Chapter 237: The Taiping Sutra
The wagon is very comfortable and covered with thick felt, so you won't feel bumpy even if you walk at a faster speed.
Ignoring Jian Yong, after the two sat opposite each other, Liu Bei asked with a smile: "De Ran doesn't ask about yesterday's incident, but asks if something big happened, is it possible that he has already gotten the news, right!" ”
"No news, just some speculation! It should be a matter of Taipingdao, right? ”
Liu Bei laughed, he nodded his head heavily, and said: "It's all straightforward, if this is a guess, I'm afraid that De Ran can't say it, but it's ......."
When he said the word 'but', Liu Bei's smile disappeared instantly, and after his appearance, he became extremely strict, staring at Liu Lan with deep eyes, how could he know the truth like this now, it was clearly a guess in his mouth, if it was just a guess, then this person was much smarter than he imagined, and said: "In the countryside and fields these years, there are ten people who believe in the Taiping Tao, who can't see it, De Ran said that it is a guess that he must have noticed these people, right?" ”
"Almost!" Liu Lan was sloppy, did he still admit that he knew it because later generations looked at history? And his understanding of the Yellow Turban is at most from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the concept of them is more about the people who can't eat enough to eat before they raise their heads to rebel, at best, they are just some people who were forced to go to Liangshan, as for the Taiping Road, they don't know anything, and now they have to know a thing or two, although I don't know if Liu Bei can solve the puzzle, but since the topic is on the Taiping Road, he also opened his mouth and asked: "Does Xuande know the ins and outs of the Taiping Road?" ”
Liu Bei smiled and said I don't know, but then the conversation changed and said, "But I heard my uncle talk about it, if Deran wants to hear it, I can tell you about it." ”
Seeing Liu Lan's deaf listening, Liu Bei smiled, and then, as if he was a memory, he muttered for a long time before he truthfully said what his uncle Liu Yuanqi said last night: "Emperor Huan Yanxi in the ninth year of the plain Xiangkai wrote a book: The minister in front of the Lang Evil Palace worships Yu Ji (a work of Ganji) divine book, which is not in line with the Ming Listening. ”
Liu Lan listened inexplicably, but saw Liu Bei smiled awkwardly, and said that the back forgot, Liu Lan's face was blue and he saw Liu Bei sipping tea, and said that although he forgot the back of this paragraph, he still remembered, when his uncle said that Emperor Shun, Lang Evil Palace Chongyi Que, and his teacher Yu Ji obtained one hundred and seventy volumes of divine books on Quyang Spring Water, all of which are ethereal white su, Zhu Jie, Qingshou, Zhu Mu, and the Taiping Sutra praised by this rebellious Taiping Dao is the Taiping Qing Collar Book. ”
Liu Lan nodded silently, he knew the Taiping elements, and he also knew the Taiping Sutra, to put it bluntly, it was the Taiping Qing Collar Book, the name was different, but its essence was the same.
"As for the content of the Taiping Sutra, I actually don't know much, but I heard my uncle talk about it last night, so I also know something about the Taiping Sutra."
Liu Lan opened his eyes when he heard this, and asked quietly: "I don't know how Liu Lao knows?" ”
"Xiangkai and his uncle are even friends, and it is natural that he knows the teachings of Taiping Dao."
Liu Lan nodded but saw Liu Bei smile bitterly: "It's good that Deran knows about this matter alone, so he continued: The Taiping Sutra says that the origin of all things in heaven and earth is the Tao, the vitality, and the one, and that the three of them are both related to each other and different from each other. Therefore, the Taiping Sutra believes that the Tao is the head of all things, and the Tao is also, the head of all things, and the one who cannot be named. Among the six poles, there is no way and cannot change. The vitality of the Tao is to give birth to all things, the size of heaven and earth, and all those who are born from the Tao.
After a pause, Liu Bei sweated wildly in his heart, not that he didn't want to say it but that he forgot what his uncle said yesterday and that it was not important, at this moment, he listened carefully, and he couldn't wait to find a crack to drill, but there was no crack in the car, so he could only find an excuse and perfunctory: "It's a pity that Uncle is not very attentive to these, so I only know about these." Can't you believe me? Looking at Liu Lan's strange eyes, Liu Bei was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and how violently he reacted. Liu Lan's eyes were straight, he didn't expect Liu Bei to react so much, but Liu Bei was because of the two consecutive forgettings that made him feel embarrassed in front of Liu Lan, and felt that Liu Lan's eyes were sarcastic, and this qiē naturally did not escape Liu Lan's fiery eyes, thinking to himself, how do you feel that this Liu Bei has some self-esteem too strong? You must know that in later generations, there is a saying that too strong self-esteem is inferiority, but Liu Bei is the kind of Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, maybe his jokes are too much, and he hurriedly put away the joke and showed a blank expression, this expression made Liu Bei ease down, and when he saw Liu Lan's expression again, he didn't find any ridicule, could it be that he was too sensitive? Liu Bei, who was secretly relieved, skipped the embarrassment in front of him for the first time with a shy face, and said: Although my uncle didn't care about these things, some of the ideas in the book still made my uncle (actually him, so I remember it more clearly), and the most important point is that the book does not preach the Tao and vitality and oneness, but occupies the most space, and the most detailed discussion is its idea of governing the world and saving the world. ”
Liu Lan nodded silently, he probably understood a little, maybe Liu Yuanqi was very satisfied with some of the propositions in the book and would be particularly interested, and for a moment he was very interested, wondering what the idea of governing the world that could make Liu Yuanqi very attentive to it said, so he asked: "What does the book say?" I wonder if Xuande can know? ”
Liu Bei didn't want to think about it and said: "The reason why the Taiping Sutra is named after Taiping is that its purpose is to pursue Taiping and achieve Taiping. The book says: Tai, Daye. It is said that its accumulation is like the sky, and everything is great, and there is no one who is greater than the sky. The mediocre one means that his governance is too average, everything is reasonable, and there is no revenge. This kind of peaceful society is a fair, happy, and disaster-free harmonious society, once the disaster has been eliminated, the world is happy, all want to be a moral person, and the future life is like the previous life, and the old and childish will rise with each other,...... For every thing in heaven and earth is to have its place, and the gods are happy because of all things. ”
Liu Lan was shocked when he heard it, such a peaceful and prosperous era would not dare to be imagined by future generations, if it was to be realized in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was this just a daydream? No wonder the peace can't make the climate make a wedding dress for others. When I slandered the Taiping Dao in my heart, I listened to Liu Bei and then said that the Taiping Sutra also put forward the average idea of saving the poor and urgent, and criticized the phenomenon of those who accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars and refused to save the poor and urgent, so that people died of hunger and cold.
Hearing this, Liu Lan knew why Taiping Dao could receive so many believers, and these few sentences alone could be regarded as grasping the current affairs and reflecting the wishes and demands of the working people in a certain way.
Later, Liu Bei talked about some of the ways of governing the country proposed in the Taiping Sutra, especially the people-oriented people-oriented thought, and the book said that the monarch and the people were short of food and clothing, which made them feel sad. Therefore, the way to govern the country is to put the people first. Without the people, the king and the ministers are ungoverned and unreasonable. It is the great sages and sages of the ancients who govern things together, but they focus on the people and worry about the people.
From these points of view, it can be seen that the Taiping Sutra is very realistic to see the dependence between the ruler and the people, some of which are like fish and water, and the words are very simple, and it is clear that the ruler cannot live without the people, and he loses the basis for his existence, that is, the living person is called self-living, and the murder is called suicide.
However, the people-oriented thought of the Taiping Sutra also has contradictions, because on the one hand, it denies the supremacy of the emperor, saying that the emperor can be sacred to heaven and earth, and the husband is the ear of the people! On the other hand, it beautifies the emperor as a benevolent saint with tens of thousands of people.
Moreover, the Taiping Sutra also emphasizes learning, advocating that people are born ignorant, and good people and bad people are the result of different learning. It says: People are born as gentlemen, and they are all learned by the ears of learning.
Learn the way, its humanity; Learn to be virtuous, and its people will get (virtue); Learn to be good, and its people are good; …… Learn to be evil, and others are evil; Learn it with literature, its humanities; Learn to be false, and its people are hypocritical; Learn it skillfully, and its people are skillful. And ploughing as a metaphor to illustrate the importance of learning: the husband is stupid and does not learn, the husband is poor and does not plough, the man can reap, the day is virtuous, and the ploughing has a harvest.
Hearing this, Liu Lan was a little tongue-smacking, this is similar to Xunzi's sexual evil theory, right?
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ps:
Written in the Han Dynasty, according to historical records, there are three kinds: one is the 12 volumes of Gan Zhongke of Qi when the Western Han Dynasty became the emperor, claiming to be the real red sperm of the Emperor of Heaven; the second came out when Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty; The third is what Zhang Ling obtained when he was Emperor Shun.