Chapter 366: Zhuangzi Talks About Death

The money shopkeeper said, "All those who come to hear the sermon have taken care of the food and water." As soon as someone greets you, you can let people in immediately.

In order to facilitate cooking, the shopkeeper built a temporary shed outside Zhuangzi's house, and built a stove inside to cook and boil water for those who listened to the sermon.

Regarding the problem of urinating and defecating, the money shopkeeper also thought of a way to build a temporary toilet by the ditch. When the villagers heard that someone had heard the sermon at Zhuangzi's house and had nowhere to urinate, they saw that the money shopkeeper had set up a temporary toilet, so they brought their commode and put it in the tent to collect fertilizer.

After eating, drinking, urinating, and defecating were solved, Zhuangzi began to preach again.

In order to make it easier for people outside to hear his sermon, Zhuangzi spoke very slowly, and asked the people at the door to translate and convey what he said to the courtyard, and then the people at the gate of the courtyard conveyed it to the street outside.

There is no way, the venue is too small, so this is the only way to go.

Fortunately, these people are all Dharma protectors, and they have all listened to Yang Zhu and others preach more than once, and they know Taoism very well, so it doesn't matter if they listen to it or not. This is not? Didn't everyone come to see Zhuangzi's jokes? Isn't this a source of heckling? Isn't this to see if Zhuangzi is really talented?

As for the question of the Tao, this is the end of the story. As Dharma protectors, we all know what the Tao is, the Tao of Taoism. Everyone was also very satisfied with Zhuangzi's explanation.

What is Tao? To put it simply, everything is the Tao. Tao is the general term for all things in the world and this world. The Tao is a thing that is constantly changing, and it changes out of this thing for a while, and it changes out of that thing for a while. Man also changed from the Tao, and all things in the world also changed from the Tao. The starry sky, the sun, the moon, and so on are all changed by the Tao.

So! The Word is eternal! Forever! And people! Mankind! Everything in the world, the starry sky of the universe, the sun, the moon, and the earth are not eternal, they are all just a timely existence.

If the earth does not exist, then human beings, including all things on the earth, will naturally not exist. This is the limitation of man and human beings, confined to the earth and dependent on the earth for existence.

In fact! Taoists believe that human beings, like everything on earth, are just one species, existing as one species. So! Taoists believe that human beings, human beings, are equal to other species on earth. Man, man is not the master of the earth.

But! The Earth depends on the universe for its existence!

So! People, human beings, and everything on the earth are completely dependent on the earth, and it is also unreliable. The earth and the other planets in the universe form a larger world system. What role does the earth play in this? Humans don't know yet.

But! Taoists believe that there is no need for us human beings and human beings to know things that are too far away.

What if you understood the role of the Earth in the universe? If? How is this cosmic system in which the Earth lives just a molecule in some space? Just like man, what role do humans play on the earth? How about some species that depend on humans for their survival?

Taoism believes that some species depend on humans and humans for survival, and just behind these species that depend on humans and humans for survival, there are species that depend on them for survival. And people, human beings, depend on the earth for their survival. And the earth! But they depend on a certain system in the universe to survive. And the cosmic system that the earth depends on depends on other systems to survive......

And so on and so forth!

So! Taoists think! We, human beings, don't need to pursue things that are more distant. We, human beings, are facing our real life.

Whether in ancient times, ancient or modern times, or in modern society, many people are taboo to talk about death and the future destiny of mankind. I don't want to talk about death, and I don't want to admit the final end of mankind. Whoever talks about this issue thinks that you are "deceiving the public" and "confusing people's minds" and disturbing society somewhere.

In fact! None of us will be spared!

According to Taoist theory, it is believed that human beings are only a species on the earth, and they are only a species in the history of the universe. Again! It is not ourselves who face the final fate of mankind, but! Descendants of mankind. I don't know what generation will happen, so what are we worried about?

Why should we worry about an unseen, untouchable future? Our own existential problems have not been solved, and we cannot afford to worry and worry about the future that we cannot see or touch!

Taoists believe that it is better to solve the practical problems we are facing, how to let ourselves live in this world, and complete the life process of "being born as a human being".

Taoists believe that the reason why people don't let you talk about the fate of man, the fate of mankind, is because some people are afraid of the awakening of humanity. Because! Once others wake up, they will break the current pattern and affect the lives of some people.

To put it bluntly, once you awaken, you can't become a tool for some people to enslave.

It's that simple!

Not because of the future, but because of the present, because of reality!

To say that human beings live forever and forever is to coax the world to live in ignorance, to enslave some people with ulterior motives, and to serve the lives of others! Let the world live in a faint hope, thinking that it is okay to suffer a little, and there are future generations!

Others advise you to live in hope, saying: If you have a dream, it will always come true. And others themselves live in a nourishing real life, living a realistic and happy life.

It is a natural phenomenon that human beings, as a species on the earth, are born at the right time and die at the wrong time. Just like human death, it is a natural phenomenon.

So! We should be realistic, accept the reality, and face it bravely.

Accept the reality that we are all going to die, and that we only have a few decades to live.

Only if we accept this reality will we cherish it.

Accept the reality that human beings are just a species that comes into being at the right time, born at the right time and dying at the wrong time. We are just a drop in the ocean in human history, and we should cherish the life we were born to be human this time! As for the future fate of mankind, that is a matter for posterity. It is an unseen, untouchable future. And what we are facing is our real life, how to live, how to make our life more exciting!

If we can't live on our own, where do we have the leisure to think about the future of humanity?