Zhuangzi advocated that everything should be let nature take its course. His attitude towards life can be summed up in eight words, namely: few people, quiet, no desire, optimistic and upward. He leads a hard life, making up for it with clothes and sometimes borrowing rice to make a living. He is indifferent to all this. His wife died, and Keiko went to offer her condolences. Instead of crying, he sat next to the body and knocked on the pottery bowl to sing. Keiko accused him of singing rather than crying. He calmly replied: I was very sad at first, but I thought about it later. How did people come into this world and how did they leave it? It turns out that man is changed from qi, that is, inanimate substances in nature. When qi gathers, it dies. Now that a person's body is dead, it will become a lifeless substance, so I beat gongs and drums to sing and send my wife back to nature to celebrate. These remarks may not be all right, but Zhuangzi's detached and open-minded attitude towards life is worth promoting. In real life, if you encounter unsatisfactory things, you can learn from Zhuangzi's detached and open-minded attitude towards life.
Zhuangzi believes that selfishness is the root of all diseases. Only when a person is selfless from the heart can he be ambitious, regardless of personal fame and fortune, and he will be content and optimistic; Mr. Tao Zhu said the same thing: selfless heart, vast world.
Zhuangzi said: If you are indifferent, you won't cause trouble and evil spirits won't break out. Therefore, your morality is complete and your mind has not lost. He believes that it is difficult for people to break away from the secular system, and that people's selfish desire for material is the root of all evils and all diseases. Once a person is mastered by selfishness, he will lose his normal mentality and become insatiable, which will inevitably hurt his life. If a person can keep a simple and calm mind and govern by doing nothing, he will not invade selflessly and will not break down from constant overwork. He believes that only by being open-minded, calm, carefree and treating life with a normal heart can we live longer and be content.
Zhuangzi, who is quiet, thinks that having no ego and no desire is the basis of keeping a calm mind and the premise of physical and mental health. Only by being calm, carefree, free from desires and demands, and maintaining a good mental state can we remain healthy and disease-free. According to modern medical research, if a person is worried all day, it will cause endocrine disorders and decreased immunity, which will inevitably lead to many diseases.
Zhuangzi paid special attention to the cultivation of mind, believing that a person's mood would affect his mental outlook and physical condition. If a person wants to be peaceful and detached, it is very important to keep a psychological balance.
In Zhuangzi's On the Road, the story of Huangdi's seeking Tao is that Huangdi heard that he practiced extensively on Kongtong Mountain, became familiar with the Avenue of Universe, and went for advice. He told the Yellow Emperor about his own opinions around his psychological cultivation, which is actually Zhuangzi's guiding ideology. He believes that psychological cultivation focuses on two words: quiet and clear. Static and dynamic, clear and turbid are opposites. If you move, you will be tired, and if you are tired, you will overflow; Turbidity will be mixed, and the expression of mixed people will not be peaceful. In order not to distract the mind, it is necessary to make the heart quiet, not irritated and impatient, and not interfered by foreign objects.
Chinese medicine believes that God is the master of human life. If god is upset, it will affect the normal life activities of the human body. God likes silence, and only silence can nourish his soul. If a person is busy and quiet all day, his health will be threatened. At this time, we should take a quiet rest by artificial means, as Zhuangzi said, in order to achieve the purpose of peace.
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Zhuangzi? The sexual consequences of the five desires pointed out in Heaven and Earth are as follows: first, the five colors are confused, making the eyes unclear; Second, the five tones are noisy, which makes the ears ineffective; I'm sick of smelling my nose for three days and five days; The four flavors are turbid, which makes the mouth sharp and refreshing; Five, fun and slippery, let sex fly. All five are harmful. He believes that people's vision, hearing, smell, taste and thoughts all have desires, and these desires should naturally meet their requirements. At the same time, we must grasp the scale and never indulge. Because everything is relative, it is easy to slide to the other extreme if you don't grasp the scale well. If you indulge your desires, you will have sex, leading to disaster or disease. Therefore, only abstinence can help to keep fit. Zhuangzi's concept of abstinence and strengthening the body is one of the important thoughts of China's ancient health practitioners, and it still has important guiding significance for our health care today.
Zhuangzi also emphasized that people cannot satisfy their desires and indulge themselves. Indulgence can lead to trouble and disease. Less sexual desire will not hurt the mind, less appetite will not hurt the body, and less desire will not hurt the heart.
Yue Guan Zhuangzi thinks that life should be optimistic and open-minded. He once vividly said that the wild cranes in Shui Ze are happy and optimistic, so they can live; The caged birds, however, are unhappy, unhappy, with withered feathers and low heads, and it is difficult to live for a lifetime.
Zhuangzi's attitude towards life highly sums up his idea of keeping in good health. Many of China's theories, such as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, all mentioned that the first thought of recuperating the mind and taking care of life is rest, and the key to rest is nourishing the heart. A calm mind is sober, a calm mind is calm, and a clear mind will make the human body full of qi and blood and healthy.
Huangdi Neijing, the earliest medical classic in China, puts forward the role of indifference in human health and disease prevention from a medical point of view. People should avoid being attacked by unhealthy qi in the four seasons of nature, and remain indifferent, calm and lustless mentally, so that the true qi of the human body can function normally and the spirit can attach to the body. Only by keeping a quiet, calm and empty heart, eliminating selfish distractions and focusing on work and study or what you like can you be proud and healthy. Zhuangzi's optimism is a major factor in longevity. Medical research shows that a person's personality is closely related to health and disease. People with positive and optimistic personality are not prone to mental illness, chronic diseases or major diseases. Even if they get sick, they can recover quickly because of mental factors. However, bad personality has a great influence on human health, and it is easy for people to suffer from brain, internal organs and mental diseases. Zhuangzi's abstinence thought accords with the idea of keeping in good health in TCM. His eight-character attitude towards life is still instructive to us today.