“…… Xiao Chu, you and Su Su and her father go to the study to have a look, and Auntie and Su Su will go and prepare for you~щww~~lā"

In the living room of Su Su's house, almost only Su Su's mother kept talking, and Su Su's father, Su Su and Chu Xian had nothing to do but smile. It wasn't until she took the initiative to pull Su Su to the kitchen that Su Su's father and Chu Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There is such a mother in the family who seems to be born with a strong aura and can take the initiative to speak, no wonder Su Su is so honest that she doesn't look like the daughter of a rich family at all.

"Come, Xiao Chu, visit my study."

"Okay."

Today in Su Su's house, Chu Xian's most common sentence is probably "good". He didn't know if the other sons-in-law and prospective sons-in-law could only act as a nodding machine with a smile when they came to meet their parents for the first time, but in the face of Su Su and his wife, who had obviously arranged the entire "process" of the visit, he and Su Su didn't have much say as juniors.

Fortunately, Su Su's father didn't talk much, he led Chu Xian to the study with a gentle attitude, briefly introduced a few famous calligraphy and paintings on the wall that are worth seeing, and then looked at the cursive hanging scroll of "Do what you want without exceeding the rules" hanging directly behind the desk and chair, and directly cut to the main topic of the conversation:

"Xiao Chu, you specialize in philosophy, what do you think of the meaning of this sentence?"

In a positive sense, this sentence means that every word and deed of a person, every move should be purely natural, and it is implicitly in line with the truth of heaven and earth.

Confucius thought that he had only done this at the age of seventy, but he did not bind others to do it at the age of seventy, or that it was not too late to wait until the age of seventy to do so.

In a negative sense, Confucius is actually saying that when he reaches the age of seventy, because he has lived too long, even if his original personality is square, he has now been restrained and polished into a round.

If he is a frog who has been living in the well, then he has reached the 'highest level' at this time, no matter how much he pounces at will, he will never hit the wall of the well. Even if he was taken to an extremely empty place, he would never be able to jump out of that invisible circle.

However, he still thinks that in 'his world', his actions are extremely free, and he will not hit the wall no matter how much he pounces, and this kind of life is of course extremely comfortable.

So this sentence can be regarded as a rather clever attitude towards life - and of course it can also be dismissed as an alternative Ah Q spirit.

Human subjectivity is absolutely free. But objective reality also has its own laws of operation, and it is not subject to human will.

If you want to guarantee your freedom, you must take the initiative and willingly admit the various truths of objective reality and use this as a guide for your actions, so that you will naturally not encounter setbacks and failures.

Specific to personal life, it is to let yourself identify with the various rules and even unspoken rules formulated by the society from the heart, so that your actions will be limited to an invisible circle, but because you originally identified with the existence of the wall, you never thought of breaking through the wall, then the circle enclosed by the wall is your whole world, and you will not feel unfree and bound because you often hit the wall. ”

“……”

Su Su's father really planned to use this question to see Chu Xian's heart, but now he looked at Chu Xian, who was reflected in his glasses, dumbfounded, for a long time, and then he was sure that his answer was absolutely not sarcastic, but simply expounded his own opinion.

Are all those who study philosophy monsters?

As a successful businessman, Su Su's father certainly wouldn't complain like this, but he also fully saw that Chu Xian was extraordinary. Chu Xian's understanding was not so ...... noble, but it coincides with what he, an "old man" who is nearly fifty years old, has summed up in his life for decades.

When he was young, he also thought that he should be free, and this society is full of all kinds of constraints. But the older he gets, the more he feels that if people want to be as free as Sage Confucius, and "do what they want without exceeding the rules" like Sage Confucius, then they can only change their own views and learn to accept and agree with the rules of society, instead of always holding the mentality of resistance and opposition.

Maybe this is just brainwashing himself for young people - in fact, he also thinks that this is brainwashing himself, which is no different from Ah Q's spirit. But when people live older, they will gradually wake up to the fact that the most important thing for people is actually the process of life, and if the spirit of Ah Q can make people's lives much happier and happier, then there is nothing bad about it, and it doesn't matter whether this is self-deception and self-paralysis.

"So...... Do you think this is good or not? ”

"Personally, I don't mind this clever approach.

Individuals cannot fight against society, so in order to live without feeling suffocated, they can only change themselves to adapt to society.

When Confucius said 'do not exceed the rules' instead of 'not exceeding the Tao', it can be said that he knew very well that what people cannot surpass is not the objective truth, but only the rules formulated by human society, even if the rules are actually contrary to the truth.

Such Confucius was very smart, even as smart as a pragmatist. But his smartest thing is to point out a compromise path for many ordinary people who hover between the noble and the mean, so that these ordinary people who do not have the courage to give up their lives to insist on being noble can be 'appropriately' noble.

As an educator, it is unrealistic to want to educate all students to be moral saints. As the majority of society has the final say, then it is appropriate to make compromises, try to win over the 'majority', and crack down on the 'very few', so as to influence the concept and understanding of the whole society and play the role of 'helping the world'. Otherwise, even if you become a perfect moral saint, you will only be 'alone'.

Truth is the law of objective existence, which man can deny, but cannot destroy it. People living in society can not sacrifice themselves for the truth, but they should not abandon the truth and the responsibilities they should bear in order to live a more relaxed and happy life.

Even if I choose to endure because of my own powerlessness, I will not choose to take the rules as the truth in order to escape the spiritual powerlessness, but will always keep the truth in my heart and pass it on at the right time, so that future generations will also know what is right and what is wrong.

The wisdom of mankind will be passed down from generation to generation, and civilization will progress. But this wisdom is not a trick to make one's short life more accessible, but the correct understanding of the objective world by the predecessors, and the eternal and unchanging truth in this universe!

But as long as you compromise and don't forget your original intention, then you can and should live smarter, because everyone has only one life. (To be continued.) )