"Do you understand that?" The shopkeeper asked.

"What's the truth?" Confucius asked.

This is: dreams must have a practical basis and can be realized. Dreams that cannot be realized are not dreams, they are utopian dreams, blind dreams, and fantasies! ”

"I want to hear about it!"

Confucius, like a schoolboy, blinked his eyes and looked at the shopkeeper. In front of this middle-aged man, he had to obey. If you are not convinced, you have to be convinced, and people's views on world affairs are much deeper and more thorough than your own.

"We have to have dreams, it's impossible without dreams, and there is no goal in life, isn't it? There is no motivation! ……”

"Wait!" Confucius interrupted: "You Taoists also have dreams? ”

"What are these words?" The shopkeeper's face changed, and he said very seriously: "Everyone has a dream, everyone has a dream!" Of course! Don't be dogmatic with me, saying that fools don't have dreams. In fact! Fools also have dreams, and his dream is to be able to eat a full stomach. Only those who do not have an IQ have no dreams, and normal people have dreams.

For example! When we were children, our dreams may be to have love, to eat, and to grow up quickly, but don't we have dreams? You don't have to be dogmatic and say that children are not intellectually developed, so they have no dreams, and they are similar to animals. Wrong! Children also have dreams, and they cry when they are hungry. It's just that they can't speak yet, and can only express it by crying. Can you say that children don't have dreams? When they leave their mother's arms, or if they are not loved, they will cry. Isn't it? Can you say they don't have dreams?

Adults also have adult dreams, so I won't interpret them one by one. I have been communicating with you teachers and students for so long, and I have understood your thinking patterns, and you must ask: that is the dream of normal people, and normal people have dreams. And you were just saying: Taoism also has dreams. So? What is the dream of Taoism? What are your dreams? Isn't it? ”

was really guessed by the shopkeeper, and Confucius was about to interrupt him and pursue the dream of a Taoist.

Seeing Confucius quickly move his eyes away, the shopkeeper couldn't help but sneer. I thought to myself: If your thinking pattern does not change, you will never become enlightened!

You didn't explain it before as a foreshadowing, you directly said that the family also has dreams, and people don't accept it. You have done a little foreshadowing, but people feel impatient, saying that you are not the same, but not to the point.

This is the radical thinking mode of some people, they have no logical thinking, only emotional thinking, visual thinking. There is no logical, categorical, synthetic, rational thinking.

People with this kind of thinking pattern can't be detectives. Even if you infiltrate the criminal investigation police team, you can only play a supporting role for others. When a teacher is not a qualified Chinese teacher, if you give him a short essay to read, and then ask him to say the main idea, he will never be able to say it.

"Taoists are also people! Isn't it? People have dreams, don't think that Taoism doesn't have dreams. Think about it, don't you? I've said this many times before, haven't I? I say! The content of life is very rich, we have a happy and worry-free infant period, a happy childhood, a passionate youth, the joy of being a parent at the beginning, the wisdom of middle age, and the open-mindedness and calmness of old age! Isn't it?

Taoism is reborn, isn't it? Especially in troubled times, life is precarious, and it is difficult to survive, isn't it? So! How can we Taoists not have dreams in order to live? I explained it like that, do you understand? ”

"Nope!" Confucius replied very frankly.

"You didn't understand what I said?" The shopkeeper opened his mouth wide in surprise and couldn't close it for a long time.

"In what you say, what kind of Taoist is that?" Confucius asked again.

"Me? I? So! The shopkeeper asked, "You say?" What is a Taoist? ”

"Taoism should be pure in heart and few desires!" Confucius replied.

"How so?"

"Taoism should not ask about the world!" Confucius added.

"How can you think so?"

"You, Lao Tzu and Fang Zhong all preached to me like this. So! That's how I understand Taoism! Confucius explained.

"Tell me about it? What does Taoism look like in your eyes? The shopkeeper looked at Confucius with wide-open eyes of disbelief. He really couldn't believe it: after talking so much, it was all in vain, and people still didn't understand!

"Taoism is reborn, isn't it? You said it! Isn't it? Confucius asked.

"Yes!"

"So! In troubled times, Taoists want to escape from the world and will not participate in the management of world affairs. ”

Seeing that the shopkeeper was about to interrupt him, Confucius hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him and continued: "In this troubled world, how can you participate in the affairs of the world, participate in the management of society and the country? Isn't it? Take me, for example! I, Kongqiu, am an example, I really want to participate in social management and live an active life. The result? Not only was he not able to really get involved, but he almost lost his life, didn't he?

So! Taoists will not participate in social management to avoid losing their lives!

Don't interrupt me! You let me keep talking! You, Lao Tzu and Fang Zhong have all emphasized again and again that when the country can guarantee our survival, this is my country. When a nation cannot guarantee my survival, it is not that I have betrayed my country, but that it has abandoned me.

So! In troubled times, Taoists will abandon the state. In order to survive, the Taoists did not wait for the country to abandon him, they would take the initiative to abandon the concept of the state and protect themselves. Self-protection, that is, self-preservation, 'self-preservation', probably this is what it means! ”

"Are you done?" The shopkeeper asked.

"That's it! Isn't it? Confucius asked rhetorically.

"I still haven't gotten into it! You! Kongqiu! ”

"Why didn't I go deeper?"

"What you say is the appearance, but you don't go deep into it!"

"Why didn't I get into it?"

"Do you believe it if you want me to testify one by one?"

"Then point out one by one, I'll listen to Kongqiu!"

"Good!" The shopkeeper slapped the table and testified, "These are the places where you have made a mistake in thinking!" The first place: You said that the family does not participate in social management, does it? Especially in troubled times, aren't they? ”

"Yes!"

"Something went wrong! You're talking about appearances, not substances. As I said earlier, some Taoists, or most Taoists, do not participate in social management in troubled times, and they choose to escape from their current living environment and go to a strange place.

But! Or is there a part of the population, who are somewhere else in society, who are not yet threatened by their existence, why should they flee? Isn't it? So! You're still making the mistake of generalizing. It also shows that you have not studied social phenomena in depth at all......"

(End of chapter)