Chapter 187: The First Retreat Cultivation
Along the way, Zhuangzi was penniless again.
The money given to him by Qin Xiaogong and Wei Ying, he had already scattered the flowers of the Heavenly Maiden in the Wei State. The money given to him by King Wei Hui was given to those who were struggling in poverty after he arrived in the Song Kingdom.
When he returned to the Mojia Branch, he didn't even have the money to build a house.
The current Zhuangzi has a theory with his master Yang Zhu, believing that human nature is selfish. You're selfless, you're a poor bastard! There are so many people in need of help in this world, and you are so selfless that you cut your own flesh to others, and you can't save the poor people in this world.
Selfless dedication is not a way to save the world at all, it can only help others for a while.
If you want to rule the world, you must first cure the heart! If you want to save the world, you must first save people's hearts!
Human nature is selfish, not selfless. Selfishness is the end, selflessness is the means. Only when people are selfish first and let themselves survive can they take care of others. You can only take care of others if you have the ability to take care of them. And not unconditionally selfless! Give unconditionally!
Everyone understands the principle that helping each other can lead a better life. It's not just verbal talk and shouting slogans, everyone is selfless, and they are dedicated. But! It depends on the actual action, whether everyone is truly selfless and dedicated.
We all know the principle of helping each other, but why don't we want to be selfless and help each other? He also verbally said that he wanted to make selfless dedication, which is better than singing, and accused others of not selfless dedication? нéíуапGě.сОМ
The reason is simple! It's that not many people are enforcing the rules of the game. Whoever executes it suffers, and if it is executed, it will not save the world. So! Everybody doesn't do it anymore. The rules of this game are scrapped, and no one plays them anymore.
Therefore, it is empty talk and nonsense to pluck a hair and benefit the world! It didn't work. The concept of selflessness cannot save the world, only by correctly understanding the selfishness of human nature and acknowledging the selfishness of human nature can we have a target and use the best way to save the world.
If a person dies and does not admit that he is selfish, and still clamos for others to be selfless, who will believe you?
When he saw that he only had enough food and money left in his pocket, and looked at those who needed help, Zhuangzi could only shake his head in pain, selfishly not being selfless anymore. If he is selfless, he himself will starve to death.
But? Looking at so many people in need, there was nothing he could do, he had to walk away selfishly. His heart was very uncomfortable! It's uncomfortable!
Zhuangzi didn't plan to live in the Mojia branch for a long time, so he didn't need to build a good house or much money. So! Zhuangzi, who returned to the Mojia branch altar, no longer had much money on him.
Zhuangzi was poor all his life, not because he didn't have the ability to earn money. Just the property given to him by Qin Xiaogong and Wei Ying is enough for him to eat for half his life. And the money that King Wei Hui gave him? And also! What about later income?
But! He gave all the money he had gotten to the poor and helped those who were in dire need. Because there were too many people in need of help, even if he cut off his own flesh, he couldn't save the poverty of the Warring States at that time.
He was a selfish man who talked about human nature all his life, but he dedicated his whole life and ended up poor. And those who shout about how to do good, how to help others, live happily ever after. They want to be like Zhuangzi, without shouting slogans and selfless dedication, can they live a better life than others?
And often these people strongly object to others saying that human nature is selfish.
Standing on the ruins of the log cabin he once lived in, looking at the nothing in front of him, Zhuangzi finally couldn't hold back and cried loudly.
On top of this large rock, there used to be a row of wooden houses. He, Rong'er, and Shigong all live here. Afterward! Master Yang Zhu came and lived here again. Later, the cabin was burned.
For eighty or ninety years, the hut was gone, and the garbage left behind was piled up on top of the big rocks, and it was all rotting. On top of the decaying remnants, weeds and shrubs have grown.
After crying for a while, Zhuangzi stopped. He searched again, where did the master send him to the cave of the scriptures. Outcome! He couldn't find the mechanism to open it.
He wanted to build a house on the remains of the original log cabin, and enter the cave from the house, just like his master. Outcome! He was disappointed.
In desperation, I only got to the mountain, looking for the mechanism to enter the cave. After opening a mechanism, he entered the cave. After checking inside, it came out again.
The food stored in the cave has long since rotted and is inedible, and he must buy some food outside. He wanted to retreat in the cave for a while, and then go to Qi to find his mother, Rong'er, and Sister Qing'er.
Since Wei returned to his mother country, Song, he was in a bad mood. You have to retreat and practice for a period of time to calm your mind.
And also! He had to wait here for a while. He believed that his mother must have come back, and Sister Qing'er and Rong'er might have come back, but they didn't find him. He must build a thatched hut in the Mo family's branch altar to prove his existence!
Out of the cave, he went outside, bought some food, and greeted the locals, saying that he lived in the altar. And then! Return to the altar with food and groceries, and build a thatched hut by yourself.
When the people outside heard that he was Zhuang Zhou back then, they were all surprised. It seems that in a blink of an eye, the little boy of the year has grown up. Grateful for being taken care of by the Mo family back then, many people came to the Mo family's branch altar to help Zhuangzi build a thatched house. Everyone used local materials and quickly built a bright and spacious thatched hut.
"You're going to make a home here?" A kind-hearted folk asked.
"Hmm!" Zhuangzi snorted.
"This place originally belonged to the Mo family, and since the Mo family dispersed, no one has been here. The king did not give it to others, and kept it forever. ”
"You have done the coronation ceremony, you should find a family affair and leave descendants for your banker."
"Yes, yes, yes! Or? The daughters of Zhao's old strange family are also older, they are all sixteen, let me tell you about it? ”
"Good! Old Zhao is not likable, but his daughters are good, and they don't lose in handicraft and farm work! ”
“……”
Everyone talked about it one by one, and pestered Zhuangzi to ask him to agree.
In desperation, Zhuangzi had to say: "I promised my mother, I want to marry Rong'er as his wife!" ”
"Rong'er? Isn't it the granddaughter of your master's family? ”
"Hmm!"
"I heard that she went to the country of Qi, and she never came back. This year! I'm afraid I'm going to die a long time ago ”
"No, it won't! My mother went to find them. ”
"Your mother?"
"Dai Liu'er?"
"Your mother isn't dead yet, is she?"
"My mother is not dead!"
"How many years, who?" The man wanted to say, how many years, who knows whether it is dead or alive?
Seeing that Zhuangzi didn't agree, everyone had no choice but to give up.
After the thatched hut was built and everything was ready, Zhuangzi left a letter in the thatched hut, saying that he would go out and come back in a few days. And then! He took food into the cave and went on his first retreat.
After many days of meditation, he entered a state of concentration. Every evening he would come out and lay down the arches and buckles in the mountains to catch his prey. Come out again the next morning to harvest the prey, and by the way, see if anyone has ever been to the thatched hut? Daytime! He basically hid in the cave to cultivate.