Daming Taoist Medicine

Chapter 266 Chapter 266
The general story of losing memory and falling in love is considered an affair, Yang Fan is good, he is directly regarded as a stallion; the general story is to ask for a teacher, pick up a father is a fortuitous encounter, Yang Fan is good, a psychopath came up and locked him up. He learns the best of martial arts; ordinary stories are just a joke if he listens to the scriptures and understands the Tao. Fortunately, Yang Fan is full of strange talks that are deviant and apostate, subverting the three views and making people confused.

Yuan Nong and Kong Ru listened with full attention, chewing carefully.

After Yang Fan finished speaking, the pot of tea on the table was half gone, and the three of them were silent for a long time, all thinking.

Yuan Nong recalled: "Many years before the master was alive, the owner of the Poison Valley Valley had become famous and notorious. The master wanted to get rid of him, so I went to him once."

Kong Ru said, "Why don't I know?"

Yuan Nong: "At that time, you were just a scholar who had just achieved fame and wanted to become an official and show off your ambitions. You didn't worship your master as a teacher."

Kong Ru smiled and said: "Actually, I have known my master earlier. He bluntly said that my character is not good for an official, and advised me to give up my official career. I was young at that time and my heart was as high as the sky. How can I listen? I I didn’t even pay attention to him and went to the capital. After experiencing the turmoil in the officialdom and seeing the people’s hearts, I met the master again. You have been his disciple for four years, so you have become your junior. Don’t talk about us , you should continue to talk about the past between the master and the owner of Poison Valley."

Yuan Nong smiled and said: "It's not the past. At that time, when the mummy was combined with poison and martial arts, who would dare to approach when fighting with others? It's just that after the master and the mummy met, they fought for three days and three nights in Taiji Mountain, and finally they all went down the mountain safely. Running things. In fact, after the master came back, I didn't see any traces of the fierce battle on him. He locked himself in the room with a lot of thoughts, and he locked himself in the room for a month. When he came out again, he was disheveled and listless. After he saw me, he asked: Why do people become extravagant and depraved when they are at ease? Why do factions and turmoil become unbalanced after the population expands? Is there any other way to make troubled times stop appearing besides war and killing?

Speaking of this, he took a sip of tea with a serious face, and continued: "Then he told me about the mouse experiment and human history, and let me help you read the details. At that time, I didn't know where the master's inexplicable ideas came from. It is the perception of the way of heaven, whether it is possible to become a sage or not. Now that I have heard the story of the third junior brother, I know that these questions are all heard from the mummy of the owner of Poison Valley. They fought for three days and three days in Taiji Mountain. Ye, it is clear that you have discussed the Dao for three days and three nights?"

Kong Ru and Yang Fanshen nodded in unison, and then said in unison: "How do you answer Master's question?"

Yuan Nong smiled wryly and said: "These questions are too complicated, how could I answer them without thinking? At that time, I was shocked when I heard the master's question, but turned around without saying a word and went to the field to plant seedlings. Three days later, I walked to the In front of the master, I revisited the long-standing question and answered it seriously."

Kong Ru and Yang Fan sat upright and listened attentively.

Yuan Nong said earnestly: "It is human nature to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages and to seek pleasure. You can see that antelopes will struggle desperately to avoid leopards, and lions will nap and sunbathe when they have a full meal. It can be seen that these two natures are the characteristics of intelligent creatures. This I understand why most of the people will not think about progress and become extravagant after they are rich and honored; I also understand why the common people will cling to the rich and powerful because of this characteristic. This will cause factional disputes, resource war."

"If there are too many frogs, they will kill each other; if there are too many kangaroos, they will jump off the cliff and commit suicide. We have been peaceful for a long time, and the population has expanded, but the reproduction will be slow and the culture will go backwards. So killing is impossible. It is absolutely forbidden. It is impossible for war to disappear forever. This has nothing to do with the development of civilization and culture. If there is no self-consumption of killing and war, unless there are more frogs and they are distributed to a new continent, and more kangaroos are brought to a new continent. A new living environment, but a larger population can soar to another world like a fairy tale.”

"We cultivators want to know, understand, and use the Tao, not to go against the Tao. Because the Tao of Heaven is the rule evolved by everyone who wants to be happy. We can only repair our own defects, but we cannot eradicate the world and life. Inherent human nature. The way of heaven is irreversible, so let the way of heaven follow the hair."

Yuan Nong took a sip of tea, stopped to moisten his throat, and seemed to be recalling and repairing his answer back then.

Confucianism is thirsty for knowledge, "How to smooth the hair?"

Yuan Nong said with a smile: "Master also asked the same question at the time, how can I smooth it out? If the royal relatives will always be the royal relatives, if the common people will always be the common people, if there are always sons, nobles, dukes, and uncles in this world." A hierarchical system such as Wang and Wang looks orderly when it is peaceful, but in fact it suppresses the vanity of most people to satisfy the vanity of a small number of upper-class groups. This order is brought about by hierarchical suppression. Once social turmoil, war will The longer it is suppressed, the more violent the riots and killings will be. We should only keep the class, not the class. This kind of smoothing is smoothing people's hearts."

Yang Fan nodded in agreement, and Kong Ru said, "That's right, that's right, princes and generals should be kind? Why are you born to be domineering? Why am I born to work hard? Where there is a class, there is room for struggle and progress. It will only lead to oppression and exploitation."

Yang Fan asked: "Besides stroking people's hearts, what else can I strove?"

Yuan Nong said solemnly: "Whenever a war is about to break out, it will always be accompanied by the problem of uneven distribution of resources. Those with land occupy tens of thousands of acres of land, while those without land rent farmland. This gap between rich and poor will become polarized with the transition of the peaceful era. , This kind of thing is hard to stop. You can't urge those lazy and stupid people to get rich, and you can't distribute the fields of hardworking people to lazy people. However, the production of food is something we can study and promote. It can be said that, The output of food is the last confidence of a nation. There are always more choices when you are full than when you are hungry, and you are more at ease when you have food than if you have nothing to eat. The premise of 'is three buckets of rice,' the premise of 'food and grass can go first' is the premise of having food and grass. This time I stroke people's stomachs, which is what I have been doing."

Kong Ru and Yang Fan bowed to Yuan Nong with a very respectful and honorable expression.

Yuan Nong waved his hand and continued: "The next step is education. Humans are intelligent creatures, but not enlightened creatures. In other words, human beings are forced to be enlightened. Most people don't know why they were born. And live, why die, so don't know why to fight. If a nation is in good times: know how to make progress, understand etiquette, advance and retreat; Struggle, self-improvement, diligence and progress, isn't war a self-contest? If there is a culture that can make people understand the truth of "do unto others what you don't want to be done to you", if there is a culture that can make this world benevolent and peaceful If there is an orderly grid, then what we worry about is not so worrying, don’t you think?”

Kong Ru's eyes lit up, and he muttered to himself, "Don't do to others what you don't want yourself to do to yourself. Be kind and orderly, and learn from things. Do not do to others what you don't want. ..."

Yang Fan said: "Senior brother! This time, is it human thoughts?"

Yuan Nong nodded and smiled, "Exactly. What do you think of what I said?"

Yang Fan said sincerely: "Perfect knowledge and insight, good words to govern the world."

Kong Ru said: "Threesomes must have my teacher."

Yang Fandao: "Social structure, proportion of resources, cultural attributes, tsk tsk tsk... Majestic atmosphere, wisdom as deep as the sea."

Yuan Nong shook his head and smiled wryly: "Come on, let's go as far as flattering. If you don't blush too much, my butt will turn red too."

As soon as this remark came out, the three of them laughed together.

Yuan Nong and Kong Ru burst into tears while laughing, Yang Fan stopped laughing and said: "It is said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles, and traveling thousands of miles is not as good as being guided by a famous teacher. The two senior brothers immediately helped me with a huge problem, even though I still can't fully comprehend it, it is refreshing and comfortable. Can the two senior brothers explain a little bit about the wedding etiquette that the mummy said?"

Yuan Nong said: "The answer to this kind of thing is none other than Confucius and Confucianism."

Kong Ru made a serious face, took a sip of tea, "There is a way..."

Yuan Nong interrupted bluntly: "Don't stick to words, don't make book bags with words."

Kong Ru nodded thoughtfully, and said with a smile, "Third Junior Brother! Let's ask and answer one by one! Otherwise, I'll be off-key."

Yang Fan asked: "Is the wedding etiquette for happiness?"

Kong Ru smiled and said, "Naturally it is for happiness."

Yang Fan asked: "Are these rituals of yours sure to make people happy?"

Kong Ru replied, "Of course not."

Yang Fan: "Then what is the meaning of wedding etiquette?"

Kong Ru smiled and asked back: "You use a bowl to eat, but you don't eat a bowl, so why don't you grab it with your hands?"

(End of this chapter)