It comes from a sentence in "Zhuangzi" written by Zhuang Zhou during the Warring States Period.
From: "Zhuangzi" written by Zhuang Zhou during the Warring States Period
Original text:
Life is like mist or lightning, and it is easy to understand the origin and destruction of destiny.
Translation;
There are many changes and tribulations in a person's life. Calm down and watch the emergence and disappearance of fate indifferently.
Extended information:
Creative background:
Zhuangzi clearly denied the social and political system of ethics and false cultural life, and advocated a different political advancement from Confucian social philosophy. Lu, directly starting from the principle of the operation of the way of heaven, develops the philosophy of "Tao" based on natural meaning, generated meaning and neutral meaning.
There is a natural principle in the movement of heaven, and the philosophy of Tao is to explain the connotation of this principle, thereby proposing a lively and comfortable universe.
Through the understanding of the unlimited and non-persistent operation of the universe, Taoist philosophy has developed a social philosophy that is completely different from Confucianism. Society is just an object that exists on one side, and people who live in it should have their own values. The freedom to exist independently without being bound by any ideology.
From the perspective of safeguarding personal interests, Taoism created the ideological point of view of "equalizing all things" in terms of economic theory and social practice. However, it does not have a pre-existing stance on social responsibility, but can have more respect for it. The attitude and existential orientation of human autonomy.