道教之中有一句非常知名的话曰：“我命在我不在天”。这是道教的重要教义之一，也是道教徒向死亡宣战的口号，意为个人的生命同天地一样，都是由自然之气所化生，人如果凭借智慧通过造化之理，盗取阴阳之机，修道守气，返本归根，就可以与道同在，寿比天长。
然而你可知道，“我命在我不在天”这句话竟然有四个出处，分别为：
1、悟真紫阳真人张伯端《悟真·绝句六十四首》：“药逢气类方成象，道在虚无合自然，一粒灵丹吞入腹，始知我命不由天。”
注曰：此药为甘露，为先天真一之炁，为母炁。后天己身之炁为子炁，母子相见，为同类之物，自会凝结，如钟乳之状。采药之要，在于候自己活子时之炁动，此炁动为自然之动，非有意使其动。丹经曰：“勿忘勿助。”“勿忘”乃指不要忘记此机，此机至而不知，是因为昏沉散乱。“勿助”指不要发淫思，有意助之，使外阳举。必须于无思无虑之混沌虚无中，活子时至，才为采药之机。学士采之炼之，自然能得此先天阳炁，将纯阴之体换为纯阳之体，自知丹之可成，我命在我不在天。
2、晋代道教理论家葛洪《抱朴子·内篇》
葛洪一度做过晋朝的中高级官员，但他最大的兴趣是炼丹。他炼丹的目的就是为了成仙，在葛洪看来，神仙是一定存在的，但人类的寿命则是掌握在自己手中。《抱朴子·内篇》卷十六《黄白》写道“龟甲文曰：我命在我不在天，还丹成金亿万年。”
3、道书《真气还元铭》曾对这一宣言作了如下阐释：“言人性命生死，由人自己。人若能知自然之道，运动元和之气，外吞二景，内服五芽，动制百灵，静安五脏，则寒温饥渴不能侵，五兵白刃不能近。死生在手，变化由心，地不能埋，天不能煞。此之为我命在我也，不在于天。”
4、《西升经》中《我命章》说：“我命在我，不属天地。我不视不听不知，神不出身，与道同久。吾与天地分一气而治，自守根本也。”北周道士韦处玄注解说：“天地与我俱禀自然一气之所性，各是一物耳，焉能生我命乎？我但去心知，绝耳目，各守根本之一气，则与道同久矣。”
由此可见，尽管《抱朴子·黄白篇》和《西升经》所提出的达到“与道同久”的方式不同，但都指出我命在我、不在天地，强调通过自身的努力，可以延年益寿、长生不老。
道教认为性命由己、生命操之在我的一个主要理念，就是人可以通过自身主观努力，能不断提高个体生命的质量，这是一种积极进取的生命自主观。以上四种解读从不同方面点出了这一主题，也足见道教思想之于普通百姓的重大意义。
There is a very well-known saying in Taoism: "My life is in my destiny." This is one of the important teachings of Taoism and the slogan for Taoists to declare war on death. It means that the life of an individual, like the heavens and the earth, is transformed by the aura of nature. Chance, cultivating the Tao and keeping the spirit, returning to the roots, you can live with the Tao and live longer than the sky.
However, do you know that there are four sources for the phrase "I am not in heaven", which are as follows:
1. Zhang Boduan, the real Ziyang figure of Wuzhen, "Sixty-four Poems of Wuzhen · Quatrains": "The prescription of medicine meets qi forms an image, the Tao is in nothingness and nature, and when a pill is swallowed into the abdomen, I will not know my life."
Note: This medicine is nectar, which is the congenital Zhenyi's Qi, and it is the mother Qi. The day after tomorrow, one's own Qi is a Zi Qi, and when the mother and child meet, they are of the same kind, and they will condense like a stalactite. The key to picking medicine is to move one's child while waiting for one's own child. This movement is a natural movement, and it is not intentional to make it move. The Dan Sutra says: "Don't forget, don't help." "Don't forget" means don't forget this machine. The reason for this machine is not knowing it because of drowsiness and confusion. "Don't help" means not to have lustful thoughts, but to help them deliberately so as to cause external yang movements. You must be in the chaos and nothingness of thoughtlessness, and the time to live is the opportunity to gather medicine. The scholars can naturally obtain this innate yang chaos by refining it, replacing the body of pure yin with the body of pure yang, knowing that the pill can be accomplished, my life is in my absence.
2. "Baopuzi·Inner Chapter" by Ge Hong, Taoist theorist in the Jin Dynasty
Ge Hong once served as a senior official in the Jin Dynasty, but his greatest interest was alchemy. The purpose of his alchemy is to become immortals. In Ge Hong's view, immortals must exist, but the life span of human beings is in his own hands. "Baopuzi·Inner Chapter" Volume 16 "Yellow Bai" writes, "The tortoise shell inscription says: My life is in my absence, and the pill will become gold for hundreds of millions of years."
3. The Taoist book "Zhen Qi Huai Yuan Ming" once explained this declaration as follows: "The life and death of a person is up to the person. If a person knows the way of nature, exercises the Qi of Yuan and He, swallows two scenes outside, Taking the five buds orally to control Bailing, Jingan's five internal organs, the cold, hunger and thirst cannot be invaded, and the five soldiers cannot be approached. It’s not in the sky."
4. The "My Fate Chapter" in "West Rising Classics" says: "My fate is mine, not heaven and earth. I don't watch or hear. God is not born, and stays with the Tao. Keeping the fundamentals." Wei Chuxuan, a Taoist priest of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, commented: "Heaven and earth are all natural and natural. Each is an ear. How can it be my life? But I must know the truth, and keep the fundamental. With one breath, you will stay with the Tao for a long time."
It can be seen that although the "Baopuzi·Huangbai Pian" and "Xishengjing" put forward different ways to achieve "longevity with the Tao", they both point out that my life is my life, not in the world, and emphasizes that through my own efforts, It can prolong life and live forever.
Taoism believes that one of my main beliefs is that life is one's own responsibility and that life is in charge of my life. It is that people can continuously improve the quality of individual life through their own subjective efforts. This is a positive and enterprising view of life autonomy. The above four interpretations point out this theme from different aspects, which also shows the great significance of Taoism to ordinary people.
