Source: Life on Earth in Zhuangzi during the Spring and Autumn Period: Hey! If you are in danger, you will be punished! If you don't want to be confused, there will be more confusion and will disturb you. If I disturb you, you will be troubled and you will be hopeless. From ancient times to human beings, save yourself first and then others. Your inner self is uncertain, so you have no time for violence.
Translation: alas! Go to defend the country, I'm afraid you'll be killed! Not suitable for mixed implementation. Chaos is a lot of things, and many things are disturbing. It's too much trouble to protect yourself, let alone save the country. In ancient times, people with high moral cultivation always matured themselves before helping others. At present, moral cultivation has not made any achievements, and there is no time to take the road of tyrant promotion!
Extended data:
The center of "life on earth":
The center is to discuss the way to deal 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.
Artistic features:
The full text can be divided into two parts. In the first part, Confucius talked with Yan Hui when he was planning to defend the country, asked Confucius for advice when he was sent to Qi, and asked Mi Zhu for advice when he was invited to be the master of Wang Wei, so as to illustrate the difficulty of handling the world and not to be careless.
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.
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