120. Guarding China

After some contact, Yan Zhenqing found that although these people lived in seclusion, they were very familiar with the changes in the sea over the past thousands of years, just like the elder said before, they would send envoys every once in a while to travel to the people to record what they saw and heard. It is said that each generation of elders must have experienced secular travels in order to grasp the changes of dynasties and ethnic groups in the outside world, whether there are wars and natural disasters, etc., so as to better formulate a way to save the world.

Sometimes they would pretend to be traveling doctors to help the victims of the plague.

Sometimes they would pretend to be farmers and teach people how to grow crops well and produce more food.

After years of drought, they instruct people to dig deep wells in the right places to provide healthy drinking water for people and animals to irrigate their fields.

However, they also have a taboo, which seems to be a little cold-blooded, that is, the people who protect the clan are not allowed to intervene in the conquest war between the clans of Kyushu, no matter how cruel the war, they can only secretly help those injured refugees, and they are not allowed to help the military forces of a certain side.

"Why is there such a taboo, with your wisdom and strength, wouldn't it be better to help the righteous side to win as soon as possible? Yan Zhenqing held the wine cup in his hand and asked seriously.

"Hehe," the elder shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said after a long time: "I didn't understand this point when I was young, and I always wanted to do something when I traveled all over the world, and then I was used to seeing the division and integration, so I was able to understand the hardships of the ancestor when he set this rule."

Kyushu is vast, the ethnic groups are mixed, but everyone is a descendant of China, in the eyes of the world for some land and rivers to fight for your life, grudges are difficult to solve, in our opinion it is just a fight between brothers, this generation kills you to the death, the next generation is integrated together, many things are seen in the long river of years, it is different. ”

It's not wrong to think about it this way, but we in the world have to fight up. ”

"Hahahaha, of course we won't deny what you did, it's just that it's the responsibility of our clan, and it's inconvenient to meddle in worldly disputes.

In ancient times, the strength of human beings was too weak, and some of the weak tribes scattered in all directions, whether in the face of foreign conquests or natural disasters such as droughts and floods, were powerless to resist, and in more than 100 years or more than ten years, there were often many tribes that disappeared forever in various disasters.

The Xuanyuan clan was the whole world with benevolence and virtue, and unified the Yandi, Chiyou and other parts of the world, so that everyone was a family, and the blind date was not attacked, which greatly reduced the disaster brought by the inter-tribal conquest to the people.

King Yu with extraordinary wisdom and perseverance, led the tribes to dig ditches, dredge rivers, divert water into the sea, lasted more than ten years and finally resolved the unprecedented flood, saved the people of the world's tribes, and finally established the pattern of Kyushu, but also made people believe that people can defeat the nature of heaven and earth.

People have overcome barriers and natural disasters, but they have never been able to overcome their greed.

Great wisdom is like King Yu, but he has descendants like Ji, virtuous and virtuous, but there are such tyrants in later generations......

Sometimes war was just a means of balancing the personal greed of the princes and kings. ”

"Hey-" Yan Zhenqing sighed and agreed with the old man's statement: "What Mr. said is extremely true, but it only suffers those people." ”

"Haha, aren't the people greedy?" the elder gently twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Lord Yan, as a county guard, are there still few people who fight and even cause a lawsuit for their lives for a dog and a tree?

"This—" Yan Zhenqing was silent for a while.

As a Confucian, the teachings of the sages are all about valuing the people and loving the people, and there is really little consideration for such things.

Even we ourselves are plagued by all kinds of greed. ”

"Yes, ask yourself, fame and fortune are also a kind of greed, and if we can't balance our inner desires, we will also harm others and ourselves. ”

"Greed is the nature of human beings, this greed comes from the ancient hunger and fear of the ancestors, in order to survive, the weak ancestors can only survive in the difficult years of wind and frost swords, fierce beasts raging only by capturing more beasts, occupying more territory, stockpiling more firewood, and building a big fire.

However, it is a matter of pride that people are not willing to be captured and controlled by this greed. King Dayu cast Jiuding to promulgate the law, King Wen of Zhou created Yi, Lao Tzu discovered the Tao, Confucius preached benevolence, all of which are worthy of the understanding and practice of you and me in later generations, these are the meaning of our reproduction.

From any point of view, hope and hardship coexist, and sometimes a long period of peace and clothing breeds greed and war, and war can also stimulate people's thinking about the meaning of life, which in turn gives birth to a higher level of good. ”

"A higher level of goodness?"

"Yes, a higher level of goodness. Dayu's law, Lao Tzu's way, and Confucius's benevolence, aren't they all for the pursuit of a world of love and non-aggression, pan-love and selflessness?"

Between the old man's words, he was full of hope for the future, and the bloody battle in the day had already turned into rain with the spring breeze.

Yan Zhenqing was a little lonely when she heard this, and sighed softly, unwilling and helpless.

"Sir sighing?"

"Don't hide it, sir, I've really been a little tired over the years. Confucianism is based on self-denial and self-cultivation, and has very deep requirements for personal conduct, which is not practical for the majority of the people, and even some students in Confucianism often learn some superficial knowledge, and they are still too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they govern the country and level the world? What is more, selling their fame and reputation ruined the reputation of Confucianism. ”

"Sir, what do you think is the wisdom of the people in the era of the ancestors?"

"Ru Mao drinks blood, but every day but for a meal and food hard to seek, where to go to the study of knowledge. ”

"So, there will always be better and better, more and more people will read, and there will always be more and more people who can deeply understand the wisdom of the sages. ”

"But even so, the wisdom of the people can be opened, and the people's hearts are difficult to raise, Mr. does not see the disciples of An Lushan, the emperor abandons the people of Li, and the lives of the counties of Hebei are devastated, and there are millions of deaths and injuries, how difficult it is in the Datong world!"

"This is precisely the opportunity for us to practice the great good, although the people are suffering, but it is like wheat after the snow, once spring comes, it will break through the solid soil, sprout vitality again, and create a more brilliant and colorful world from generation to generation.

We want to save the people who are not only involved in fire and water at present, but also the children and grandchildren of the future generations, even if they will still make mistakes, there will still be greed and war, but there will always be among those ordinary people, the wise men and heroes of that era will be born, lead them, and protect them. ”

Yan Zhenqing and the elders of the guardian clan talked more and more, and in a big house on the other side, the guardian seventeen also invited Guo Hua and others to his side, and the blue wolf king was also there.

"It turns out that that is the Buddha's qi. ”

"Yes. ”

Guardian Seventeen asked Guo Hua what was the holy aura he had put into the spider demon's body during the war, and Guo Hua replied 1510.

"It's really a very holy power. Guardian Seventeen exclaimed.

"When you say that, do you know the Dharma?"

"Well, the clansman who is responsible for going out to record what he has seen and heard has said that Buddhism and Taoism are now prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, and Buddhism, as a foreign sect, has also been recognized by everyone, and the clansmen have also brought back some Buddhist scriptures and collected them in the library. ”

"There are many schools of Buddhism, and I follow Master Bukong to rest on Tantra. ”

"Tantra?"

"Yes, it is also a school of Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism is currently prevalent in the Lingnan area, and I am also very interested, but I have not had the opportunity to visit the master there. ”

"Oh, Lingnan?"

"You know where it is, right?"

"You know, in the area of Guangzhou, there was Nanhai County during the Qin and Han dynasties, all the way to the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty set up Lingnan Road. ”

"Hahahaha, you know all this?"

"Of course, that's why we send out messengers every ten years, and it's not just this valley that we're going to protect. ”

"Hahahaha, didn't those messengers tell you about the world of flowers outside, how wonderful and attractive it is? There are beautiful girls, dressed in the finest gauze clothes, twisting their waists and dancing gracefully in front of you, and wine from the Western Regions, pouring jasper cups in their hands......"

"Hehe, there are spices from Persia, Sese, the white elephant of Tianzhu, the lion of the Rakshasa country, and the perched sunwood of Fuso-"

"Hahahaha, admiration—wait, what is Fuso's perched wood? I've never heard of it. ”

"Hey-hey-hey-"

"W-I see, you guy, hahahaha"

"Brother Guo, what is the Qiri Wood he is talking about? I haven't heard of it. Dugu Huan couldn't hear it clearly, and when he saw that the two of them suddenly laughed, he simply asked.

"Haha, the little brother is joking, isn't the so-called Fusang the sons of the legendary Emperor of Heaven, that is, the big tree where the Ten Days live, Fusang is the Rimu, and the Rimu is Fusang. ”

"Uh-uh-hahahaha, you two, that's fine. ”

"Oh, it's rare to see you smiling so happily and coming to this glass of wine. With that, Guo Hua drank a glass of warm wine with the two.

"By the way, Guo Gongzi, there is something I want to ask, I don't know if it's convenient to say?"

"Little brother, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

"Will those who practice the Dharma receive that holy power?"

Guardian Seventeen's eyes were full of anticipation and hope, and he very much hoped that Guo Yu's answer would be yes.

"It varies from person to person. Guo Hua said sincerely.

"Oh, I thought that practice would purify people's minds. ”

"Well, the Dharma does aim to eliminate people's greed, hatred, hatred, love, evil desires, and all kinds of distracting thoughts, but the actual cultivation is a different matter, and only those who are sincere and sincere can gradually attain positive results and attain the state of Prajna. ”

"Great wisdom?"

"Well, it's pretty much the same, it's not exactly the same. ”

"How does it compare with Lao Zhuang's Dao?"

"Lao Tzu's Tao, Zhuangzi's leisure, still seek the Tao, and Buddhism has done it more thoroughly, the Buddha said that all the Dharma is like a dream bubble, such as dew and electricity, should be viewed as such, not only tangible things, even the Tao behind the sea universe is also empty, and even the emptiness that the Buddha said is itself an indescribable nothingness. ”