There is a saying in Shen Yue's "Suburban Fu": "Only when you are not yourself can you get things done and forget." This should be the origin of the word "I forget things".

In the final analysis, forgetting things is a psychological state without me and things, and it is also the highest state of handling things. So through the ages, countless masters are "longing for it, although they can't reach it."

Such a realm will naturally not be abandoned by Taoist figures. Zhuangzi? "Sheng Da" has a cloud: "Forget your feet; Forget it, take it; Know right and wrong, feel comfortable; Don't change your heart, just follow it and things will be right. Those who were comfortable at first and didn't feel uncomfortable forgot the right ones. " There is a cloud in Caigen Tan: "Those who like quietness and hate noise often avoid others' quietness. I don't know if there is anyone who will become my face; If the heart is at rest, it is moving its roots. How come people forget everything when they look at me! "

The above is incisive and thorough, which is quite beneficial to understand "I forget things" Here, I try to give a popular and simple example to enhance understanding.

Everyone should have the experience of overeating and bloating-at that time, the idea of "upset stomach" must have been lingering in my mind for a long time. After "Going to the Toilet", I felt very comfortable in my stomach-at this time, the idea of "comfortable in my stomach" came to my mind involuntarily. But, obviously, this is not the most comfortable state of the abdomen.

When the abdomen is most comfortable, people don't have the idea of "belly" in their hearts, and they don't feel "comfortable" and "uncomfortable"-that is, I forget both.

If the reader can understand the mystery, he can understand such words as "being happy without being happy" and "being praised without being praised". If you are indifferent to the world, not tired of foreign things, not confused by internal desires, you can travel with Zhuang Zhou.

Of course, the highest skill in doing things is also included in forgetting things, and Zhou Mingzhuang also explained this with "self-clearing meditation".

If you do things without distractions, forget the external interference without being distracted, and only know how to do things, but don't know "I" and "doing things", you can reach the peak in skills.

If you want to forget things, you must first be indifferent to things, then forget me, and finally forget things. Therefore, if we look down on "I" and "things", we will not reach this highest level.

If people forget themselves, they can't forget things, and they care about things and serve them; Forget things, forget yourself, and you will trap yourself. If things are forgotten by me, things and I will be integrated, like a chameleon, perfectly integrated into this world.