Chapter 100: What Do People Live For?
Yang Zhu spent three days preaching, and finally explained the sermon clearly.
But? The audience under the podium also walked a lot. Because! They did not agree with Yang Zhu's theory. But! They also can't tell the origin of human beings, the universe, the starry sky, the sun, the moon and the earth. The Tao was different, and they had no choice but to leave.
When Zhuang Zhou started, he didn't understand what was going on, and asked Master Yang Zhu at night, but Master didn't tell him, just asked him to continue listening tomorrow. By the third day, he still didn't quite understand what the Tao was. On the evening of the third day, he asked Master again, "What is the Tao?"
"You've been listening to it for three days! Someone in the audience listened to my first explanation and understood. If you have a poor comprehension ability, you will figure it out that night. The stupidest people will understand on the third day. But! You're still a kid, and you can understand if you don't understand! So? How do you understand the Tao? ”
Zhuang Zhou thought for a while and said, "I think! The Tao is a piece of! What if! It's a piece of! And then what! It has undergone countless changes, and after countless years of changes, it has finally become a sky! Heaven above us!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it finally became the sun, the moon, and the stars!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it finally became the earth!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, he finally became a human!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it finally became a monkey, a tiger, a lion, and so on!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it finally became a big tree! Flowers! Everything on the earth!
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it finally became thunder and lightning, wind and rain in the sky......
And then! After countless changes, after countless years of changes, it has finally become a ...... that we have not yet seen."
After listening to Zhuang Zhou's explanation, Yang Zhu was very satisfied, touched his beloved apprentice's head, nodded affirmatively, and said, "You understand correctly!" The Tao may be a piece of! And then! Change, change! In the end, everything was conjured! We don't know what we will become in the future, we don't know, only the future will know......"
After solving the problem of the origin of human beings, the starry sky of the universe, the sun, the moon and the earth, and the source of all things, Yang Zhu began to explain how to govern the society.
First of all! What needs to be solved is: the question of what people live for! The question of what people live for!
Someone thinks: since! People are going to die, then! We have to cherish it while we live! So! We must cherish life! Live well, we can live how we want! Live our lives to the fullest!
Someone thinks: since! People are going to die, life is so difficult! I can't live anymore, I die early and get rid of it early, it's better to die now, it's a hundred!
Some people also think: Since all human beings are going to die, sooner or later, human beings, like other animals and plants on the earth, will die sooner or later, so what is the meaning of human life? What's the point of struggle? Thereby! Turned into the living dead!
Different people have different outlooks on life, so! The world is in chaos!
The world is so big! So many questions!
This world needs great talents!
The Great Zhou Dynasty divided the world into hundreds of princes, originally wanting to divide and rule! Break it to zero! Outcome! The princes annexed each other and became one! Outcome! The Great Zhou world began to be chaotic!
Different people have different ideas for governing the world, and they all think that their own methods are the best! Outcome! But the more it is ruled, the more chaotic it becomes! It's out of control!
In fact! It's not that there is no way to cure the world! But! The way to rule the world is wrong! Most of the methods of governing the world are only to cure the surface, but not the root cause! The root of troubled times is confusion! There are so many ideas! There are so many wrong ideas. So! If you want to rule the world! You must heal your heart first!
To govern the world! We must first govern people's hearts!
If you want to govern people's hearts! It is necessary to make people understand: what do people live for? What do people live for?
If the understanding is incorrect and unhealthy, people's hearts will be confused! People's hearts are in turmoil, society is in turmoil!
Taoism believes that human beings are the same as all things, and that people live for the sake of living, just a passerby of life, and complete the process of a life!
Alive! Live well, grow old naturally, and live is the purpose of life!
If a person feels that there is no point in living, then! This man is finished!
Alive! It is the purpose and task of life! The process of completing this life is the purpose, goal and task of life! So! In the process of living, there will be many, many things that will happen, and there will be many things that need to be done!
In order to live, we must eat! We can only stay alive if we have food to eat. This is the bottom line of survival! It is also the bottom line of Taoism!
When other people and other animals endanger our survival, the Taoists have to fight. How to fight? Such! Isn't there a lot more to life? How can you say that life is meaningless?
When the natural world has given us harsh circumstances that endanger our survival, the Taoists will fight. How to fight? Such! Isn't there a lot more to life? How can you say that life is meaningless?
When we were children, living in the arms of our parents, living under the scolding of our parents, our happy childhood, didn't it make sense? Most people should have had the joy of childhood!
When we grow up, men and women get along with each other and have love. Isn't it a very happy thing for men and women to fall in love? How can you say? Isn't life meaningless?
When we combine men and women to form a family, have children, and support our parents and elders, is it? Isn't our life meaningless?
When we are old, our children and grandchildren are full of children and grandchildren, and we see them happy and happy. Don't? Don't we feel happy and fulfilled? Don't? Isn't there a meaning in the life we live?
Taoists believe that life is just a passerby of life, just to live for the sake of living! In fact! It is a very beautiful process for us to live and live naturally to old age! In addition to the above goodness! We can also do what we love in our lives! Do it yourself! Enjoy!
In fact! Being alive is not a boring thing! Life is colorful! Life is also colorful! In fact! When we understand why we are alive, each of us can live our lives to the fullest.
But! Because the world is too big, there are too many people, there are too many ideas, and there are too many wrong ideas. So! Society is in chaos!
Yang Zhu spent another three days explaining the meaning of life and the joy of being alive to everyone, dragging everyone out of the shadow of death.
In fact! We have to face the reality that every one of us is going to die! Die! It's a fact that everyone can't avoid!
In fact! We must also face the reality that human beings, like everything on the earth, will sooner or later perish because of the changes in the environment and no longer adapt to human existence! We cannot fool ourselves and dare not face this reality!
And also! We have not dealt with the problems of our short lives for a few decades, so why should we bother with the question of when mankind will perish?
If we had such a calm outlook on life, the world, and the universe, our lives would be different! We will cherish life even more! Live well!