At the Beginning, I Scolded the Fairy Gate, I Really Want to Die

Chapter 159 : The lock of Confucianism and Taoism, the monument without words

Did Xianmen expect it? At least Ye Ning didn’t expect that Beijing would perform such a big show when he was away.

At this moment, he is following Cai Xianggao looking at the stele.

“The place where the philosophers are sleeping?”

Ye Ning looked at these huge steles, and each one gave him a solemn and solemn feeling.

“You mean, this is a cemetery?”

Cai Xianggao shook his head and said.

“Yes or not.

He walked a few steps forward, saluted the huge stone monument in front of him, and said.

“Legend, this is the spiritual home of the philosophers.”

“No matter where you are, no matter what you have experienced, after the dust returns to the dust, the spirit will return here.”

“It’s like a wanderer returning to his mother’s embrace. This place is the end of Confucianism and Taoism, but it is also the home of Confucianism and Taoism.”

Cai Xianggao watched everything here with a pious attitude.

Ye Ning nodded, no wonder it feels so different here.

It was actually the place where the whole spirit of Confucianism and Taoism was buried.

“Brother Ye, look here.”

Cai Xianggao pointed to the sky.

Ye Ning followed his fingertips and looked over his head.

As a result, I saw a huge black chain that seemed to run through the entire world.

This black chain is so shocking, as if it possesses the terrifying power that can block the world.

Just looking at it, Ye Ning has a feeling of sluggish thinking and speechlessness.

“This is the root of the decline of Confucianism and Taoism!”

Cai Xianggao murmured with a complicated mood.

“What exactly is this?”

Ye Ning frowned.

This chain is really terrifying, it is countless times more terrifying than the giant sword left by the immortal gate.

“This taboo chain that imprisons thoughts!”

Cai Xianggao said.

“This chain, it is not the person or the earth, but the thought.”

“What are thoughts, thoughts are thoughts.

“Two different thoughts gave birth to two thoughts. Countless thoughts gathered together, leading to the split between Confucianism and Taoism. Lock, and then there will be this copper-forbidden lock of thought!”

In Cai Xianggao’s words, there was a strong sense of pain.

This is something that Confucian disciples of later generations will feel sad whenever they think of it.

If it weren’t for this, how could Confucianism and Taoism fall to the present level?

But the two elders who witnessed all this did not feel the same grief as he did.

Instead, they sneered at each other.

“Brother Wang, if you didn’t do the wrong way but refused to accept defeat, how could this imprisonment occur?”

The short-bearded old man said that he believed that the responsibility was entirely on the other side.

“Ziri, three people must have my teacher. How can Brother Cheng dare to say that the old man must be wrong? You never accept the opinions of others, but you firmly want to convey the idea of ​​own. You are the real source of the decline of Confucianism and Taoism. .”

The long-bearded old man sneered in response.

“Joke, why should the old man accept the opinions of others? When the old man became enlightened, you were not born yet, and all the scholars in the world were disciples of the old man. There is a face barking in front of the old man, ridiculously “々!”

The short-bearded old man seemed to have been poked in the pain, and his speech suddenly became much more intense.

“You went wrong alone and harmed scholars in the world. What the old man did was to set things right. History has long proven that you are the one who went the wrong way.”

The long-bearded old man said in his sleeves, unwilling to admit defeat.

Cai Xianggao’s words seem to remind the two of a lot of past events.

So their quarrel intensified.

A quarrel like this is not once or twice at all, and it is definitely impossible to produce results.

If Cai Xianggao saw this picture, he would definitely be surprised.

Let’s not talk about the identities of these two people, that is, the content of their quarrel, they are just talking about right and wrong, without the slightest guilt.

If the weakness of the Confucian School was caused by them, it would have been a little ashamed.

But the two did not have the slightest expression of emotion in this regard, and they looked right and confident, and did not feel guilty at all.

In fact, this is reasonable.

Because the two are not real people, they are just obsessions.

As obsessions, they are naturally different from people. What they care about is always something they can’t let go of.

“Two kinds of thoughts? What kind of thoughts?”

Ye Ning frowned.

No matter how much he dislikes the awe-inspiring, he cannot change the fact that he is a disciple of Confucianism and Taoism.

When it comes to the rise and fall of Confucianism and Taoism, he is somewhat curious.

“Brother Ye look now.

Cai Xianggai pointed at the stele.

Ye Ning looked up, and every stone tablet was engraved with a large Chinese character.

These big characters are the famous sayings of the scholars before his death, and from a certain perspective, they are equivalent to their thoughts.

For example, the statue in front of you is engraved: The good is like water, and the water is good for all things without fighting.

Go ahead and engrave: Don’t forget its beginning, don’t ask for its end; accept it and please it, forget it, it means don’t donate to the Tao with your heart, and don’t help the sky with others. It is called a real person.

The statue at the back is engraved: Gentlemen do not look at water, but look at people. Mirror in the water, you can see your face; Mirror in the person, you know the evil and the auspicious.

Walk a few steps forward, and there is another one: righteousness first, then profit, honor, first profit, then righteousness, humiliation.

These famous sayings of Zhuzi are the evolution of Zhuzi’s spirit.

Represents their thoughts in this life.

Junior, who came here to pay homage, often feels a little bit about it.

Such a place of spiritual inheritance belongs to the characteristics of Confucianism and Taoism. It is not that there are no other Taoisms, but that there are few Confucianism and Taoism.

Almost every sage has left a trace of his own here.

This is the special feature of Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism and Taoism do not specialize in power, but if Tao is successful, power will naturally be possessed.

Becoming strong is not the focus of Confucianism and Taoism, but great enlightenment.

How can we fully realize it?

Realize your ambitions.

Implement ideas.

Understanding Life.

These are all okay and vary from person to person.

While Ye Ning was looking at these steles, he heard Cai Xianggao’s call.

“Brother Ye, come and see here.”

Ye Ning walked over.

Following what Cai Xianggao pointed out, he saw two steles.

The height of these two steles is very high, which can be called the highest steles in this place, but they are opposite to each other, and they have the meaning of confrontation.

The most amazing thing is that there is no text on the stele.

“Two monuments without words?”

Ye Ning observed carefully and found that in addition to these two steles, the other steles had text.

“Yes, these two monuments without words correspond to Master Cheng and Mr. Wang respectively.

Cai Xianggao also saluted and said sincerely.

“Master Cheng and Mr. Wang are both sub-sages. They are my Confucian and Taoist sages. They should each lead the way.”

“No matter what, the age of the two is too close. Master Cheng first gains the Tao and attaches importance to etiquette.”

“Mr. Wang rose up later, thinking that Master Cheng’s way was wrong and advocated the way of benevolence and forgiveness.”

“The two ideas are extremely conflicted, and their respective achievements are extremely high, so scholars in the world have become two people.

“For many years, there has been no less disputes, and over time, internal friction has become serious, that is, from that time, Confucianism and Taoism began to decline.”

“For this reason, the two sages are like strangers. After the ancients, they refused to leave their names on the stele because they have not yet distinguished themselves.

“These two people are both amazing talents and brilliant people. However, the battle has become like this, and the Confucianism has been defeated.”

“If there is no internal friction for many years, why would Xianmen seal the holy courtyard?

When it comes to this matter, Cai Xianggao is very unwilling.

Confucianism and Taoism successively came out of the sub-sages, which should have been a great happy event.

But I didn’t expect that the two were in the same era, and their thoughts conflicted to the point where they could not be reconciled.

So much so that caused the scourge of the decline of Confucianism.

“It is so.”

Ye Ning smashed his mouth.

To be honest, a bit speechless.

But thinking about it, it is actually reasonable.

Because the ideological dispute and the academic dispute have been cruel since ancient times and cannot be unified.

If it is an ordinary dispute that develops to the level of hatred, as long as one side kills the other side, then the problem is solved.

But the battle of thoughts is a collision of thoughts. If you use a sword to divide the victory and defeat, then it is undoubtedly a fall.

It is too difficult for one thought to overwhelm another.

The human mind is the most difficult thing to unify.

Earlier, Ye Ning proposed “Mahayana Buddhism” and let Yuanfang bring it back to the West.

The intention is also to split Buddhism and make noise.

Because he knows deeply that it is difficult to reconcile ideological disputes. Once the Mahayana Dharma and The Hinayana Dharma quarrel, it is absolutely impossible to reach an agreement.

Of course, although thinking is difficult to unify, it is not impossible to unify.

If you want to be unified, you must prove right and wrong.

How to prove right or wrong?

It’s very simple, show the facts and tell the evidence.

Thoughts need to be verified. When the facts are in front of you, it is difficult not to approve them.

So Ye Ning is very curious. Are all Confucianism fools? Dun is right or wrong, don’t you know if you try it?

He raised a question.

But Cai Xianggao’s answer seemed very confusing.

“Tried and verified, but still can’t be unified, because there are both right and wrong places in both thinking.

Ye Ning raised his brow and asked.

“What are the two thoughts you are referring to?”

Cai Xianggao stared at the wordless stele in front of him, with complicated eyes, and said with a sigh.

“Let’s talk about Master Cheng first. Master Cheng advocates etiquette. He believes that everything in the world cannot escape one etiquette. As long as the framework is set up in advance and implemented in accordance with this framework, then there will be no mistakes.”

Ye Ning nodded, not difficult to understand.

This is like a set of programs (for money?). Set instructions in advance. Whenever you encounter something, you only need to follow the instructions.

He was not unfamiliar at all, but rather familiar.

“What do you mean by the etiquette? Is it not the emperor, the minister, the father and the son?”

Ye Ning thinks of some ancient ideas from previous lives.

It is similar to what Cai Xianggao described, but not exactly the same.

The world should be more unitary and absolute.

“Exactly.”

Cai Xianggao nodded and said.

“Master Cheng believes that everything in the world has a law to follow. This law is the law of etiquette. As long as everyone abides by the law of etiquette, the world will become extremely beautiful.”

Ye Ning gradually frowned as she listened.

“What if you don’t comply?”

Cai Xianggao sighed and said straight.

“If you don’t comply, it will naturally not be allowed in the world.”

These are all very remote things, so Cai Xianggao can now talk about it with a calm mind.

But if it was a scholar of that era, it would definitely be difficult for him to be as calm as him.

But calm and calm. In Cai Xianggao’s heart, he still recognizes the thoughts of the two sages. He can’t say which one is better, but he thinks it all makes sense. At least a small person like him is not qualified to question.

But Ye Ning didn’t have this kind of consciousness. After listening to it, he immediately sneered and said something that Cai Xianggao heard was apostasy.

“What am I supposed to be? It turns out that it is a set of anti-human things such as the preservation of the laws of nature and the destruction of human desires. This is what deserves to be called the sub-sage?”.