"Good question!" Lao Tzu held his beard and smiled: "Kong Qiu's comprehension ability, admire!" Good! Worthy of being a saint in the future, good question! ”

When Confucius saw Lao Tzu, it was as if he had changed a different person, and his attitude towards him improved, and his previous dissatisfaction with Lao Tzu was diluted a lot.

"You're going to let me say, how did the survival theory come about? I'm really embarrassed! Because! If you keep asking, I won't be able to answer you! Let's put it this way! Born and done! ”

"Born? Fait done? Why? ”

"Born and done! It means that something comes naturally, forms, exists, and it has its own reason for existence. If you ask me? How did things come about? If I let Li Er explain it in detail, I can't say it......"

Lao Tzu said, looking at Confucius.

He knows! The problem doesn't end there, it's just the beginning! Confucius had more questions to come! If you want to change a person's thinking and prejudice, it is not overnight! It is not so easy to get Confucius, a man who thinks he is also a genius, to accept your Taoist views.

People should have already formed their own opinions! He has his life insights and perception of the world. So! It's not easy for you to get him to change, and to change immediately.

"As I have already said, everything in heaven and earth has come from countless years of change. We can't tell where things really come from, we can only infer that things change in this way based on what we see and see.

For example! Feces! How does feces come about? Feces are excreted from the human body or animals or plants, and it becomes feces. The existence of manure has its value in existence, and its existence is used to enrich the land. Of course! It could be much more than that.

For example, trees, the existence of trees has their own value, they are used to provide human use. And also! As a thing in heaven and earth, it must still have the value of its existence, a value that we humans do not know at present.

Animals, for example! Animals are born, and they have the value of their existence. It's just that! Humans only know whether their meat can be eaten or not, and whether their fur can be used, so as to judge their value. In fact, they may have value that we don't know about.

For example, poisonous Dongdong, let's not think that they are poisonous and harmful to human beings, and think that they have no value in existence. It's just that! We don't know the value of their existence.

I won't give you all the examples. In a word! The emergence and existence of any thing has its value and necessity.

Humans too! Since we are born as human beings, we have the need to exist. Alive! It is the purpose and task of life!

Don't know how to answer? Can it bring enlightenment to Confucius? No! Have you solved the doubts in your mind? You asked me earlier: 'Survive! Survive? Why to survive? Mr? How do you know that everything is meant to survive? And where does the theory of survival come from'?

That's exactly what happened! We cannot answer and evade the question: What do we live for?

In terms of the theory of the Tao: what do we live for? We live for the sake of living.

Life is meaningless! Just live for the sake of living. But! If we decide to survive, we can't avoid not coming to this world, and since we have come, let's try to live! Now that we have decided to live, our life has meaning!

We have different periods of childhood, youth, middle age, and old age, and in different periods, the content of our lives is different.

For example! Our childhood was carefree and happy under the care of our parents and elders. When we are young, we need to find a spouse and form a new family. And then! We become fathers and mothers. And then! We have to work hard to make life better for future generations. We have to raise our children, and we have to support our parents and elders. And then! We are old, and we accept the support of future generations......

And then! We die, return to nature! That's all life is like this! Our lives are just to live! So! Our lives are not that complicated, and there is no need to pursue much! Pursuing too much is just tossing yourself and making your life more tired.

We're just trying to live, and it's good to be able to survive and be free! And why bother?

For example, the weekly rites you studied! Zhou Li doesn't have to be so cumbersome, and there is no need to deliberately praise it, there is no need! Because! The Zhou Rite is just a way to regulate the behavior of the world. The purpose of regulating the behavior of people in the world is not for courtesy, but for life! Survive! You know what I mean? It's all about survival! ……”

"Survive! It's survival again! Confucius said to himself: "In the end, Taoism is the same for survival? ”

"Yes!" Lao Tzu smiled: "If I don't make a living, what Taoism can I spread?" Is there still a need to spread the doctrine? Isn't it? Get up! Saint of the future! Hehehe......"

Until now, Confucius has been lying there. It's lying there, not kneeling. Lying! Express admiration and obedience! More respectful than kneeling.

"Sir!" Confucius kowtowed again and suggested, "Sir's Taoism is profound! Kong Qiu dared to assert that ordinary people may not be able to accept it! Ordinary people who listen to Mr.'s Taoism will probably be the same as Kong Qiu before, in the clouds! ……”

"Hehehe!" Lao Tzu smiled: "I'm not? Got you covered? Think about it, don't you? You've only been in my ministry for hours! And preaching to others usually takes at least seven days! ……”

"Seven days?" Confucius said, got up, and sat back in his seat.

"Seven days is still some smart people, and some people, it will take longer!"

"Longer?"

"During my ministry, I was listened to for at least a few months. Hehehe! ……”

"A few months?"

"Ordinary people! Most people can comprehend it in a full moon. Alas! People are different! Someone has the ability to understand, really! Li Er didn't dare to compliment! ”

"So? Excuse me, sir? What exactly is the way of the gentleman? Confucius asked.

"Dao! The Tao is the Tao, and that's what I gave it! Road! Road also! Long and boundless, with no end! ”

"What Confucius means: Is the Tao a god?"

"Dao? Jinni? Lao Tzu's face changed! He knows! Confucius will ask this question sooner or later!

In modern language, the issues discussed have reached the level of idealism and materialism.

Whether it is idealism or materialism directly affects the application of Taoism.

Once an idea is formed, it has a direct impact on the consequences. And then! Our approach to the world will be very different.

(End of chapter)