"This?" Confucius interrupted, "That's not what I meant! I mean! We must maintain the good character and excellent character of human beings! And not what you mean! In the Zhou ceremony, there are many excellent qualities, and we must preserve and inherit them! ”

"Oh! It's not a weekly gift again! It's just an excellent character in the weekly ceremony! Lao Tzu smiled.

"Yes! Mr! ”

"Excellent morality is to be maintained and inherited! But! We have to learn to be flexible! When facing real life, we have to learn to be flexible! Don't be dogmatic! Being flexible is not the same as not obeying the law and being moral! I also think these qualities are good, right? Do you think that human beings should preserve and pass on these virtues? But! Do we have to face real life?

In this troubled world, everyone is not abiding by the rituals and laws, why do we have to obey them? Isn't it? Of course! Not abiding by Zhou etiquette and Zhou law is not necessarily a bad person, but a bad character? And just! Forced by the living environment!

Isn't it? Being alive is the ultimate goal! If we were to live in order to be virtuous and to obey the law, would we not be flexible?

Don't be dogmatic to me and say that we can't give up virtue and character. Then I tell you that living is the goal, not observing virtue and virtue is the goal!

Isn't it contrary to the meaning of being born to be human for the sake of virtue and morality? Life is just a process of life, just to live, to complete the process of this life. We can't live, what more virtues and virtues do we need?

Don't talk to me about dogma, saying that if life is just to live, and ignore morality and virtue, without virtue and virtue, society will only be more chaotic.

Then I'll tell you! Just because someone else doesn't observe virtue and virtue just to live doesn't mean that person doesn't have virtue or virtue. And just! At some point, in special circumstances, it is only for the sake of living that there is no virtue or virtue.

For example! In the case of war, under the persecution of the enemy, if you will not be flexible, then! You're going to die! Isn't it?

And also! In troubled times! By your standards, most people don't follow the weekly rites and have no moral character to speak of. So? They all deserve to die?

All we can say is! This is the sadness of an age, not everyone else deserves to die!

So! Let's not understand anything dogmatically. Whether a person has a good character or not is not to look at the surface, nor to look at one thing or another. But! Usually most of the time, a person's consistent character, rather than looking at a person's momentary morality.

People with bad moral character, often in order to confuse others, show good moral character. If you believe him, then! You will definitely be planted under his hands in the future! The good character he shows is to deceive you!

Liars and bad guys are so confused about others! Do you understand? Kongqiu!

Zhou Lu and Zhou Li only served the aristocracy, not the common people. Now the key is! Zhou Lu and Zhou Li have been used by kings and nobles to serve them regardless of the lives of ordinary people.

So! In this case! At this stage! It's all about being alive! Let yourself survive first. But! Don't you understand that in order to survive, you will do whatever it takes, and you will have no morality? It's not the same thing!

Can we survive smartly? Survival of the fittest! It's not that those who are trying to survive are not virtuous? Don't understand it that way! ……”

Lao Tzu found that Confucius believed that only those who abide by moral character can gain a foothold in society and have the face to survive in society. And those who are unscrupulous and blindly trying to survive seem to be people who do not abide by moral character (Zhou etiquette), and they have no face to survive in front of people.

Observing virtue without flexibility is the foundation of being a human being. It is shameful to do whatever it takes to live.

Isn't this an overstatement?

Lao Tzu found that Confucius's understanding of things was radical. And also! Different perspectives affect the way things are viewed.

Confucius emphasized the future, a hypothetical future society. If we did, the future would be wonderful. And according to the fact that we do not mention that if we do this, will it work in the real society? Will there be resistance? Actually not realistic?

You assume that how you do it will be how it will be in the future. As long as you work hard, your dreams will come true.

This kind of assumption seems to be very advanced, but if you don't consider reality, ideals and reality cannot be combined, and ideals are not built on the basis of reality, but will only be utopian.

To know! The ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel!

If you assume that if you do this and work hard, the future will be better. But reality doesn't give you a chance to hypothesize, and all your efforts are in vain. So! Do you have a future?

So! In this case, we first have to accept reality and face it, rather than living in the future world you envision. No matter how good the future is, it doesn't exist for you. What you face is real life, and it is the real social life that you put yourself in.

Combined with the situation of Confucius, Lao Tzu really took a lot of thought and saliva. It's true! It's seldom that he's been so tirade. But for the sake of Fang Jishi, he is still willing to make another long speech.

And also! Although Confucius's ideas and practices are a bit extreme, they still have some merits.

For example! He founded a private school not for profit, but only for universal education. This! It deserves the respect of the world.

Even if others have the idea of universal education, they will not put it into action. This kind of thing that requires an advance and may lose money is something that only a fool would do.

But Confucius! He insisted on his private studies.

Originally! With his talents and abilities, if he learns to be flexible, his life will be very good.

For example! If he didn't want to be a "scholar", he would be a professional pist, and he could get a good reward for blowing the trumpet for others at funerals. And also! He is diligent and has a good brain, and he will soon be promoted to the leader of the mourning band, and his income will only be higher.

But he! In order to be a taxi, he gave up this profession.

If he learns to be flexible, listens to Ji Pingzi's words, and works for Ji Pingzi honestly, he can also get a good reward. But! He had to maintain his "good character" and "good character" and not do anything against his will.

He wants to do things for Lu Gong and Lu Guo, so he must be serious and responsible. He is to live for humanity, not for himself. So! He was unwilling to follow Ji Pingzi's arrangement, but instead worked against Ji Pingzi. Outcome! was stripped of power. At last! It's like this.

But he didn't want to think about it, if everyone in the world was Confucius, would there still be Ji Pingzi in Lu State? Does Ji Pingzi still have followers?

You have maintained your moral character, but you have not solved the social problems!

You are a dog who has maintained morality, did not listen to Ji Pingzi's words, and did not have Ji Pingzi. But! It doesn't mean that there is no dog behind Ji Pingzi. It's the same in the world, right? If everyone in the world were like you, Confucius, would the world be like this?

So! We have to accept the reality that you are doing this well and maintaining your own character. But! And it doesn't change social issues. Therefore! We're going to find another way. Find a path that everyone can accept and change the world.

Why is someone else not "Confucius" and not you? Can you say that no one in the world has good moral character? No! Others are just as virtuous as you are, and they have taken this issue into account. But! People see clearly that you can't change the world by doing this. So! I gave up. They have a different way of thinking, a different approach.

If they are only trying to live, why should they be in vain? Let's let ourselves survive for now! As long as you're alive, there's time to figure it out.

Let yourself survive first, and then let it be!

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