Mou, the son of King Wei, went to the sage Zhuangzi for advice.
“Here I stand here with you,” he began, “and look at the sea, at how the waves crash against the stone.” My body is here, but my heart is far away from here, near the city towers of the kingdom of Wei. What should I do?
“Value life,” replied Chuang Tzu. - He who values life despises profit.
“I know that,” said the prince. - But I can’t overcome myself.
“If you cannot overcome yourself, then live as you live and do not force the spirit,” said Zhuang Tzu. — Not being able to overcome oneself and, moreover, forcibly restrain oneself means “being wounded twice.” And the one who is “wounded twice” will not live long.
Mou was the son of the king of Wei, who owned ten thousand chariots. For him, hiding in a cave among the mountains was more difficult than for a commoner, but although he did not acquire the Tao, it can be said that he knew something about it.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru