Chapter 325 Heavenly Dao Bondage
Life is impermanent, and the way of heaven is the same through the ages. Regardless of whether the universe is constant or not, it is at least in constant flux compared to humans who are as small as sand, dust and ants. For human beings, whether it is the universe or the way of heaven, it is so ethereal, no matter how curious and exploratory people are, they cannot peek into one-ten-thousandth of its appearance.
The Tao is invisible, and the Tao is nameless. As the master of all things in the universe, the way of heaven is formless and formless, and it is difficult to distinguish between the virtual and the real! For all things in the world, although the way of heaven encompasses everything, it is void and cannot be touched! If we want to forcibly separate the virtual and the real, it is natural that the heavenly way is the void and all things in the world are real! However, for the heavenly way, this relationship between the virtual and the real is just the opposite!
For the Heavenly Dao, everything in the world is void, and the rules of the Heavenly Dao are real!
Everything in the universe, whether there is a name or not, is derived from the Heavenly Dao. Farmers plough the fields, hunters hunt, students go to school, and doctors heal the sick. Everything in this world seems to be dominated by people's own thoughts, but in fact, whether people are active or passive, they are just acting according to the rules set by the Heavenly Dao.
People are people, birds are birds, birds can't learn human words, and people can't grow bird wings. Facts have proved that things are man-made, and man's victory over heaven is nothing but a kind of self-fantasy and comfort! Under the way of heaven, man can never defeat heaven, and all he can overcome is himself!
After more than a million years of evolution and development, talents have finally been able to reluctantly stand on top of other living beings in the world! All these have proved how weak people are in the face of the Heavenly Dao! Millions of years have only given people a little more strength than other low-IQ creatures, and in this case, how can people compete with heaven and earth!
Man is to heaven and earth what a train is to railroad tracks. The train stepped on the tracks every day, traveled thousands of miles a day, galloped without borders, thinking that he had super fast speed, and could go to any corner of the world, but as everyone knows, where he can go and how fast he can run, all of them are bound by the rails under his feet.
The same is true of people!
Between heaven and earth, he thinks he can control the heavens and the earth, but in fact, no matter how high a person's wisdom and ability are, he is always bound to the world in which he lives.
Of course, it is undeniable that human beings are truly amazing. Without him, because they are born with a super-high wisdom that other beings do not have, and this super-high wisdom gives them the possibility of infinite growth. Without wings, man can build an airplane, without gills he can build a submarine, and if nothing happens at a time, at the rate of human progress, one day he will have the same power as the legendary gods who destroyed the world.
However, even so, man is still invincible to heaven and still cannot escape the shackles of heaven! Why? Just because there is a difference between reality and fiction, there is no way to compare!
From a human point of view, if we have to distinguish between the virtual and the real, then of course human beings are the real and the way of heaven is the virtual! If nothing else, because they can really feel their own existence, they can feel their every move and everything around them. From this point of view, the ethereal and uncertain Heavenly Dao is more like nothingness. But in fact, is it really as people think, man is real, and heaven is false?
Obviously, it's not!
The way of heaven rules everything, how can it be nothing. To put it bluntly, everything in the universe is just a part of the Heavenly Dao. And the reason why people can't see the way of heaven is actually because of the constraints of the rules of the way of heaven.
The relationship between Heaven and all things in the world is like the relationship between a person's head and his thoughts. All of a person's thoughts are derived from his head. Whether it is good or bad, the premise for a person to have a mind is that he must have a head! As far as the Heavenly Dao is concerned, the existence of a person is actually like a thought in a person's head! Just imagine, no matter how strong and extended a thought is, can it still jump out of its head and survive alone?
The frog in the well cannot see the whole picture of the sky, and man cannot understand the universe thoroughly!