When Jobs set foot on the land of China for the second time, his mood was completely different from half a month ago.

Hope, excitement... And a little bit of fear ...

Now, he really began to believe that Zhang Chen could get to this day, and he must have mastered some kind of "Tao" he said.

In the past few days, he has found a lot of information about Chinese Taoist culture, but unlike Buddhism, which is widely spread around the world, there are few English materials on Taoist culture.

In addition, there are some strange and absurd legends.

But just like that, Jobs still watched with relish.

The reason why Jobs was able to succeed was that his curiosity that was far beyond ordinary people accounted for a large proportion, and the miracle that happened to him made him suddenly have a very strong curiosity about Taoist culture.

Any religion that can be circulated in the market for thousands of years must have its logical self-consistency, and what you are afraid of is that you are not curious and do not delve into it. Once you develop your curiosity and start delving, there is a good chance that you will become a supporter of this religion.

"I want to see the old man from last time. Jobs, who flew for more than ten hours to arrive in the capital, just met Zhang Chen, who came to the airport to pick up the plane, and made a request straight to the point.

Zhang Chen shrugged his shoulders, "I'm sorry, that Dao Master has entered the mountain to cultivate, and I don't know where he is now, nor how long he will go." ”

Jobs's frustration was palpable.

Zhang Chen looked at Jobs, "You found a tumor on your pancreas?"

Jobs glared at Bill Campbell, knowing that it must have been Bill Campbell who told Zhang Chen.

Jobs said helplessly: "Well, I admit that this matter is indeed beyond my understanding, this is really amazing, I want to know how the old man judged it." ”

Zhang Chen didn't understand: "This is nothing magical, it's just an application of the Tao, of course, this requires strong talent and long-term cultivation." In front of the Great Dao, what that Dao Master mastered was only a drop in the ocean, so at his age, he would still go into the mountains to cultivate. ”

Jobs still didn't give up, "I really don't know which mountain he practiced on? Since he can see my health condition, he should have a way to heal me." ”

Zhang Chen took out an envelope from his arms, "This is the treatment method left by that Dao Master. ”

Jobs perked up and pulled out an A4-sized piece of rice paper from the envelope, on which were written three Chinese characters he didn't recognize.

"Go to the hospital. ”

Jobs brought a full-time translator this time, and after listening to the translator's words, Jobs was dumbfounded: "Go to the hospital?"

Whether it was Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, or even any religion that Jobs came into contact with, they all claimed that they could cure diseases, and Jobs was also influenced by this, becoming a staunch vegetarian, and even very resistant to hospitals.

But this old man, who almost thought he was a god, actually let himself go to the hospital?

Zhang Chen said as a matter of course: "Of course you go to the hospital if you are sick, otherwise where else?"

Jobs opened his mouth and stammered, "Difficult, can't your so-called fundamental avenue even cure the disease?"

Zhang Chen laughed when he heard this: "Steve, do you think that Dao is one of those charlatans who go around cheating and preaching? If anyone tells you that you can cure malignant tumors without going to the hospital, then this person must be a liar." If a religion tells you that you can cure cancer without going to the hospital, it's definitely a liar religion. ”

"And how do you attract believers?" Jobs couldn't understand how there could be a religion that wasn't healing.

"As I said before, in the strict sense, the Tao is not a doctrine, but only points out the direction of the study of the fundamental avenue, and the so-called Taoism is also a collection of such a group of people who diligently seek the fundamental avenue. We never take the initiative to preach, nor do we force others to believe, we only care about our own practice, and we only care about our own mastery and understanding of the Great Dao. ”

"Have you ever heard of Newton and Einstein having any followers? We have only one attitude toward believing others or not. ”

"Love to believe in it, not to believe in it. ”

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In the next few days, Zhang Chen accompanied Jobs to many places, not only to the Taoist temples in the wilderness, but also to Zhongguancun, Pudong, Futian and other entrepreneurial bases.

Over the course of several days, Mr. Jobs became more and more silent, and many of the sights he saw were completely different from what he had in mind.

"I really don't understand what kind of land this is: poverty and luxury, laziness and industriousness, simplicity and cunning, arrogance and inferiority, plagiarism and innovation, greed and devotion。。。。。。 How did these completely different qualities come together, which of them was real, and why?" Jobs couldn't help but sigh.

"Because of poverty. Faced with Jobs's question, Zhang Chen replied briefly.

"Because of poverty?" Obviously, Jobs did not agree with Zhang Chen's opinion, "I am discussing the problem of human nature, and the complexity of the Chinese people is what I have seen the most, which cannot be explained by poverty or wealth." In my opinion, it is precisely because of these negative things that it leads to poverty in China, isn't it?"

Zhang Chen smiled slightly: "Steve, you are inverting the effect, human nature is actually no different." The application of DNA technology has proven that all human beings originated in Africa and may even have a common ancestor. The influence of the external environment is decisive in the formation of various cultural and moral values. In ancient times, geographical differences affected the strength of a country, while in modern times, the wealth of a country also affects the national character of the country. ”

There is an old saying in China: know etiquette and know etiquette when you are honest, and know honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing, which coincides with Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory. Of course, I do not deny that there are people who, despite extreme poverty, are still able to maintain a considerable aristocratic demeanor and high moral values. But for most people, nothing else can be said if the need for survival is fully guaranteed. ”

"The most ironic thing is that the primitive accumulation of wealth has almost nothing to do with morality, and even the primitive accumulation of wealth in every great country is immoral. ”

"Britain was able to become an empire on which the sun never set in the nineteenth century, thanks to the privateering permission of the British king; the Netherlands was able to become a coachman at sea because of the trade in goods and slaves; the strength of the Spaniards came from the shameless slaughter of the Mayans and Indians; the expansion of the Rakshasa came from the brutal suppression of the Tatars; as for the United States, do you need to say that the innocent Indians who were killed and the millions of black slaves who died before the Civil War were the stepping stones for the United States to become the most powerful country in the world!"

"These countries have now become civilized countries. ”

Zhang Chen's tone was not intense, just flat and straightforward, "I have no intention of attacking these countries, I am just expounding an objective law." And objective laws are also a kind of Tao. There is a sentence in the Tao Te Ching you read: Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as dogs, which means that heaven and earth are the same to all things in the world, and there is nothing special. China is not special, even though it has been one of the most powerful countries in the world for 90 percent of the last 3,000 years, Babylon is not special, even though it may have been the first country in the world, and the United States is not special, even though it is now the most powerful country in the world. Blindness and prejudice will prevent us from fully understanding the 'Tao' that exists in it. Taoism talks about 'forgetting one's feelings', which means putting aside one's likes and dislikes and looking at everything objectively, and only in this way can one attain the Tao. ”

(End of chapter)