Chapter 672: Treating the Symptoms is the Means
"And there is no cure?" After Confucius listened to Lao Tzu's words, he was not convinced.
"Treating the symptoms is just a means to deal with social problems. If we don't have a purpose, then! It can only solve the immediate problem, but not the root cause! ”
"This?"
"You probably don't understand that! Again, I'll give you an example. Lao Tzu said with a headache.
It's true! He felt that it was too hard to talk to Confucius! If you don't use examples to illustrate, people won't understand? If you use an example to illustrate, people will talk to you about the matter, and then divert the topic again!
But! Thinking about it, Lao Tzu is relieved! Because! He didn't systematically explain his Taoist theories, he and Confucius only met today, Confucius didn't understand his Taoism, but he had a certain understanding of Confucius.
Lao Tzu has known Confucius for a long time, and he knew Confucius before he became famous. He knew about Confucius from Fang Jishi, and he got to know this person in general. Afterward! Isn't it? Lege came to Luoyi again, to the Zhou Zang Room? He also learned some about Confucius from Lege. So! He knew a little bit about Confucius.
And Confucius! Immersed in the study of Zhou Li, he didn't take the "Tao of Lao Tzu" to him about the other party's cornerstone and Lege, and he didn't think about it carefully.
Furthermore! Fang Jishi and Le Ge have no experience in lecturing, and they are often blocked by him. Just like now, he often interrupted Lao Tzu's topic on the matter. If it weren't for Lao Tzu's experience in preaching, wouldn't it be interrupted and diverged? Say that! The topic can't go on, and often it doesn't go on.
You can't talk about Confucius, you can't convince Confucius, you can't preach to him.
Perhaps it is for this reason that Confucius found a reason to refute, so! can often divert the topic of Lao Tzu.
Although he did not understand Lao Tzu's Tao, he was already familiar with Lao Tzu's Tao. So! He was able to quickly divert the topic of Lao Tzu.
"For example! Take you as an example, what you are doing, you think you are saving the world? Saving humanity? Save the Great Zhou world? Not really! You can only say that this is in vain! You don't accept it! Isn't it? That! You are not in a hurry to argue with me, don't divert the topic! Listen to me! I'm done, if you think I'm wrong, then! You argue again! Good no good? ”
Lao Tzu also obeyed Confucius, if you don't block his mouth and don't let him speak, then! He would just talk about things and divert the topic.
"Sir, please speak!" Confucius said.
If Lao Tzu hadn't blocked his mouth, he would have argued on the spot.
"You say you're universally educated, aren't you? On the surface, it seems to be doing good deeds and doing things that are beneficial to society. Isn't it? But! For me, you're just the symptom but not the root cause! Because! How many people have you only popularized? What are your students? Isn't it? How many students can you reach in your lifetime? ”
"This?" When Confucius heard this, he was not convinced.
I think you're talking or a moving ring? Praise me and praise me for a while! After a while, he said that I was "treating the symptoms but not the root cause"? You have two layers of skin on your mouth, the upper skin of your mouth and the skin of your lower mouth, opening and closing up and down, whatever you say!
"Don't divert from me! I'm not done yet! Lao Tzu saw that Confucius was not convinced, and he wanted to divert the topic again, so he quickly interrupted.
"Sir, please speak!" Confucius said in a somewhat distorted tone.
Or rather! Some are angry and rough and rough.
"How many students can you teach in your lifetime? And also! Don't tell me! You are still a student, and students are also going to popularize education, chickens and eggs, eggs and chickens, endlessly, isn't it? Then I'll tell you! You're just as futile!
Because! The population is also endless! Life and death, life and death! Isn't it? Furthermore! The Great Zhou world is so big! Relying on your ability alone, relying on your ability to pass on the skills of teachers and students, how young can you popularize education to the world? Isn't it?
Don't you speak! Don't digress! Listen! I'll say everything you want to say! Leave you speechless!
You want to say! As long as you work hard, your dreams will come true! Isn't it? So! I'm telling you! Your dreams and ideas are right! But! It's too stupid and too slow! I still have faster ways and methods, and I can also popularize education!
So! I say you are in vain! All your efforts are only a symptom, not a cure. You are willing to spend so much time passing on the education from teacher to student, and you only see the surface of social problems, but you do not see the fundamentals!
If you don't accept it, you won't accept it here! You don't see the root of the problem. So! You think you're doing the right thing! If you see the root of the problem, then! You will think that all your efforts are in vain!
Cure! Although it is also necessary to popularize education, it is also necessary to start with social problems and social phenomena, and to start with the symptoms, but! It's not the same as treating the symptoms, it's curing!
Then you have to ask me? What is a cure! Radical! That's what I'm talking about! Solve the problem at the root, once and for all! Temporary! It is only a phenomenon that has emerged by controlling social phenomena, visible phenomena, and has not been cured! ”
"So! Excuse me, sir? What is the cure? Is it the root cause? Confucius couldn't hold back anymore and interrupted again.
Lao Tzu said this for a long time, and he had the impression that his approach had no merit and was in vain! It is a quack doctor who treats the sick, the head of the headache, and the foot pain. Yes and dilute mud, it is to solve the surface problem, but not to cure the root problem.
But if you don't do this, you won't come to universal education? Just rely on public schools to popularize the aristocracy? Is there any salvation in this society? Is there any salvation in the Great Zhou world?
"Education still needs to be educated, and popularizing knowledge is still about popularizing knowledge! Kongqiu! Don't think I'm denying you! In fact, it is not to deny you, on the contrary, it is to affirm you! You are right to educate universally. But! What do you want to tell your students what they live for, and what do they live for? If you make a mistake in the education of your outlook on life, all your efforts will be in vain! That's what I mean! ”
Confucius smiled bitterly and said to himself, "Why do you go around what people live for, and what do people live for?" What about this topic? ”
Lao Tzu also smiled bitterly and said, "I don't go around like this, can you understand?" Can you take this seriously? You yourself don't have a correct outlook on life, you don't know what people live for, and what people live for? What do you take to educate students? You? ”
"Me?"
"You're arguing with me again? You? I told you one night, and you just don't want to accept my teachings! You just have to take matters into account, and you are still not convinced! You? Alas! ”
"Me?"
"Then you say to me what man lives for, and what man lives for? If you're not right, then! Your private education can only be said to be universal basic education, and it cannot change the fate of mankind! ”
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