We don't know how we were born in this world, just as we don't know why there are so many kinds of animals and plants. Moreover, they all have their own talents and traditions, grow and breed in order, and will not be chaotic.
Religious scholars say that everything in the universe was created by God. Before he is proved wrong. We might as well think so. Taoism believes that everything is formed by the previous life of nature. Although they don't know how nature was born and formed, at least Zhuangzi's "vision Zen" is visible and verifiable. We can at least believe that life is nourished by nature, and the death of life is materialized, not disappeared, because our bodies will rot after death, but will be transformed into other nutrients, which can help flowers and trees grow or become some kind of energy. Flowers and plants can feed other creatures and continue to do other life. Therefore, it is scientific to say in Taoist mythology that people will become flowers, trees or butterflies after death.
At least, if we admit the Taoist view, we won't feel that life is empty or there is no evidence of life and death. There is no need to ask "Where are we from?" "Where to Go" can broaden our horizons, not only thinking about the earth, but also thinking about the whole solar system and the whole universe. Life appeared on the earth. Because there is a proper amount of air, sunshine and water here.
If other planets have conditions suitable for survival, that star may also have life. Our life and the silent universe are one, the universe is a big life, and we are the soul of a big life.
It is wrong to think that people are always divorced from the general environment. We can try to make more use of or improve nature, but we should not say "conquer" nature. We can strive to make this life more brilliant, but we don't have to hope that individuals will live forever. Because the individual does not die, natural activities stop and are blocked. For example, some animals eat plants, plants die, and the lives of those animals go on. When animals die, they become fertilizer, nourish plants and make them blossom and bear fruit. In this way, the great life of the earth continues to flow downwards.
Then, you may ask, even if death is not enough to be feared, why should you protect your life instead of committing suicide, so as to join the cycle of nature as soon as possible?
You are wrong again.
You are wrong in underestimating the value of life and ignoring the meaning of life.
Although we don't know how life is formed, we know that it is a rare opportunity to have a "human" life, to act, to think, to appreciate, to observe the world and to know that there is a "me". Only in this way can we see, hear, enjoy and seek knowledge. We can try to explain our own cosmic life. We can speak for nature, think for it and appreciate it. And because we are not divorced from nature, but integrated, we are equal to some elves of nature and are elected as the "eyes and ears" of nature. Isn't it difficult to be elected? If we don't make good use of this opportunity, we will really fail to live up to the "virtue of heaven."
"God" gives us life and enables us to survive. It seems that the purpose is to make the world active, beautiful, rich and prosperous. It gives life to lively small animals, majestic big animals, intelligent and talkative human beings, and also gives life to beautiful and splendid flowers and extraordinary trees, giving the world the ability to fly in the sky, run underground and swim in the water. With flowers and trees, we can decorate the four seasons and beautify the country. Fortunately, we were "elected" as human beings. Of course, we should do something good for nature.
And the so-called "doing one thing well" is nothing more than trying to be a serious person.
As for how to be a dedicated and serious person?
We can borrow the golden mean to say, "Destiny is nature, frankness is Tao, and cultivation is teaching."
Genius. What is our nature? We will try our best to do something. We should not only do it, but also do it well, do it honestly and do what God wants us to do. What God wants us to do is actually what we do to make ourselves feel at ease and happy. What makes you feel at ease and happy, and what doesn't, comes from human nature.
This includes a serious direction, such as being a good person, working diligently, studying hard, delving into knowledge, striving to create a career, and making the world progress in an orderly manner.
It also includes relaxation aspects, such as chatting happily and traveling whenever possible. Pay attention to where you come from-nature. Praise it with music and poetry, and expose it with painting, photography or craft. Decorate and beautify it with the construction of houses, the decoration of pavilions, the planting of flowers and trees and the opening of roads. Thank it for giving life strength through dance, sports, various friendships between people and other humanistic activities.
Whether it is serious or easy, it is our nature to emphasize serious or easy. Everyone showed their strengths and weaved a colorful and lively world.
With this belief, we can be sure of life, and we can use these decades positively and optimistically to add an activity to nature. However, I feel at ease to return to the dust, and then to participate in the flow of big life in the universe and turn it into other life.
Therefore, our attitude towards strangers should be positive and sensitive to life. Seriously, happily, try to use your time to do what your nature wants. Regard individual and nature as a whole, open-minded, far-sighted, and don't care about details.
When you are young and promising, study hard and work hard. There is no need to have "so hard, why come?" Question mark. Because the motivation of life is to let us go forward bravely, be enthusiastic and earnest, and make the universe rich and vivid.
When we are old, tired, or no longer keen on our career, we can retire to the countryside. (Modern people may only have to "retire to the city". Living a leisurely life is another affirmation of life. Really down-to-earth, back to basics. Life originally came from nature and returned to nature at the end of the year. Life is a very simple thing, and it will return to simplicity at the end of the year. Life should love each other. When you are late, you will bid farewell to glory and return to dullness. Everyone has the time to "travel all over the world, be knowledgeable and reasonable", but hard work is only one side of life, and leisure and simplicity are the other side of life. These two aspects come from the nature endowed by nature.
We live a passionate life, running, building, appreciating and thinking in this world. I played. Without the waste of vitality, then we can be decadent with peace of mind, turning into things, dust, fire, energy, flowers and trees. It can be turned into a rat liver or an insect arm (in Zhuangzi), which can naturally arrange and evolve. As long as this universe exists. We live in various forms. Isn't it fun to treat life with this attitude?