Chapter 17: What is the Way?
At this moment, he looked at the stone tablet that appeared in front of him, and such a sentence flashed in his mind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He knew that this must have been related to the influx of information that had just probed into the stone tablet, just waiting to understand the information in his mind.
Time passed slowly as he understood the message, and by the time he opened his eyes, he understood what it meant.
The ten stone tablets in front of him represent the ten trials. And from the point of view of that message, ten stone tablets have never appeared, and in the past there were only nine at the most, and three at the least. Although he didn't know who the person who would make the stele appear nine pieces, it was certain that it must be the pride of the Son of Heaven, and what about the appearance of ten stone tablets?
And what he guessed just now was also correct, the nick represented going through several layers of tests, and the words in front of the nick were their names.
The tests on the stele are difficult and easy, and the tests are also random and not the same.
And the test will appear on the stele, and when your mind reaches into the stele, the stele will reveal the test you are going through. You can only go to the second level of testing if you pass the first level, and the second level of testing is also linked to the first level of testing you have passed.
He already knows the test, and everything is just to be tested.
But I don't know which of these ten stone tablets comes first, so I have to try them one by one. Looking at the ten stone tablets in front of him, he took a few steps, walked to the nearest stone tablet to him, and probed his mind into the stone tablet.
When he put his mind into the stele, it did not disappoint him, and his mind was removed by the stele in a few dozen breaths. When he looked at the stele again, there were three big characters on the stele: "What is the Tao?"
"What is the Tao?"
Ever since the last time he had been discussing the Tao at the Jixia Academy, he hadn't understood what the Tao was, which was a bit difficult, but at this time, he had to say it according to his own understanding.
"The Tao, about the Tao, everyone has a different opinion. Some people think that the Tao is taken from nature and returned to nature, some people think that the Tao is intangible and eternal, some people think that the Tao is an ethereal thing, but what is the Tao?" he muttered in a low voice.
But just as he had finished muttering, the sound of thought rang out again, this time not in his head, but through the space.
"Yes, what is the Tao?"
He knew that this sentence was to remind him to say something, and now he could only say one sentence, so if he couldn't do it, he would say what he had heard in the Jixia School Palace.
"No sameness! No rigidity!" the thought seemed to know what was going on in his heart.
Hearing such a warning, he had to be calm, usually with this kind of warning has very serious consequences, of course he didn't want to try the consequences.
"The Tao, just like us cultivators, cultivating the Tao is the way to change one's life against the sky. For ordinary people, the Tao is just a truth, or a regular rule, which can be understood as the road. He said out loud.
As he spoke his opinion, the thought resounded through the space.
"What is the Tao?"
When he heard the thought and continued to ask, he knew that such a statement could not pass the test, so he had to continue.
"Dao, Tao is not only a product that cannot be touched, but also a product that can be touched and seen through. The Word no longer affects us at all times, and at the same time guides us..."
"The Tao is natural, intangible, imaginary, and real, and there is no trace of it. And the Tao is opposed to each other and united, and the Tao is omnipresent and without a trace..."
When he was talking a lot, he looked at the stone tablet in front of him, and the voice resounded again.
"What is the Tao? Your own perceptions! Not the product of books!"
Hearing the reminder of his mind again, he was very helpless, even the first layer of the test was so difficult, of course, he thought it now. It is impossible to have a unified answer, and it is my own perception.
At this point, he had to think about it for a while.
"Aren't you all the ones who can have your own understanding? Isn't that embarrassing me?" he leaned against the stone tablet and thought secretly in his heart.
"Do you think that you are inferior to them? What do these ten stone tablets represent? Do you want to fall into depravity? Do you want to give up?" the thought resounded again, and a flurry of questions followed.
When he heard the reminder of this thought, he suddenly woke up and muttered, "Yes, since there will be ten stone tablets, then I am no worse than them, otherwise there will be no ten stone tablets, I can't give up, Yu Yan is still waiting for me, and there are family members waiting for me to go back." ”
As soon as he came to his senses, he stood up and said loudly to the sky, "No, I won't give up. By all indications, I am not worse than them, on the contrary, I am better than them. ”
"Very well, then please continue, what is the way?"
Hearing such a question again, he was not discouraged, on the contrary, his morale was boosted, and he spoke slowly.
"As the ancients said, every person has their own experience. Just like the way of Go, some people think that Go is a siege of a momentum, but Go also has a combination of assimilation, not necessarily all of it. Attacking and defending each other is the best choice, not blindly attacking or defending.
There are many differences in the Tao, and each person has everyone's understanding, but the Tao is the same end. All things in the world are born in the Tao, and the Tao is returned to all things in the world. For me, the Tao can be said to be both a path of cultivation and a path to be stepped on, and it is entirely up to personal understanding.
As far as I am concerned, there are many kinds of paths that I have cultivated, and if I really want to divide them according to one priority, then the main path of cultivation is the path of immortals, and I have always been at a loss about what the path of immortals is. On the contrary, there are still good insights on the path of secondary cultivation, and they can break through one or two levels.
For the Tao, there is no unified idea, and there is no vague idea. In ancient times, there was an era of a hundred schools of thought, but now there is an era of a hundred schools of thought. There is actually no difference between Baijia and Baidao, it is just a difference of one word and different understandings. Just like the hundred schools of thought in ancient times, what we understand today is the hundred paths, because many of the ways of today have been handed down from ancient times. Although later generations have their own opinions, they are all summarized on the basis of the summaries of their predecessors. As for me, if I don't know that there are many Taos, how can I explain what the Tao is?
And what is the Tao? Everyone has a different opinion, and for me, doing nothing is the way!"
When he finished speaking, the thought was silent for a while, and he thought that he had successfully passed the test. But the next moment, the voice rang out again.
"Very good, all things are born as the Tao, all things are not the Tao, there is me as the Tao, no self is the Tao, there is a heart as the Tao, and no heart is also the Tao. If you can point to the slightest insight in this sentence, it shows that he has his own understanding of the Tao. The most important thing is that there is a good saying of doing nothing. In that case, you talk about why you do nothing. ”
Isn't that causing trouble for yourself?
"Doing nothing is the way, and doing nothing is to obey the trend of nature, but in the trend of obeying nature, we have to change our lives against the sky, and this is a contradiction. And to do is to use one's own way to achieve the goal after obeying nature without results, and in the process of achieving the goal, it cannot be too profitable.
In short, it is natural to fail to achieve the goal and use its own way to achieve the goal, but it cannot be compromised by the means. ”
He said briefly, in fact, he was a little puzzled and did nothing, and he could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
"And what is your goal, and what are you doing with it?"
Hear the voice of the thought, "What's the goal?"
"Short-term goal or long-term goal?" Liu Jingyu asked involuntarily.
"Everything!"
"The short-term goal is to pass these ten tests as soon as possible and enter the upper realm to find Yu Yan. As for the long-term goals, who knows what will happen in the future? The so-called plan cannot keep up with the changes, and the future can only be counted step by step. His answer this time was not that he was so high-spirited when he came down from Tianmu Mountain at the beginning, but after the baptism of red dust, he had long since lost his impulsiveness.
"It's as easy as it is to enter the Upper Realm in your own way, just as I am being tested here now. ”
"It's good to have an idea, it's good to do nothing. Since what is the Tao is your own understanding, then you can barely pass it, but what is your Dao?" the thought changed again and continued to ask.
"Immortal Dao!" he blurted out without thinking.
"Immortal Dao!"
When the thought didn't respond, he asked, "Why didn't there respond?"
The thought then sighed and said, "Immortal Dao?"
"Yes, Immortal Dao!" he affirmed again.
"Immortal Dao?" the thought asked again.
When I heard that thought again and asked the same question, I vaguely felt that something was wrong in my heart, but I didn't know what was wrong for a while.
I had to affirm again and said, "Immortal Dao!"
"In that case, the boy... You pass this level, and I hope you can go so smoothly in the next level. After saying that, he saw the stone tablet in front of him crumble instantly.
And just after that thought was finished, before the stele cracked, he faintly heard a slight sigh in his head. When he looked at it again, there was no follow-up, and he had to look at the stone tablet closest to him.
Looking at the stone tablet in front of him, although the first test was so easy. But he has experienced too many strange things, and he has shown a tendency to get tired or take the initiative to skip it. At the moment, he didn't know that this state was not good, but now that he had skipped it, what else could he talk about?
Now, due to the time factor, he looked at the nearest stone tablet, and slowly probed his mind into this stone tablet, which was the second stone tablet.
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