Chapter 179: Tao and Society
Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping are fond of playing chess, usually in addition to enlightenment, the two people play together, but today is different, Shu Xuanzi personally played against Zhou Dawei, remember the last time Shu Xuanzi and Zhou Dawei played against the two people and did not know each other, but at this time it became a master and apprentice, three people sat on the sofa, the eyes of the two apprentices stared at the chessboard tightly, and Shu Xuanzi did not drink today, playing chess and drinking tea is the most meaningful, brewing a pot of mountain peaks and clouds, holding a cup and tasting tea, there is a faint fragrance of tea in the room.
After thinking about it for half an hour, Zhou Dawei picked up a sunspot and fell into the chessboard, and then picked up a cup of tea, took a sip lightly, and a faint aura slowly spread from his mouth to the whole body, this Luanfeng Qingyun tea is also a product of the fairy world, Shu Xuanzi doesn't know where it came from, many people like to drink clear tea, Shu Xuanzi is not, like to drink strong tea, when making tea, he grabbed a large handful and sprinkled it into the teapot, so this tea is not strong in taste and the aura is enough, Shu Xuanzi once said that everything can enter the Tao, Therefore, when Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping were playing chess, they were also thinking about the mystery of the Tao.
"Well, your chess skills have improved, not bad", Shu Xuanzi nodded with satisfaction, since Zhou Dawei became younger, this visual gap is not so obvious, otherwise an old man shouts to a young man How do you think about the master, how do you feel weird, Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping entered the door, although Shu Xuanzi did not teach them how to fight, but they have been teaching them how to enlighten and improve their own cultivation, these two people have been interested in cultivation since childhood, and they have been pursuing it all their lives, and they have read so many Taozang to not read in vain, Since entering the door, many things that I didn't understand before have suddenly come through, and my cultivation has also been increasing, which can be regarded as a comfort to Shuxuanzi.
"Master, is man's fate in his own hands or is God in control? Why do you always say that people's fate is predestined? If everything is already doomed, wouldn't it be a violation of the days to struggle in vain? Gu Yuping felt that this game of chess was getting slower and slower, and suddenly asked a question.
"Cultivation is not to go against the sky, but to understand, to grasp, the life of secular people is very regular, since childhood began to study and go to school, after finishing school began to work or do business to survive, chasing nothing more than the word fame and fortune, many secular people in school often look at those rich people, secretly thinking, I will grow up to be like him, I want to become a rich person and when I grow up, I find that the original ideas are ridiculous, sometimes some people are not not working hard, If you don't fight for it, it's not that you don't have the ability, but you can't succeed, it's like the fate of these people is held by an invisible thread, leading, and like a thin film wrapping these people, so that they can't break through no matter how hard they struggle, they can't get rid of it, this is what ordinary people call fate, some people say that how much a person eats and drinks in his life is doomed, but in fact, it's not", Shu Xuanzi shook his head lightly, and after taking another sip of tea, Gu Yuping hurriedly filled Shu Xuanzi's teacup again.
"We fought hard when we were young and succeeded, but we are not smart people, there are many people who are smarter than us, but they have not succeeded, and they are still poor decades later, isn't it very unfair?" Zhou Dawei played again, and the current situation seems to be very favorable to him, but Zhou Dawei knows that Shu Xuanzi's chess skills can be described as superb, although it seems that he has the advantage now, but it is actually a hidden killing machine.
"How to say it, some people's fate is indeed destined, with ordinary methods can not change the fate, he is no matter how hard he works, no matter how hard he works, it is useless, it is nothing more than a few more rolls in the world, the so-called God is actually the Tao, the Tao is hidden in every place all the time, everyone, every line of fate, the Tao is paying attention to the words and deeds of mortals, every move, thus determining the life and death of mortals, wealth, opportunities, etc.,
The Tao can be big or small, to the big is all the changes, the way of heaven is impermanent, and down to the society that the secular people say, what kind of society will determine what kind of people will come out, what kind of social structure also determines the crowd structure of a specific era, what level of society also builds what level of mortal ideals, goals, social changes determine the rise and fall of a generation, not a person can contend with,
Li Taibai sang the praises of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Ji lamented that the heroes of the overlord of Chu were short of breath and their children were long, Lin Zexu burned opium to resist foreign enemy aggression, Lu Xun had a pen like a knife, separating how many Chinese cowardice, and Zhou Enlai's sentence of reading for the rise of China woke up a generation of young people, until the current scientific and technological society, the new and new human beings talk about eating, drinking and having fun every day, dating and surfing the Internet, the thoughts of the entire generation are determined by this society, determined by the mandate of heaven, this is the Tao, countless heroes and heroes, None of the heroes and overlords can escape the epitome of society, let alone those more ordinary mortals?
From ancient times to the present, how many societies have risen and fallen for thousands of years, how many dynasties have risen and fallen, and each generation is changing its thinking with the transformation of social forms. Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping kept thinking about what Shu Xuanzi said, and slowly understood how the so-called Tao controlled secular people.
"As far as we know, the longest dynasty in history is the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there have been 25 generations of kings, the Tao is constantly changing, and the concept of secular people is also constantly changing, so there is a change of dynasty? This is also a form of Destiny, right? Gu Yuping continued to ask.
"Well, it's a kind of thing, mortals keep running around every day and work hard just to make themselves and their families eat better, dress better, and sprint to a higher level, they are pulled by an invisible line of fame and fortune, so they can't see the real society at all, and when some people are lucky enough to really break through the level they are in, they find that in fact, the surrounding environment has not changed, and it is just jumping from a cup into a bigger cup, and mortals only have a few decades of life, and how many times can they jump? Therefore, whether it is an emperor or a beggar, the body of a secular person is forever bound by countless shackles, and he can never see his true self.
In fact, it's not just mortals, Dayan fifty, take four or nine, that is, there are not many cultivators who can control their own fate, and cultivators are also drifting and struggling in the sea of Dao, but cultivators have one more favorable condition than mortals, that is, life expectancy, if you cultivate into a primordial infant, you can be immortal in the flesh, and you can ascend to the immortal realm with endless life, you can slowly untie the shackles on your body, to understand the root of the Tao, you remember, cultivators never fight for a short time, Don't forget the root for the sake of a momentary battle of will", Shu Xuanzi finally accepted two apprentices, but he didn't want these two apprentices to hang up accidentally, it would be a big loss of face for himself.
"Yes, Master, the apprentice must follow the teachings", the two of them hurriedly bowed their heads when they heard what Shu Xuanzi said.
"Many people often say that thirty and stand, forty is not confused, fifty and knows the destiny of heaven, sixty and obedient, these are all said by cultivators, practitioners have long seen through everything in the world, and said the fate of almost all worldly people, that is to say, mortals will only really mature at the age of thirty, not confused by many illusions, and can stand on the society of the epitome of the Tao, in the society is like a child learning to walk, stumbling ten years later to forty will further mature, The year of not being confused can resist more temptations, no longer disturbed by many people and things in society, you can make the right decision on your own, fifty and know the destiny of heaven, and after ten years of secular people will gradually open the fog in front of them to see the true face of this society, see through how they spend their fifty years, at this time they will find that life in the world is just a dream, fifty years after experiencing a life after the surname will become calm and calm, this calm and calm is more helpless, This week, Dawei and Gu Yuping have already experienced the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and they have a deeper understanding of what Shu Xuanzi said, and they keep nodding their heads in agreement.
"When a worldly person knows what kind of life he really wants to live in this life, but it is too late, and he is about to wake up from a dream, and he is thinking about what is a dream in this life? But it's still the case, and I can only continue to live in accordance with the general trend of heaven, and I want to be in good weather, and my wife will continue to walk the rest of her life road peacefully, to complete her destiny as a mortal, mortals are nothing more than eight things in the world, joy, anger and sorrow, birth, old age, sickness and death, how many people have been persistent, brave, and retreated, but in the end what you get is just a sentence, the master came to the world to go once, and then obediently went to the underworld to report, the avenue is invisible, and the society has formed a humane, humane impact on a generation and the fate of everyoneIf you want to break through your own destiny, if you want to break through your own destiny, if you want to break through the humanity formed by the society, you must go through the path of cultivation, and comprehend the mysteries of the mystery to fundamentally solve the problem, I have told you many times, a practitioner's skill is not the most important, cultivation is the most important, this is the truth", this game of chess has entered the middle game, Zhou Dawei frowned and finally realized the layers of resistance, and the white son of the book Xuanzi sealed the way out he thought was layer by layer, Zhou Dawei's head began to sweat again.
"The weak, the use of the Tao, the opposite, the movement of the Tao", Gu Yuping suddenly spoke next to him, Zhou Dawei heard this sentence Fuzhi felt suddenly enlightened in his heart, and picked up a sunspot and put it in the chessboard,
"Well, yes, you finally understand, don't fight against Dao with your own strength, don't say it's you, even Da Luo Jinxian won't do that, that's an act of looking for death, okay, let's play this game of chess here, you're already hungry, right? Hehe, accompany me to drink tea all afternoon", Shu Xuanzi put down the teacup with a smile, Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping blushed and lowered their heads, their time to enter the Tao is too short, although their own cultivation has been mentioned a lot by Shu Xuanzi, but for more than 60 years, they have eaten and drunk water, and they can't stand it if they don't eat or drink, besides, the dishes in the Xuan Restaurant are unusually delicious this day, plus Shu Xuanzi is delicious and delicious, these two apprentices naturally don't have a meal, "Don't be embarrassed, eat when you're hungry, drink when you're thirsty, Only by showing one's true surname can it conform to the style of monasticism."
"What Master taught us is that we are hungry," Zhou Dawei and Gu Yuping looked at each other and said with a smile.
"Haha, let's go, let's try to eat for three of us", Shu Xuanzi waved his hand and gave a gift, and as soon as he went out, he saw Shen Fangtong holding a white cat sitting on the leather swivel chair and waiting, "What?" Are you hungry too? Shu Xuanzi asked with a smile.
"I deliberately rested early today, but you haven't come out", Shen Fangtong just pushed the door and saw that the three masters and apprentices in the back room were playing tea and didn't bother to go in and disturb, so they kept waiting outside, Shen Fangtong saw Shu Xuanzi for the first time to accompany the two apprentices,
"If I don't come out, won't you go in? Let's go, let's eat", Shu Xuanzi reached out and grabbed the white cat in Shen Fangtong's arms, and threw it aside, but Shen Fangtong glared at Shu Xuanzi and hurriedly picked up the white cat that fell to the ground carefully.
"What's the matter with you? What should I do if I break him? Shen Fangtong knew that this white cat was a white tiger and even said so, it seems that her compassion is really a little too much, this white cat will also cooperate, in Shen Fangtong's arms, the poor meow meowed twice, lowered her eyebrows, like an angry little daughter-in-law, Shu Xuanzi saw that this white tiger was so like a palm thunder.
After eating, Ren Linglong came to find Shu Xuanzi, the two of them have not been husband and wife since Ren Linglong came out of the customs, Ren Linglong not only concentrated on enlightenment and cultivation, but even the worldly feelings were closed a lot, giving people a cold feeling, but Shu Xuanzi didn't care, patted his thigh, and saw that Ren Linglong didn't come out, and his right hand was stretched out lightly, and Ren Linglong was sucked by the strong suction.
"Wife, what are you looking for me?" Shu Xuanzi asked with a smile, and his hand began to move on Ren Linglong's body, Ren Linglong's cultivation has increased so much at this time, her figure is even better, she is much more beautiful, and her temperament is even more like a fairy.
"Why do you still do such useless work?" Ren Linglong looked at Shu Xuanzi depressedly and asked, Ren Linglong has now understood that worldly love is simply a moon in water for cultivators, void and unrealistic, and cultivators don't need this kind of thing to comfort their spirits, just like a university professor doesn't need to be multiplied at all, it's a ridiculous move at all.
"I like useless work, nothing is useless, hehe, wouldn't the wife I am marrying in Ming Media suffer and die if I don't hug it again?" Shu Xuanzi smiled and continued his movements, how did Ren Linglong know that Shu Xuanzi's behavior had already surpassed the realm of the Dao, and his comprehension of things had reached a level that ordinary people could not comprehend, and Shu Xuanzi's life at this time was more with his surname.
(To be continued)