Ah Yi came on behalf of the princess, and she was able to fully reflect the sincerity of the princess, the Zhongzhou Dynasty was such a treasure, and the princess gave up it, although it was a little unbelievable, the jade field chief did not think too deeply.

Although I always feel a little strange in my heart, I feel that it seems reasonable, even the president of the Divine Dragon Society with a mysterious origin can have a relationship with Lan Jiechen, and it seems that it is not impossible for Lan Jiechen to hook up with the princess.

Ziwei Emperor Star is too terrible to sit in the star luck, the peach blossom luck is red and purple, and the jade field chief worships this person who has changed his life against the sky like a surging river, and he is out of control.

Lan Jiechen naturally ignored the strange gaze of the Jade Field Chief, and the next thing was Ah Yi and the Jade Field Chief's time.

Lan Jiechen felt a little bored, so he quietly left, fooling around with the other gladiators.

Just came out of the Sacred Sycamore Tree, Lan Jiechen and the others were not in a hurry to leave the Eternal Ancient Star immediately, and in the next time, Lan Jiechen and they decided to follow the trajectory of their own growth and walk again.

The effect is obvious, revisiting the old place, Lan Juechen and they feel a lot, and their mood is more and more consolidated, and there is even a tendency to go to the next level.

The town of Longma, which Lan Jiechen rescued at the beginning, has developed into a giant city, and the sculpture in the center of the square is eye-catching, towering and lifelike.

I don't know when it began, Longma Town has become what people call the Absolute Dust City, many years have passed, and the women who Lan Juechen saved at the beginning have all formed new families and lived very happily.

After all, they are all ordinary people, and many people have begun to have wrinkles on their faces, and the traces left by the years are becoming more and more obvious. Despite this, they still have happy smiles on their faces.

Lan Juechen couldn't help but feel the shortness of the lifespan of ordinary people. Most of them are not more than a hundred years, but these ordinary people think that it is long enough.

But there are many supreme avenues in it. Practitioners have benefited a lot, and the avenues that many practitioners perceive are actually not far from those that philosophers perceive.

Philosophers improve themselves by understanding life, and educate and warn future generations.

By understanding life, practitioners can improve themselves and gain stronger strength to protect their loved ones.

The life of ordinary people is too short and too short, compared to cultivators above the god level. It's just a time of retreat, and as soon as you close your eyes and open them, a hundred years have passed.

But this hundred years is the life of countless ordinary people.

Lan Jiechen and they were deeply touched, especially Lan Jiechen, when he was born on the earth to comprehend life, and when his spiritual wisdom had not yet awakened, he was not one of the many living beings.

The days are long, especially during classes, especially on weekends when making up classes. Degrees and seconds are like years.

It's not like now, when you blink a few times and a day passes.

Chaowen said, death can be carried out.

Before the death of a peerless great Confucian, he left such a sentence. There are no regrets in his heart, although this sentence is the words of his predecessors and has other feelings.

Zi said: Chaowen said. Death is possible.

The Confucian "Tao" does not refer to the truth. Rather, it is their political ideal - "benevolent government". And "smelling" cannot simply be understood as knowing or understanding. There is a paragraph in Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table": "Do not seek to hear to the princes", the "smell" in this and the "smell" in "Chaowen Dao". It should mean the same thing.

Moreover, what Confucianism seeks is not a private way that it understands, but to educate the people and practice benevolent government.

In fact, in the eyes of practitioners, in the eyes of Lan Juechen, this sentence is explained by the viewpoint of the Book of Changes, that is: the morning and the evening are relative, the evening is the past, and the morning is coming.

The "Dao" in "Morning Hearing the Dao, Death at Night" refers to the "Great Dao", that is, the origin of the universe, the metaphysical ontology, which is the same as the first Tao in "The Tao can be the Tao, the extraordinary Dao", and also the same as the "Dao" in "My Dao is consistent".

Of course, it can also represent the realm of "benevolence" in Confucius's doctrine.

After hearing the Tao, those who do something and have persistence, so the people, those who do nothing and those who do nothing, so the heavens. Those who do it will lose, and those who insist will lose. Therefore, when you hear the Tao in the court, you can die on the night.

One love is a saint, one love is a sage, and one love is evil.

Those who are in love with the underworld have nothing and cannot be revealed.

Those who love good and evil come from nothing, and they cannot be obtained and kept secret.

A love of good and evil is knowledge, but animals have it, and a love of the underworld is ignorance.

Under the world, the Tao is everywhere.

"Therefore, when I heard the Tao in the court, I could die on the night. The word in "Tao" refers to the origin of the world.

Having studied on the earth, read a lot of ancient books, studied a lot of Confucian classics, and other hundreds of works, Lan Jiechen naturally knew that these words left by this peerless Confucian, in front of different people, had different understandings.

Just like the Tao Te Ching, the Book of Changes, and the Analects, they all have their own opinions in front of different people.

If you are enlightened, you are enlightened, and if you are not enlightened, you are not enlightened.

Zhu Xi's "Collected Notes": "The Taoist, the principle of things is of course. If you hear it, you will live and die, and there will be no resentment. Day and night, so it is even said that the time is near. Cheng Zi said: 'You can't know what you say, you can hear it, even if you die. He also said, "It is all true, and it is difficult for those who know and believe." Death and life are also great! If you don't have a sincere gain, how can you die at night?'"

Liu Baonan's "Justice": "The day and night are near, and they don't take a day." Those who 'hear the Tao', the way of the ancient saint kings and gentlemen, have heard and known. If you hear the Tao and do not die unexpectedly, you will follow the practice of satirical recitation, which will be the help of virtue. If you are unfortunate and die at dawn, it is a waste of the middle way, and its virtuous is far from being heard, so it is called 'Ke also'. ”

These explanations all train "smell" as "know", and "smell" means "know" and "enlighten". The ancients mostly understood it this way.

For example, "Shenzi Junchen": "Confucius said: 'Qiu is young and studious, and he hears the Tao later, so as to be knowledgeable.'" This can be read in conjunction with the chapter "Chaowen Dao" in the Analects, and can be invented mutually, and "Wen Dao" is "Bo", and "Shenzi" takes "Wen" as "knowledge", which is clear.

In the Chu bamboo books of the Warring States period in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, there are many words of "Shenzi" and "Shenzi", which shows that the words of "Shenzi" arrived as early as the pre-Qin period, and it is also very possible.

"New Preface: Miscellaneous Affairs": "Confucius said: 'Hear the Tao. Death is possible. 'So I opened the heirs, and felt the afterlife. It is still more and more lifeless. The "untrustworthy" is the one who does not "hear". "寤" can be trained as "enlightenment" and "awakening". [4] It can be seen that the chapter of the Analects of the Analects in the New Preface is based on "smelling" as "enlightenment".

"Hanshu Xiahou Shengbiography": "Victory and tyranny have been linked for a long time, and tyranny wants to learn from victory, and victory is to die of sin." Ba said: 'When you hear the truth, you can die at night. 'Victory in his words, so he gave it. The department is more winter, and the talk is not slack. Huang Ba still seized the time to "Ming Jing" in prison, based on "hearing the Tao in the morning, and dying at night", and "hearing the Tao" is "knowing".

"Book of Jin: The Biography of Huangfu Mi": "Tanhui classics. Forget to sleep and eat, people call it a book. Or if there is a mistake in it, it will lose the spirit. Mi said: 'When you hear the Tao, you can die at night.' The situation is short, and the fate is suspended!'" Huangfu Mi defended himself by "delaying the classics, forgetting sleep and eating" with "hearing the truth, and dying at night", and also regarded "hearing" as "knowing".

"Wei Shu Liu Xun Biography": "Although there is government affairs, I can't release the volume. He said: "Qing notes the book. Candles follow day, day follows, night can rest. He said: "When I heard the truth, I could die at night." I don't know that old age is coming, and Kong Sheng is praised. Who would dare not do this?'" Liu Xun explained the reason for his hard study with "I heard the truth, and I can die at night". Its solution "Wen Dao" is the same as that of Huang Ba and Huangfu.

The above five examples are all based on the "hearing the Tao" in this chapter of the Analects as "knowing" and "enlightening the way", that is, comprehending the Tao.

The pre-Qin texts do not deal with this chapter of the Analects. There are many people who understand "hearing the Tao" in this way.

"Mencius: Teng Wen Gong I": "When Chen Xiang saw Mencius, he said to Xu Xing: 'Teng Jun is honest and virtuous; Unheard of the Tao also. "Unheard of the Word" means "Unclear Word."

"Zhuangzi Tianyun": "Confucius walked fifty years and did not hear the Tao, but Nan Pei saw the old man. Lao Dan said: "I have heard the son, the sage of the north, and the son has also the Tao?" "Hearing the Tao" is the clear way, so the old man is called "the Tao".

and "The Great Master": "Nan Bo Zikui asked the maiden: 'The son is old, and the color is like a child, why not?' Nan Bozi Kui said: "The Tao can learn evil?" "Hearing the Tao" means enlightening the Tao and comprehending the Tao, so "the Tao can learn the evil."

"Lü's Spring and Autumn Period, Divorce from the Vulgar, and Desire": "Those who don't hear the Tao, how can they go to non-sex? If you want to be unright, you will die if you govern your body, and you will die if you govern the country. ”

Later, "Huainanzi Qi Customs" said that it was similar to the same: "The husband indulges in lust and loses his sex, and he does not taste the right thing, and if he governs his body, he will be in danger, if he governs the country, he will be chaotic, and if he joins the army, he will be broken." Therefore, those who do not hear the Tao are invincible. ”

"Hearing the Tao" can "remove non-sexuality" and "anti-sexuality", which is obviously the meaning of understanding the Tao and understanding the Tao.

"Pipe Situation": "The one who says the Tao is the same, and the one who uses it is different." There are those who have heard the Tao and are good for their families, and the people of the family are also. There are people who have heard the word and are good for the township, and the people of the township are also. There are those who hear the word and are good for the country, and the people of a country are also.

There are those who hear the word and are good for the world, and the people of the world are also. There are those who hear the Tao and are good at determining all things, and heaven and earth are also matched. "Situation Solution": "Hearing the Tao and governing a township, kissing its father and son, obeying its brothers, and correcting its customs, so that the people can enjoy it and settle down on its land, and be the backbone of a township, and the people of the township are also."

Therefore, it is said: 'There are people who have heard the Tao and are good for the township, and the people of the township are also.' ’...... Hearing the Tao and governing a township, kissing its father and son, obeying its brothers, and correcting its customs, so that the people are happy and peaceful, and they are the backbone of a township, and the people of the township are also. Therefore, it is said: 'There are people who have heard the Tao and are good for the township, and the people of the township are also.' ’”

This "smelling the Tao" is the opposite of "using" the Tao, "using" is doing, and "smelling" is obviously knowing.

Today's commentary on the Analects basically explains it this way.

For example, Yang Bojun's "Translation Notes": "Confucius said: 'If you learn the truth in the morning, if you want me to die that night, you can do it.'" ’”

Sun Qinshan's "Annotation": "Smell, know." The Tao that Confucius spoke of refers to either the Tao or the doctrine, and here refers to the latter. "Confucius said, 'If you realize the truth in the morning, it is okay to die that night.'" ”

Pan Chonggui's "Today's Note": "From morning to evening, the time is extremely short, and if you learn the truth in the morning, you can die that night." If a person can understand the truth, he will be able to shine infinitely in his life, so that he will not live in vain, he will not die in vain, and the time of the day is better than ten thousand years, so it is okay to know the truth in the morning and die that night. ”

But this prevailing explanation is worth discussing.

First of all, it contradicts the ideological character of Confucius. If Confucius regarded the pursuit of "knowledge" as the highest pursuit in life, he could say that "if you know the truth in the morning, you can die that night." In this way, there is no difference between Confucius and a purely theoretical researcher.

However, Confucius's highest pursuit in life is "virtue" rather than "wisdom", and "respect for virtue" is compared with "Taoism", "respect for virtue" is the first, and "Taoism" is second.

Although Confucius said: "If you don't know etiquette, you can't stand up." But he also understands that "knowing propriety" is not the same as "gaining benevolence" or "obtaining benevolence". Therefore, he emphasized: "Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy." ”

Why? Because "He who knows, there is there, and I know."

The good ones are good, but they are not there. As for pleasure, it is your own. "Knowing" is "in the other", "good" is still "not there", or external.

Only "happiness" is "what you have for yourself". In Confucius's view, cultivation can no longer only stay at the stage of "knowing", but must rely on "doing" if we want to turn the objective truth of "being there" into the benevolence of the subject "for one's own".

Therefore, Confucius attaches more importance to "doing" than "knowing". The goal of his life is not to "know" and "know benevolence", but to cultivate and become benevolent, and change the "no way" in the world into "the way".

He said: "When a disciple enters, he is filial, and when he goes out, he is cautious and faithful, and he loves the public, and he is kind and benevolent, and he has spare strength to learn literature." ”

"Xuewen" belongs to the category of "knowledge", and Confucius classified it as a matter after "doing what he has spare power", and his attitude is very obvious.

Based on this consistent character of valuing virtue over seeking "knowledge", it was impossible for Confucius to "die at the end of the day" "towards knowledge".

Furthermore, Confucius did not "know" the Tao in ordinary times, nor did he think that the "Tao" was difficult to "know". The ancients lamented that "it is difficult to know it, but it is difficult to do", "it is difficult to know the truth, and it will be done", and the same is true of Confucius.

Confucius once said: "Ambition is in the Tao, according to virtue, according to benevolence, and in art." ”

He also said: "As for Lu, when Qi changes, as for Lu, and when Lu changes, as for Dao." What is "Tao"? He obviously knew very well.

Not only did Confucius think that he usually "knew", but it was not difficult for others to "know". Ziyou once said: "In the past, Yan also heard the masters say: 'A gentleman who learns the Tao loves others, and a villain who learns the Tao is easy to make.'" ’”

"Learning the Tao" is close to "knowing".

Confucius believed that this was not difficult, not only "gentlemen learn the Tao", but "villains" can also "learn the Tao". He said: "People can promote the Tao, but they are not Taoists." ”

If people do not "know", how can they "propagate the Tao"? ”

"Ambition to the Tao" is a general requirement for "scholars" and is the basic condition. It can be seen that even for ordinary scholars, it is not difficult to "know", only "doing" is difficult.

Confucius did not regard "knowing" as a difficult thing and did not regard "knowing" as the highest pursuit in life, how could he say that "if you know the truth in the morning, you can die that night"?

It can be seen that this common interpretation cannot be established.

This sentence left by Confucius, a great Confucian, allows different people to understand and use their imagination for themselves.

This is not the case for cultivators, even though they are cultivating the mental methods left by their predecessors, when they are cultivating the mental methods, a source of strength and a general direction, the way to which they can go depends on the practitioner's own ability, talent, potential, and opportunity. (To be continued.) )