作为追求精神逍遥的代表，庄子总是以其洒脱不羁的形象给世人留下深刻的印象。但深入《庄子》文本，我们就会发现，庄子并非在人间烟火外追求精神的自由与超越，而是意在从对现实生活的切身体悟中开辟出一条心灵解脱之路。他深刻感受到，凡生存在世的人都“不得已”要受制于“命”的影响，这种“不知所以然而然”之事构成了人生的大限。虽然对不可逃的“命”的认识古已有之，但无人能像庄子一样如此直陈生命的无奈底色。“生死之命”的必然、“性命之命”的自然、“时命之命”的当然和“运命之命”的偶然，关涉着个体生命历程的全部，也构成了庄子对“命”的丰富见解。

“知命”，才能知如何“安身立命”。生命主体在世道中的安身立命，是庄子最终极的价值追求。所以对“命”的存在的强调，并非要将人们陷入痛苦的泥沼，而是在直面人生困境的基础上寻求破解之方，也即庄子对待“命”所做的修养工夫。他通过“齐一生死”、“人固无情”、“无用之用”、“与物委蛇”等精神实践来与“命”相抗，在心灵的自作主宰处，打通一切滞碍，以实现生命境界的平和与自由。所以“知命”只是起点，“安命”是路径，“达命”才是归宿。

本文旨在通过对庄子命论的分析，揭示出“命”于生命本原处不可逃的性质，但这并不构成对个体存在的意义和价值的消解，恰恰是在对“命”的体认与超越中确证了“我”之生存于世，彰显了“我”的独特性，这对深陷人生虚无和困顿中的人无疑具有精神慰藉作用。

Zhuangzi, as a representative of pursuing spiritual freedom, has always left a deep impression on people with his free and unrestrained image. However, by delving into the text of the "Zhuangzi," we can discover that he is not pursuing spiritual freedom and transcendence outside of the world, but rather aims to open up a path of spiritual liberation from his profound experience of real-life situations. He deeply feels that everyone who exists in the world is inevitably subject to the influence of "ming", which constitutes the limit of human life. Although the recognition of the inescapable "ming" is ancient, no one can express the helpless essence of life like Zhuangzi. The inevitability of "ming" in life, including the necessary "ming" of life and death, the natural "ming" of one's nature, the inevitable "ming" of time, and the accidental "ming" of luck, concerns the entire individual life process and constitutes Zhuangzi's rich understanding of "ming."

Only by "knowing one's fate" can one know how to "establish oneself in the world." The ultimate value pursuit of Zhuangzi is the establishment of the subject's survival in society. Therefore, the emphasis on the existence of "ming" is not to plunge people into the quagmire of suffering, but to seek a way to break through the difficulties of life based on facing them directly, that is, the cultivation that Zhuangzi has done to deal with "ming." Through spiritual practices such as "the unity of life and death", "man has no permanent emotions", "uselessness is the use", and "yield to things", he resists "ming" and breaks through all obstacles in the realm of the spirit, achieving peace and freedom in the realm of life. Therefore, "knowing one's fate" is only the starting point, "establishing oneself in the world" is the path, and "reaching one's fate" is the ultimate goal.

This article aims to reveal the inescapable nature of "ming" in the original essence of life through an analysis of Zhuangzi's philosophy of fate. However, this does not constitute the dissolution of the meaning and value of individual existence, but rather confirms the survival of "self" in the acknowledgement and transcendence of "ming," demonstrating the uniqueness of "self." This undoubtedly has a spiritual comforting effect on people who are deeply trapped in the emptiness and difficulties of life.