Chapter 385: How not to be swayed by others

The sun had already risen, and the sun was shining brightly.

In the room, it became quiet again for a while, and only Zhuangzi was preaching.

The beggar half leaned against the door of the room, his eyes looking at Zhuangzi, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed. His brother begged, leaning against the bed in the hall, as if listening with his ears tilted.

Selling children sat cross-legged at one end of the bed, and was also listening to Brother Zhuang's preaching, and forgot to make breakfast.

The two gray-clad mages may have been standing for too long, at this time! I was already sitting on the edge of the bed. The eyes of the two were round, and they were still protecting Zhuangzi.

Although it was the first time for the money shopkeeper in the room to hear Zhuangzi preach, he, like the other Dharma protectors, listened attentively, and forgot the time and hunger.

The black-clothed senior brother sat cross-legged at the door of the room, listening to Zhuangzi's sermon while protecting Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi spoke eloquently, endlessly. Now, he is becoming more and more proficient in preaching skills, one link after another, and one link after another. After talking about "how to survive in the cracks", he began to talk about how not to be swayed by others and not to be used by others.

"How do we not be swayed and used by others?"

Zhuangzi's so-called "survival in the cracks" is, to put it bluntly, to teach you how to exploit loopholes and teach you to adapt to the environment. First of all, don't do illegal things, be law-abiding citizens! And then! Choose a career and environment that is more conducive to you. It's an external cause! And then there's the internal cause! It's that you have to have one or more survival skills! Then he explained how many survival skills we are born with.

Zhuangzi also said that not only men are handsome and women are beautiful, but they are born survival skills. Even the disability of people with disabilities may be their survival skills. At least! Disabled people do not need to pay taxes to the state and do not need to go to war to die. Even! It is also possible to receive state subsidies.

Often, in order to show the benevolence of the king, a country will subsidize and take care of the disabled, so as to buy people's hearts and win a good reputation. If you are the lucky disabled person who is favored by the king, then! Your disability becomes your survival skill.

And also! People with disabilities can also go to the streets to beg, and begging is also a survival skill......

Zhuangzi believes that if we want to live well, we must not only survive in the cracks, but also have a correct outlook on life!

If our outlook on life, the world, and the universe is not correct and healthy, we will not be able to live happily. Even if you find the gap that allows us to survive, you are still unhappy!

Living an unhappy life is not a correct and healthy life!

Zhuangzi thinks! Life should be happy and free!

"When it comes to how not to be swayed and used by others, first of all, we must talk about our Taoist outlook on life, worldview and cosmology. Our Taoist outlook on life, worldview, and cosmology is to follow the Tao. We Taoists believe that life is just a process of life, and like other species on the earth, it is just a species born at the right time......"

Zhuangzi again concisely preached the Taoist Tao, and then talked about the Taoist outlook on life, the world, and the cosmology. Taoists believe that life is just to live for the sake of living, to complete the process of being human for the sake of being a human being given by the Tao.

So! Our life is pessimistic, that is, we live purely for the sake of living, and we have that feeling of "pasting tasks".

Of course! This is the shallow view of some Taoists.

And those who really know the Tao and those who understand life, they think that life is a very happy process. In this process, we go through the fetal period, the infant period, the young adulthood, the young age and the old age, and the content is very rich. So! Life is not a "mushy task", being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, and mixing a day is a day.

After we have a correct outlook on life, the world, and the universe, we have to live and complete the life process of "being born as a human being". So? How can we not be swayed by others, not taken advantage of by others, and not used by this society?

When you have a Taoist outlook on life, a worldview, and a cosmology, you won't pursue things outside your body. For example, power, money, property, honor, vanity, status, beauty, etc., all of which have no meaning for Taoists.

What are you going to have power to do? As long as there is food to eat, as long as the salary can support oneself and one's family, it is enough. Aren't you just a few decades of life? What do you want power to do? If you use your power to do whatever you want, you probably won't live to old age.

In front of the Taoists, your power affects the bottom line of the Taoists' survival, and the Taoists may kill you. You said? What's the use of you having power? Murder yourself?

Money? Property? Too much money, too much possessions is not a good thing! When others have no money and property, you have money and property, when you have too much money and affect other people's lives, your life may be in danger at any time!

Money and property are enough, and a small amount of surplus is okay, so be prepared. Too much will become a burden, a factor that affects your happiness and life.

What is the honor? It's okay to bring you food! It's good for you to survive, and it's okay to have honor. And if you think of honor as all that you have in life, then you are wrong.

It would be even more wrong to think about leaving a name for the world. One of them! You don't feel that vanity after death! Second! The history of human beings is limited, and when human beings, like other species on earth, disappear, do you still have a soul name?

Vanity and fame in history only belong to human history!

Vanity and status are the same, which are good for your survival, and it's okay to have them. And to take all of this as everything you have in your life would be wrong.

If you regard the pursuit of beautiful women and handsome guys as everything you have in your life, then you are wrong.

The key is whether they can bring you meals or not. If you are asked to provide for them, it will not be worth it, will it? If you pursue physical pleasure and make this simple pleasure your life's everything, then you are wrong. If you feel that it is pleasing to the eye when you see each other, you can do it! It's just that! Can't affect your survival. If you are starved to survive for the sake of pleasing to the eye, then it is your fault again.

There is more to life than that.

If you pursue the worldly things, the things outside the body, the pursuit of everything, and the endless and bottomless pursuits, you will be tired of living, and you will be swayed and used by others!

Others have used you to achieve their goals, and you think that you have used others to achieve their goals. In fact! You've both been used by each other to pursue the extra things in your life.

In fact! You're all tossing around!

If tossing and turning can bring happiness, that's it. If the tossing brings tiredness and danger to life, then it should not be.

If a person is swayed by others, used by others, and involved in the tide of society, then! What this person does, including everything, in the eyes of others, in the tide of society, when others say that you are wrong, you may think that you are wrong. Because! You're being swayed by someone else.

If a person is not swayed by others, used by others, and not involved in the social tide, then! He is free, and he does everything right! Wrong is also right! If others accuse him of being unfaithful, he can resolve it with "loyalty and filial piety cannot be both"; Others say that he is not filial, but he can also use "loyalty and filial piety cannot be both" to resolve it.

If you are swayed by others, used by others, and involved in the social tide, others say that you are unfaithful, you are an unfaithful person; Others say that you are not filial, then! You are a filial person.

Someone else draws a circle under your feet, saying that this is a prison, you can't get out of prison, and if you get out of prison, you will die, and you are too scared to get out of the circle that others have drawn.

Someone else waved his hand and said, "Who did I say?" You? You're doing it wrong! "The result! You're not wrong, and you wonder what you're doing wrong.

Opposite! If you are not swayed by others, even if you are heinous, you can still stand on the moral high ground and accuse others of being unfilial, unfaithful, disfaithful, disrespectful, unjust, incorruptible, and shameless......

If you're not being swayed by someone else, you have a reason! You've got a point!