Chapter 19 Forget the rivers and lakes and be at ease

When Lin Xu heard this, he couldn't help but secretly complain about his sister Lin Tong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Huang Rong heard that he must have heard from Lin Tong. It was also Huang Rong who was uneasy and kind, and deliberately asked his sister about his secrets.

Regarding Huang Rong's words, he didn't intend to explain. His relationship with Guan Luoxue is indeed not so deep that it is inseparable. But this first love, he didn't want to end up without a problem, at least he didn't want it to be the result of being forcibly broken up by Guan Luoyu and beating the mandarin ducks. Therefore, he will still find a way to maintain and maintain his relationship with Guan Luoxue. Unless one day, Guan Luoxue really took the initiative to break up with him, or in the future, he found that the two were not suitable and had irreconcilable contradictions, etc., and chose to break up.

But before that, as long as Guan Luoxue doesn't give up, he will never take the initiative to give up and let her down. It's like a quote he read in a certain book, "If you don't leave, I won't give up." And if it really comes to the day when we need to separate, then he will also get together with her and disperse, and wish her happiness in the future.

He really doesn't understand this kind of thing very well, and he doesn't think that "teaching people to live and die" is love. If you like it, you will be together, and if you don't like it, you will choose to separate. For some reason, you can't continue your fate, so you might as well find another one. Although there are regrets, it is not too big of a deal.

Or maybe it's because he's too young to fully understand. Or maybe he is a person who is indifferent by nature and is not an affectionate person. He really felt that love was not a big deal, and it was not a necessity of life.

If you have it, it's good, but if you don't have it or you lose it, it really doesn't matter. As the saying goes, "It's good to have fish, but it's good to have no fish." Everyone's life cannot be perfect. In life, people will inevitably lose something to a greater or lesser extent.

The loss is irretrievable, but life goes on. You can't lose a loss and a momentary setback, and you can't just slump, lose your goal in life, or even lose your whole life.

"It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes", this sentence is the words of Zhuangzi, who is in the same vein as the Taoist ancestor Laozi.

The whole sentence is "The spring is dry, the fish are on land, the wet is wet, and the foam is wet, it is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes." "The original intention is that when the spring water dries up, the two fish spit at each other and moisten each other to survive, but why not go to the big rivers and lakes more freely. By extension, we should support each other and cling to each other in difficult situations, and sometimes we might as well let go of attachments, forget nature, broaden our horizons, and change our lives. The world is big, and you don't have to be stuck in one place.

In terms of love, when two people are together, it is beautiful to be in love with each other, but if it is not suitable, then you might as well forget about each other and do not have to be trapped together.

Taoism and nature, Taoist spirit, philosophy and life, etc., everything is the pursuit of nature. It's natural, not deliberate. It's the same emotionally, when love should come, it comes naturally, affection comes naturally, and when it should end, it will end naturally, and you don't have to force it too deliberately.

Forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes sounds a bit absolute, but forgetting is not ruthless. Forgetting is a state of mind, an attitude, not a resolute one. Lao Tzu also once said that he was too forgetful. Forgetting is a state of detachment. It means that you can really let go of your obsession and have no obstacles.

It's a bit like the popular saying now, "I don't care about how long it lasts, I only care about what I once had." It's all about not having to be deliberately forced, and letting go when it's time to let go. If you really can't stay together, then it's enough to remember the beauty of the past, and you don't have to sacrifice your respective freedoms to forcibly tie them together. No matter how life is, it always has to go on, and everyone has their own path to follow. Whoever is separated from him can live.

Falling in love with each other may be nostalgic and moving. But forgetting the rivers and lakes is a higher realm. What you have can let go, and what you have enjoyed is not addicted. Naturally, naturally, naturally. Too obsessive affection, in practice, is actually an obsession. Infatuation is not a kind of cultivation. Both Taoists and Buddhists emphasize letting go of obsessions in their practice.

Just like when cultivating internal strength, it is also a matter of course. Whether it is to deify fire or to use luck, it must be natural, not too much. If you are too careful, it will turn into obsession, and then you will be in danger of going mad. Even if it is external skills to boil the body, if you don't pay attention to practicing too much, it will damage the body.

Forget the rivers and lakes, forget the love, Lin Xu at present, of course, does not have such a realm, and he can't completely do it. However, he pursued such a realm.

"It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes", this sentence comes from Zhuangzi's "The Great Master". Lin Xu hadn't read this "Great Grandmaster", he saw this sentence in an article in a certain magazine, and he also saw the source of this sentence from it. However, although he has not read "The Great Master", he has read another masterpiece of Zhuangzi "Wandering".

Speaking of which, this "Getaway" is also related to Huang Rong. It was when he went to Huang Zongwen's house to make up for the homework books of several classmates who were late in submitting their math homework, because there were only a few books at that time, not many, so Huang Zongwen reviewed them on the spot, asked him to wait on the side, and then took them back after the approval.

At that time, he was a little bored waiting, so he looked for books on Huang Zongwen's bookshelf to read. The books on the shelves are generally neatly arranged, but at that time, there was one book, for some reason, which just stood out a little more than the others. He noticed it at a glance, and then took it out to take a look, only to see that it was the Chinese textbook that Huang Rong used when he was in high school. After taking it out, thinking that he would also go to high school in the future, he flipped through this high school language book. And Zhuangzi's "Wandering Away" is a text in this language book.

He is used to reading books and reading the table of contents first, because the name of "Getaway" has been seen in martial arts novels before, and there is a famous Getaway School in "Dragon Babu", which can be said to run through the whole book. So as soon as he saw the name, he was immediately interested, and read this one first.

After reading it, he liked this "Getaway" very much, especially the thoughts and spirit in it. The name of "Getaway" can be described as a very topical, and the central idea of the whole article can be summed up in these three words. And being at ease has always been the pursuit of Taoism, the so-called transcendence of the world, seeking great freedom and freedom. Even the Taoist theory of seeking immortality and immortality can be said to be rooted in this. Immortality and immortality are all in order to be able to better pursue freedom and freedom, and not be bound by everything in the world. Immortality and so on are all means, and great freedom and freedom are the ultimate goals.

Lin Xu is also a person who naturally likes to pursue freedom, and does not like to be bound by all kinds of rules. Therefore, the Taoist view of pursuing freedom and freedom is really well understood by him. After that, he began to practice martial arts, and everything he learned from the internal skills he studied was also derived from Taoist classics. The main source of his "The Secret of Holding Pu", the author of "Hug Puzi", Ge Hong, is also a pivotal figure in Taoism. Even the empty "Qing Ming Jue" that he is practicing now contains many Taoist theories.

All of these things have made him have a very deep connection with Taoism. Not to mention whether there are really immortals in the world because of the Kunlun Order, if there is, then becoming an immortal is definitely a Taoist knowledge. Because of all this, he now likes to study some Taoist classics and doctrines, and is deeply influenced by the ideas and opinions in them.

With his current age and the growth and accumulation of knowledge, many things are still incomprehensible and incomprehensible. But he is well aware of the central idea of Taoism's pursuit of ease and ease, which is what he himself yearns for. Everything that has to do with freedom, he likes.

Even the current martial arts training, if it is seriously said for anything, it can also be said that it is ultimately for freedom. The rest of the study, preferences, etc., can be slightly back.

Freedom, sometimes sounds so simple. But it is not easy to truly pursue the kind of freedom that is unfettered and free. Everything in the world is bound by all kinds of rules. The state has national laws, families have family rules, and schools, units, and societies also have various rules and regulations. Even the rivers and lakes have some conventional rules of the rivers and lakes. If you want to break through these things, you don't have enough strength, how can you do it?

Everything in the world has a price. Freedom is no exception, and even the price of freedom will be greater. Just like love and the relationship between men and women, it will also form a kind of bondage. If you want to detach and break through, do you have to give up all of these?

This problem goes back to the previous view, which is "forgetting". The Taoists do not demand forcible abandonment like the monks who are ordained. As soon as he shaved and left home, he cut off the red and mundane relations, and everything in the world was gone, abandoned, and some even abandoned their families and businesses for this, and even abandoned their wives and children. It can be said that once you enter the empty door, you are as deep as the sea, and you have known each other like passers-by since then. If you shave off the three thousand red dust troubles, you will also have to cut off all kinds of connections.

However, Taoism does not force it in this regard, but talks about "forgetting", which is natural. When it should be broken, it will be broken naturally, not deliberately, and not forced. After it is broken, it is not a ruthless decision to break it, but gradually forgets it, and naturally lets go of the obsession. Therefore, Zhuangzi said "forget each other in the rivers and lakes", and Lao Tzu said "too forgetful".

Of course, Lin Xu doesn't have such a realm, and he is far from being able to do it, but this is what he is pursuing. One day, he believes he can achieve it. If the result of this proposition is concerned, then there will be no result between him and Guan Luoxue. And since there will be no result, what is all this he is doing now, and what is the point?

Lin Xu didn't know about this, and he didn't want to think about it. Sometimes I think too much, and it's easy to get confused. He only set it a little now, let it go, and let it be. Don't think about it, let everything develop naturally, and follow your own heart.

Since you don't want to be separated, at least you don't want to be forced to separate in this situation, then follow your heart and try to maintain this relationship. Violating one's own heart and forcibly seeking detachment and freedom is also a kind of attachment.

Among Taoists, there is also a saying called "the heart of a child". Lao Tzu said, "Changde does not leave, and returns to the baby." That is to say, sometimes don't think too much and be too complicated, and go according to your inner thoughts, which is also a kind of natural. Not deliberately, not forced. If you think so, then do it.

Or, if he has not had it, how can he forget it, and what is there to forget? In other words, I wonder if it is a kind of experience in the red dust? Or is he just trying to "only care about what he once had"? What he does now is only for the "once" of the future?

Mo Duo thinks, but according to his heart......