What inspired me the most was Yu Dan's new interpretation of my master's understanding of cattle. (page 38).
My master's understanding of cows is taken from the Zhuangzi's internal article "The Lord of Health Preservation", which describes that my master's understanding of cows has reached the state of perfection, and the sword is as good as new after 19 years. If we extend it a little further, we can say that how a person can control his life is also progressing: first, there is a whole cow, three years later, there is no whole cow, and finally, God meets the whole cow easily. The control of life, the highest state, is not a process from scratch to relaxation? Plan your life first, but it's a bit like standing at the foot of the mountain to plan the path of climbing. It seems that the road is long and easy to get lost. Therefore, it is necessary to have a spirit of "nothing" and be able to transcend the highest point of the mountain, so as to finally combine "being" with "nothing" and reach the realm of "meeting God", to transcend everything, conform to everything and naturally integrate one's limited life into infinity.
Most of the length of Yu Dan's Zhuangzi is to guide us to use Zhuangzi's thoughts to guide our lives by interpreting Zhuangzi's fables and combining the phenomena of modern society. I think that the most important thing in life is to have a big realm, beyond fame and fortune, life and death, everything, and be comfortable. In the final analysis, it is a spiritual life, a soul life, a realm of "nothing" and a realm of "returning to zero", which needs constant reflection. Under the guidance of the great realm, we will gradually embark on the smooth road of life until we master the way of life. Without the guidance of the great realm, our life is like some "butchers" cutting bones and muscles with knives. In life and work, they are trapped by trivial things, disturbed by visible and tangible fame and fortune, confused by colorful and countless superficial phenomena in society, and unconsciously waste our precious lives.
In addition, Yu Dan's experience in Zhuangzi also pays attention to inner strength and emphasizes the importance of knowing oneself. (page 48). "Since God has given talents, let them be employed!" Everyone can come with heaven and earth, everyone is equal, we can neither feel inferior nor conceited, but we should know ourselves, so that we can always maintain a normal heart and constantly improve our own shortcomings on the basis of self-knowledge. At the same time, it also emphasizes that people must know and adapt to society. On the one hand, we adhere to the values of the great realm in the principle of life, on the other hand, we can understand and adapt to the ever-changing and ever-changing information society, "externalize without internalizing" and obtain a comfortable life realm.