From the original text of Zhuangzi's Three Masters of Health Preservation, "My life is limited, but my knowledge is also limited. With restrictions, there is no restriction, and it is almost there! It's almost enough for people who already know! Good has no near name, and evil has no near punishment. The Governor thinks that he can protect himself, support his relatives all his life, and work for many years. "

Life is limited, but knowledge is infinite (without boundaries), and it is doomed to fail to pursue infinite knowledge with limited life. Zhuangzi advocated "knowledge/ignorance", that is, knowledge should be clearly distinguished instead of simply saying "the more the better" or "the less the better". By the way, the more you know, the better; By the way, the less you know, the better

Therefore, seeking knowledge is not only a process of increasing knowledge, but also a process of identifying whether the acquired knowledge conforms to Tao and eliminating the knowledge that does not conform to Tao. The "Tao" here can be understood as truth.

Human life is limited, and knowledge is infinite. Pursuing infinite knowledge with limited life will make them exhausted. In this case, people who pursue knowledge can only be tired.

Health-preserving people do good things not to pursue fame and gain, but to do bad things not to violate the criminal law. If they follow the laws of nature as the rules of doing things, they can protect their lives, preserve their nature, preserve their spirit and enjoy their families.

My life is limited, and so is my knowledge. With the limit, I'm dying.

From "Zhuangzi Health Master"

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Those who already know. Know: I think I know something.

Whether knowledge can be understood as learning knowledge is inconsistent with Zhuangzi's context. Zhuangzi never mentioned that some people pursue infinite knowledge.

The theory of "enjoying everything" has been discussing the problems of small knowledge and big knowledge. Understanding knowledge as "self-knowledge" can echo and confirm each other.

Life is limited, knowledge is infinite, and it is impossible to master infinite knowledge with limited life.

It is really dangerous for people to think that they are great knowers and omniscients, even though they can't master unlimited knowledge.

The harm of self-righteous people;

Danger 1

It is harmful to know what you don't know but think you know, and to master the wrong knowledge but think you have the right knowledge and use it to guide your life.

In the past, everyone was breast-fed and everyone grew up healthily.

Later, with milk powder, is milk powder feeding the same as breastfeeding? This was an unknown problem before the study, but people didn't think about it and took it for granted, so many people fed it with milk powder. But research shows that breastfeeding is healthier. This is to regard ignorance as knowledge and small knowledge as great knowledge. Little knowledge is not as good as great knowledge, and small years are not as good as big years. (Cheng Xiaoyao Tour)

Confucius said, "Knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing."

Danger 2

Because people's knowledge is limited, their reasoning ability is limited, their ability to verify knowledge is limited, and their positions are different.

People often use incomplete or wrong knowledge, wrong reasoning process and different positions to draw different conclusions from others.

People often have too high self-confidence or vanity, thinking that the conclusion of their own reasoning is right and others' is wrong.

To think that you are smarter than others is called cleverness.

People often fight to argue about right and wrong, just to argue about who is smarter and fight for vanity. (the knower also argues for it. Enlightenment).

When you meet everyone who has different views from yourself, you have to argue about who is smarter, and people will spend their whole lives fighting.

Confucius said, "A threesome must have a teacher." The sage pursues knowledge rather than vanity. A saint will reflect on himself and ask others.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-My life is limited