Confucian self-cultivation: Scholars start from Daqin

Han Fei looked at him in surprise, and said, "How does little uncle know what I saw?"

Gao Jing didn't rush to answer, but waited for his mind to be "right" again, and then said: "You want to save South Korea wholeheartedly, and you even entered into a "sedation" for this, which shows that you are sincere...

The question is, can South Korea be saved? "

Han Fei was silent for a moment, then shrugged and said casually: "What the little master said is true, but if you can't save it, you have to try."

Gao Jing sighed and said, "So I'm not surprised that you will die."

Knowing that you can't do it, this is the boldness and the big heart!

No wonder Han Fei was able to enter the "sedation".

Han Fei rolled his eyes, changed the subject, and asked, "Little uncle, do you think there is a power beyond ordinary people in the world that controls destiny in the dark?"

Gao Jing raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "What does this have to do with me?"

Han Fei was puzzled and asked, "Why doesn't it matter?"

Gao Jing shook his head and said: "My heart is the "law of heaven". There is nothing outside my heart, and I don't seek outside it, so whether I have this kind of power or not has nothing to do with me. I will only act according to my heart, and use conscience to unite knowledge and action. !"

"This is my little uncle's "mind learning"? It's a bit like the Taoist Tianzong's concept..."

Han Fei was thoughtful, and after a while, he said with emotion: "I used to listen to my little uncle's lectures on the study of the mind, and I only thought it was absurd. Now I realize that this "study of the mind" is as cold as water, as hot as fire..."

After finishing speaking, Han Fei stared at Gao Jing, and suddenly passed the jug forward: "Uncle, do you want to drink with me?"

Gao Jing looked at him strangely: "I'm still a child!"

Han Fei: "...Little Martial Uncle actually wants to drink too, right? Since your heart...wrong, it's because your mind is moving, why don't you drink it?"

Gao Jing licked his lips for a while, and said with a bitter face: "I'm not in the mood, and I'm still in the stage of "self-denial". Of course, I have to restrain my "will"!"

Han Fei suddenly said, "It's as if the little master is very interested in martial arts, but he never learns."

Gao Jing nodded and said, "Well, I'm afraid of being distracted."

Confucianism requires "self-denial" in order to reduce unnecessary distractions.

Once the state of mind is stabilized, such as "settling", there is no need to do so.

……

Even reading is very important. There is a saying in the "Disciple Regulations": There are three ways to read: mind, eye, mouth, and letter.

Modern people think that the horizontal layout of books is easier and more convenient to read.

In fact, it is easy for people to see ten lines at a glance in horizontal books, especially those novels. Just after reading the first sentence, the peripheral vision has already scanned the entire paragraph.

The real reading is better in the vertical version, only the vertical version can make people's eyes focus on every word!

Confucianism has six arts, but Gao Jing didn't learn any of them.

I read every day, sincerely.

Of course, it's not that Gao Jing doesn't have leisure time. He has learned to play chess in his spare time.

So Master Xun liked to play chess with Gao Jing.

……

"Clap!"

Master Xun pressed down a flag and asked, "Little brother is getting better in his studies recently."

Whether reading is really interesting, you can know by listening to the sound of reading.

When Gao Jing was reading, his voice was catchy, and it didn't make people feel bored at all. Instead, it could calm people's hearts. This is the charm of reading.

Gao Jing's book contains countless modern go records, but he has never read them, and only plays with his own ability.

After thinking for a while, Gao Jing took a breath and said, "Forcibly hold the heart ape, and tie the mind horse."

Master Xun said next to his son, "Your mind? My junior brother always speaks so incisively and logically. What book are you reading recently?"

Gao Jing followed: "Six Secret Teachings."

Master Xun didn't give Gao Jing time to think, and asked, "The art of war? What do you think?"

Gao Jing was stumped, he stared at the chessboard and thought, and said casually: "It doesn't matter if the weak wins over the strong, it's mostly bullying the weak, it's all about playing more and playing less."

"Oh?" Master Xun raised his head in surprise and asked, "How do you explain this, little brother?"

Not only Master Xun, but even Han Fei and Li Si looked at Gao Jing in surprise.

Victory over the strong with the weak, and victory over the many with the few have always been the pride of military strategists.

"Six Taos" was written by Jiang Ziya, and it is divided into Wen Tao, Wu Tao, Long Tao, Tiger Tao, Leopard Tao, and Dog Tao.

Gao Jing raised his head and glanced at Master Xun, and then simply disrupted the chessboard...

Master Xun accidentally tore off another beard, and his face was unhappy... He was about to win this game of chess!

Without giving him a chance to speak, Gao Jing took out ten white chess pieces and five black chess pieces, and then divided the white chess pieces one by one, explaining in his mouth:

"To put it simply, the enemy is ten and ours is five. If we fight head-on, we will definitely not be able to defeat them. Then use various methods to calculate and divide the enemy's forces..."

Divide the ten white pieces into one, two, three, four, a total of four.

"Use five on our side, attack four on the enemy's side, defeat the enemy under the advantage, and lose one to four on our side..."

"Let's use our four to attack the enemy's three, win with the same advantage, and lose one and three..."

"By analogy, three fights against two, two fights against one... In this way, the situation of the battle has been decided. Generally speaking, the weak will win the strong, but when you look closely, every time it is bullying the weak."

Master Xun, Han Fei, and Li Si put their heads together on the chessboard, frowning and thinking carefully.

"Of course, this is just a generalization. The battle formation is complex. In addition to the number of people, there are also armaments, morale, terrain, weather and logistics, etc... But the difference between strength and weakness is not only the number of people. One side's army is slack and has no fighting spirit, isn't this also the difference between strength and weakness?"

"So, the so-called victory over the strong with the weak can actually be said to become strong with the weak, and then the strong against the weak..."

After a long time, Master Xun raised his head and said with a smile, "Young brother can lead the army!".

Chapter 8 Sword Practice

Gao Jing once tried to practice swords when he was wandering.

He didn't learn any sword skills, but just tried to practice the basic movements such as stabbing, chopping, chopping, and pulling, thinking that just like the novel said, one movement should be practiced thousands of times. With power...

He even created his own swordsmanship!

However, it turned out that he was thinking too much. No matter how focused he seemed on the surface, he had a lot of distracting thoughts when he practiced.

All kinds of complicated thoughts popped up, and he couldn't control them at all, so his movements were crooked and powerless.

This means that the body and mind cannot be harmonious, the heart is not right, and the body is not right.

After staying in Xiaoshengxianzhuang for two years, Gao Jing has been restraining himself and "restraining himself".

Bad habits will catch you if you don't pay attention to them. For example, if you like leisure and don't work, if your will is a little weak, you will become decadent without knowing it.

Counting more than a year on the road, Gao Jing spent a total of three years on "self-denial", and has always demanded himself with "sincerity and integrity".

Now that he has finally achieved something, when he picked up the sword again, he had fewer distracting thoughts in his heart.

……

Han Fei was drinking as usual while watching Gao Jing practice his sword.

This is the sword technique that Gao Jing specially went to the "Six Arts Hall" to see. It's not a complicated sword technique, it's just a basic movement.

Record these actions in the book, and then come back to watch carefully, slowly imitate, and adjust.

The book's ability to "mark the key points" allows Gao Jing to clearly observe the force point of each move... It is more detailed, precise, and intuitive than the teacher's guidance from Liuyitang.

Gao Jing's movements were very slow, he stabbed straight, then stabbed out slowly, and a bamboo leaf fluttered to the ground, and he hadn't finished stabbing... Naturally, he had no power at all.

But if you look closely, you will find that Gao Jing is constantly making small adjustments to various parts of the body.

Because his mind began to become pure, he gradually became able to clearly perceive his body, the strength of his muscles at every moment, and adjust in time if he made a mistake.

So although the movement is slow, it looks very coordinated!

Han Fei didn't know martial arts, so he couldn't help laughing beside him: "Little Master, your swordsmanship is slow, if you really want to stab someone, he would have already run away."

Gao Jing didn't answer in a hurry, but practiced all the basic sword moves with extremely slow movements, and then he took his sword and let out a breath.

Although the movement was very slow, Gao Jing was sweating profusely from exhaustion.

Walking to the front of the case, Gao Jing's footwork was neither hasty nor slow, his back was straight, and he breathed a sigh of relief after sitting down, and said: "Fast and slow are relative. I am slow now to be fast later. When it’s slow, the movements are standard, and when it’s fast, the movements are naturally standard.”

Han Fei shook his head and smiled wryly: "I don't know martial arts, but my little uncle looks much more energetic now, and his size is also..."

As he said that, Han Fei made some gestures, which meant that Gao Jing's height suddenly jumped up.

"Normal. I used to be homeless, hungry and full, and slept in the open. Naturally, my body can't grow up."

"Now that I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, and I have a correct mentality, after my body recovers, my physique begins to grow rapidly, and my energy and spirit also increase significantly. People are naturally more energetic."

Gao Jing poured himself a cup of tea, looked at Han Fei, and said, "Your "stable" state is getting deeper and deeper, and it won't be long before you will be able to maintain the "stable" state and enter the "constant" state."

Gao Jing's heart could no longer be disturbed by Han Fei's "fixation", so he spoke in a calm and calm tone.

Han Fei was not complacent this time, but smiled wryly and said, "I repeat a dream every night, and I can't remember the content clearly after waking up, but there are still tears on the pillow. I don't know if it's the tears of sadness or the joy of understanding... ..."

Gao Jing was silent and didn't answer, and he was not in "sedation", so he didn't know how he would feel.

Han Fei didn't expect Gao Jing to answer, and said to himself: "I can always hear a song in my dream, as if my heart becomes clear and I think about many things clearly...I feel a calling... "

Gao Jing was stunned for a moment, took out the book from his waist, flipped through it, and said: "There is a sword in the legend, it is the magic sword of the Legalists, and its name is Nilin... The former state of Zheng was the origin of the legalist thought, That sword finally appeared in the state of Zheng, which is now in South Korea."

This is not what Gao Jing said based on the plot, but the legend of this sword is really recorded in Xiaoshengxianzhuang's collection.

Han Fei asked in surprise, "Young Master Uncle, what do you mean this sword is calling me?"

Gao Jing didn't know if Ni Linjian was calling.

There are so many strange things in this world. Eight souls can reside in one body. It is not unacceptable for a legalist sword with a sword spirit to summon a master who is a master of legalism.

The wonder of the "fixed" state made Gao Jing yearn for it even more.

"You're leaving." Gao Jing said in an affirmative tone.

Han Fei nodded and said, "Wait to say goodbye to the teacher, then follow the call to travel around, and finally return to Korea."

Gao Jing said regretfully: "You finally entered the "settled state", and you don't want to wait for the "settled state" before leaving?"