Zhuangzi: I Will Die an Ordinary Death

Zhuangzi: I Will Die an Ordinary Death
I will die an ordinary death.
On an ordinary day, in an ordinary place, I will be forgotten in an ordinary way. I, everything external to me, and my words will disappear in an ordinary way.
How peaceful and fair this ordinariness is. Death is the final rest, eternal tranquility.
I will end my human journey and become atoms once again, an ordinary part of nature once again. All the atoms under heaven are my equal brothers. I will leave the Way of human life and return to the Way of the universe. And one day, nature and the universe will also perish.
I am at peace with life and at peace with death. I delight in life and delight in death. I follow the natural course and practice non-action. Restlessness and needless struggle serve no purpose; they only make life distressing and dying distressing, bringing trouble upon oneself.
I no longer have any attachments. In life, clinging cannot secure what I want; after death, there is even less need to cling. No self, no attachment.
I do not agonize over the fates of other ordinary people, because everyone, like me, lives out an ordinary fate and dies an ordinary death. Follow the ordinary course.
I do not trouble myself over death, whether my own or anyone else’s. When Zhuangzi’s wife died, he beat on a basin and sang. Liezi saw a skull, and the skull laughed at him for being unable to live in peace. Of course, I respect life, both my own and others’; this follows the instinct of life.
Zhuangzi’s eight absences: no self, no attachment; no ability, no action; no desire, no seeking; no worry, no anxiety.