Chapter 389: Zhuangzi talks about family affection

Zhuangzi spent another three days talking about people. Man, like any other species, is just one species on the planet. Let's talk about the difference between man and other species, man is a human being, and other species are other species.

He spent another three days talking about a person's relationship with his parents' elders, his relationship with his brothers and sisters, his relationship with those who are related to him, his relationship with those around him, his relationship with this region, his relationship with this country, and his relationship with the Great Zhou world.

But the focus of his speech is still on the relationship between the individual and the family, with the parents, elders, brothers and sisters, and people who are in a relationship, that is, the relationship between family. And then! It is about the relationship between the individual and the people around him, and the relationship with society.

"We are human beings from the Tao, but our direct feeling is that we come from our parents and parents. We are the happy result of our father's mother, and we are the hope of my father's mother. Before we even came into this world, our parents and parents had placed great hopes on us. They want us to bring them joy, they want our lives to be superior to theirs, and they want us to be able to achieve their dreams. They have many, many hopes......

In fact! They were concerned about us before we were even born.

So! We want to be grateful! We need to have a sense of happiness! We want to have that feeling of being loved, not forgotten.

After we were born, how did our parents care and take care of us? Our elders are also paying attention to us. Imagine? If they don't pay attention to us, will we be able to grow up smoothly? Especially our mother-in-law, who takes care of us and takes care of us. And our daddy's! Work hard and take care of the lives of our mother and son.

So! My mother and father are the people closest to us. Without them, there would be no us. Without them, we can't grow healthily.

Next! It's about thanking our elders and the people around us.

First of all! We want to be thankful and thankful for our father's mother's father!

Our fathers and mothers, they are also the children of other people. So! They were also taken care of by their parents and elders, so they survived and lived well. So! We should also be grateful to our elders and those around us. It is because of their care that we have been able to grow up healthily.

So! When we become adults, we also have to take care of our children and grandchildren. We also need to take care of our children and future generations and take care of the people around us, just like our parents and elders.

It's humane!

From this to that! The people around us are like this, and they also take care of their children and grandchildren, and take care of their parents and elders.

Their parents and elders used to take care of them. So! We must not only take care of our own parents and elders, but also take care of the people around us and take care of other people's parents and elders.

Like us, they love their children and future generations. So! We are to treat other people's children as if they were our own.

Everyone's thoughts are the same, so! and without distinguishing one another.

That's humanity!

If our parents and elders don't take care of us, then! We are not what we are today. This society is not a human society, so what is the difference between it and the life of wild beasts?

We've all seen that in the world of beasts, it's very savage! The strong survive, the weak eat the strong, and there is no spirit of unity. And among them, there are also many wise people who have realized this and started to unite. But! They were still a step too late and let the humans go ahead. Humanity has been united and cooperated for generations.

The reason why man is different from the beast is because man sees the importance of solidarity with each other. If we humans are not united, how are we humans different from wild beasts?

Think about it: if our parents don't care about us, take care of us, and blindly only care about themselves, can we live well? If that's the case, we'll do whatever it takes to survive.

This is the 'family chaos', the root of the chaos, the selfishness of the father's parents and elders determines the selfishness of his children and offspring.

In fact, it also proves that a person has selfish parents, parents, and elders, and that most of their children and offspring are selfish.

Because! You can't live without being selfish. So! In order to survive, they must learn to be selfish.

If we are selfishly! Blindly only caring about himself, ignoring the nurturing grace of his father, mother and elders, and the life or death of his wife and children's descendants, he only received but did not give. So! This is the 'rebellion of man', the root of chaos.

Society is a big family, which is a combination of countless people, countless families, countless regions, and countless groups. So! If some of us have a problem, and we are so selfish that we only care about ourselves and do not care about the lives and deaths of others, which affects the lives and survival of others, then! The big group of society also began to be chaotic. So! The big group of society cannot be fully believed in.

There are too many people, and we can only guarantee that we will not do evil, but we cannot guarantee that others will not do evil.

When this society is in turmoil, family members are not worthy of our full trust, including our parents and elders.

When this society is in turmoil, our spouses are not worthy of our full trust.

When this society is in turmoil, our children and future generations cannot be trusted.

When this society is in turmoil, our brothers and sisters cannot be fully trusted.

When this society is in turmoil, the people around us cannot be fully trusted.

Only when we see that our parents and elders are good to us can we trust them and treat them as our parents. If they are selfish and we are selfless, then! Didn't we suffer?

If you dogmatically preach that you must be good to your parents and elders, and be filial to them, it will inevitably encourage the selfishness of your parents and elders. Promoting the selfishness of the elders is equivalent to promoting the selfishness of the people around you and the selfishness of this society.

It is only when we find out that our spouses are genuinely good to us that we can trust them and treat them as our life partners. We form a family, have children together, and raise offspring.

If our spouse is selfish, there is a purpose. And we are selfless, then! Are we at a loss? Why should we be united with a selfish person?

If you're willing to do that, there's no way around it!

Only when we truly love each other, are willing to give, and are willing to raise children and offspring together, can we combine and form a family to raise children and offspring together. Only when we are sincere with our spouses can we raise qualified offspring. Only then can our children and future generations have a healthy psychology and a correct outlook on life.

The choice of spouse is very important! It concerns children and future generations, and it concerns society as a whole. Because! Society is made up of countless individuals, and society is made up of countless families. And the family! It is also the production workshop of countless individuals......"

Zhuangzi believes that when your parents and elders don't take care of you, you shouldn't take care of them, and don't be bound by the Confucian "filial piety". Because! There is no family affection between us anymore, and this family relationship has been abandoned by my parents and elders.

Survival is fundamental, others don't care about my life or death, why should I care about others?

When you have the ability to take care of them, you can take care of them. When you don't have the ability to take care of them, you can leave them alone.

But! When your parents and elders are very good to you, have always been good to you, and they give more than you support them, you can't ignore them. Even if you can't survive yourself, you have to take care of them.

Affection! It's mutually! If it's not mutual, where does it come from?

The same is true for the family affection for the parents and elders, and the same is true for the family affection for the brothers and sisters. When your brothers and sisters don't care about your life or death, you don't have to be dogmatic about blood and kinship, and blood is thicker than water. At this time, what "blood and family, blood is thicker than water", those are all fools, ignorant teenagers with no social experience.

How to keep yourself alive is the truth!

Don't say that I am ruthless, the coldness of this society is not because of my uncooperation or my coldness, but because the social order has been destroyed by others!