A pheasant living in a swamp can only walk ten steps to get a bite of food and one hundred steps to get a mouthful 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.
When he died, Qin lost his mourning, cried three times and left. The disciple asked, "Isn't he a friend of the teacher?" The answer is: "Of course." "So, how about this mourning?" Qin Shi said, "Of course. At first I regarded him as an ordinary person, but now I don't see him that way.
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 situation is to turn your back on 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 fortune, conform to nature, and all sorrows and joys can't enter your heart. In ancient times, it was called the liberation of nature. "Oil burns like a candle and is burned out, but the fire is passed on and will never go out.
Second, handed down from generation to generation:
Because kindling is hard to get, the ancients cherished kindling very much. The tribe sent a special guard to add firewood to the fire from time to time to prevent it from going out. In ancient times, lighting, heating and cooking all depended on burning wood.
In ancient times, firewood was called "salary". When the wage is ignited, its own combustion is endless, but the previous firewood is burned out and the latter firewood is burned again, and the fire is endless. This is called "handed down from generation to generation".
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This is from Zhuangzi. Master of health care ":"that is to say, you don't know what to do because of your poor salary and the spread of fire. " The original intention is that the firewood is burned out, and the fire can still be passed down. In ancient times, it was a metaphor that bones were exhausted and the spirit was immortal; Later generations use it to describe the knowledge and skills passed down from generation to generation.
The master of keeping in good health is an article by Zhuang Zhou, a philosopher and writer in the Warring States Period, which is contained in Zhuangzi's Inner Chapter. This is an article about keeping in good health.
The full text is divided into three parts. The first part is the general outline of the whole article, pointing out that the most important thing in keeping in good health is to adhere to the virtual Tao in things and adapt to the changes and development of nature;
The second part uses the story of knowing how to treat cows to compare people's health, which shows that people should follow the laws of things in life and avoid the entanglement of right and wrong and contradictions;
The third part shows that the sage's attitude towards life, which keeps pace with the times instead of sticking to things, is to do his best, even doomed, and embodies the author's philosophical thought and life purport.