[Father's indoctrination made Wang Yangming bow his head and admit his mistakes. Reading is like chewing white wax, and you can find wonderful ways to enlighten with your classmates. 】

The father smiled: "Bo'an has analyzed very thoroughly, and it seems that reading history is still very progressive." But today I'm going to talk about another, more important reason. Liu Bang has a good character, that is, he is obedient to goodness, anyone who gives him advice, as long as it is correct, Liu Bang can listen to opinions immediately in any situation, no matter whether he is happy, sad, or even indulgent, if he is wrong, he immediately apologizes, immediately corrects, just by virtue of his virtue of serving goodness, it is enough to rule the world. ”

I nodded and said, "Judging from the allusions of Liu Bang and Gaoyang's drunkards, including listening to Zhang Liangzhi's opinion, quitting the Qin Palace, and returning to the army. ”

Then my father was about to tell me the allusion of Zhang Zai, and I was a little impatient and said, "I know, I told my classmates about this allusion today." ”

My father looked me in the eye and said solemnly: "Bo'an, this is a problem with your character, one is to love to expose people's shortcomings; The second is impatience and impatience. ”

I said, "When am I going to expose you?" ”

The father said patiently: "Last time your grandfather was telling a story, you said on the spot, 'Grandpa, you have told this story five times', so that your grandfather could not get off the stage." What do you say? ”

I bowed my head and said, "Indeed, Father, I was wrong. ”

The father smiled: "This attitude is right, this is called serving kindness." ”

Suddenly, for a while, I felt that there was a big problem, that reading was like chewing wax without any taste, that I couldn't lift my spirits in anything, and that my knowledge had stopped moving. It's boring, it's been two or three months, no, I have to change!

So I asked my father for advice. The father nodded and said, "Bo'an, I often encounter this situation, it's normal. ”

When I asked why, my father said, "When you taste the taste of learning, your heart is full of happiness, which is just like what the Zen masters say is full of happiness, and every reader is pursuing this feeling." In the "Book of Songs, Zhou Nan, Guan Ju, Preface", it is said that "the inadequacy of the song, the dance of the hand, and the dance of the foot" is the expression of the joy of reading. ”

I excitedly said, "yes, yes, that's how I feel." ”

The father smiled: "But I want to tell you that this situation is very rare, more time is like chewing wax, but the effort is at this time." ”

I nodded and said, "This is what Grandpa said about 'doing gong in reactive work', right?" ”

Father nodded: "You are very smart, so this is the place where you refine your heart." ”

I sighed and said, "Father, this situation has been going on for a few months, and it has to change, right?" The Book of Changes says, 'If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be successful, and if you are general, you will be long', and I must change. ”

The father smiled and said, "Very well, Na Bo'an, let me ask you, do you remember your great ambition when you were twelve years old?" ”

I said, "How can you forget, the first thing in life is to be a sage." But the question is how to become a sage? ”

Father smiled: "Five steps, one is reasonable; the second is enlightenment; the third is monasticism; the fourth is the roadway; Fifth, Hongdao. ”

I said, "Great, but how to make sense?" ”

The father said: "You should carefully read the three outlines and eight eyes in the "University"! ”

So I read "University" for a month, and if I got something, I asked my father to confirm it.

I told my father: "The key to understanding the truth should be 'Ming Mingde', and the kung fu of 'Ming Mingde' is also in 'learning from things', right?" ”

The father nodded and said, "That's a very good point, and then go on." ”

I sighed, "What is Matilda? How? What is knowing? How? What about Gewu? That's where I came to ask my father for advice. ”

The father said: "Among the kung fu ranks, you go and read the book of Zhu Zi carefully!" ”

I shouted, "The Book of Zhuzi? So much, you want me to read to death! ”

The father smiled, "Don't you know what to look for?" ”

I laughed and said, "That's pretty much it." ”

But I asked again: "Father, I have a little doubt, this Qinmin is obviously a cordial relative, why didn't Zhu Zi explain it as a new one?" ”

I thought that my father would reprimand me again, but this time he sighed and said: "Zhu Zi must have his truth, and it also makes sense, and it is complete, I have always thought that the key to testing the truth of things lies in the "legal reasoning", but my relatives seem to make sense, maybe your father and I have limited qualifications, I hope you can find the answer to this question, if you find it, you tell me first." ”

While I was full of promises, I also deeply admired my father's "legal reasoning". Yes, practice itself may not be able to immediately test the truth or falsehood, and "legal reasoning" is the only way.

So I excitedly told my father: "The story of He's Bi, including Liu Bang's six defeats to Xiang Yu and his final defeat of Xiang Yu in a battle, including Lao Tzu's 'late bloomer', are enough to prove that the current practice is unreliable, and the only way to understand the avenue is to understand the law." ”

The father shook his head and said, "If you pretend to pass on 10,000 books, you can't pass on a sentence if you don't read enough of these 10,000 books, and you can't pass on that sentence; There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them. In the same way, if you don't break your iron shoes, what will you get? The mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. If you don't go to the mountains and rivers, where will you come from another village? ”

I nodded, "Makes sense." ”

My father also said: "Zhu Zi has the saying of 'knowing and doing together'."

What do I mean by asking?

The father said, "It's about the principle that cognition and action should be interdependent, right?" ”

I'm interested in that. Next, I began to flip through the Book of Zhuzi.

At this time, my classmate Qian Mingkun was also reading the book of Zhu Zi, so I told him about my father's "Five Steps to Enlightenment", and he was very excited, and then we discussed it in our joint study.

I only heard Qian Mingkun shouting: "I found it, Zhu Zi said in "University Chapters and Verses", 'Those who are virtuous and virtuous are those who have the heavens, and the void spirit is not ignorant, and those who gather the crowd to respond to everything are also'." Bo'an, no, 'the void spirit is not ambiguous' is the language of Buddhism! ”

I laughed and said, "What's the fuss, this statement comes from Nagarjuna's "Treatise on Great Wisdom", but this point is clear."

I turned to the fourteenth volume of "Zhu Zi's Language", and there was such a sentence in the dialogue between Zhu Zi and his disciples: "Those who are enlightened and virtuous have the heavens to gain from the sky, and the void spirit is not ignorant, and those who respond to all things with public reason." Zen scholars only regard the void and the spirit as the nature, and do not have the following things of public reason. ”

Qian Mingkun said: "Then how to 'Mingmingde'? ”

We checked it for a few more days, and I thought I had found the answer, and said "Answer to the Prince", "The heart is like a mirror, but without the cover of dirt, the body is self-evident, and things can shine." ”

Qian Mingkun said: "Zhizhi and Mingmingde are the same thing, so now the most critical issue remains." ”

We said in unison, "Gewu".