Chapter 167: It's too hard to be a pure person
The car drove along the winding mountain road leading to Zixiao Palace, Fu Rongsheng, who was sitting behind, held the back of his head with both hands, leaned his head on the seat, and said, I came to Wudang Mountain many years ago, and there was no such road at that time, and I walked on two legs to go up the mountain from the trail, and I picked a lot of Chinese herbs along the way, Wudang Mountain is rich in Chinese herbal medicine resources, and Wudang Taoist medicine is also very famous, but I don't know if there is an inheritor now, if there is an inheritor, I must learn Wudang Taoist medicine this time, In fact, our Chinese medicine is inseparable from Taoist medicine.
Yue Haohan said that Taoist medicine is an important school of traditional Chinese medicine, and I know that Li Yifu, the head of Qingfeng Dao, is deeply involved in Taoist medicine, and when the time comes, Fu Lao can be with him to learn from each other, and he has a lot of Taoist secret recipes in his hands. It's just not very clear whether he is the inheritor of Wudang Taoist Medicine.
Zhang Haiming next to him took over and said, in fact, Taoism is the same as traditional Chinese medicine, it is the local culture of China, however, in recent years, Western culture has had a great impact on our traditional Chinese culture, especially the younger generation, which is more deeply influenced by Western culture, and Western culture is encroaching on our traditional Chinese culture step by step.
Ye Yunqing, who was driving the car, took over and said that the essence of traditional Chinese culture is, to put it bluntly, the "golden mean", which only pays attention to people's inner moral cultivation and despises the exploration of external objective laws. The idea of family ethics is an important value orientation of traditional Chinese culture, and this value is actually the coexistence of essence and dross, and in order to make the essence of Chinese traditional culture play a positive role in modern society, it is not only necessary to critically inherit, but also to carry out creative transformation.
Zhang Haiming said, I agree with what Mr. Ye said, and we must critically absorb traditional culture. However, then again, any culture is inevitably mixed with a certain amount of dross, and the same is true of Western culture.
The car meandered forward on the highway commonly known as the eighteen pans, about half an hour, the car no longer circled upward, the road slope has been gentle, through the car window, you can see the magnificent Zixiao Hall under the banner peak.
The two cars stopped on the side of the road in front of the Zixiao Palace, Wang Jianlong jumped out of the car, explained a few words to another Taoist in the car, and the pickup truck honked its horn and drove in the direction of Nanyan.
Wang Jianlong arrived next to Ye Yunqing's car and said to everyone, where to eat and live, my master arranged it last night, we will go to Zixiao Palace first to see if my master is done.
Everyone got off the car, and with Wang Jianlong arrived at the courtyard of Zixiao Palace, except for Yue Haohan, who had come here last year, several others were attracted by the magnificent Zixiao Palace, standing in the center of the courtyard, looking up at Zixiao Palace, sighing at this large-scale ancient building complex and long-standing Taoist culture.
Cheng Ziying took Yue Haohan's arm, admiring the surrounding buildings with a look of admiration, and after a while, Cheng Ziying pulled Yue Haohan's arm and asked, Haohan, is the jade jade Buddha I brought here to open the light?
Yue Haohan said, yes, but Li Daochang opened the light in the Golden Dome once in advance according to the method taught by his master, and then opened the light again in the Zixiao Hall according to the regular magic weapon opening procedure.
Cheng Ziying lowered her head, took out the jade Buddha on her neck with her left hand and stroked it, feeling the aura from this immortal mountain, the depths of her soul seemed to have been completely purified, and her whole body was like a refreshing feeling after bathing in clean spring water.
The group stood and watched for a while, and went to call Wang Jianlong, who was the master, followed the master Li Yifu to the place where everyone was standing, and when he arrived, Li Yifu greeted everyone with a smile, and said, welcome to all the nobles, Poor Dao is rude today, I received a call from Haohan yesterday, and I planned to go down the mountain to pick you up with Wuchen in the morning, but the temporary host arranged to prepare a few flavors of family pills in this Zixiao Palace in the morning, so I had to let Wuchen go down the mountain alone to pick you up. Rude, rude!
Yue Haohan smiled and said, Daochang Li, you are not an outsider, you don't have to be so polite, we will be embarrassed if you are polite. Let me introduce you to a few people you don't know.
As he spoke, Yue Haohan took Ye Yunqing's arm and introduced, Li Daochang, this is the famous tea distribution king, Ye Yunqing Ye Zong, came to our Jiangyang to inspect and invest.
After introducing Ye Yunqing, Yue Haohan pulled Fu Rongsheng again, and said, this is the old president of the General Hospital of the Southern Military Region, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine, Academician Fu Rongsheng Fu, Fu Lao and Li Daochang should also have a very good relationship, Fu Lao is my old subordinate of Grandpa Luo, who has been a military doctor for more than ten years, and this time Fu Lao will come to discuss and discuss Taoist medicine with you.
Then Yue Haohan introduced Professor Zhang Haiming to Li Yifu, saying, this is my teacher, Zhang Haiming, a well-known professor of the Department of History of Jianghan University, and Mr. Zhang is very interested in our traditional Chinese culture.
After Yue Haohan introduced Ye Yunqing, Fu Rongsheng, and Zhang Haiming, Cheng Ziying had met Li Yifu a few times, and Li Yifu was also familiar with Cheng Ziying and had a certain understanding, so Yue Haohan did not introduce Cheng Ziying to Li Yifu again.
After Li Yifu and Ye Yunqing greeted each other, they looked at Cheng Ziying and said, Poor Dao saw Miss Cheng this time, and felt that you looked more out of the ordinary, the disaster star avoided a year ago, and this year it must be a good fortune star, is Poor Dao right?
Cheng Ziying hesitated for a moment and said, thank you Daochang Li, that time ago, if I hadn't forgotten the jade and jade Buddha that never left me in the mall, I am afraid that I would have been hit by that car at that time.
The conversation between Li Yifu and Cheng Ziying, except for Yue Haohan, who understood, the other people listened in a daze, Zhang Haiming looked at Yue Haohan puzzled, and asked, Haohan, what did Li Daochang say that Ziying's disaster star escaped years ago, why can't we understand, what happened to Ziying years ago? Nothing else, right?
Zhang Haiming is very concerned about his student Yue Haohan, after a few years of dating at school, Zhang Haiming's heart, subconsciously, has regarded Yue Haohan as his own child, Cheng Ziying is Yue Haohan's girlfriend, so of course, Zhang Haiming is also very concerned about Cheng Ziying's affairs. Naturally, these questions were asked with great concern.
Yue Haohan took Cheng Ziying's hand, looked at Zhang Haiming, and replied, Mr. Zhang, a few years ago, Ziying and her colleagues went to the mall, and when they tried a scarf, they forgot the jade jade Buddha on their necks in the mall, when Ziying and her colleagues left the mall and started to cross the street, they suddenly remembered that the jade Buddha was still forgotten on the counter of the mall, and the two paused for a moment, turned around and prepared to get the jade Buddha, but as soon as they turned around, a high-speed truck rushed over and knocked a couple walking in front of Ziying and the two of them. At that time, if he hadn't remembered that the Jade Buddha had forgotten to take it and hesitated, the car would have crashed into the two of them.
After listening to this, Zhang Haiming sighed and said, it turns out that this is the case, it seems that some things in Taoism are still very profound and mysterious, although we don't understand them, but many things have to make us have a lot of associations.
Everyone stood in the courtyard and chatted for a while, and Li Yifu took everyone to visit the Zixiao Palace. After the visit, coming out of the main hall, Li Yifu looked at the time, and then took everyone to the Crow Ridge Water Conservancy Hotel for dinner.
After the meal, Li Yifu asked everyone to rest in the registered room of the Water Conservancy Hotel. After everything was arranged, Li Yifu and Wang Jianlong went to the room where Yue Haohan lived, sat down on the bed, Li Yifu smiled and asked Yue Haohan, saying, Haohan, how is the Tai Chi practice? Has there been any improvement?
Yue Haohan replied, saying that if he insisted on doing at least one trip every morning and evening, and if he didn't do Tai Chi twice a day, he would feel uncomfortable, and he would feel like he was missing something all day.
Li Yifu asked, are there any other feelings?
Yue Haohan said, Dao Chief, through playing this Tai Chi, I also found that my perception ability is much stronger than before, recently I have played a few word measurement games with others, people say the words, I immediately have inspiration, can perceive the measured things, I feel very strange, this time I want to ask the Taoist this question. Do you think it has anything to do with practicing our tai chi?
Li Yifu smiled "ha, ha, ha" and said, of course it has a relationship, but I just didn't tell you before. My senior brother, your grandfather Luo, since that time he fought more than a dozen Japanese devils with his bare hands, almost died, after he came back to life, he practiced this Tai Chi more attentively, as the level increased, his sensitivity to perceive the things around him gradually increased, especially the perception of external danger factors was stronger, so since then, the troops he led have never lost a battle.
Yue Haohan looked at Li Yifu thoughtfully, and said, Daochang Li, I have been thinking about this question again, but I can't figure it out, is our Taijiquan so charming? Since he has the ability to perceive danger after practicing for a long time, his grandfather Xu Benshan must have been able to sense danger back then, but why did he still go down the mountain?
Li Yifu looked up to the sky and sighed, and said, I have been wondering about this question for decades, but I have never solved this mystery! With my current cultivation, I can sense the danger in the situation at that time, let alone Master? There must be something we don't know about this, and there must be a reason why he had no choice but to go down the mountain that year.
Wang Jianlong, who was sitting quietly next to him and listening to Li Yifu's conversation with Yue Haohan, got up and poured a cup of tea for Li Yifu and Yue Haohan, sat next to Yue Haohan from the new seat, and said, Senior Brother Haohan, I saw my younger brother and sister today, and looked at the faces and demeanors of my younger brother and sister.
Li Yifu took over and said, as long as we can insist on practicing this Tai Chi boxing method, our heart will not become bad, and our boxing moves pay attention to the balance of yin and yang, practice the body externally, and cultivate the mind internally. I am worried about Ziyan's child, and I hope she can understand some truth from this set of boxing techniques and get rid of the emotional whirlpool.
Li Yifu took a sip of tea from the cup, changed the topic, and asked, Haohan, have you been working well recently?
Yue Haohan said, well, it's very pleasant, not as depressed as when I just went to work last year.
Li Yifu said that you should be very smooth in the past two years, and there will be changes in your work next year; However, after three years, you will encounter obstacles everywhere, feel unhappy all the time, and although your career has been climbing, your heart will be even more confused. I hope you must not abandon the practice of this Tai Chi, this time when I go down the mountain, I will give you a bottle of the pill I personally configured, and you can take one pill orally every day before practicing in the morning. The boxing technique has improved, and slowly you will have the ability to recognize people, and it is taboo for officials not to know people; Following the wrong person or using the wrong person will make you hate for life, so in officialdom, the first thing is to learn how to recognize and employ people.
Yue Haohan said, Dao Chief, I will take all your words to heart today, and I will definitely persevere in cultivating the boxing method, not only cultivating the boxing method, but also insisting on cultivating the mind. To be honest, every time I silently recite this set of mantras, I will deeply feel that the mantra itself is a very subtle way of life, very philosophical.
Li Yifu said, you can understand it this way! I was originally an outsider, and I am not familiar with your officialdom, but I always think that whether it is an official or a people, after all, they are all people, whether they are officials or for the people, they must first be able to be a person and be a good person. Only by being a good person can you be a good official, if you can't even do well, how can you talk about being a good official?
Yue Haohan looked at Li Yifu with admiration and asked, Dao Chief, then what do you mean to be a good person?
Li Yifu said that when Confucius studied the issue of "good people", he classified people: sage, benevolent, middle-aged, wise, and foolish, but his research was obviously not careful enough. The moon is full and lacking, and no one is perfect. In this world, there are no saints, but after all, there are very few. I believe that a person can be called a good person as long as he is able to take responsibility for his own conscience, for the country, for the society, for the family, for the organization, and even for his own beliefs.
Yue Haohan asked again, what is a good official?
Li Yifu laughed twice and replied, in fact, "good official" has two meanings, one is a better official position, that is, a good official is called a good official if he is poor in beauty and fat and lacking. The second is an honest and virtuous official, who is called a good official. You must be asking the second meaning, I understand that this kind of good official is very simple, that is, clean and self-conscious, loyal to the faith, able to resist all kinds of temptations, and able to use his influence to help more people in need. People say that officials are easy to do, but they don't know that it is difficult to be an official. Being an official is a university question. "Be an official first, and the people first." Mao Weiren once said in a very famous article that no matter how big or small a person is, as long as he has the spirit of no selfishness, he is a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who is free from low-level interests, and a person who is beneficial to the people. He is an old man who talks about the past and the present, is eloquent and strategic, and explains how to be a person and an official very thoroughly.
Yue Haohan said, Daoist, I understand, in fact, the truth is simple, but it is difficult to practice. It is difficult to be a good person, and it is difficult to be a good official.
Li Yifu said, vast, it is because of this, that I warn you, in three years, you will encounter obstacles everywhere, and you will always feel unhappy, why do I say this? It's not that I can really pinch it, as your status rises in the future, all kinds of people will tend to be around you, and the temptations of money, beauty, luxury, pleasure and so on will follow, can you face these temptations? In this world, no one wants to be a profiteer, a corrupt official, a liar, or a villain, but when you see that other people can get something for nothing, eat without a sigh, beautiful women go around you, and money is spent at will, no matter how pure a person is, it may be difficult for a person to sit upright, and if you want to live a pure life, it depends on your perseverance and cultivation.
Yue Haohan said, that's the case, so it's a very difficult process for people to cultivate their minds. Officials with power will have a harder time cultivating their minds because they face more temptations.
Li Yifu nodded with satisfaction and said, vastness, it's good that you can realize this, it's really too difficult to be a pure person, like Qu Yuan, Sima Qian, etc., you have to pay for your life, spend your youth, give up your freedom, and abandon yourself. And being an impure person is easier than ever, completely indulgent, completely slack, and ruthlessly taking.