Chapter 85 On the Tao
The heart of man is small and intolerant of two, but large is inclusive of all things, and its complexity is unpredictable. There are people in the world who are unpredictable, who know people who know their faces but do not know their hearts, and there are also people who are lofty, and they do not know the ambitions of the birds.
These are Ye Zhiqiu's touching words in the modern world.
And when the aura was revived, he didn't feel much emotion, but he felt that the mind and body were extremely important.
The physical body naturally has to be cultivated, but as for the cultivation of the soul, Ye Zhiqiu has never started, so this time he saw Wang Yangming, and he wanted to ask Wang Yangming how to cultivate his mind.
"I don't know the Tao of the Heart, but I can talk about my Heart Learning, hoping to help the National Teacher and Taoist. ”
Wang Yangming talked about his psychology.
Zhu Zi is another saint after the Confucian sage, his "Commentary on the Four Books" is the designated textbook for scientific research, his thoughts are recognized as "the truth of the world", and the things that Zhu Zi pursued in his life are called "Tao". The Tao is the sum of all the laws in the world, and if you understand the Tao, you can understand everything in the world. How can we achieve enlightenment? Zhu Zi said: Knowing from things. Ge is the meaning of pondering - only by constantly lattice things and get in close contact with things can we understand the "reason" contained in them. When I was twenty-one years old, after reading Zhu Zi's works, I went to my home to "Gezhu", sat under a green bamboo in the yard, and stared intently at the bamboo, hoping to understand the mystery of the changes of bamboo and grasp the law of change of everything in the world. After seven days and seven nights, I never realized the Tao, but I fainted, so I sighed: "The sage's words are suspicious", and I gradually developed my own mind. ”
Wang Yangming talked about the past, and Ye Zhiqiu was a little stunned when he heard it, he only knew that Zhu Xi seemed to have proposed something to "save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires", which seemed to be a very bad thing. As for the deeper ones, he hasn't read them either, after all, it's Zhu Xi's stuff, not Taoism.
Starting from the way of heaven and earth, science points out that all things are reasonable, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom are innate natures, and the reason why there are good and evil is because they are covered by different temperaments, so they must have heavenly principles and eliminate human desires; The so-called: Although mortals do not have saints, they can be no different from them in terms of color. Therefore, from the perspective of mental effort, it is necessary to "discover conscience" from time to time, so as to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature, and integrate knowledge and action. ”
Wang Yangming said leisurely, and the words he said made Ye Zhiqiu probably know the difference between science and psychology, it seems that science is not as bad as Ye Zhiqiu imagined, but what Wang Yangming said is still a little abstract, so that Ye Zhiqiu can only understand it in general.
"Mental effort and matter kung fu are integrated and unified, in daily life, always follow the conscience ontology to act, be fair and honest and worthy of the heart, and dust away, but seek naturalness, it is not right to be a little more complacent or regretful.
In this way, over time, my Confucian scholars will be able to feel the righteousness and lack of indebtedness, so "no entry and no self-satisfaction". ”
"Daoyou is a great talent!"
Ye Zhiqiu had never seen Mencius, and he didn't know what kind of demeanor Mencius had as an existence of "I am good at cultivating Haoran's qi", but he had already seen Wang Yangming and saw that he was full of Haoran righteousness. Such Confucianism has reached the realm of great Confucianism, not rotten Confucianism and sour Confucianism.
Confucianism is a word, and it is bright and bright.
Through the inner moral intuition and realistic moral practice, I can touch the ontology of conscience and feel the spiritual realm of the clouds and the moon, and the mirror without dust, which is rooted in morality and beyond morality, including the realm of "benevolence and heaven and earth as one", and also "love all things and be ruthless" The feeling of no stagnation, on the basis of my Confucianism's emphasis on morality, absorbs the realm of Buddhism and Taoism, which is not hiding in the small building to comfort itself, but the mind of the brave man, behind this realm is great happiness, is lively, is the grand duke, conscience is as lively as the river, such as when crying then crying, although crying this heart is still happy, as long as it is in the heart of the duke, joy, anger and sorrow are not impossible, so it is still and fixed, and the movement is also fixed. ”
“......”
Ye Zhiqiu said that he didn't seem to understand very well.
This great Confucian told him the essence of his mind and the Tao, and even with his current thinking ability, he was still a little confused.
He thought about it carefully and again, and this great Confucian probably talked about several theories, one is "the heart is reason", the other is "the unity of knowledge and action", and "to conscience".
Asking for "Heavenly Principles" does not need to destroy people's desires, just because Heavenly Principles are in everyone's hearts, people should "unite knowledge and action" to improve their inner cultivation and wisdom, remove their own selfish desires and distracting thoughts, and achieve "conscience". As this great Confucian often said: Although mortals do not have saints, they can be no different from them in terms of color.
"The heart of the Taoist friend, if it is really mysterious, I have a question, you see this flower, in the palace spontaneously bloomed and fell, the heart of the Taoist friend may be controlled? Could it be that the heart of the Taoist friend let it open, it opened, and the heart of the Taoist friend let it fall, and it fell?"
"When you don't look at this flower, this flower and your heart will die together, and when you come to see this flower, the color of this flower will be understood for a while. ”
Wang Yangming smiled and replied leisurely.
Too many people have asked him this question.
"How can you confirm that this flower is real? It is now in front of you, is it true or false? If you dream of it at night, it is still before you, how can you judge whether it is true or false at that time? I am standing in front of you now, I am true or false, if I am standing in front of you in a dream, how can you judge whether it is true or false? Maybe it's just a dream of Daoyou, maybe it's just a seven or eight-year-old child when you wake up, it's just a dream for decades, and you know that the dream is a dream when you wake up, maybe everything in this world is just a dream, and we live in a dream, someone wakes up, we are gone, and Daoyou may be confirmed?"
Ye Zhiqiu couldn't help but say a few more words when he saw that he was happy, but he heard Tianbao sweat coldly.
This adult really thinks about how much he meows!
What do you mean that I'm standing in front of you, am I true or not? Of course it's true.
I'm already standing before you, am I still a fake?
As for the real flowers in the dream, it's really hard to distinguish.
Forget it, he doesn't want to think about these things anymore, if he thinks about it anymore, his head will blow up.
It's two Godmen!
Tianbao listened to Ye Zhiqiu's discussion with another Lord Wang in the field, and only felt that it was really a god who interacted with a god, and only a godman could understand what he said, and an ordinary man like him really couldn't understand their words and was easily dizzy.
"I think, therefore I am. ”
At this time, Wang Yangming gave Ye Zhiqiu an answer.
"Hmm...... It's similar to Descartes'. ”