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, and knowledge is infinite (without boundaries). It is doomed to fail to pursue infinite knowledge with limited life. Zhuangzi advocated "knowledge/ignorance", that is, knowledge should not be simply said as "the more the better" or "the less the better", but should be clearly distinguished. 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.
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Zhuangzi was a thinker, philosopher and writer in the mid-Warring States period. The surname is Zhuang. Zhou, the word Zixiu, was born in the Song Dynasty, and his ancestors were male in the Song Dynasty. He founded Zhuangzi, an important school of philosophy in China. He is a representative of the Taoist school in the Warring States period after Laozi, and one of the main representatives of the Taoist school. Also known as Lao Zi and Lao Zi.
Zhuangzi advocated freedom and should not be employed by Chu Weiwang. He only worked as a lacquer garden official in the Song Dynasty. History is called "the proud official of Qiyuan" and is regarded as a model of local officials. Zhuangzi first put forward the idea of "sage inside and king outside", which had a far-reaching influence on Confucianism. His representative work is Zhuangzi, among which the famous works are Xiaoyao Tour and Everything.
Zhuangzi's imagination is extremely rich, his language is freely used and flexible, and he can make some subtle and unspeakable philosophies fascinating. His works are called "literary philosophy, philosophical literature". It is said that he lived in seclusion in Nanhua Mountain, so at the beginning of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he named Zhuang Zhou as the South China Reality and his book Zhuangzi as the South China True Classic.
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