Immortal thieves don't just come from the source

"Immortals never die, thieves never stop" comes from Zhuangzi Waipian.

Original text: the husband's valley is empty and the river is exhausted, and the hills and valleys are rich and solid. When a saint dies, a thief can't afford it, and the world is for no reason. Saints never die, thieves never stop. It is important for saints to rule the world, so is stealing feet.

You measure it, you steal it; Call it to call it, and then call it to steal; Trust for fu, steal with fu; Just take it as righteousness and steal it as righteousness.

When the stream dries up, the valley is particularly empty, and the hills and deep pools are particularly abundant. When a saint dies, thieves will never rise again, and the world will remain peaceful. The thief won't stop until the sage dies. Even if the whole society is allowed to reuse saints to govern the world, then this is the greatest benefit of stealing feet.

Give the world a bucket and a welcome to measure the number of items, and then steal them together with the bucket and a welcome; Give the world a scale and a beam to measure the weight of the goods, and then steal them together with the scale and the beam; Make symbols and seals for the world to win people's trust, and then steal with them; Formulating benevolence and righteousness for the world to regulate people's morality and behavior, then it will be stolen together with benevolence and righteousness.

Appreciation of "the sage never dies, but thieves never stop"

Zhuangzi likes to judge all the existence in this world by aesthetics and art. His remarks always complement each other and make people listen. Then he said that when a saint did not die, he felt an aesthetic contest under the cultural background of a saint. When he said that there were many thieves, he was begging saints to give a cultural landscape when feudal society developed.

Therefore, saints are the gods of this world, and gods are the gods of the devil society, so they fulfill the farthest distance from each other and an overview of aesthetics and art. Therefore, the times need the culture of saints, because the logic of saints can make the thinking of this world full of discussions about life, so that all robbers like to participate in it and accompany them in the surging tide.

The road taken by saints is a bridge, but the reality of robbers is mud. Robbers always see the flowers bloom and fall of sages, but they are always used to peeping at all the beauty of sages. Therefore, a saint will be born in every era and a robber will appear in every era. This is probably the only rule of two-way thinking.

For the above contents, please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhuangzi, Waipian, Gui.