The Life Philosophy Of 《Liezi》

"Emphasizing on empty" is the strapping of the theory in 《Liezi》, In its eyes, "empty" is the native personality which is given by Taoism. If one could keep this native personality, then he could protect himself.《Liezi》 uses the theory of "chaos brings the life" to interpret where people come from, It also referred that all things including our human being have the time to start and to end. Life and death is no more than a reflection of the changing of air. All things have to be dead finally, According to this principle, the goal of its theory is to tell people to be in a calm and harmony state and have a right attitude about the life. We should not be ambitious about a long life and break our environment to seek " a long life'.In its opinion, we should not look "life" as an oppostitive aspect with death, it's the last stage of our life, the return of a quiet state which is similar to the newly-born baby. In the state of death, spirit separates from body and back to their origins respectively. Life and death are the same, which is negative about the distinctive life. Frankly speaking, this view about death is to abolish the personality for people to shake off the fear toward death. It can be seen from here: 《Liezi》 carries on the tradition of pursuing harmony from Taoism in Qing Dynasty, and it also lays a solid ontology foundation for Taoism. 《Liezi》 also puts forward the viewpoint that it is a natural process for life and death. The change happened spontaneously between life and death life and death are not determined by the external force. It was the "wholistic" outlook to dispel the sense of loneliness and unhealed feeling. In the passage on Yang-zhu, 《Liezi》 thinks that after knowing entirely the essence of life and death, one can overcome the psychology of loving life and being afraid of death: keep the natural state of the life, let it be, When the death comes, just accept it. It also straightly points to the problem of Confucian ethical code.The life philosophy of 《Liezi》is a combination of deity-human theory, optimism to death theory. The deity is the ideal character of 《Liezi》. There are two ways which lead to the state of deity, that is "empty" and "float". In the discourse of 《Liezi》 ,...