 It is, therefore, meaningless to feel emotions as positive, negative, attractive or repulsive as it is equally meaningless to describe day and night as positive or negative. Zhuangzi believes that developing likes or dislikes (affective interpretations or evaluations of our sensory and perceptual interaction with the world) is an inappropriate way to feel or understand naturally arising emotions and can hurt individuals who are caught by their likes and dislikes. Thus, he says that one should not “by his likes and dislikes do any inward harm to himself” (Zhuangzi, 5.6). In the following conversation, he explains his thoughts on how one should approach feelings and emotions.