Zhuangzi’s view of health and wellness

The thought of health and wellness reflected in “Zhuangzi Dasheng” is the same as the classic “Huangdi Neijing” of Chinese medicine. The ancient sages all took cultivating one’s body and nurturing one’s nature as the basis of life, and the Confucian sage Confucius also mentioned in “The University” that the important task of ruling the country and leveling the world should begin with cultivating one’s body and family and being sincere and righteous. How can we not be grateful to our ancestors of all dynasties and generations, who have carefully selected and preserved these spiritual treasures with a sense of responsibility to future generations? The original text] The person who has the love of life, does not care about the life of the thought; the person who has the love of life, does not care about the knowledge of the nothing. Raise the shape must first of all to things, things have a surplus and the shape does not raise the carry on; have life must first no away from the shape, the shape is not away and the birth of the dead carry on. The birth of the coming can not but, its go can not stop. Sad! The world’s people think that the shape is enough to survive; and the shape is not enough to survive, then the world Xi enough for! Although not enough for those who must not be for, its for the inevitable. If you want to avoid being a form, you should abandon the world. The abandonment of the world is not tired, no tired is positive peace, positive peace is with their rehabilitation, rehabilitation is a few. What is enough to give up is enough to leave behind? The abandonment of the world is not the form of labor, the legacy of life is not a loss of essence. The shape of the whole essence of the recovery, and the sky as one. Heaven and earth, the parents of all things, together into a body, scattered into the beginning. Form and essence do not lose, it is said to be able to move; essence and essence, in turn, to phase the sky. A person who understands the reality of life will not strive for things that are not good for life; a person who understands the reality of fate will not strive for things that fate can do nothing about. There are cases in which the body cannot be well maintained while there are plenty of supplies; there are cases in which the body does not die but the life is dead while the life must be preserved. The arrival of life cannot be denied, and the departure of life cannot be stopped. How sad! The worldly people think that nurturing the body is enough to preserve life; but if nurturing the body is really not enough to preserve life, then what else is worth doing in this world! Although it is not worth doing, it has to be done, and the labor or hardship in it is inevitable. If you want to be free from physical strain, you should forget about the world. If you forget about the worldly things, you will not have to work and toil, and if you do not have to work and toil, you will be on the right path, and if you are on the right path, you will be able to follow nature and live and change together, and if you live and change together with nature, you will be close to the Way. Why do we have to give up the worldly things and why do we have to forget the traces on the way of life? If you give up the worldly things, your body will not be strained, and if you forget the traces of your life, your spirit will not be lost. When the body is preserved and the spirit is restored, we become one with nature. Heaven and earth are the father and mother of all things (growth and reproduction), and once the two qi (yin and yang) are combined, they form an object, and once the object is separated, it becomes the beginning of a new object. When the body is preserved and the spirit is not lost, this is called being able to change with nature; when the spirit is brought together to a high degree of cohesion, it will return and complement nature. [Original text] Zi Liezi asked Guan Yin said: “The supreme man stalking not suffocated, not hot when treading fire, walking on top of all things without G scapula shit I disaster inferior deception play Jun Guan Yin said: “is the pure qi of the guard also, not know the list of clever and bold. Residence, to the language of the female. Where there is the appearance of sound and color, are things, things and things how to be far away from each other? What is enough to the first? It is just color. Then the creation of things are not shaped and stop at nothing, and those who have been poor, how can things get and stop! He will be in the degree of non-adulteration, and hidden in the endless discipline, travel to the beginning of the end of all things, a nature, nourishing its qi, and its virtue, in order to pass through the creation of things. If this is the case, the sky is guarded in its entirety, and its God has no S. What is the matter? “The drunkard’s fallen car, although the disease does not die. The saints are not only the same as people, but also different from them, and their gods are all intact, they do not know how to ride and fall, and the fear of death and life does not enter their chests, so that they do not resist things and do not b. Peter is all in the wine, but as if it were, let alone to be all in the sky? The sage hides in the sky, so no one can be hurt. Those who take revenge do not break the presidents, and those who are aggressive do not complain about the tiles, so the world is even. Therefore, there is no chaos of attack and war, and there is no killing of punishment, which is also the way. “The one who opens the sky is born of virtue, and the one who opens the sky is born of thieves. Not tired of its heaven, not neglected in the people, the people almost to its true!” The most virtuous man who has perfected his moral cultivation does not feel blocked when he dives into water, does not feel hot when he jumps into fire, and does not feel fear when he walks on top of everything. May I ask why he has reached such a state?” Guan Yin replied, “It is because holding on to the pure and harmonious qi is not something that can be done by wisdom, skill, or boldness. Sit down, and I will tell you. All things that have appearance, image, sound, and color are objects, so why do they differ so much from one another? What is it that is most capable of taking precedence over other things? It’s all about shape and color. If a tangible thing does not show its shape and color, but remains in the midst of no change, and knows this truth and understands the mystery, how can other things control or stop it? That kind of person is within the limits of his instincts, hidden in the chaos of nothing, playing in the changing environment where all things may perish or be born, with his nature dedicated to one and not two, his vital energy preserved and nourished, and his virtues in harmony, thus connecting himself with nature. In this way, his nature is preserved, and his spirit is not damaged, so from what place can foreign things invade! “A drunken man falls under a cart, and though he is covered with wounds, he does not die. His bones and joints are the same as those of others, but the injury he receives is different from others, because his mind is highly concentrated, and he does not feel it even when he rides in the car, and he does not know it even when he falls to the ground, and death, life, fright, and fear do not enter his mind, so he does not feel any fear when he is hurt by external objects. If a man can forget external things when he gets his mind intact from drunkenness, how much more can he forget external things and keep his mind intact from the way of nature? The sage hides himself in nature, so that nothing can harm him. The man who seeks revenge does not break the sword that has hurt him, and even the man who is always jealous does not resent the tile that comes to him by chance and hurts him inadvertently, so that the world is at peace. There is no scourge of siege and war, and no punishment of mutilation and killing, because this truth is followed. “Do not open up man-made thoughts and wisdom, but develop the true nature of nature. If you develop the true nature of nature, then you will be able to live in peace; but if you open the mind and wisdom of man, you will make life suffer in every way. Do not be averse to natural endowments, and do not ignore man-made talents, and people will be almost pure and free of falsehood!”