Chapter 783: The First Step 183

How is it possible to explain the Tao Te Ching through explanations such as perfecting the role, how to succeed in society, how to benefit society, how to be a good person, how to make the role fuller, and so on?

With distorted characters in mind, how can we understand "inaction"? How can we understand "indisputable"?

How can a character who is in fear understand or believe that "life is not afraid"?

All kinds of languages, what society is so realistic, what is not money, how to eat, etc.

What else is there to discuss?

If the Tao Te Ching is a book that teaches people how to succeed, a book that plumps up characters, and reinforces the distortion in the mind, then it is not such an embarrassing position now.

And "The Analects" is quite in line with the needs of the characters in all aspects, creating a good person. Because everyone is afraid of life, if you become a good person and a gentleman, everyone is like this, the world will be very beautiful.

Isn't that fear? Isn't that a distortion of the characteristics of a gentleman, of all the words that people must have in this way?

If everyone is like Lao Tzu and is free from the world, how will society develop and civilization will progress? How can an empire fly out of its home planet to the interstellar age in a short period of time?

But what does human civilization care about me? Why should I put human civilization in front of me? Doesn't I feel funny when I say this? When can my actions affect human civilization?

Even if everyone is like Lao Tzu and does nothing, even if human civilization is always at an extremely backward level, then what? If this world is not real, what kind of words can we talk about human civilization?

Perhaps, it is precisely so that people who are not afraid of life can enjoy the world uncontrollably, so there are so many characters full of fear who constantly escalate the whole society. In this way, people who are not afraid of life can fully experience a very comfortable world, and a large number of characters are building this world, what could be more grateful?

The whole world exists for itself, there is nothing to worry about, everything is for enjoyment. So many characters have built this world for me so that I can experience all kinds of different lives. I, on the other hand, just hid in the shackles of fear and let time pass.

It's sad to think about, but my former self seems to take it for granted, as if life should be spent like this. Even, as the first person in the empire, it is still very good to show off vanity and be high.

Unfortunately, I can't go back now, and I won't want to go back. In the past, it was not called life, it was just a lamb driven by fear.

Too much meaning is grasped by oneself, and the distortion in the mind is how easily one's life is destroyed. They all want to win, but no one will believe that they can win by "doing nothing", and no one will believe that they can win by "not being afraid of life".

What everyone wants is to win in their heads, according to the distorted kind of win in their heads, not to win at ease, and not to win with recklessness. It has to be the pinnacle of life, it has to be a celebrity in the spotlight, it has to fit the distortion in the head.

And the distortion in the brain is forcibly distorted by the times, so the victory that people pursue in each era is different. Just like now, we can't understand why rich merchants were despised in ancient times, why rich people go to such a lowly position, why is the existence of such an opera an insult?

When what you strive for is just a plaything of the times, it always makes people feel angry. Their dreams, their ideals, and all their aspirations are nothing but the products of fear, and they are all just the playthings of an entire era.

What, then, is there to pursue? None of these things are one's own, what else is one's own? What is there that is thought about by oneself and not forcibly instilled by the Empire?

No!

If I don't have to worry about food and clothing, then I can definitely play life without recklessness. If I'm not worried about money, then I'm definitely going to enjoy life to the fullest.

Who can still starve to death in the current empire? But everyone still won't discard the distortion in their minds, how can they be satisfied with "not starving to death"? If ancient people came to modern times, so many rich materials can easily eat a meal, why should they be anxious and afraid?

Because he is a manipulated character at all, he has not gotten rid of the enchanting woman who is afraid of him. Whenever I thought I was going to get something, I was caught in the trap of fear because I was afraid of life.

Look at the distortion in your head, what a huge thing this is. I don't need to sort out the distortions in my head, and I don't need to explore these shit things, the characters are fake, I'm not the character of Yuan Changwen, so what else is there to sort out?

Burn the characters and all that's left is real.

What falsehood is worth keeping, and what falsehood cannot be destroyed?

The flow of life has always existed, and the characters can go with or against the current, but no matter how the characters choose, the whole behavior and the flow of life are included in the "Tao". In fact, all of them are "the Word."

However, this is merely speculation, and it is all based on the linear passage of time. Once the time is removed, then I won't be able to know anything. Everything is perceived at the moment, either as an image directly presented in the picture or as a memory in the mind.

For a character to exist, for a character to retain attributes, then the linear passage of time must be recognized. Otherwise, why should I act on the memory of a perceived character? After all, I have no idea the accuracy of this memory.

So, when these self-definitions are removed, when these unfounded beliefs are eliminated, my behavior becomes very strange.

I will not be dragged down by the past, after all, I don't know the correctness of the memory I perceive at the moment, so why do I have to consider my parents' feelings when doing things because I remember my parents' hard work? Why do I continue to maintain this sweetness because I remember the sweetness of my mother?

Then, after not believing in the distortion in my mind, the only thing that can be used as a source of choice for me is the flow of life. Or rather, the appearance of a heartbeat. Even if this heartbeat is completely contrary to the cognition in my head, completely contrary to the memory in my head, I will still be so obedient.

Since I can't be sure of the correctness of the memory I perceive, why don't I act on the excitement of the moment? In the same way, because I can't be sure of the correctness of the cognition in my mind that I am aware of at the moment, I don't worry about some undesirable consequences after following the heartbeat.

After all, I'm not afraid of life. Because I can't be sure of the information in my head that I perceive at the moment, how do I know that life is terrifying, the universe is full of malice, and society is realistic?

Isn't this wishful thinking on my part? What is the difference between this wishful thinking and sectarian belief?

If you can't be sure of the existence of time, why should you assume that time is linear, and why should you insist that your memory is correct?