The ancients have long found the main way of health preservation, and recorded it in the article, telling future generations that if the heart does not make up, it is futile to make up this and that. This paper will analyze Zhuangzi's article "The Lord of Health Preservation" and expound several aspects of health preservation by virtue.
Zhuangzi's teacher is Lao Zi, who once wrote The Tao Te Ching and advocated health preservation. I lived a long time. According to historical records, Laozi lived to be 160 years old, and some historical books even recorded that he lived to be 200 years old. According to Records of the Historian, the secret of Laozi's health preservation lies in "cultivating monasteries to preserve longevity". If a person wants to live a long life, awe is the first. The health preserving theory in Tao Te Ching is natural and perfect. Ancient thinkers in China not only cared about ideological problems, but also often cared about the body. Laozi advocates inaction and regards it as a way of keeping in good health. Tao Te Ching says, "Virtue is thicker than virtue". In other words, only when the soul respects the Tao and obeys morality can life last long and be as energetic as a child. It is the same as the Confucian thought that "the benevolent lives long". If you follow the Tao, you won't try by hook or by crook, do nothing wrong, care about false fame and fortune, hide evil intentions, and indulge in shameless desires, because you don't want to persist, don't want to repay, and you can't do it without words and deeds. This is called: "the reason why heaven and earth are long is because they don't live by themselves."
Zhuangzi studied Laozi's theory, the philosopher became a health care expert, and Zhuangzi became an expert. Zhuangzi inherited Laozi's thought of governing by doing nothing, and made it spread, blossom and bear fruit in life. He also specially wrote an article "Master of Health", which was included in his series of works "Zhuangzi" and included in seven internal articles.
The Lord of Health Preservation is an article about the way of health preservation, and it talks about the laws of health preservation: Zhuangzi believes that in the world, two red lines should be followed, that is, "goodness is not close to fame" and "evil is not close to punishment", and health preservation should also follow such laws, conform to nature, and be a teacher, regardless of one's own disability, don't lose tears like Qin, or be injured by foreign objects. Just like my master's solution, you master the body structure of the cow and naturally live as a knife in my hand. The good knives used by others need to be changed every year, and the average chef needs to change them every month, but my knife is as good as new after 19 years.
So what is a good health care method? Zhuangzi thinks:
There is a famous story among the health masters about how skillful hands treat cows. Many people have seen it, but few people know that it is a health story.
I think Wen's skill in slaughtering cattle is perfect. With the sound of my knife, a loud noise solved a whole cow. Its works sound like beautiful music, and its movements are in tune with the rhythm of dance music. This attracted the praise of the text for blurting out. Asked why he is so skilled, my expert explained that when I understand cattle, I always cut the knife into the big gap between bones and muscles along the natural physiological structure of cattle, and then lead the knife to the gap between joints, and the knife follows the original structure of cattle; In cattle, the muscles of meridians are tangled, which easily hinders the delivery of knives. My knives have never been touched, let alone those huge cattle bones! A good cook changes a knife every year, and then he cuts hard with brute force; Generally, chefs change their knives once a month, that is, they cut them with hard knives. I have used this knife for 19 years, and I have killed thousands of cows with it, but the blade is intact, as if it had just been ground off the grindstone.
A person should use his body like a skilled knife. According to the functional law of the body and the climate of the festival of heaven and earth, as Cao Cao said, "the period of surplus and contraction is not limited to days; The blessing that nourishes grace can last forever. " In other words, if human beings can conform to the laws of nature and practice well, they can live as long as possible.
Here, we want to quote what Zhuangzi said at the beginning, "Being good is unworthy of fame" and "Being evil is unworthy of punishment". One must not be eager for quick success and instant benefit, and the other must be immoral. The former is people who worry too much about their own interests, and most of them will hurt their health. In other words, people should not be too selfish and care too much about fame and fortune. The latter means not to be too bold, fooling around with people, and even being convicted by national laws. The author knows two senior engineers, and the ending is not very good. They should vindicate themselves by saying that "good is unworthy of fame and evil is unworthy of punishment". One died of cancer before he was 40 years old, and the other was jailed for taking bribes in his early forties. Although the former was on the right track, he was too competitive and ambitious, and he was bent on trying to make plans, so he broke down from constant overwork and was incurable. The other is immoral for the benefit, and his wife and children are separated.
There is a story in Master of Health: Guan Wenxuan was surprised to see the right teacher and said, "Who is this?" Why only one foot? Is this natural or artificial? "The right teacher said," this is natural, not man-made. God gave me only one foot. According to the appearance of ordinary people, God will give me two feet. So I know that God intended me to grow a foot, not man-made. "
Complaining and sadness is an extremely negative emotion, and it is also a taboo for health. Teacher You was born disabled with only one foot. He can accept others' sympathy and surprise frankly, and points out that although his body is unusual, it is an intentional arrangement from heaven. Since it is arranged by heaven, there is nothing to complain about. Can man compete with heaven?
Yes, there are many differences between people. Compared with others, we really lost at the starting line in family, body, IQ and appearance, but we must believe that Heaven is fair. The reason why Heaven can govern the earth is because he takes justice as the foundation of the throne and justice and fairness are his principles.
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Your suffering may be happiness in the eyes of others, so it is beyond your power. Happiness in the eyes of others may be the bitterness of your bitterness. Don't force yourself to live in the happiness in the eyes of others, let alone covet the happiness in your own eyes. The utilitarian power you bring is just the shackles of your mind, which will make you breathless. There is also a picture in Master of Health: a pheasant living in a swamp has to walk ten steps to get a bite of food and one hundred steps to get a sip of water, but it doesn't want to be locked in a cage. Although I am full of energy in the cage, I am not happy. Maybe some people live in luxury, have stable jobs and earn a lot of money, but they have no freedom, just like livestock. Although carefree, he lost his freedom and even lived as a soulless dog.
Life is contentment, reconciliation with heaven, harmony with fate, and the essence of health preservation.
There is a saying in The Doctrine of the Mean: Destiny is nature, frankness is Tao, and cultivation is teaching. It means that spirituality given by God is the foundation of human nature. If people think and act according to principles and conscience, this is the so-called Tao. To accept the enlightenment of saints is to cultivate.
For thousands of years, people have been living in a hypocritical culture and receiving hypocritical education since childhood because of profit-seeking psychology. "Everyone only says three words", and the school teaches students to be honest. "When they come to check, they say that we have not made up the lessons." The main job at work is to deal with checks. Why? Because there are too many fake teachers, fake teachers bring in fake knowledge, and fake knowledge teaches fake people, so monks are called "real people". Lying directly hits the spirituality of people, so the truth can't escape. However, people who are lifeless and heartless in the human body are hurt by their vitality, mostly because they are false and have no self-confidence. If a person can still be confident when lying, it means that this person is mentally dead and hopeless.
There is a scene in "Master of Health": after his death, Qin lost his mind, whined three times and left, and then he was expressionless. The disciple was puzzled and asked, "Isn't he a friend of the teacher?" The answer is: "Of course." "So, how about this mourning?" Qin Shi said, "Of course. I went in to offer my condolences just now. An old man is crying for him, just like crying for his son. There are young people crying for him, just like crying for their mother. Those who are crying must have cases where they don't want to mourn, but they want to mourn and don't want to cry. This kind of situation is to abandon nature and add fuel to the secular feelings, forgetting that human life is subject to nature. In ancient times, this practice was called punishment against nature. When a person comes into the world by accident, he is born at the right time; Accidentally left, which was his timely death. Be content with the times, conform to nature, and all sorrows and joys can't enter the heart. In ancient times, this was called liberating nature. " Death is not the end, just like the torch will burn out, but the fire will continue and never go out. The same is true of human meaning.
Today, if you want to keep in good health, the only thing you can't lack is "nourishing your heart". Nourishing your heart lies in enriching your virtue, which is your body. First of all, we should live out the truth, goodness and beauty of nature. If we should not praise, we should not dare to praise and refuse decisively, just as some people say that we can not criticize, but we never have to exaggerate and criticize the weak to protect ourselves. Such people are like spineless maggots, more disgusting than Micong, and hypocrisy is more poisonous than truth and evil. It is a bad habit that harms the body and destroys morality.
Human nature is full of rivers, with great tolerance, high mountains and strong Wan Ren. This is the key to health.