EPISODE · Apr 30, 2024 · 12 MIN
Zhuangzi's philosophy - The birds sliding the mountains don't see the sparrows tipping on the ground small
from Granny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記 · host PhenPhen
Two things want to add to yesterday's episode - The one is the "bird example" in yesterday's episode - A previous version of me, before knowing Zhuangzi, used to think that in order to challenge myself, I should go to a foreign country to compete with all the outstanding people around the world; if I can make it, I am really "something". After knowing Zhuangzi, what I learned is, in the Nature, there is not such comparison as that in the human world - the birds I am seeing flying high to conquer the high pressure, is because they need to, they are driven by the survival instinct, and they won't look sparrows who jumped happily and chattered around the ground small, or at least, we have not found a way to prove that they are doing such comparison among different species - yet, they lose their lives if they cannot compete with their predicators, and humans seem luckier in that sense. The other thing is, a movie I watched on the place to Seattle, Anatomy of a fall - Its NY Times Review. What I learned from the movie - "Sometimes we have no ways to know what is true, we can only make decisions." Zhuangzi said, all the adversity are going to develop our minds and hearts, and to help us make decisions.
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