly, and a rapid wind under her feet lifted Gong'e's hair on the road.

The palace ladies were panicked, and the wind just now was really anxious......

By the time I saw the plaque that said Xuesizhai, the poppy was already out of breath and finally caught up.

Poppy tidied up his dress, learned the master's walking posture, with a faint smile on his face, and walked into Xuesi Zhai with slow steps.

A group of students dressed in white costumes sat upright on their knees on the mat, and when they saw that the master had not yet entered, they whispered to their table mates around them.

Poppy slowly walked to the side of the podium and glanced at the students, and suddenly the sharp-eyed students saw the poppy and pretended to raise their voices or squeeze their eyebrows at the surrounding classmates to look back.

In response, all the students of the private school looked back and saw the poppy coming slowly, and couldn't help but be surprised by the poppy's face.

After Jiayi saw that it was a poppy, her face was full of surprise, why was she here?

Jiayi looked at Qingxian, who was sitting lazily at the moment, with his elbows against his chin and snoring......

Ignoring their fiery gaze, Poppy walked to the desk, sat down on the mat, straightened the folds of his clothes, raised his eyes slightly, glanced at the students in the audience, and after seeing the shocked expressions on their faces, Poppy picked up the ring ruler on the desk and knocked on the table, and said solemnly, "It's class." ”

The students in the audience woke up from the trance-like world, and the students stood up respectfully, except for Qingxian, who was still asleep at the moment.

Yue Ze, who was sitting behind Qingxian, patted Qingxian's back from behind, "Qingxian, wake up." ”

Qingxian slapped Yue Ze's hand away, ignored it, and continued to sleep.

Poppy looked curiously at Qingxian, who was sleeping against his chin, picked up a brush on the desk and hit Qingxian's elbow accurately, with a snap, Qingxian's head drooped, and then lay on the table and continued to sleep, completely ignoring the already black faces of Poppy and his classmates.

Poppy waved his hand at Yue Ze, "Let him be." ”

After hearing this, Yue Ze glanced at Jin Yu, Jin Yu shrugged helplessly, and then saluted the master with the other students, "Good master." ”

Poppy bowed his head lightly and said slowly, "The true god of Zheliu will travel for March, and I will teach you on his behalf during this time, if there is any obscure confusion in learning, you can raise it in class." ”

"Master, what are we going to learn today?" The student asked.

"Learn Zhuangzi today."

"Zhuangzi? The true god of Zheliu has never told us about Zhuangzi? ”

"yes?" Other students wondered.

Poppy's eyes glanced at the students lightly, and replied helplessly, "Zhuangzi is a genius in the mortal world, and his ideas are new and independent, which is worthy of our discussion. ”

"Master, we don't have textbooks."

"No textbooks needed! All you have to do is listen to me. ”

"Since you haven't studied Zhuangzi? Naturally, I don't know the allusions of some idioms, such as Zhouzhuang Dream Butterfly. Poppy said softly.

"I know." One of the students replied.

Poppy bowed his head slightly, "Tell me." ”

This idiom is to say that Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he had become a very vivid butterfly, and he didn't know that he was originally Zhuang Zhou. After waking up, he realized that he was Zhuang Zhou in a panic. ”

"Well, tell me about the moral of this story." Poppy asked.

Implied meaning? The students in the audience were stunned.

Poppy glanced at the students in the audience, "Does anyone know?" ”

The students in the audience looked at each other one by one, and Jin Yu and Yue Ze looked at each other and raised their eyes to look at the poppy.

Yue Ze made a gesture and humbly advised, "Please ask the master for advice." ”

Poppy glanced at Yue Ze, handsome and extraordinary, with a faint smile on his face.

"Zhuangzi wrote more than 100,000 words, and most of them are fables. Hito fables have a wide range of meanings, and every seemingly simple fable has an extremely broad meaning behind it. Zhou Zhuang dreamed of butterflies, I don't know if Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream, or a butterfly dreamed that he became Zhuang Zhou? There must be a difference between Zhuang Zhou and butterflies. This can be called the intersection and change of crops and things.

This parable is a famous passage of Zhuangzi's thought on all things. He believes that if people can break the boundaries between life and death, things and self, they will be happy forever. ”

After Poppy finished speaking, the students in the audience nodded as if they didn't understand.

"Next, let's learn another story about Zhuangzi, drum and sing."

The students in the audience looked at each other again.

Poppy sighed helplessly, he had little knowledge and narrow-mindedness, no matter how he looked at these students, he already looked like a human being, not to mention that he had been cultivating for a thousand years, and he didn't know how many rounds of reincarnation Zhuangzi had, and they didn't even know Zhuangzi....... I really don't know what they learned when they came to the private school?

Poppy shook his head and said unhurriedly, "Zhuangzi lost his wife in his later years, and Hui Shi heard the news and went to mourn. He was an old friend of Zhuangzi and felt the need to comfort Zhuangzi. Hui Shi covered his face with compassion, solemnly entered the door, and entered the mourning hall. Zhuangzi sat beside the coffin, his legs spread out, the pinching of the basket was very unsightly, and his hands were clapped to the accompaniment of the clay pot, without any sadness, and he sang loudly. When he saw Hui Shi's mourning coming, he didn't greet him, but still sang with joy.

Hui Shi asked: "The couple has been sharing the same bed for many years, she raised your children and adults for you, and sent away her youth by herself, but she is old and dead." You can see it lightly, it's okay not to cry, but you ...... He even knocked on the pot and sang. Don't you feel like you've gone too far? ”

Zhuangzi said: "It is the beginning and the death, how can I be without generality!" Observe its beginning and have no life, not in vain and formless, and not in vain and formless. Mixed between the mang, change and gas, gas change and form, change and life, now and change and die, is the phase and for the spring, autumn, winter and summer four seasons also. People slept in the huge room, and I cried with it, thinking that I couldn't get through my life, so I stopped. ”

After Poppy finished telling the story, the students in the audience discussed:

"It's not etiquette, it's too immoral."

Yes, in the Analects and other classics, there are many accounts of Confucius showing great grief in the situation of death. His saddest moment was when he faced the death of his disciple Yan Huizhi. He believes that it is normal for people to mourn and sacrifice their relatives when they pass away. ”

"No, Zhuangzi's idea is unique."

The students had a great discussion and expressed their opinions.

Poppy listened to their discussion and tapped the table with a ring ruler, and the students immediately remained silent, looked at Poppy in unison, and said in unison, "I hope the master asks for advice." ”

Poppy said slowly, "Singing is Zhuangzi's optimistic attitude towards life and death, and it also expresses the sorrow of losing his wife." ”

"It believes that human life is due to the gathering of qi; Man's death is due to the dissipation of qi, and in terms of his attitude towards life and death, he is far above ordinary people. He saw life and death as a natural phenomenon; The process of life and death is nothing more than the running of the seasons. The 'living' from nothing to nothing, and the 'dead' from having to nothing, are also natural changes. In this regard, from the perspective of the macrocosmic path, life is not enough to be happy, and death is not enough to be sad. Otherwise, you don't know your fate. As a mortal, he has such an understanding, which is indeed commendable. ”

"In the history of thought, Confucius and Zhuangzi put forward two different views of life and death, one for Confucianism and the other for Taoism. If there is any meaning in death, it is entirely solved by the meaning of life.

The focus of Confucius's thought is to teach people how to practice benevolence, to be benevolent, to be benevolent, 'not to survive to harm benevolence', for this person to live without benevolence, what is the meaning of life? Therefore, when it is a last resort, I would rather kill a benevolent.

Zhuangzi has a deep view of life and death, he said: human life is accompanied by death, and the disappearance of one life is the beginning of another life. The universe is just a breath, the qi gathers and is born, and the qi disperses is death, but the gathering and dispersion are only phenomena, and the ontology of qi has no so-called gathering and dispersion, and there is no gathering and dispersing of qi, which is the origin of life.

Furthermore, in the Theory of Things, Zhuangzi expressed his view that life and death are the same, and that life in the world is nothing more than a dream. Life is like a dream, but when we are dreaming, we don't know that we are dreaming, and the dream occupies its dream, and only after awakening does we know that it is a big dream. However, life is like a dream, so after death is enlightenment, in the end we are now a dream? Or is it Jue? Is it raw? Or is it death? Therefore, in the "Theory of All Things", Zhuangzi dreams of butterflies to sustenance the division and non-division, the so-called division is the difference between individuals, and the non-division is the unity of all things, the essence is to say: 'All things are uneven, and the division is a phenomenon and a dream; Authenticity, on the other hand, is absolute, undivided, unified, and unchanging. This can be said to be the basic concept of life and death

Life and death, in Zhuangzi's view, are only individual phenomena in life. The reason why we pay attention to these phenomena is that people stubbornly use 'differences' to judge the so-called life and death, and this attitude leads people to 'live and die badly', or 'greedy for life and afraid of death'.

Zhuangzi uses the popularity of the whole universe to macrocosm the phenomenon of life and death, and uses the intellect of 'all things are the same and different' to unify the wisdom of the whole. Man and the universe are 'one' and inseparable, and therefore, all the phenomena of life are also harmonious in the magnification of the universe, and there is no difference between phenomena. This is also the position of 'contemplating it with Taoism'. Under the operation of the Tao, everything can be made into one. Therefore, there is no distinction between the phenomena of 'birth' and 'death' mentioned in the Tao view. At the same time, the ideological foundation of 'life and death as the same' and 'life and death as one' have also been formed under the principle of 'contemplating it with Taoism'.

In fact, the existence of the Tao in all things is also the appearance of the Tao itself. Therefore, the existence of all things begins with the creation of the Tao and continues and operates from the memory of the Tao. In short, all things come from the Tao and eventually need to return to the Tao; But the operation of all things is also guided by the Tao.

He also mentioned that because of the understanding of this characteristic of the Tao, the true man, the supreme man, and the divine man, he also realized the realm of the Tao theory, which is that "heaven and earth are born together with me, and all things are one with me".

If a person can live according to his natural nature, and regard death and life as the norm of the night, he will naturally not be happy with life and evil death, he does not have to feel happy to live, and he does not have to think that death is coming. If you really understand that life and death are just natural phenomena, people can come and go without restraint.

Zhuangzi believes that since life and death are inevitable things in life, since life must be transformed into death, and death must also be transformed into life, since life has the meaning of life, and death also has the value of death, then people's attitude towards life and death should be to face it calmly and obey it peacefully. In Zhuangzi's view, life is the opportunity, death is Hue, and only when people can calmly follow the transformation of life and death can they truly understand the true meaning of life.

Zhuangzi advocated that the highest goal of cultivation is to reach the mind of the human and divine man, that is, heaven and earth are born together with me, all things are one with me, and the spirit of heaven and earth is alone. Therefore, he can merge with heaven and man, and eliminate life and death, and as for the victory of "heart fasting" and "sitting and forgetting", at this time, all the changes in external life and death cannot disturb his inner peace. Therefore, it can unite all things, and live and die outside. This is the ultimate cultivation of the inner holy path, although it is very human, but it is advisable to aspire to it.

Zhuangzi's life was plain, lonely, rational, and serene. Change is inevitable, and death is only the last act in the course of life. That is the transformation from one kind of existence to another, from nothing, back to nothing, this is his view of life and death. ”

After poppy slowly and gushed his views on Zhuangzi, he looked at the students present.

All the students in the audience, including Qingxian, who didn't know when he would wake up from a full sleep, also looked at Poppy with admiration.

Poppy squinted at Qingxian with Danfeng's eyes slightly.......

After Jiayi saw the two people looking at each other, she bit her lip and glared at the poppy angrily.......

Poppy shifted his gaze and said slowly, "Is there anything else you don't understand?" If you don't, you'll be dismissed. ”

"Master, will you still talk about Zhuangzi in the next class?"

"Hmmm! That's gone. After Poppy finished speaking, he glared at Qingxian angrily, and as soon as his figure disappeared, he left Xuesizhai.

Qingxian smiled at her openly.

The students who wanted to further discuss Zhuangzi and the concept of life and death with the beautiful master couldn't help but sigh when they saw the master disappear so impatiently, "I don't know who the master's name is!" ”

"Master is so beautiful as a flower, how old do you say she is......

"Ahem....." Jinyu pretended to cough.

The students who were discussing suddenly stopped talking.

Jinyu said, "Don't talk about people's words. ”

The other students nodded and replied respectfully, "Yes, Grand Prince." After saying that, they dispersed one by one.