Chapter 22 "Zhuangzi · Outer Chapters · The Twenty-Second Journey to the North"

"Zhuangzi · Outer Chapters · The Twenty-Second Journey to the North" Knowing that traveling north on the Xuanshui River, climbing the hidden hills, and encountering inaction is called Yan.Knowing what is called doing nothing means: "If you want to ask questions, you will know what to think and what to worry about. Where and how to obey can you find the way? Where do you follow the way to get the way?" Three questions without doing nothing means not answering.If you don't answer, you don't know the answer.If you don't know, you can't ask, but in the south of Baishui, on the top of the fox gate, you will be mad at the sight.Knowing what to say is also asking about madness.Kuang Qu said: "Oh! I know it, and the words are as if." He wanted to speak but forgot what he wanted to say.If you don't know, you can ask, but instead of the emperor's palace, you can see the Yellow Emperor and ask.Huangdi said: "Without thinking and worrying, you can know; if you have no place and no obedience, you can find the way; if you don't know the way, you can get the way." Knowing and asking the Yellow Emperor: "If we know each other, we don't know each other. Which one is evil?" Said: "That inaction is the truth. If you are mad, I will never be close to you. Those who know don't speak, and those who speak don't know. Therefore, the sage teaches without words. Dao cannot be achieved, and virtue cannot be achieved. Benevolence can For this, righteousness can be lost, and rites are false. Therefore, it is said: after losing the Dao, virtue is followed; : Those who are Taoist will suffer daily damage, damage it and damage it again, so that they do nothing. Do nothing and do nothing. Now it is a thing, and if you want to return to the root, it is not difficult! It is easy and only an adult! Life is also death. Disciple, death is also the beginning of life, who knows its season! Human life is the gathering of qi. Gathering is life, and dispersing is death. If death and life are disciples, what trouble do I have! Therefore, everything is one. It is what it is. What is beautiful is miraculous, and what is evil is rotten. Stinky rot turns into miraculous, and miraculous turns into rotten. Therefore, it is said: The whole world has one ear. The sage is so valuable." Knowing that the Yellow Emperor said: "I asked about doing nothing. That is to say, inaction means that I should not respond to me, if I do not respond to me, I do not know how to respond to me. If, if you know it, why are you not close?” Huangdi said: “It’s because it’s true, so it’s because you don’t know it; if it’s like it, it’s because you forget it; if it’s not close to you, it’s because you know it. "Kuang Qu heard about it, and took the Yellow Emperor as his knowledge.

There is great beauty in the heaven and earth without talking about it, there are clear laws in the four seasons without talking about it, and everything has a reason without talking about it.A sage, from the beauty of heaven and earth, reaches the truth of all things.That's why the perfect person does nothing, the great sage does not do anything, and it is said to observe the heaven and the earth.Today, the gods are extremely refined, and they are as versatile as they are.Things are dead and alive, and no one knows their roots.Flat but all things have been solid since ancient times.Liuhe is a giant, not separated from it; Qiuhao is small, waiting for it to form a body; the world is ups and downs, and it will never die; Yin and Yang move in four seasons, and each has its own order; it survives as if it is dead; it is invisible but spiritual; all things Animals do not know: this is called the root, which can be observed in the sky!

Nie Que asked about the quilt, and the quilt said: "If you are correct, if you look at it, the harmony of heaven will come; if you know it, if you save it, the gods will give it up. Virtue will be beautiful for you, and Tao will be for you. .You pupils are like newborn calves and you don’t ask for a reason.Said by Yi Da, he sang and went away, saying: "The body is like a skeletal body, the heart is like dead ashes, the truth is true, and you don't hold on to it. The media is dark and dark, and you can't conspire with him if you have no heart. Who is he!" Shun asked Hucheng, "Is the Tao available?" He said: "Your body is not yours, so how can you have a husband's way!" Shun said, "My body is not my own, who has it?" Said "It is the entrustment of heaven and earth; life is not yours, but it is the entrustment and harmony of heaven and earth; life is not yours, it is the obedience of heaven and earth; descendants are not yours, it is the entrustment of heaven and earth. So you don't know where you are going. , I don’t know where to hold, and I don’t know what to eat. The strong yang energy of heaven and earth is also evil because it can be obtained!”

Confucius asked Lao Dan and said: "Today, Yan Xian dares to ask the best way." Lao Dan said: "You are disciplined, your heart is sparse, your spirit is bathed in snow, and you know it when you hit it. The husband's way is hard to say. I will tell you about the cliff: Fu Zhaozhao is born in the dark, Youlun is born in the invisible, the spirit is born in the Tao, the shape is born in the essence, and all things are born with the shape. Therefore, those with nine apertures are born with wombs, and those with eight apertures are born with eggs. It comes without traces, goes without cliffs, has no doors and houses, and is the emperor of all directions. Those who are invited here have strong limbs, deep thinking, intelligent eyes and ears. They do not labor with their hearts, and they have no way to respond to things. Heaven has no choice but to High, the land must be wide, the sun and the moon must travel, and the myriad things must prosper, this is the way! And you don’t need to know well, and you don’t need to be wise to argue, and the sage can judge it! Those who do not add damage are protected by sages. The abyss is as deep as the sea, and Wei Wei is as close to the end as the beginning. Carrying all things without shortage. The way of a gentleman is to give it to others! All things go to capital. Not deficient. This is the way!

"There are people in China who are neither yin nor yang. They are between heaven and earth. They are upright and human, and they will be contrary to their ancestors. From the perspective of the original view, the living is a dumb thing. Although there is a life, how far is it? Xi is enough to judge the right and wrong of Yao and Jie! Fruits are justified, but human relations are difficult, so they speak to each other. Sages do not violate them when they encounter them, and do not abide by them when they are exceeded. To respond to them is virtue; The prosperity of the king is also the rise of the king.

"Between the heaven and the earth, if there is a gap between the white horses, it is all of a sudden. Suddenly, nothing will come out; spontaneously, nothing will enter. It has been transformed into life, and then transformed into death. Creatures mourn, human beings mourn. Untie the tao of the sky, fall into the cloak of the sky. It is almost like a dream, and the soul is going to go, but the body follows it. It is the big return! The shape that is invisible, the shape that is invisible, is what everyone knows, and it is not about to come. The task is also the same as everyone's discussion. If you come to it, you don't care about it, but if you talk about it, you don't come; seeing it is worthless, arguing is not as silent; the way is not heard, and it is not as blocked as it is heard: this is called a great achievement."

Dong Guozi asked Zhuangzi: "The so-called Tao, is evil?" Said: "In the barnyard." Said: "Why is it more evil?" Said: "In the tile pot." Said: "Why is it more evil?" Said: "Drowning in excrement." Dong Guozi should not.Zhuangzi said: "The master's question is definitely not as good as the quality. The question of correctness and acquisition is also in the prison market, and it is getting worse every time. You have nothing to do, and there is nothing to escape. If the Tao is true, so is the big talk. Zhou Zhou The three of them have different names and the same reality, and they refer to one. Taste the appearance and wandering in the palace of nothingness. If you talk about it together, there is no end! Taste the appearance and inaction! It’s calm and quiet! It’s so clear! It’s so clear! It’s so clear! I’m so busy! I’ve got my ambitions. I have nowhere to go but I don’t know where it’s going. When I come and go, I don’t know where it’s going. Its poverty. Things and things have no boundaries, but things have boundaries, so-called boundaries of things. When there is no boundary, the boundary of the boundary is also. It is called surplus and decline. It is for decay and not for decline, it is the root and the end, not the root and the end, and it is for accumulation and non-accumulation."

Xi He Gan and Shen Nong learned from Lao Longji.Shennong hides a few, closes the house and sleeps in the daytime.Kou Hegan entered the house in the middle of the day, saying: "The old dragon is dead!" Shen Nongyin stood up with his stick, put it down and smiled, and said: "God knows that I have a humble birth, so I abandoned it and died. .It’s over, the master has nothing to say and died, my husband!” Yan Ji heard about it, and said: “A man who embodies the Tao is bound by the gentlemen of the world. Today, in the Tao, Qiu Hao’s end is extremely unattainable. One thing, but you still know that you will die if you hide your wild words, let alone those who understand the Tao! Seeing it is invisible, hearing it silently, and talking about it to others is called Mingming, so talking about the Tao is not the Tao."

So Taiqing asked Wuwu, saying: "Do you know?" Wuwei said: "I don't know." He asked Wuwei, Wuwei said: "I know." Said: "You know, is there a number?" Said: "Yes." Said: "What's the number?" Wuwei said: "I know that it can be expensive, cheap, contracted, or separated. That's why I know the number." Taiqing also asked about no beginning. , Said: "If so, then the infinite knowledge and the knowledge of inaction, which is true and which is not?" Wushi said: "I don't know the depth, but the knowledge is shallow; I know the inside, and I know the outside." So Taiqing looked up But he sighed and said: "Buddha knows that he knows, and knowing does not know! Who knows what he does not know?" Wu Shi said: "The Tao cannot be heard, and it is not to be heard; the Tao cannot be seen, and it is not to be seen; the Tao cannot be spoken. Words are not true! Knowing form and form is not form! Dao is not worthy of its name." Wushi said: "Those who respond to a question do not know; even though they ask, they have not heard of the Tao. Dao has no question, ask No answer. If you don’t ask questions, you’re asking about poverty; if you don’t answer, you’re asking about poverty. If you don’t have inside, you’re asking about poverty. If you don’t, you don’t see the universe from the outside, and you don’t know the beginning from the inside. Therefore, you can’t go beyond Kunlun. , not too empty."

Guangyao asked about Wuyou and said, "Master, does it matter? Does it have nothing?" Guangyao couldn't ask, but whoever looked at his appearance: it was empty and empty.You look at it all day long but don't see it, you listen to it but you don't hear it, you fight it but you don't get it.Guangyao said: "It's the end, which one can come here! I can have nothing, but I can't have nothing. If it's nothing, how can I come here!" The hook-beater in Malaysia is in his eighties, yet he still looks bold.Da Ma said: "You are clever! Is there a way?" Said: "I have to keep it. I am 20 years old and I like to beat the hook. I don't care about things. I don't know if I don't use the hook." Also, you can use it long, and there are almost no ones who don't use it!Nothing is worth it!

Ran Qiu asked Yu Zhongni, saying: "There is no heaven and earth to know evil?" Zhongni said: "Yes. It is as old as it is today." Ran Qiu asked and retreated.See you again tomorrow, and said: "In the past, I asked if there was no heaven and earth. Can I know it? The master said: Yes. The past is as good as the present. I was clear in the past, but I am ignorant today. Dare I ask what it means?" Zhongni said: "The past is clear. Yes, the gods receive it first; now it is ignorant, and it is also seeking evil for the ungodly! There is no past, no present, no beginning and no end. Is it possible to have grandsons without descendants?" Ran Qiu was not right.Zhong Ni said: "It's over, it's the end of the day! Don't live and die according to life, don't live by death and death. Death and life are subject to evil? They all have one body. There are things that are born before heaven and earth, and things are evil? Things are not things, and things can't come out before things." , as if there were things. Just as if there were things, there is nothing! The love of a saint is also endless, and he takes what he has." Yan Yuan asked Zhongni and said: "I heard that all the masters said: there is no general, no welcome. Dare to ask him." Zhongni said: "The ancient people were externalized but not internalized. Today's people It is internalized but not externalized. Those who are materialized are those who are not transformed. Anhua is not transformed? To be in harmony with it? , Tang Wu’s room. A gentleman is like a teacher of Confucianism and Mohism, so right and wrong are related, but what’s more, today’s people! Saints do not hurt things. Those who do not hurt things, things can’t hurt them. Only nothing hurts Those who want to be able to meet people will greet each other. The mountains and forests, the Gaoyang and the land, make me happy and joyful! Before the joy is over, sorrow will continue. When sorrow and joy come, I can’t stop them, and I can’t stop them from going. Sad husband People in the world are always in the opposite direction of things! If you know what you meet but don’t know what you won’t meet, you know what you can do but you can’t do what you can’t. Those who are ignorant and incompetent are what people can’t avoid. Wouldn’t it be sad to be able to avoid what people can’t avoid? If you don't talk, you will do it. If you know it all, the knowledge will be superficial!"