Chapter 17: Where the Road Leads
Listen to songs, watch movies, read comics, read various skill training books, read various magazines...... And so on, blah blah, all ordinary things can increase wisdom, not just by reading the scriptures.
There is a saying that is very good, twenty is always better than eighteen, in fact, this is the meaning, as people grow older, their experience will slowly become deeper, and after work, they will begin to rely on various laws to develop their own independent life.
A person who works hard and is good at thinking must have a much higher level of business than those colleagues who are usually lazy and not too hard-working.
Therefore, doing all kinds of work is cultivating all kinds of different methods, and the whole life is actually the greatest practice.
The only function of reading the classics is to watch the path traveled by the predecessors, and the rigid rule that those who study the classics professionally are the real cultivators, which is simply too narrow.
However, since people and the Fa are never separated, then reading books, of course, there is also a Fa to follow.
To put it simply, when reading a book that is very valuable, you should read it at least four times.
For the first time, read it carefully word by word to understand the meaning of each word.
The second time, I found a whole bunch of problems from the book.
The third time, from the original text, find the answers to these questions.
Fourth, the whole book is integrated and the author's ideas are clarified.
Therefore, in fact, reading is a very troublesome thing, only through a lot of reading, constantly improve your reading method, it is possible to directly skip the first three times, to reach the realm of no matter what book you read, you can understand it all at once.
Unless you are born with superior intelligence, otherwise, you have to constantly hone your own reading method.
In short, there is no special way to improve the reading level, but it is like driving, drawing, cooking, and exercising...... And so on, just keep practicing.
Therefore, insisting on reading some texts every day is actually a good habit, and it is always better to read than not to read.
As my reading method continues to improve, it varies from person to person, and one day, I will definitely experience the ease and fun of reading.
This is true of the reading method, and of course it is true of all kinds of myriad other methods.
The so-called cultivation is not a very mysterious, very mysterious thing, do your job well, take care of your family, keep a happy attitude to face every day, live a good life, and be a good person...... It is the greatest kind of practice.
Of course, whether this is the case or not is up to everyone to think for themselves.
Zi said: "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher." Choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good. ”
Whether it is from it or not, whether it is good or not, it is possible to make a choice after some thinking about it.
Master Shou'an told Wukong that his Dharma was different from Wukong, and he talked about the relationship between the Dharma and the Dao, but he found that because the qualifications of the little apprentice were too poor, he could not understand these things at all now.
So, Zen Master Shou'an sighed slightly and slowly continued: "In that brilliant era two thousand years ago, the saints relied on their wisdom to create great schools one after another, and finally reached the highest level. The wisdom, merit, wisdom, and fate of the teacher are incomparable with those who have come before them. However, as a teacher, he has also walked out of his own way and has his own achievements. Speaking of which, he asked Goku with a smile.
"Wukong, your path...... , where is ——!" With a sudden shout from Zen Master Shou'an, Wukong suddenly remained motionless and thought silently.
Yes, where is your own path, for this problem, Wukong, who is basically completely at ease with what he encounters, has not thought about it at all.
When he was in Erlin Temple, he became interested in martial arts, so he embarked on the road of martial arts, but martial arts ...... Is that the path he wants to take to the top?
When he sealed the Demon Mountain, he suddenly became the lord of a mountain due to a coincidence, but when he was a happy gardener, he provided resources for other fellow disciples...... Is that the path he wants to get to the top?
When he was in the Demon Realm, he worked as a slave, a governor, a general, a marshal, and a prisoner...... And so on and so forth, and so on and so forth, and have gone through all kinds of interesting paths, but these interesting paths ...... Is that the path he wants to get to the top?
It seems to be, and it seems to be none at all, for Goku, who has never thought about this problem, of course, he is confused.
After a long time, Wukong finally raised his head slowly, and replied to the master a little embarrassed: "That...... Master, Master...... What about me...... , it doesn't seem to be special...... I want to be a saint. When he had finished speaking, he quickly lowered his head.
He thought about it, and he was very satisfied with his current life, but he really couldn't figure out which way he was going to go all the way to the end.
For all his professions and all the fates, Wukong thinks it is very good, he doesn't ...... at all I don't want to give up.
If someone else is here and hears Wukong's shameless answer, it will have to kick him in the foot.
However, after listening to the apprentice's answer, Zen Master Shou'an only touched his head lovingly, smiled and continued: "Wukong, your life path has nothing to do with whether you can become a saint in the end. All the people in the world who want to become saints are just fools! Saints...... , it's just a title, it doesn't have any meaning!" After saying this vigorously, Zen Master Shou'an looked at the little apprentice with a confused face and continued to preach slowly.
"The only meaningful thing for a person to live a life is to make his life complete, which is his own business, and it has nothing to do with anyone. But what is perfection, what kind of life is a complete life? The answer to this question is that no one can answer you, and you can only rely on yourself to find the answer. The scriptures you have read are only the paths that the saints themselves walked. They are not you, and the life they think they have completed is not the life you are going to take. Therefore, people have their own fate, and their paths are different. The Dharma handed down by the first sanctuary can only be learned, learned, and understood, but in the final analysis, you must live out ...... , your own wonderful, your own life. After slowly preaching this, he saw that Wukong seemed to have an understanding, so he hurriedly continued.
"The so-called saints, the so-called supreme paths, are only a destination. Getting to this end can be said to be easy, or it can be said to be difficult. However, the meaning of life does not necessarily have to come to an end, and deliberately going to it will always be ...... , impossible to get to. The present is the past, the present is the future, and the present is the present, so ...... To live well in the present is to practice well and be a good person. Everyone's definition of perfection is different, but if you can't do a good job of being a perfect person, how can you talk about it...... After smiling, Zen Master Shou'an looked calmly, there were already all the enlightened little disciples.