Prime Minister

Chapter 131 Admiration
When Zhang Yue and Liu Zuo returned to the Zhaishe together.

But seeing Xiang Qi and Huang Haoyi standing outside the door, Zhang Yue and the others couldn't help being curious: "How dare you ask?"

Huang Haoyi pointed to the house, and the two looked inside.Cheng Yi was holding a book, sitting on his knees on the bed facing the wall, chanting words in his mouth, repeating the words 'no goodness, no disgusting body...' over and over again.

Zhang Yue was stunned and said, it's over, it's over, he has led a great master of Neo Confucianism astray.

Zhang Yue suddenly felt infinite remorse in his heart. He pretended to be a force for nothing. Although he did not agree with Neo-Confucianism, without Neo-Confucianism, there would be less colorful volumes in the history of Chinese thought.

In order to pretend to be coercive, if I kill Cheng Yi's point of view, then I will become a sinner.

Zhang Yue didn't know what to do at the moment.

"Sanlang, what did you say to Uncle Zheng?"

Zhang Yue said, "It's just a verse."

Liu Zuo said: "Oh? Sanlang is proficient in the Shi family?"

Buddhist gatha consists of four lines,
All premeditated dharmas are like dream bubbles.It is like dew and electricity, so it should be viewed as such.This is the verse of the Diamond Sutra.

Also, there is no bodhi tree, and the mirror is not a stand.There is nothing, where is the dust. 'This is also a verse.

Buddhist gatha generally consists of four lines.And these four sentences of "no goodness and no disgusting body" are also called the four tactics of mind learning.It is called by Wang Yangming the purpose of learning in a lifetime. For hundreds of years, many people have thought about it, but Cheng Yi couldn't realize it in a short time.

When Liu Zuo heard Zhang Yue say "Four Sentences of Learning from the Mind", the other party also looked at a loss.

Liu Zuo said: "Uncle Zheng has always been like this, let's not disturb him."

Zhang Yue said: "That's the only way to go, let's go to the restaurant for lunch first."

"Forget it! I'm hungry too."

Immediately the four of them left together, Zhang Yue looked at Cheng Yi in the house and said, "Uncle Zheng, let's go eat!"

Cheng Yi didn't react at all, and didn't listen to Zhang Yue's words.

Everyone had no choice but to go to eat first.

Along the way, Liu Zuo and Zhang Yue said: "But on the days of the third and eighth class exams, the public kitchen will set up special dishes, spring and autumn cooking cakes, summer cold panning, and winter steamed buns. This steamed bun is the most famous, and our Tai students are reluctant to bear it." Eat it and give it to relatives and acquaintances."

At this moment, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of the Taixue steamed bun that Cai Que invited him to eat, it was really delicious.

Zhang Yue couldn't help asking: "What about weekdays?"

Liu Zuo let out a long sigh, and said to Qibu: "Our Tai students have a saying, 'There is Fa Toutuo Temple, and there is no official censor platform'. There is Fa Toutuo Temple. But the bright self-promise. Our college students all laugh at themselves, taking shadows as wives and chairs as concubines."

Everyone laughed loudly at this point.

Zhang Yue secretly laughed in his heart, isn't the left hand the right hand?
"As for the 'Unofficial Yushitai', I don't need to say more."

I heard that in recent years, the students of Tai Tai are "good at commenting on current affairs, and even the ministers dare not say anything, and they dare not scold people when they scold the censor", so it is called "no official censor platform".

Everyone immediately went to the public kitchen. Today is not a day of class exams, and the food is really just mediocre.

Taixue used to have only 200 people, but recently it has expanded to more than 700 people, so the funds are not enough.On weekdays, the food expenses for the students are only [-] yuan a month, an average of [-] yuan a day.

Therefore, Hu Yuan and other Taixue lecturers paid out of their own salaries to give students extra meals on the third and eighth exam days.

Different from the credit meal in Zhouxue and County, Taixue has a shared meal. There is a table for each room. There is a wooden barrel on the table, which contains about two liters of rice, less than five hemi for one person, and some pickles.

As for one person, one earthenware pot contains rice soup, and the rest is five-in-one rice, but there is one dish that is the same as that in Zhouxian School, and that is steamed eggplant.

A few white steamed eggplants were cut in half, and the white meat was poured with soy sauce, which tasted really good.

But when it comes to eating eggplant, we have to talk about Zhu Xi and his old man.

When Zhu Xi was giving lectures in Mount Wuyi, he and his students ate millet rice and eggplant on weekdays.One day a man named Hu Hong came all the way to visit Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi gave him rice with eggplant and millet.

Hu Hong was so angry that he would say to everyone, "This is not human."A chicken respects wine, and there is no lack of food in the mountains'

Even if there is nothing in the mountains, you still entertain me with a chicken and wine. I have never seen such an unkind person like you.

Then after Hu Hong became an official, impeaching Zhu Xi was the first crime of hypocrisy!
Such a poor life in Taixue made Zhang Yue think of "eat second and third class meals, and be a first- and second-rank official" in prefectural and county schools.

But looking at the purple eggplant, Zhang Yue couldn't help laughing at himself: "Eat purple eggplant today, and wear purple clothes tomorrow!"

Everyone laughed when they heard it.

After everyone had eaten, Liu Zuo put the leftovers in clay pots, covered them with bowls, and brought them back to the fasting house.

But Cheng Yi was still covering his head in the dormitory, sitting cross-legged on the couch facing the wall, thinking hard.Liu Zuo took the rice and said, "Uncle Zheng, have a bite!"

But Cheng Yi shook his head.

Liu Zuo said helplessly to Zhang Yue: "Sanlang, you should persuade him!"

Zhang Yue was about to step forward, but hesitated to speak, thinking of the consequences of leading Cheng Yi astray just now, will there be no Neo Confucianism in the future?
There are three schools of Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, namely Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, Lu Jiuyuan's Xinxue, and Lu Zuqian's Gonggong School.

The Neo Confucianism was established as an official school by the Ming Dynasty, which is the Ming Dynasty's thought of governing the country.

A doctrine is adapted to an era.

Where Zhang Yue is better than Cheng Yi lies in his vision, the knowledge and insights accumulated over the past 1000 years.

Cheng Yi didn't know Wang Yangming, hadn't read biography and Xilu, and didn't understand Western philosophy or modern thought.This is not something a person can surpass no matter how smart he is or how hard he tries to experience it. This is the difference in vision.

Zhang Yue sat beside Cheng Yi and asked, "Brother Cheng, have you realized anything?"

Cheng Yi looked at Zhang Yue with bloodshot eyes and said, "Sanlang, I can't understand it after thinking about it for a day. There is no goodness and no disgusting body, this is nothing. If the mind and body are neither good nor evil, then the mind, knowledge, and matter There is neither good nor evil, so why is it called existence? If there is one thing, there must be three things, and there should be four things. If there are three things, then there should be four things, and one cannot be nothing.”

Zhang Yue smiled when he heard the words, and asked other questions. I definitely don't understand. I will know when you ask this point, because there are ready-made answers in the book that can be copied.

Zhang Yue immediately laughed and said, "I expected that Uncle Dingzheng would ask this question!"

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When Cheng Yi heard Zhang Yue's words, he couldn't help being awed, and the people beside him also pricked up their ears.

Zhang Yue's state is so amazing, he has already expected everything.

Zhang Yuedao: "Actually, nothing and three things are the origin, and there is nothing wrong with reading them from anywhere. But the theory of four things and four nothings sticks to one side, and there is something wrong if you talk about it all."

"Mr. An Ding said what does it mean to clarify the body and achieve the use? The clear body is the clear mind. The heart is neither good nor evil, that is nothingness, and the use is the mind. Knowing, kung fu, that is existence."

"Since the four existences are to find the function to achieve, from the function to the body, the four things are to work hard from the heart, from the body to the function."

"What's the difference? One moment from Dayong to the body, and another moment from the body to the body, I'm stunned." Liu Zuo couldn't help saying.

"There are two classes of people in today's world. One class is sharp, and the other is blunt. There are four kinds of sayings. Those who only connect to the upper class can understand it from the original body. Even Yan Zi may not be able to do it. How can we hope for ordinary people? .It’s the theory of four existences, from the attainment to the body, to lead people with blunt roots.”

"The disease of the theory of the four nothings lies in its untruth, and the disease of the theory of the four things is not exhausted in the clear body."

Xiang Qidao from the side: "Sanlang's words made me understand a little bit, it's similar to 'Learning without thinking will lead to death, thinking without learning will lead to peril'."

Liu Zuodao: "Learning is to practice, to know the world, to think is to understand the body, and to know oneself. As Lao Tzu said, it is easy to know others, but difficult to know oneself!"

Seeing Zhang, Cheng Yi was more noncommittal, although he knew what Liu Zuo and Xiang Qi said were wrong, but it already made him feel like he was waiting for a moment.

Cheng Yidao: "Sanlang, I understand. Before the body is revealed, it is the way to find the body from Dayong. This is the way of investigating things to know. The sequence is to read these four sentences backwards. If the body is already revealed, Then from Ming style to Da Yong, this is the correct reading of the four sentences."

Zhang Yue couldn't help being shocked when he heard that, that's right, that's the reason.

Unexpectedly, I read the four sentences and thought about it for a long time, but I didn't understand the truth. Cheng Yijing understood it after a few words.

Cheng Yi seemed to be talking to himself: "That's right, in the fourth sentence, it's investigating things, in the third sentence, it's knowing, in the second sentence, it's sincerity, in the second sentence, it's sincerity, and finally to the first sentence, it's righteousness."

"This is what is said in the university, 'If you want to correct your mind, you must first be sincere. If you want to be sincere, you must first extend your knowledge. The extension of knowledge lies in the investigation of things'. This is the way of the four existences, but what Brother Zhang said, In addition to the four beings, there is also the four non-beings. First correct your heart, then be sincere in your intentions, then extend your knowledge, and finally check your things. This is really too difficult. This is the way to get started in Buddhism. How many people can do it."

"How dare I, Cheng Yi, stand shoulder to shoulder with Yan Zi, so what I have learned in my life is still 'above the four things', but without San Lang's advice, I might not have realized this. San Lang, you are really my teacher of the four sentences!"

Zhang Yue blushed at the moment, and now it was his turn not to understand.

But there is no way, I have to pretend to finish him with tears in my eyes.

Zhang Yue said very calmly: "Of course, Uncle Zheng, that's all I can help you with."

Zhang Yue felt relieved at the moment, knowing from this sentence that Cheng Yi's thinking was not changed by himself, but was first-class enlightenment.

On the contrary, it made his knowledge a step deeper, which is the improvement of vision.

Cheng Yi said: "No, Cheng will succeed in what he has learned in the future. I should thank Sanlang for his advice today. Sanlang is the most knowledgeable person Cheng has ever met besides Lianxi and An Ding. I often ask Yi Sanlang !"

"Don't dare!" Zhang Yue said hastily, "For matters of learning, you and I can just sit and discuss each other. If there is no interest between us in the same house, please ask for help."

Cheng Yi thought for a while and said: "Forget it, since San Lang said so, Cheng will definitely compete with San Lang more in the future."

Hearing this, Zhang Yue just breathed a sigh of relief.

As for the people on the left and right, since Cheng Yi entered the imperial school, he was not convinced by anyone, but now he actually admires Zhang Yue.It seems that Zhang Saburo is a very capable person!

(End of this chapter)