Chapter 395: Ideas for a Different Way (1)
After activating the Qiyuan people's war-ready thinking, Zhuangzi's sermon ended.
It took Zhuangzi a full fifteen days to finish this public sermon systematically. Zhuangzi himself doesn't know, what is the effect? Compared with Master, what level can you probably reach?
It was the first time he had preached in public, to the people. In the past, he preached to Qin Xiaogong, Wei Ying, Wei Wang and others, but they were not public.
Listening to the protectors such as the black-clothed brother and the white-haired old monster, he said that his sermons were very successful.
He felt to himself, almost okay!
Because! Ever since he preached, more people have come to hear it every day. At the end, the people who heard the sermon spoiled a large part of the crops in front of the square in front of the town yamen.
As a preacher, as a inheritor of Taoist doctrine, I not only preach to others in a small and private way, but also preach openly to the general public like this. Only in this way can Taoism be widely disseminated. Henceforth! Public preaching like this will become normalized.
Zhuangzi felt that in terms of preaching, he could still condense the content, and he could also remove some superfluous introductions and superfluous examples. Try to give examples that everyone can understand as soon as they hear them, and try to reduce some repetitive repetitions. And also! Be more interactive and spend more time answering questions from the audience.
And also! It's too small!
Regarding the problem that the venue is too small, Zhuangzi also feels a headache.
If the space is too big, people on the periphery won't be able to hear you.
However, the venue is too small, the audience is too small, and with my own level of preaching, it will take at least ten days and half a month to systematically complete a sermon. If at this rate, the Great Zhou world is so big and has such a large population, and I Zhuang Zhou alone can preach the sermon, when will everyone in the world be able to hear my preaching?
I? My Zhuang Zhou has exhausted all his life's energy, and he can't spread Taoism to the world?
"No! The spread of Taoism cannot be left to me alone. If this is on my own, I, Zhuang Zhou, will have to follow the master's path again. No way! I have to find a way to spread Taoism as soon as possible, and spread Taoism in the shortest possible time. ”
Taoism was pioneered by the ancestor Lao Tzu, through Patriarch Yin Xi, to Master Yang Zhu, and then to himself, it is already the fourth generation. It's been two hundred years, and it still hasn't spread. A person's life is only a few decades, so how many generations will it take to pass it on from generation to generation before Taoism can spread?
Zhuangzi believes that this way of transmission is still wrong, and it cannot go on like this. If this continues, it will take at least a few hundred years. If one generation chooses the wrong successor, or! Which generation of inheritors dies, then! It is possible to cause a fault line in the Taoist school. Even! It's going to be over.
Taoism was in the period of the ancestor Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu was in middle age and old age, and his Taoist theories were not yet mature. However, because he has spread on a small scale, the world has a certain misunderstanding of Taoism. It was only in his later years that his Taoist theories matured. But at this time! The world's understanding of Taoism has a certain preconception. And when it came to the patriarch Yin Xi's period, the main thing was to correct mistakes.
So! During the period of the first ancestor Laozi, and the patriarch Yin Xi, they were not able to spread Taoism widely.
In the period of Master Yang Zhu, it was the period when Taoism was truly spread.
It's a pity that it's only been a few decades. And! In these short decades, Master did not preach every day, but only found time to preach to the world in the process of chasing and killing.
Alas! The time when Taoism really spread was only in the decades of Master's time! Zhuangzi sighed! During the nearly ten years that Master lived in seclusion, the spread of Taoism seemed to have stopped.
"No! It is very difficult for me to spread the Tao by relying on me Zhuang Zhou alone! No way! I don't want a Dharma protector! As a Taoist inheritor, you should not need others to protect the Dharma for you, but you should also have the ability to protect yourself. As a Taoist inheritor, you can't protect yourself, so how can you teach others to protect themselves? ”
"No! I had to send all the Dharma Protectors away and let them spread out to all parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty to preach their own ways. ”
"No! I have to devote most of my time to preaching publicly, so that more people can hear my sermons. And then! Spend the rest of your time preaching to the Protectors. Once these protectors are explained, they will all leave on their own without me driving them away.
I need Dharma protectors around me, but not so much. All I need is a few caring protectors by my side. A protector like Brother Black, he has martial arts and can't preach. Right! That's how I want the protector to be with me. Like the two gray-clothed mage protectors, their martial arts are average, but! Their minds are relatively good, and they should be sent out to preach. ”
Zhuangzi felt that to protect his protector, one must be loyal, and the other must be good at martial arts. If the head is not so good, if the head is good, you must not let him follow you, lest you miss them in preaching.
Protectors with good brains should send them to preach.
And also! Where is there a shortage of protectors around you? By your side, there will always be people to follow and learn the Tao. These people will become their own protectors.
Let all the Dharma protectors, all of them become preachers, Zhuangzi felt that it was not enough, and such a speed could not spread the Tao quickly.
Rapid propagation of Taoism with the power of the state?
As the old man designed, with the lacquer garden as the base and the Song Kingdom as the base, spread Taoism?
Zhuangzi has pondered this question more than once. He always felt that it was also a gamble. Bet! Not Taoist doctrine of thought. As a Taoist, you shouldn't gamble.
Bet! is a predictable outcome. The result: win or lose!
During the Zhou Dynasty, before the Zhou Dynasty, there was the Yi culture. Yi culture is a gambling culture, guessing and predicting future results. What kind of endings will there be in the future? Good? Not good? Equality, etc. Outcome! It's just a kind of self-comfort, to give yourself a determination, to give yourself a preparation. What if the forecast is "bad"? So! We must be prepared for the "bad".
Another core of Taoist thought is nature, which is to go with the flow. Going with the flow is not inaction, nor is it excessive.
After deep thought, Zhuangzi believed that if he followed the old man's plan, the result would be predictable. That is: Taoists used the Song Kingdom as their own dojo.
Zhuangzi is sure of this! Taoists can not only use Qiyuan Town as a base and dojo for Taoism, but also as a base and dojo for Taoism.
But! In the future, whether Taoism can dominate the world or not is another matter.
Because! Once the Taoists used the Song State as a base and a dojo to preach, the Song State would surely become a powerful military country. Because of the Taoist principle of "all the people are soldiers", the Song State will surely become a military power.
But once the Song Kingdom becomes strong, the surrounding vassal states will feel the danger and will unite to attack you.
You say that you are a Taoist and you do not affect the lives of others, but your Taoist theories have affected my people, and my people do not obey the king's orders and cannot be managed. So! You are the culprit, you are the source of the scourge. So! I must come to eradicate your scourge culture, Taoist culture.