Since this dream, Zhuangzi has also become suspicious, wondering if he is really indulging in family affection. Still is? Amorous?

As a human being, as a Taoist, how should we treat family affection?

Ruthless and ruthless, that is absolutely impossible, incorrect, and not in line with Taoist morality. Because! Ruthlessness is not conducive to survival. Everything that is not conducive to survival is wrong. So! Ruthlessness is wrongly.

Of course! This is for loved ones. What's wrong with being ruthless and ruthless with the wicked? Don't? Do you still want us to make no distinction between good and evil?

But! It is also wrong to be overly affectionate and indulge in family affection!

Can it be yourself? Isn't it yourself? When you see your son who hasn't seen him for 20 years, you cry with excitement? Don't? Too much? Am I as a human being? Can't that be? Still is? As a Taoist, can't I do this? Still is? As the inheritor of Taoist doctrine, can't I do this?

Does this dream remind me that indulging in family affection is prone to pan-love?

What is affection? What is pan-love? What is indulgence?

Family affection generally refers to the love for those who are directly related to oneself, and the care, friendliness, and trust from the heart. To put it bluntly, it is to have a good impression of another person (a person who is related by blood) unconditionally, which is family affection.

For people who are not related by blood, it is friendship or love and true love.

And pan-love is when you show your kindness and love to anyone and anything.

Indulge! Generally refers to being intoxicated and obsessed with something, someone, or feelings.

Indulging in family affection too much can easily lead us astray and make wrong decisions.

Because! If you love your children and offspring too much, you will easily develop a dislike for other people's children and offspring, or you will be unfavorable to other people's children and offspring.

But? If you don't be kind and kind to your children and grandchildren, will others be kind to your children and grandchildren? In fact, it turned out that it was impossible! You yourself are not good to your own children and offspring, and you still expect others to be good to your children and future generations?

So! In the face of the facts, we have to admit that we are all selfish, and we are all kind to our own children and descendants, and we are indifferent to the children and descendants of others.

There is no way! This is the law of survival in this world, and it cannot be changed.

Therefore! It is natural for us to have affection for our children and offspring, and it is natural, reasonable, and legitimate.

What does it mean to indulge? Indulgence is on this reasonable and legal basis, which is both good and excessive. How far has it gone too far? It is so indifferent and ignorant of other people's children and offspring. Isolate your children and grandchildren above others.

Probably? This is excessive family affection, which is called indulgence and doting.

There is another direction! That is to develop in the opposite direction of indulgence, towards pan-love.

When we are not only good to our own children and descendants, we are also kind and caring for the children and descendants of others. How to go a little more excessively, that is pan-love. Not only do you treat other people's children and descendants as your own children, but you also love all people, animals, plants, and things in the world.

Just like not killing, it is also a kind of pan-love.

For mercy to men is to have mercy on animals, and then to all animals. Even! Inclusions.

In fact! If it is excessive, it is a kind of pan-love.

Don't? Am I doing this too much to my children and future generations? Is this called indulgence?

Zhuangzi thought about it, but he couldn't think of why.

As a Taoist, as a inheritor of Taoist doctrine, as a human being, is it? Can't that be?

As a Taoist! First of all! To learn to survive, to cherish this opportunity to be born as a human being, and to live well. And then! Take care of your parents and elders, reconcile and unite with your brothers and sisters, and love each other as a family. And then! Find your own spouse, start a new family, have children and raise offspring, repeat the story of your father and mother.

When we have that ability to take care of more people, we think first of all about the family members, and then about the members of the family. And then! It's those around you who are not related by blood. And then again! It's the people on a larger scale. And again, and again! is the people of the world.

The world is composed of individual people, the country is also composed of individual people, and the team is also composed of individual people...... If we all do this, if all of us are Taoists, will there be a country in the world?

There's nothing wrong with restraining ourselves first, but we can't restrain others. To restrain others and to demand from others is to affect the lives of others.

If it affects the lives of others, others will rebel, just as others have influenced our lives.

Similarly! When others affect your life and you can't resist, you can only endure in order to live. So! When you affect other people's lives and others can't resist, in order to live, others learn to be patient as well. And then! Look for opportunities to fight back.

So! We first promise not to influence others, we first learn to live and survive independently. When others always interfere with my life and survival, we give them a devastating blow.

The difference between Taoism and Confucianism is this: Taoism talks about self-improvement and self-reliance, and does not affect others. Confucianism, on the other hand, talks about self-reliance, self-reliance, unity, fraternity, etc., mostly for others, and is used to demand and restrain others. Even! It is good for power to force others to do this.

Outcome! They became the advocates of this slogan, the wise men, the leaders. And themselves, most people just take advantage of these slogans, and do not abide by them, they become the ones who are above them.

In modern language, as in the fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes", everyone is afraid to say it. The meaning in fairy tales is that whoever tells the truth is a fool. In real life, whoever tells the truth is dissatisfied with society, dissatisfied with the leadership, and does not hide evil and promote good, etc.

If you are charged with disturbing society and demagoguery, you may be killed, not to mention imprisonment.

In fact! We can skip the box of Taoism and Confucianism, and the hundred schools of thought, and we will find that no matter what doctrine, philosophy, or law of any country, it is only to ensure the survival of the people or some people, and to survive better.

Since it's all about survival, so! We have to jump over the box of Taoism, Confucianism, and the hundred schools of thought, and we will live as much as it is conducive to survival. We are a person without faith, we are just a person who lives for the sake of living. Our life is just to complete the process of being born as a human being.

A person who truly believes in Confucianism will not live well in any social environment, but will only live a more difficult life than Taoism. Of course! A "Confucian" dressed in the cloak of Confucianism definitely lives a nourishing life.

At the very least, Taoists know how to exploit loopholes, find a way to survive that suits them, and work hard to live. And the real Confucian set is quite passive, which makes people dare not compliment.

To put it bluntly, it is to restrain oneself, and the purpose is to cater to social management and facilitate social management.

Of course! The exception is the fake Confucianism in the garb of Confucianism.