Lao Zi and Zhuangzi's Views on Life and Death
Zhuangzi's view of life and death is most profound in Zhuang Zhou's Fable of Dreaming Butterfly: "Zhuang Zhou's dream is Hu Die, vivid in Hu Die. Self-metaphor and ambition! I don't know, Zhou Ye. If you suddenly feel it, you will suddenly feel it. I wonder if Zhou Zhimeng is Hu Die and? Hu Die's dream is Zhou Yu? There will be points in the weekly meeting. This is called' materialization'. " Zhuangzi examines the changes of life and death with an aesthetic psychology. Here in Zhuangzi, "life" and "death" are no longer two absolute states, but two relative, adaptive and equal states under the control of nature. Life and death, like dreams and waking, are natural state transitions and have no meaning. There is no joy in life and no sorrow in death. As for the philosophical proposition of "suicide", Zhuangzi's answer is unique: since life is a state and death is also a state, there is no essential difference between them. Vivid butterflies and beautiful Zhuang Zhou are equivalent, so what is the need for "suicide"? Ann's "I" in this life is not the "I" after death. Zhuangzi not only denied the meaning of life, but also denied the meaning of death. From the materialization of Dream Butterfly Language, Mr. Xu "suspects that there seems to be an idea of immortality in the minds of scholars in Zhuangzi or Zhuang". This is very reasonable.