An zhi ruo Ming allusions

If the allusion of An Zhi's life comes from Zhuangzi's "The World on Earth": "It is extremely virtuous to know what not to do, and to be prepared for danger in times of peace." It means: people know that their misfortune is helpless, but they are willing to bear it and regard it as destiny takes a hand. This is the highest state of morality.

Human Life is a book that records Zhuangzi's thoughts. The center of this book is to explore the way of dealing with the world, which not only expresses Zhuangzi's attitude towards others and himself, but also reveals Zhuangzi's philosophy of dealing with the world.

Brief introduction of the author

Zhuangzi (about 369-286), Han nationality. Zhou Dynasty famous soldier, Zi Zixiu (a word about), was honored as "South China real person?" Song Guo Meng (now Mengcheng County, Anhui Province, now Minquan County, Northeast of Shangqiu County, Henan Province) was born in the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, philosopher and writer, a representative of Taoist school, the successor and developer of Laozi's philosophical thought, and the founder of Zhuangzi school in pre-Qin.

His theory covered all aspects of social life at that time, but the fundamental spirit still belonged to Laozi's philosophy. Later generations called him and Laozi "Laozi", and their philosophy was "Laozi's philosophy".

A Brief Introduction to Zhuangzi's Human Life

The full text can be divided into two parts, the first part is "not afraid of evil", and the second part is below. There are three stories in the first part: Confucius' conversation with Yan Hui when he was going to defend the country, Confucius' advice when he was sent to Qi, and advice when he was invited to be the master of Wang Wei, so as to illustrate the difficulty of dealing with the world and not to be careless.

How should we deal with this difficult world? Zhuangzi put forward the idea of "fasting in the heart" for the first time, that is, "waiting for things in vain". Furthermore, it is put forward that "knowing his helplessness and taking it as it is", and the third is "being a straight girl", "being indifferent in shape" and "being indifferent in heart". It boils down to one thing: it is still "no self".

The second part focuses on the usefulness of "uselessness", using the metaphor that the tree is immature but enjoys life, and it is fragmented and incomplete but avoids disasters. The last sentence "everyone knows it is useful, but they don't know it is useless" is the conclusion of the whole second part. The front and back parts complement each other, and it is difficult for the world to put forward the view of "uselessness", which is the embodiment of "governing by inaction"

The use of "uselessness" is full of dialectics. Usefulness and uselessness are objective, but they are also relative, and will be transformed under certain circumstances.