"Zong" means admiration and respect, and "Tai Shi" means the most respectable and respectable teacher. Who can be called such a teacher? That is the Tao. Zhuangzi believes that there is no distinction between heaven and man, and there is no distinction between life and death. Therefore, he advocates that the heart should be clean, the heart should be quiet, leave the form and go to wisdom, forget life and death, and conform to nature. This is called Tao. The full text can be divided into nine parts. The first part is "existence is a real person", which is an ideal "real person". "Real people" can distinguish between heaven and man, so "real people" can achieve "no self" and "no self". The spiritual realm of "real people" is the visualization of "Tao". The second part, the description of "real people" has gradually changed into the description of "Tao". Only "real people" can observe Tao, which is "inaction and intangible" and eternal, so observing Tao must be "no self" and "no self" These two paragraphs are the main body of the full text. The third part discusses the method and process of observing "Tao" from the perspective of "disbelief". The fourth part, "Epiphany", shows that life and death are actually an integral whole, and there is no escape, so it is necessary to be "safe and smooth". In the fifth part, the author further discusses human death and life, pointing out that death and life are both changes of "qi" and natural phenomena, so we should "forget each other and be poor", and only in this way can the spirit be detached from things. The sixth book "In a few days" shows that the human body has changed but the human spirit will not die. If you are content with nature and forget death, you will enter the realm of "Tao" and be integrated with nature. The seventh part, "I have traveled here", criticizes the Confucian concept of benevolence, righteousness and right and wrong, and points out that Confucian concept is a spiritual destruction to people. The eighth part discusses that "knowing from the shape, being in harmony" is the way to enter the realm of "Tao", and the rest is the ninth part, which shows that everything is arranged by "fate", that is, it is not arranged by human power.
First, real people and tea ceremony health preservation
We all think that drinking tea is very important, but in Taoist Zhuangzi's view, what matters is not external material, but our own people. Our purpose is not how to use these external things such as tea, but how to turn ourselves into a real person. This is the real purpose. So, Zhuangzi also said the characteristics of real people, let's take a look.
What is a real person? The real people in ancient times were not rebellious, successful or ignorant. If so, you will regret it, but you will not be complacent. If so, it is not difficult to climb high, without entering the water or the fire. Even those who know may be false to the Tao.
Real ancient people, sleeping without dreams, feeling carefree, reluctant to eat, take a deep breath. The real person's breath is in the heel, and everyone's breath is in the throat. Those who give in, if their words are wow; People who think deeply are shallow.
The real people in ancient times did not know how to live or die; Going out is unpleasant, but it is not far; However, it has gone, but it has just arrived. Don't forget the beginning, don't ask for the end; Enjoy it and forget it. As the saying goes, don't donate the Tao with your heart, and don't help the sky with people. That's called a real person.
The result of this real person is true knowledge. This real person doesn't look like an ordinary person, as if there is a fairy alive. Be integrated with nature. At this time, because they live in the world and already have true knowledge, they can be detached from things. Both the physical state and the mental state have been integrated with heaven and can be integrated with Tao. So what do you think from the tea ceremony?
We people now may not think that we should cultivate immortality through tea ceremony, but we can't try to figure out the mentality of the ancients with our current mentality. The purpose of the ancients, especially Taoism, was to cultivate a fairy, and so was the purpose of the tea ceremony. Only in this way can we live with the sky. This is also the realm of Taoist seven bowls of tea songs praised by the Tea Classic.
According to this article, we should achieve the purpose of health preservation through tea ceremony. First of all, you must have a real understanding of tea and Taoism. The first step is the real knowledge of tea. If you don't know about tea, how can you talk about going beyond tea to stay healthy? The professional knowledge of tea is the scientific knowledge accumulated through the inheritance of the ancients and the research of modern science. Although it is not necessarily the truth, it is enough to know most of a piece of tea. Besides knowing tea, there are also ways to know tea. This Tao is the heaven contained in the middle of tea. This is closely related to Taoism. Spiritual realms are usually interlinked. Only by being detached from things can we really understand the truth. People who are always with the truth are also real people. People with tea ceremony can also be called real people. As long as you find the real person of the tea ceremony, you can understand the main points of tea ceremony health preservation. But from Zhuangzi's point of view, the real person of this tea ceremony is a person who really knows about tea and Taoism. How can you learn if you don't work hard and know yourself well? Besides, with the rapid development of modern society, people are immersed in materialistic desires. Who can be detached from things, who can be detached from their own ideas and fully integrate into heaven? It is not easy to achieve longevity in tea ceremony health preservation, but as long as you study hard towards tea ceremony health preservation and keep realizing it, you will gain more than before.
Second, love and faith and the way of tea
In Zhuangzi, a Taoist school, a Tao full of love and loyalty, was discovered. This way of loving and believing is manifested in inaction without seeing, transmissible without loveliness, and acquirable without seeing. How did the way to create heaven and earth come from? Zhuangzi went on to say that from its roots, there is no heaven and earth, and it has existed since ancient times. Let's see what the original text says.
Husband, love and believe, do nothing but see; Transmissible but unacceptable, accessible but invisible; Since its roots, there is no heaven and earth, and it has existed since ancient times; Ghosts were born; Before Taiji, it was not high, below six poles, not deep, born, not long, longer than ancient times and not old. Wexler got it to beat heaven and earth; Fu's family got it to attack his mother; If you fight for it, you will not die; The sun and the moon will last forever; As bad as attacking Kunlun; Feng Yi got it to travel to Dachuan; I carry it on my shoulders, I am in the mountains; The Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven; Zhuan Xu got it as a mysterious official; If you are strong, you will stand at the North Pole. The queen mother of the west got it, sitting in a small place, not knowing the beginning and the end; Peng Zu got it, was in danger, and fell by five; Fu Shuo, to Wu Ding, chose the world, rode the Eastern Wei Dynasty and rode the white tail, compared with the stars.
1, the relationship between love and faith and tea ceremony
In the past, we China people didn't necessarily understand heaven or heaven or Tao as we do now. The ancients believed that we can interact with heaven or Tao, and when we interact with Tao, we can feel from the heart that Tao is very affectionate and trustworthy, so we say it is affectionate and trustworthy. Generally speaking, friendship and credit refer to the human world, not nature. Visible, Taoist Zhuangzi said here, not refers to nature, but refers to the original way of personalized universe. Now that we have human feelings and beliefs, we can have relations with human beings. But when we have sex, we find that Tao is invisible, invisible, and we can only experience what we get from the heart. This is a good method. In terms of health care, whoever gets it will be able to maintain health and live a long life; From the aspect of governing the country, whoever gets it will have the wisdom of governing the country. From yourself to others, to society, can play a great role. It can be seen that this Tao contains two attributes. On the one hand, it conceals human attributes, on the other hand, it shows natural attributes when doing things. This Tao can also be understood from the composition of human beings themselves. The ancients believed that man had two parts: soul and body. The soul is affectionate, faithful, inaction and intangible, and the body is visible, which can be gained or lost. The key to preserving health and governing the Tao lies in gaining the Tao and getting the soul.
This Tao actually refers to people and their souls. People should not only pay attention to the tangible body, but also pay attention to the intangible soul or Tao. This is what I always say. People must drink two cups of tea if they want to keep healthy through the tea ceremony. A cup of meat tea is a substance that protects our health. The other cup is spiritual tea, which protects the health of our souls.
Physical tea can protect us. What we need is to add, that is, to study tea and tea culture. What we need to do is subtraction, that is, to try to get rid of our own thoughts and concepts, to put the spirit of tea in our hearts, to let spiritual tea always care for us in our hearts, and to realize the purpose of tea ceremony health preservation from the inside out. This is the true meaning of tea ceremony. When you realize this, you will become a real tea ceremony person. Being a real tea ceremony person can help others keep healthy through tea ceremony.
Thirdly, Tao and benevolence and tea ceremony health preservation.
Nowadays, there are more and more ceremonies to make tea or drink tea, which causes many people to be at a loss or at a loss. What does this have to do with the spirit of tea ceremony? Let's look at Zhuangzi's point of view first.
I am a teacher! I am a teacher! It is not a coincidence that everything is not righteous, not benevolent, longer than ancient, but not ancient, covering heaven and earth. This place has been visited.
It can be seen from this passage that Zhuangzi took Tao as his teacher. Why? Because the Tao has benevolence and righteousness, the benevolence and righteousness of the Tao is manifested in deliberately giving birth to all things without benevolence and righteousness. Tao originally gave grace to all things without asking for anything in return. It is the Tao that has benevolence and righteousness, so what comes out is benevolence and righteousness. Taoism is in favor of such benevolence, not deliberate benevolence. At present, many of us deliberately stipulate how to achieve righteousness. In fact, we often can't do it. What shall we do? Yan Hui, a Confucian, may have given a good solution, which was greatly praised by Confucius, saying that Yan Hui should follow Yan Hui. Let's look at the original text.
Yan Hui said, "It's good for you. Zhong Ni said, "What else can it be? Holden: Holden forgets benevolence and righteousness. Holmium: Holmium can do it, but not yet. Come to see you another day and say, "I will benefit from it." Holmium: "What is it? You: You forget the rites and music. Holmium: Holmium can do it, but not yet. Come to see you another day and say, "I will benefit from it." "What is it?" He said, "I forgot to sit back." Zhong Niran said: "What is forgetting? Yan Hui said, "It's smart to fall on all fours. If you leave your form to understand, you will be like Datong. It's called forgetting. Zhong Ni said: "The same is good, but the change is universal." . If it is benign! Qiu also invites you to come again later. 」
The way to achieve natural righteousness is to "sit and forget" as suggested by Yan Hui. What does this mean? Later, I explained that it is the same as getting through, that is, leaving one's own form and knowledge, connecting with the avenue, and letting the Tao run in the heart, and righteousness will naturally be achieved.
This is very important for the health of tea ceremony. The more you pay attention to drinking tea now, the less it is an end. The purpose is to ignore these artificial standards, forget these standards and viewpoints, and go back to tea directly, so as to integrate with tea and tea ceremony and reach the highest state of health preservation. But we ordinary people need a rule, how can we get rid of our knowledge? In the future, you should have the right knowledge and get rid of the wrong knowledge, not get rid of everything and turn yourself into a fool. If we abandon it all, it will be different from Zhuangzi's thought. From the beginning, Zhuangzi emphasized that real people have real talents and real learning. How can I become a fool? But seemingly a fool, in fact, the heart is full of true knowledge, which is wisdom.
We pay attention to a lot of manners when drinking tea. According to the inheritance, it is really influenced by Confucian etiquette, but the purpose is not for these etiquette, but for the tea ceremony. Therefore, we have to forget these etiquette constraints and meet directly with tea. Don't have any knowledge in your heart, just experience the taste of tea directly. This is of course difficult to do, because there is no knowledge of tea.
The other is to forget the etiquette and culture of the spiritual level of tea. Because soul tea is healthy for our mind, we need someone to tell you to drink it, and only when you drink it in your heart can it play a health care role. At this time, if you have your own knowledge and thoughts, then you can't drink spiritual tea, so you can't care for your heart. Even if you drink tea again, your heart will be unhealthy, arrogant, full of self and lifeless. Because the Tao is not in you. As long as the way of tea is completely in your heart, you can forget what Yan Hui said. Here, forgetting your knowledge is not forgetting everything. After forgetting your own knowledge, you should realize the real knowledge, that is, the real knowledge of tea and the true spirit of tea ceremony. This is the real forgetting.
To sum up, we take the way of tea ceremony as a teacher, let it enter our hearts to teach us and protect us, and then we can achieve the goal of self-cultivation. This is very difficult, because it is difficult to find people who are affectionate, righteous and trustworthy, so you need to study hard and try to understand the spirit of tea ceremony. Since Taoism is affectionate and trustworthy, I believe we will appreciate its help through our own efforts.