Chapter 339: Greed is the Devil

The scenery of this island is so beautiful that you will want to spend every minute on this island to carefully appreciate the many elegant scenery on this island.

Cheng Hanyun looked at the many wonderful scenery on this island, and then said very elegantly and slowly:

"In fact, many times people need a lot of leisure time, and it is especially important for countless people. The reason why leisure time is needed is because people need a certain amount of time to recover their physical strength and Lao Li. Leisure time is so important to people that it can even be said that the amount of leisure time determines the meaning of people's lives. Since ancient times, in fact, the progress of human civilization and the amount of leisure time are inseparable. In all dynasties, the more prominent and advanced people's ability to produce food is, if they can use fewer people to engage in agricultural labor, then they can often produce a large amount of intellectual wealth, and a large number of classic excellent cultures will be produced. In fact, we know that the reason why the hundred schools of thought can suddenly appear in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is not only because the countries were very chaotic during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they needed a lot of ideas to guide many ordinary people to move forward and fight for a specific mission. The most important reason is that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, iron tools and iron tools were invented, which directly led to the production of iron flutes for farming, which made a large number of agricultural popularization, and the popularization of farming and iron land, so that people could start to reclaim a large amount of wasteland with a small amount of labor in a short period of time, so that I had a large amount of food base. Thus during this period, a large number of people began to emerge, many of whom did not need to work in the fields all the time, and had a large amount of personal leisure time in addition to their ordinary working time. This kind of leisure time does not mean that they are idle, or that they are no longer engaged in agricultural production, but that they can be in the interval between agricultural production, for example, in the rest of the fields, in such an environment, they can produce a lot of very good culture, for example, the Book of Songs is produced in such an environment. Not only the Book of Poetry, but also the "Chu Ci", "The Book of Rites", and the Analects were actually produced in such an environment, even Confucius himself, he was actually engaged in a certain amount of labor production, but later became more and more famous, and after more and more disciples, he began to gradually give up agricultural production and go all out to run a private school education. ”

The breeze is slow, blowing this big river, the crystal clear lake water, blowing out a series of folded ripples, on both sides of the lake, those willows in the breeze, very elegant and frequently swing their branches, as if dancing in the wind, the dance is graceful, it looks very beautiful.

On the grassland not far away, a shepherd boy is riding a yellow ox and blowing a flute in his mouth, the flute song is very clear, people know that it is the kind of shepherd song they love very much, this shepherd song is a very beautiful song that everyone knows on the grassland, it is the expression of people's hearts for the kind of free and unrestrained feelings and the deep care of human nature.

Cheng Hanyun looked at the shepherd boy who was in a hurry for the cattle, and then said slowly:

In fact, many times for some ordinary people, most of the time they like the kind of life they yearn for, this kind of life sometimes does not mean that it is a group of wives and concubines, sometimes people need to pursue a slow-paced life, slow down life, and restore the attitude of life to its original appearance. In fact, people can only go to the depths of their hearts to pursue that simple and lonely life, to seriously pursue their inner voice, to treat many things around them with a clear conscience, to do their own work seriously, and not to lose their social value because of the strength of the citizens and excessive suppression of their own hearts. In fact, the kind of land that people pursue is still a group of wives and concubines and even gold, silver and jewelry, and the life of a drunken gold fan is understandable. As long as this kind of financial acquisition is obtained by many legal and reasonable means, then we say that it is not controversial, but this kind of life is undoubtedly very superficial, like the spirit of a person who only likes the flesh and completely ignores it, and sometimes the spiritual enjoyment is more hearty than the physical enjoyment. People are often easily controlled by external objects in the face of all things, this is because people often have their own families, have their own children to carry on to the next generation, and in the face of the world, people are often vulnerable. Even a small child, like this shepherd boy riding a ox, is often so innocent, it is difficult to avoid being coerced by this world, and unconsciously contaminated. The vice of advocating the luxurious life of drunken money. "Strange books

On this grassland, several vultures hovered over the grassland, as if quietly waiting for the arrival of their prey, and there were a few not far away. Squirrels were jumping around in the pine trees, and a few foxes were in the cave, looking at the world outside the cave with great vigilance.

The surging river is still continuous, and countless crystal clear flowing water is sent to this Taishan Lake, bringing vitality to Taishan Lake.

Most of these rivers are made up of thousands of springs, so the water is exceptionally clear, extraordinarily psychic, and looks very lovely.

Runzhi listened to what Cheng Hanyun said, and seemed to say thoughtfully:

"Indeed, as you said, many people in this world are actually in the consideration of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, step by step towards aging, and finally gradually towards death. In this short life, you have to experience life and death, love and hatred. Life is too short, but for an ordinary person, it is more concerned with the present than the future. Most ordinary people don't want to dwell too much on the past, nor do they want to waste energy on the future, they just want to live a good life in the present. For many ordinary people, it is already a blessing to be able to live a good life. For an ordinary person, in fact, even if he has great ambitions, he can often put them into practice, but there are very few. So many people actually want a harmonious and stable life, the more peaceful, the more able to meet their needs in all aspects such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, people are already very satisfied. Many ordinary people, in fact, do not want to be entangled in the future, they do pay more attention to how to meet the many needs of themselves and their families in the present. ”

Runzhi paused, then continued:

"In order to make the present life nourishing, people work hard, struggle desperately, through their own hands, through their own wisdom, so as to obtain the material foundation necessary to continuously sustain themselves and their families. In fact, since ancient times, most of the ordinary people have been very satisfied with their own food, clothing, housing and transportation. It's just that the human heart is greedy, and the so-called human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant. Greed in human nature, like the devil, can cause people to do many things that they don't even expect. Under the inducement of greed, people do not hesitate to violate the rules of society, even ignoring moral laws, and finally lead themselves to the abyss of sin. Therefore, the greatest evil in this world is actually greed, and once people are contaminated with such vices, they are likely to fall into the eighteenth spiritual hell in this life and will never be able to extricate themselves."