Zici, Ziyu, Zili, and Zilai looked at each other together and said, "Whoever can take nothing as the head, life as the spine, and death as the tail, and who can understand that life and death are the same, I am willing to be friends with him." ”

The four of them looked at each other and smiled, and they became good friends.

Soon after, Ziyu fell ill, and Zici went to visit him.

Zici said, "Great! Creator! How did you become such a crooked place? Hunched over, the head is lowered to the bottom, the five internal organs have run to the top, the chin is low to the navel, the shoulders are high above the head, and the curved cervical vertebrae protrude like a tumor, bulging towards the sky. ”

This is the result of the disharmony between yin and yang, which makes Ziyu become like this.

But Ziyu didn't take it seriously at all, as if he wasn't sick at all. He staggered to the well and looked after himself to the water. When he saw his appearance, he exclaimed, "Oops! The Creator has turned me into such a crooked form? ”

Zici asked, "Do you hate such a crooked appearance?" ”

Ziyu replied: "No, how can I hate it?" If the Creator turns my left arm into a rooster, I will use it to tell the truth; If the Creator had gradually turned my right arm into a slingshot, I would use it to roast and eat turtledoves. Wouldn't it be better if the Creator had turned my ass into a wheel, and I would have turned my spirit into a horse, and I would no longer have to ride in someone else's carriage? I can go wherever I want.

As for the acquisition of life, it is because of the timing, and the loss of life is because of compliance; Settle for the right time and conform to it, and neither sorrow nor joy will invade the heart, which is what the ancients said about liberating the suffering of inverted hanging.

What is the suffering of inverted hanging? That is, you have thoroughly understood the meaning of life, returned to the Tao, and are no longer bothered by worldly concepts.

And those who can't free themselves, most of them are bound by external things, burdened by the world, and can't extricate themselves. Let alone! The change of things is not subject to human will, and none of us can change this fact. I've been understanding this for a long, long time. So! How could I be disgusted with being what I am now? ”

Soon after, Zilai also fell ill and was about to die while panting for breath, and his wife and children gathered around the bed and wept.

Zili went to visit, and when he saw this, he shouted to Zilai's wife and children: "Go, go away!" Don't disturb his transformation from life to death! ”

Zili leaned against the door frame and said, "Great! Creator! And what will it turn you into, and where will it send you? Turns you into a rat's liver? Or will it turn you into the arms of flying insects? ”

The son said: "Parents give birth to children, is there still a choice for children? We can't decide whether we live, we can't decide whether our life comes to this world or not. So! Regardless of east, west, north and south, they can only obey the orders and dispatch, and their fate is arranged.

What the Creator is going to become, just as parents give birth to children, we have no choice as children; So! If the Creator lets me die and I don't listen, then I'm too arrogant, and what's wrong with it?

The Creator used the earth to carry my form, to feed myself through labor, to rest with aging, and to rest with death. So! If you have been so kind to me in life, you will be so kind to me after death.

If there is a skilled smelter who is casting a metal vessel, and the metal is melted and jumps up and says, 'I want to be a good sword,' the smelter will inevitably think that it is an ominous metal.

If a pregnant woman is born in the womb today, and that life says, 'I'm an adult, I'm an adult,' the person's parents will inevitably think that this person is an inauspicious person.

If heaven and earth are a melting pot, and the Creator is a skilled smelter, he will become whatever I become, and I have a choice, right? Is it possible for me to be a good sword and no evil? ”

The end of life is like sleeping over. The beginning of a new life is like waking up in the morning with a surprise.