Bao Puzi was written by Ge Hong, a physician and Taoist sage in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Ge Hong, whose real name is Zhichuan, is Bao Puzi. Embracing simplicity is a Taoist term, which is found in Tao Te Ching. There are "inner chapters" and "outer chapters" in Bao Puzi, and some chapters or contents are shared with you.

The image of Ge Hong in the migration of Ge Zhichuan in the works of Wang Meng, a painter in Yuan Dynasty.

Inside baopuzi

Release stagnation

Or ask: "there are many kinds of human nature, and it is extremely difficult to seek immortality." If there is no waste, you can't have both. What can Hu Yi do for the cause of literature and art, the cause of sorrow and joy, and the way of monarch and minister? "

Bao Puzi replied: "The road is not annoying, but it is a fresh ear. But if you don't stand up and believe in it, why worry about the abolition of human reason? What's so hard about a talented person?

The way to keep in good health from the inside is to be in harmony with the world from the outside, to be healthy for a long time, and to run the country safely. The Six Classics is used to train laymen, and the secret recipe is used to teach bosom friends. If you want to stay less, you can stop helping, if you want to improve, you can go into battle lightly, and so can the staff sergeant. Self-sustaining talents, incompatible, abandoned in the world, specializing in morality, is also the second.

Yesterday, the Yellow Emperor was ordered to go to the four seas, so it might as well be a Dinghu move; Peng Zu became a doctor for 800 years, and later adapted to the quicksand in the west; Bo in history is the title of Ariel and founder. Fang Hui is a scholar, a teacher, Qiu Sheng is an official of Yin, an official of Jin, a sea tyrant, and Song Kangqin is always determined to whip. Zhuang Gong hides his weapons in the petty officials. The ancients learned from others' strengths, rectified the world and made it hidden. Why build it on a mountain, get rid of the things of strangers, and then what will happen?

There are also quiet, bad-natured, idle people who take pleasure in having nothing to do, take honor as their relatives, take care of blue wisps, play with grass, wait for the end, do not want to make a living, are not afraid of dying quickly, quit their daughters' jobs and suddenly fall in love with each other. If there is nothing to cultivate, it is often the case. In addition, with the knowledge of the gods, they will also refuse to obey the world, each from its own meaning, and cannot be generalized. "

Bao Puzi said: "A kind word in the world is more valuable than a thousand dollars. It also covers up the gains and losses of the army and does its own thing. As for the strategy of making people live forever, if it is not the kind words of ordinary people, is it just a daughter of Xi? If someone is trapped and dying, but someone can be saved and cured, it is called great kindness. Today, if you follow the immortal scriptures, fly nine elixirs and make water and jade, the world will be immortal, and its benefits will not only be a person's work. The virtue of Huang Lao is boundless, and Mo Zhi's knowledge is called a fake life, which is regrettable. "