Chapter 952: A Victim on the Road to Civilization
Shang Ying's death had a great impact on Zhuangzi. Eighty-one? Chinese Network (1)? (viii).? 8?1 (1) As a result, they are even more afraid to participate in society and to preach publicly.
Alive! More than anything else. How to keep oneself alive and how to protect one's children and grandchildren from being killed has become the question that Zhuangzi thinks about the most.
Shang Yang gave the son away, and Zhuangzi knew it. But Shang Ying also had a marriage contract with Bai Gui's family, so he didn't know.
It is conceivable that he and Bai Xue also have a marriage contract, and people in the outside world don't know much about it. For outsiders, it's just rumors. So! It is also possible that Shang Ying had a marriage contract with Bai Gui's daughter. Bai Gui's wealth can be compared with that of ordinary vassal states, and his children naturally dare not live openly. So! It is also possible to have this marriage.
From a Taoist point of view, life is just a process. But it is precisely because it is only a life process, so! We have to cherish.
The completion of this life process is the complete life of our life.
Alive! That's what we want to do in life! Alive! That's our mission!
So! How to live better, live to the end of life, and experience a complete life has become the most important question for Zhuangzi to think about in the future.
We not only have to survive in this troubled world, but we also have to survive in any era and in any environment, so that we can live to the end of our lives.
Of course! We don't live just to live, nor can we understand that we live just to live. But! Life is just a life process, and being alive is our life purpose and task as a human being. But! We're still going to die. So! We don't just live to live.
If we only understand "to live for the sake of living", we may do whatever it takes to live. Or! How old you must live, how you must be, what is the content of life, and so on. If it is understood in this way, it seems to be extreme, and it is not a correct understanding.
The correct understanding is that life is just a process of life, and we are here to fulfill the task of "being born as a human being". Such! We were a lot more indifferent, and we let go a lot.
If you blindly plan your life out of a lot of content, it will seem extreme. If you blindly understand that life is just to live, you have to get by, and you have to mix your days, it also seems extreme.
Can we stand somewhere in between?
Such! Our life will not be tired of running, day and night to fight and struggle; It will not seem boring and boring, thinking that life is meaningless.
In fact! Just by living and living, our life carries a lot of content, and it is already very rich. As long as we correctly understand the process of living and completing this life as a human being, our life is very rich.
Because! We have a happy childhood, we have a happy teenager, and we have a youthful and enthusiastic age. When youth comes, we have a happy time to pursue the happiness of the opposite sex. We have a happy time for two lovers, and we have the physiological experience of a union between men and women. We have the experience of having children, educating children, and caring for future generations.
And also! We need to take care of our parents and elders. When we are old, we also need our children and grandchildren to take care of us.
We grow from an ignorant child to an adult, and then to an elder, the life experience is very rich, can we say that life is boring?
What if our lives are boring? So! You're definitely a selfish person who cares only about yourself, and you don't appreciate other people's feelings. As a son of man, you have not felt the love of your parents. As a parent, you don't care about your children. As an elder, you only care about yourself and your spouse's descendants, and you don't appreciate that others are just like you: others love themselves, their spouses, their children, their offspring......
If we compare our hearts to our hearts and not be selfish, we will be able to experience the great love and happiness of life.
To be unselfish is to be selfless! When it comes to selflessness, some people will understand selflessness without a bottom line in an extreme way.
Selflessness is only a means, selfishness is our goal.
What if we are only selfless and not selfish? We are not ourselves! But! If we want to be selfish, we must first be selfless! So! Selflessness is the means, selfishness is the end.
A person who only knows selfishness and does not know selflessness, they will not achieve their selfish purpose, and their life will be just as unhappy. A person who only knows selflessness and not selfishness, they cannot live. Only by being selfish can we live.
For example, when you only have enough food to survive or the last condition, if you selflessly give it to others, it is no wonder that you do not die.
And also! If you are selfless, you will not be able to live at all, you will not be able to live better. Because! There are so many people in this world who need our help.
And also! If you are selfless, human beings, you help you and think about saving animals and plants. Because! There are too many animals and plants in this world that need our rescue.
So! If you can survive, you must be a selfish person.
So! There is no shame in being selfish! But! The bottom line of being a person and doing things!
If you are not selfish, you are not an adult, if you are not selfish, you cannot form a family. Not selfish! Your business is not profitable. If you're not selfish, there's no need for your team to exist. Not selfish! There will be no state!
The existence of the state, also selfishly, exists to protect the people, is a combination of a group of selfish people. If the state is not selfish, it is not called a state, and there is no need for it to exist. Even if it exists, it exists in name only.
Everything is selfish, selfishness is the bottom line! Selfishness is duty! If people don't do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!
A family cannot be a home if it is not selfish.
At least! The union of a man and a woman, both of whom are selfish, are both for the purpose of forming a family. Otherwise? The relationship between a man and a woman becomes a stranger, or! People in public. If not selfishly? The union of the sexes between a man and a woman, and the experience of the physical happiness of a man and a woman, is not the relationship between husband and wife, but the relationship in the red light district. That is, a man can be with any woman, and a woman can be with any man, and then it will not be a home.
So! It is also a selfish act for a man and a woman to combine to form a family.
Families are selfish! If you are not selfish, blindly selfless, and selfless without a bottom line, you will not even be able to support your family members and your children. So! The family must be selfish. Otherwise! It can't be a family. The family members can't support themselves, and they can't be separated? So! It has to be selfish, we all think about this family, think about earning money, think about meeting the needs of family members......
If all family members are selfishly thinking about their own things and not caring about their families, then! The family is dissolved, and the family is "separated" (divorced) and the children go out independently. So! The family is selfishly. Otherwise! The family was scattered.
This leads to the fact that groups, organizations, enterprises, and countries are all selfish. Including the United Nations.
Lao Tzu said in the Tao Te Ching: Heaven and earth are eternal. Therefore, those who can live long and long in heaven and earth can live forever because they do not generate by themselves. It is the saint who comes after him; Outside of the body, but in the body. Not because of its selflessness. Therefore, it can become its own selfishness.
Remember! Lao Tzu said: "If it is not for its selflessness and evil, it can become its selfishness." ”
Who said that the earth is "virtuous"? That is the earth in order to "become its own selfishness", "not because of its selflessness, so it can become its own selfishness." "Or else? Where is the praise of "virtuous and virtuous" in the earth?