By Jia Xiuzhen

Li Wan said, "Do you recognize me?"

Yingchun hesitated and nodded, Li Wan said with a smile: "People often say that you know the face but not the heart."

Xichun burst out laughing, Li Wan glanced at her, and then said: "You are looking at me now, can you know what I am thinking? Can you know how the meridians and blood vessels in my body are running? The internal organs Are there any patients? I really don’t know, but you still feel that you know me. Therefore, this “knowing” is just a conscious understanding of a certain aspect of a fact. How can it be called Really?"

Everyone was silent for a moment.

Yingchun asked again: "What about that?"

Li Wan said: "Everyone has their own realm. The Tao mentioned here is the way they each go after they have the realm. Because they have their own realm, they judge right and wrong based on their own realm, and from this they have their own words and deeds, and then they form their own paths." Everyone has their own way."

Yingchun said: "I just said that 'knowledge' is incomplete and difficult to be true. Using 'knowledge' to form a situation, and the Tao is born from the situation. Isn't this Tao also difficult to be true?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "For people, 'how to do things' and 'how to do things' are often ambiguous and wavering. This is why. Or it can be said to be 'not the end'."

Yingchun murmured, "No way..."

Li Wan nodded, and then said: "The Tao mentioned here refers to what people do. In this case, there is a place, and this way is what people choose according to their own circumstances in order to lead to that place. One way. On the other hand, the "place" that this person seeks is also formed in the environment. It is said that this way is born according to the environment. That is, people's right and wrong thoughts determine this way for themselves. .

But it is precisely because the "thoughts" based on the human state are often "incomplete and untrue" and not ultimate.Because of the "road" chosen by people, there are often people who cannot go to the desired place.Take King Zhongshun as an example. What he did was for the sake of power and wealth. In the end, the way he chose to do brought him into a ruined result.This is the way of desire. "

Yingchun thought about it for a while, then sighed softly: "If you think about it so carefully, how many of you do things on a daily basis are people who are like "the way of desire is different". Seeking wealth and honor will lead to ruin, seeking happiness will lead to suffering, seeking perfection will end up lacking... ...People think that it is easy to follow every step, but it is actually the image of "a blind man rides a blind horse and faces a deep pool in the middle of the night", and it is shocking to think about it carefully."

Su Yun also said: "In the past, in the mansion, there was a little girl who asked her and said she wanted to be promoted, and asked her to learn how to read and write, but she refused to do it with her heart. Now the village is still thinking about my mother's health. , he was not allowed to drink, and there was a quarrel, which made his father very angry."

Bi Yue hurriedly asked: "Grandma, why did this happen? Then there should be some way to change it."

Li Wan said with a smile: "How could this be? But we have to talk about it in two parts. Since the Tao and desire have different paths, this is the two things of the Tao and the desire. Let me first say that the Tao is born according to the environment, and the relationship between people is different." To do things, there are many things to rely on, and this dependence is often not permanent. For example, this sentence, 'One cannot patronize oneself'. Have you heard it more or less?

A family eats the same food, and the food is limited. If one person is full, the other will go hungry. The person who behaves like this will inevitably be reprimanded by the elders. ' Patronizing you to eat by yourself, don't know how to think about others! 'But this? "

Everyone nodded, and Li Wan said: "But if there is a famine nearby, some refugees come to the village, and the children donate their own food to help them, and again and again, what will the elders in the family say?"

Bi Yue said: "My family can't get enough to eat, so let's take care of others!"

Suyun laughed out loud when he heard this, and Li Wan also laughed and said, "Sure enough, there will be such a statement. You can't patronize yourself, and it seems that you don't get scolded all the time."

Yingchun said: "It's not always the case. Naturally, there are also kind-hearted people who don't want others to suffer, and are willing to help more."

Li Wan said: "For example, in Mobei, as mentioned earlier, there have been years of famine, if there are kind-hearted people to help them, so what?"

Xichun raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing to help them? Do you want to raise them enough to kill our border people?!"

Li Wan looked at Yingchun and said, "Look, you want to do good at this time, but there are still people who won't let you."

Yingchun then said to Xichun: "They have been suffering from famine for years, what does the old and immature have anything to do with fighting? It's okay to give alms. God has the virtue of good life. You and I practice Taoism, so why can't we do this?"

Xichun sneered and said: "It's so funny! When their young men went to the battlefield, who made those bows, arrows and saddles? Where did those men's battle robes and boots come from? How dare you say they came to rob us?" Didn’t the Tartars in the town want to rob food and go back to feed those young and old?! The reason for years of fighting is that there are them, and there are also them. You want to save them, but you want to let the Tartar soldiers have no worries , it’s good to let go on the battlefield, sweeping several of our cities, and making some great military exploits, that’s what you want! Didn’t my sister-in-law say such a person? What can there be!"

Yingchun was at a loss for words, Li Wan nodded and said: "Look? I just said that you can't just think about yourself, but if you enlarge yourself to a family and a country, it suddenly doesn't work. Then that sentence, is it right or not? wrong?"

Yingchun thought for a while, then sighed: "The people are innocent, even if the two countries are fighting, what does it have to do with them..."

Xichun didn't wait for her to finish, and said: "That's right, those Tartar soldiers all jumped out of the cracks in the rocks, so naturally they have nothing to do with those common people."

Yingchun glanced at her, sighed, and stopped talking.

Li Wan said: "This is the difference in Taoism. Because you two have different thoughts about the environment, one thinks of 'benevolence and kindness' and pity others' sufferings, while the other thinks of 'enemy and self', and is not of our race. Different. It has already been discussed last time, so it can be seen that it is not bad.

And the sentence just now that "one cannot just think about oneself" is just like the thought we always rely on when we practice the Tao, and it cannot be universally applicable.This is just a thought, ordinary people act, how many judgments of right and wrong are involved in one matter?If [-]% of them have such impermanent thoughts, it is natural to be confused and waver.

Should it be 'strike first' or 'if people don't offend me, I won't offend others'?Should we "forgive others and forgive others", or "Don't be famous and learn to be the overlord"? 'Canglin knows etiquette', but 'husbands are loyal and trustworthy, but they are the most chaotic'..."

Bi Yue said: "Then what should I do? I can't believe anything yet!"

Li Wan said: "Words are the voice of the heart. Every word has its transformation state, and people act according to their thoughts, and turn these words into their own thoughts. Most of the transformations are not those words at all. I made the original intention, and I believed it, but what did I believe in?"

Su Yun nodded and said: "Indeed, there are often times when I suddenly realize a certain sentence, even though it is well known by everyone."

Yingchun asked Li Wan, "Then how should we proceed?"

Li Wan shook his head lightly and smiled, "If we talk about this, we'll go back to what we said just now about 'dao desires in different ways'. The word "what you want" is just like a standard. If there is no standard, What should I say again? Let’s talk about whether the water should be cold or hot? How can people answer this? If you want to drink water in the cold weather, I’ll pour you a cup of hot tea, isn’t that the truth?”

Everyone nodded, and Li Wan said again: "It is because I just said that the basis of the Tao is long in the middle, so it is unstable. The other one is what you want. People can understand what they really want, and they are doing the way. It is always clear in the middle, and it is difficult for those who have never wavered and blurred. Take King Zhongshun as an example. His subsequent act of hastily raising troops is really consistent with his initial thoughts of seeking wealth and honor? I am afraid that the anger inside has shaken the original thoughts.

People often do.There are goals first, followed by means. However, as we walk, we often mistake the means for the purpose.In this way, we diverge every time, go sideways again, and then look back at the original purpose, or we may have run counter to it. "

Several people frowned and looked at Li Wan, Li Wan smiled and said: "The simplest sentence is, how many people want money! You go to the Temple of Wealth to see how many people are asking for money, as long as there is more, the better. That's an example."

Bi Yue said: "It's not very simple and clear, it's asking for a lot of money, how can it be vague?"

Li Wan said: "Is that so? If that's the case, let him go to the deep mountains and give him a lot of money, how much gold and silver, how much?"

Bi Yue frowned and pouted: "Then, what's the point of that..."

Suyun and the others all laughed, and Li Wan shook his head and said with a smile: "That's what it means. People often think that it is clear, but in fact, in this process of clarity and refinement, the original intention has long been blurred. What is money? Gold, silver, copper Tin, it’s just a dead thing. You took gold and silver at the time of Huangdi Chiyou, what is the use?”

Bi Yue said: "If you want money, it's for buying things."

Li Wan nodded: "That's right, so this money is an intermediate thing in exchange for things, and what you want is not itself. To digress, let's talk a little bit, you want money, ten taels of silver, during the reign of the ancestors, ten taels Money can buy five or six acres of good land, but now? The good land in the south of the Yangtze River can’t be bought for even one mu of money. This money is still silver, and it’s still your ten taels of silver. But this is not the ten taels of silver in the past. Two silvers. If you are a fool who only counts silver, won’t you be coaxed by silver?”

Yingchun and Suyun are mostly involved in economic affairs, and they all nodded slowly after hearing this.

Bi Yue curled her lips: "That's true! The ancestors saved a hundred taels of silver for generations, and the more you save, the less valuable it becomes!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Yingchun urged Li Wan, "Don't talk about small things, my sister-in-law still says that you can do whatever you want!"

Li Wan then continued: "So, let's peel off the top layer of the money first. The money we talk about is actually not about the money itself, but what it can be exchanged for."

Several people nodded, and Li Wan said again: "Then what exactly do you want to change?"

Yingchun laughed and said, "That's different for everyone."

Li Wan nodded: "Indeed, let's just talk about class. Besides basic necessities, what else is there?"

Yingchun said: "If all the jewelry and decorations are counted in the clothes, and the tea bait and tonic are all in the food, what else is there?"

Xichun nodded: "There are also high-ranking officials with rich salary and power, red actresses and beautiful concubines, antiques and curiosities, slaves and maidservants huddled in groups, and militarism is the only one who respects me...Hmph, look at you, you are so petty, you don't know what to do if you give a lot of money flower."

Yingchun said to Li Wan: "Sister-in-law, look, so many people only go to the Temple of Wealth to ask for money, as expected, the more the better, and there is no need for too much."

Bi Yue said: "What do you want those things for? You only have a solid house with a few acres of land, some savings, and no worries about food and clothing. What more do you want?!"

Yingchun nodded and said, "I want some more books... Well, it's just that this book can't be bought with money."

Suyun nodded and said: "I want a lot of things, a happy family and a healthy family. This is not achieved by money alone."

All of a sudden, Li Wan sipped his tea and said with a smile, "So, let's take off the second layer."

Everyone stopped talking and looked at Li Wan, not knowing why.

Li Wan said: "If you ask for money, it is just to exchange things. After chasing what you want to exchange, everyone is different, and there are many things that you can't exchange for money. In this way, everyone compares, only the one who wants to Want' is the same, but what they want is different. This is the next level, why do some people want beautiful concubines and high-ranking officials, while others only want good land books?"

Bi Yue said: "Pretty concubine, senior official, what do you want to do here?! It's useless for me to ask for those."

Xichun sneered and said: "Stupid girl! If you want to have a high-ranking official, are you afraid that you will have nowhere to get money? Not to mention high-ranking officials and rich salary, but the filial piety everywhere can't be counted. With money, what do you want? ! "

Biyue said convincingly: "Miss Si, you are now the 'fuzzy swing' that grandma just said. I myself started chasing after wanting money, and now I have uncovered the false layer of money, chasing after wanting money. What you want to exchange for. But when you turned around, you ran for money again. If you don’t want a high-ranking official yourself, you just use this high-ranking official to get money, and when you get the money, you say you want to seek a higher official and seek a higher position. Officer, you are still doing it for money. Even if you become the prime minister in the end, this prime minister is not what you really want... Oh, isn’t it just going around for the rest of your life? It’s like a mouse biting its own tail!”

Even Li Wan laughed, Xichun said angrily, "I was thinking for you!"

Bi Yue shook her head: "I don't want any high-ranking officials and beautiful concubines. You don't have to think about this idea for me. You have said so much, and it seems that you want it."

Xichun rolled her eyes: "What do I want those for! But haven't you seen how many people in the world want those? Didn't you say you want to exchange money for something? I'll tell you."

Yingchun suddenly realized something: "I thought, if we want to chase down, I'm afraid everyone has to say what they want. For example, what the fourth sister said just now, there are indeed people in the world who are constantly pursuing, but not What we want. If it is used as an example, it is inappropriate, because we don't have the 'environment' of those people, and we can't understand their desire for those things, and naturally we don't know the benefits of those things."

Xichun said: "According to what the second sister said, isn't everyone a frog at the bottom of the well? Just looking at the little spot in front of my nose, I think it's because I've spent a lot of time in Zhuangzi, and I've eaten miscellaneous beans and noodles all my life. I know there is such a thing as white flour in the world."

Yingchun laughed and said: "According to what the fourth sister said, there is no limit to all the things in this world? It's better for you to be white noodles, or there are other red noodles and yellow noodles that you don't know. Keep chasing like this." , only the more messy and numerous ones, the damage to the Tao, I thought, this way may not work."

Xichun listened thoughtfully, Li Wan looked at Yingchun, smiled and said: "You can also think about it. If you spend your whole life looking at what other people want and have, see what new yellow faces and red faces appear now." , what effect does it have on yourself?"

Xichun said: "The more you know, the more you want, the more you see, the more you naturally want, the more you see, the more knowledge you have, what's wrong with that?"

Li Wan nodded and said: "There are endless things. In addition to yellow noodles and red noodles, there are also yellow noodles and nine percent red noodles, and two percent yellow noodles and eight percent white noodles... There are all kinds of things, and I only spend my whole life pursuing them. Flowers, busy, life is over."

Biyue looked at Xichun and said, "In the end, it's not necessarily what she likes to eat, but she eats all kinds of food for a lifetime... Tsk tsk..."

Xichun is still lost in thought, so she has no time to talk to her.