A Study Of Zhuangzi’s Idea Of Running The Country By Cultivating One’s Nature

Facing the reality of degeneration of human nature in the Spring and Autumn,Zhuangzi put forward the idea of saving the human nature and social governance by cultivating one’s nature,which forms the idea of “the way of running a country by cultivating one’s nature”.This idea is a part of the idea of “a learning both sound in theory and practice”,which give the nature law to leaders to run a country.“Dao”is the foundation of Zhuangzi’s idea of “ running a country by cultivating one’s nature”.People’s nature is the Logical starting point of the idea,and “Zhidao ”is the way that running a country.people’s nature is a process of recycling chain of Dao’s movement in world,keeping Dao’s “real character”,which is nature and true.Return to the nature,which is Zhuangzi goal of govern,make people understanding Dao by the way of aware their nature.The idea,“ running a country by cultivating one’s nature”,is the way of a saint cultivating his nature and teaching people’s to find out their blinded mind.The "Saints" rule the world,not by the criminal law system or cleverness.It is their behavior that follow the Dao that educating people around,which to purify the customs and cultivate people’s nature.The relationship of “cultivating one’s nature” and governing is the lucubrate of the relationship of Nei sheng and Wai wang.The sage who knows how to cultivate the nature,also knows the govern way that keep his nature to run a country.The idea of “the way of running a country by cultivating one’s nature”means cultivating one’s nature by putting down the selfish desire,which including three aspects: nature cultivation;nourishing heart;keep health."Governance" is the ruler of the governance must follow.Cultivating one’s nature is the final goal of governing as well as the goal of living philosophy,which,catching the essence of people’s living — the freedom of spirit.In this paper,we prove it by three directions:know the order of Dao,finding one’s nature,govern by Wu wei.Zhuangzi’s idea has the important thought value and social governing value today.On one hand,through the profound revelation and criticism,Zhuangzi pointed out that human nature is the end result of the freedom of the soul,calling the spiritual freedom of the contemporary people.On the other hand,the idea contains a unique perspective of the evaluate the result of governing,and the relationship between people and natural.Politicians cultivating their own nature will help their nature conservation.They can reduce mistakes by follow the principle of human nature in decision-making and improve social management capabilities.The construction of governance thought contains the methods and ideas of ecological governance.It reduce human’s excessive interventions to nature and improve the comprehensive quality of the earth’s ecological environment.