Chapter 97: Left or Right
"How did you get here?" After eating the barbecue breakfast, Zhou Zhuang asked.
"Alas! It's hard to put into words! Peng Zhou listened and sighed.
"What's wrong? Juvenile! ”
"Say no more! Say it and I'm angry! I was brought here by Confucius! He tricked me into coming here and left me alone! Hey! He left me to fend for myself! ”
"Confucius?" Zhou Zhuang said in surprise: "How many years has Zhuangzi been dead, where is there still Confucius?" Confucius died earlier! You? Oh! I know! ”
"What do you know?"
"No wonder yesterday morning I saw auspicious clouds falling from the sky, and there were two people on them. So! One is you, and the other is Confucius! Ahaha! Tell me about it! What the hell is going on? Confucius, what did he bring you here for? ”
Seeing that this Zhouzhuang was as humorous as Zhuangzi, Peng Zhou didn't talk nonsense anymore. Anyway! He just thinks! This Zhouzhuang is Zhuang Zhou Zhuangzi, and Zhuang Zhou is Zhuangzi.
"Where? He said that it was a good spring, a good time for an outing, and asked me to accompany him out. I think so! It was too boring to stay at home all day, so I agreed to him. He sat there playing the piano and composed music for the Book of Songs. After some intoxication, he asked me what I planned for the rest of my life. ……”
"What is he asking for?"
"How do I know?"
"Then tell him! You will serve the motherland and serve the people in the future! He is willing to sacrifice his life for the happiness of mankind. If you don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell will ...... me," Zhou Zhuang said, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Ahem, ahem!" Peng Zhou looked at Zhou Zhuang and laughed along.
I thought: This person is definitely Zhuangzi! Zhuangzi speaks like this: true and false, false and true! If you don't use your brain, you won't understand what he's saying.
Say to him! Keep the law, forgive others, and if someone hits you on the left cheek, you turn the right cheek and hit him! ”
"Why should I do this? Am I sick? ”
"How can it be sick? This is the work of virtuous and high-quality people. If someone punches you and you kicks someone back, isn't that a barbaric society? Human society is constantly improving! We have to be a civilized person. Not barbaric! You can't be savage, you can't be like others......"
"I think! That's not asking us to be civilized, it's a lie! ”
"How can you lie to a fool?"
"Why aren't you fools?"
The two argued, and then! They all burst out laughing.
In fact! It's not an argument, it's a "teasing" and laughing!
Knowing that Confucius tricked him out and threw him here to ignore it, Zhou Zhuang shook his head and smiled: "This is Confucius!" His thoughts or left! Or right! Polarization! Alas! You've fallen for him! ”
Peng Zhou didn't understand what "left" or "right" means?
"Do you think so? Isn't it? ”
"How?"
"The former Kongqiu! He is a person who speaks of Zhou etiquette, and he believes that everything must abide by Zhou etiquette and Zhou system, and today's society should be restored to the heyday of the Zhou Dynasty. So! He asks others this and that. And what about himself! It is also in strict accordance with the weekly etiquette and weekly system, and it is absolutely not exceeded! Self-denial, isn't it? ”
"Yes, yes, yes! I heard that he used to be like this! Peng Zhou should be harmonious.
Confucius in history was such a person. So! It was called "the master of all ages" by later generations. Obey the law and be honest, this is Confucius!
And the current Confucius, since he attended Lao Tzu's "sage training class", has slowly changed and become what he is today.
This is not? Throwing Peng Zhou into this troubled world?
He didn't harm Peng Zhou, but thought that Peng Zhou couldn't stay at home all day. Especially teenagers! We must enter the society and integrate into the society! Otherwise! Being an otaku is easy to have problems at home and become a problem teenager.
Let alone! Peng Zhou is not the kind of person who has no culture, he is a highly educated person. Imagine! Are people who have received education from Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Confucius higher education?
In modern language! It should be equivalent to a doctoral degree! Do you have?
Confucius may have seen that Peng Zhou relied on the idea of not leaving Zhuangzi. So! He decided to take Peng Zhou out of his heart and throw him into real life.
You belong to this era, can you stay in your heart and not come out, okay?
You belong to this era, can you rely on others forever? Won't you ever live on your own again?
Is it possible to rely on parents and elders forever? How about eating up the old book?
People have to grow up! It's to face life, can you rely on others?
Let alone! It's a troubled time! If you don't learn to live independently, how will you survive?
You don't belong to the realm of the mind! The heart is the world of the dead! No! It's the spiritual world!
This is what Confucius thinks today! He completely changed the mind of the past!
He is still just as kind, and he doesn't want to see Peng Zhou abandoned by real life in the future and become a wasted person!
No matter how educated you are, even if you have a doctorate degree, you can't adapt to this society, you have been reading books in vain for so many years, and you are even so mixed that you are not as good as the migrant workers who move bricks on the construction site!
So! He took Peng Zhou out of his heart and threw him away in this troubled world.
It's not that it doesn't matter! Rather, I hope that you will slowly adapt to this society and this troubled world.
How to tell you? In this troubled world, there are no rules, everything is chaotic.
Since there are no rules, there is nothing to tell you! Everything is in flux, and no one knows exactly what it will turn to.
In the past, Confucius hoped that everyone would be like him, build a better society, and imagine how beautiful the future would be. By self-denial, society can be restored to its heyday.
Now Confucius, seeing that the chaos of the Warring States period is no longer out of control, and everything is in chaos, he strongly realized: everything depends on ourselves! It is impossible to expect others to be as high as you are.
Everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced.
Survival comes first, and then we can talk about development. I can't live anymore, so what future is there?
In the past, there were also Zhou Dynasty, Zhou system, Zhou rites, and most people obeyed kings and wise men. Right now! After entering the society of the Warring States period, there is no longer a weekly system, laws, and rules! Everything is up to the hegemon. In this troubled world, how to keep yourself alive is what everyone thinks about.
And Peng Zhou! But he shrank in the heart and didn't dare to come out, so Confucius took him out of the heart in the name of an outing!
Juvenile! Wake up! Look at this troubled time! This is the world you live in! Hiding in your mind is not the way to go! You're going to come out and mix it up sooner or later!
Don't count on me! Master leads the way through the door, and the cultivation is personal! I'm helping you by taking you out of my heart!
After talking about Confucius, Zhou Zhuang asked, just like Confucius at the beginning, "Then where do you plan to go in the future?" Do you go to your brother Peng Yu, or find a place to live in seclusion? ”
"This?" Peng Zhou really can't answer?
"I still think! You should go to your brother Peng Yu first. And also! Raise your Daiko! This is the foundation of being a human being! ”
"This?"
"In order to save you, someone broke the thumb of their left hand, didn't they? Don't you remember any kindness? And Daiko! Saved your life and raised you? Don't you care if he lives or dies? ”
"If you don't have any ideas, you don't have any affection! I dare say! You can't get along in this troubled world! You? Zhou Zhuang said very seriously.
In fact! Zhouzhuang is Zhuangzi! People are here to guide your life!