Chapter 103: Dao
"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs; The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs. Between heaven and earth, is it still like a slurrel? Void but unyielding, moving and getting more and more. It is better to keep the middle than to talk too much.
The immortality of the god of grains is called the Xuan, and the gate of the Xuanqi is the root of heaven and earth. If it exists, it is not used diligently.
Everlasting. Therefore, those who can live long and long in heaven and earth can live forever because they do not generate by themselves. It is the saint who comes after his body and the body outside
Existential. Isn't it because of its selflessness? Therefore, it can become its own selfishness.
Good is like water. Water is good for all things without fighting, and it is evil for everyone, so it is more than the Tao. Dwelling in a good place, having a good heart, being kind and benevolent, being kind and believing, being good in governance, doing good things, and moving in good times. The husband is indisputable, so there is no especially. ”
On a high peak, He Weitong lay leisurely on a leafy tree, holding the Tao Te Ching and slowly reciting.
It was already a leisurely afternoon half a month later, and today, He Weitong did not go back and forth on time as usual, but read the Tao Te Ching in the mountains.
Because yesterday, Qiu Shan was already able to get out of bed, and he didn't need to cook.
He Weitong put down the Tao Te Ching in his hand and looked at the mountain peaks in the distance, as if he was in a daze and as if he was thinking about a problem.
"The kindest people are like water. Water is good at nourishing all things without competing with all things, and stays in places that no one likes, so it is closest to the "Tao".
The kindest people live in the best places to choose, are good at keeping quiet and unfathomable, treat people sincerely, fraternity and selflessness, speak and keep promises, streamline the government, can govern the country well, can give full play to their strengths, and act to seize the opportunity. The best people do what they do because they have indisputable virtues, so there is no fault, and there is no blame. ”
He Weitong thought about the words in the Tao Te Ching and understood the truth in it.
Although the content of the Tao Te Ching does not talk about spiritual practice, it inspires him so much that no other classic can replace it.
Because it is a study of self-cultivation, governing the country, using soldiers, and maintaining health, and mostly takes politics as the purpose, it is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" of the study, the meaning is profound, inclusive and extensive, and it is praised as the king of all classics by the ancients.
These things seem to have nothing to do with spiritual practice, but they always affect the heights he can reach in the future.
Take Lao Tzu as an example, if it is in an ordinary world, then Lao Tzu's achievements are only a thinker, no matter how high his achievements are.
But if it is a higher world, it is different, Lao Tzu in the mundane world is actually no different from Lao Tzu in the high world, their ideological realm is the same, the only difference is that the world restricts their development, which is the so-called "diving can't raise a real dragon" truth.
Most of the worlds, the Tao that makes up the worlds are the same.
It's just that Lao Tzu in the mundane world, because of the low level of the world, the truth he comprehends cannot form power.
But with the truth they have comprehended, as long as they are thrown into the higher world, they can rise in a short period of time, far beyond their peers.
This means that people who are awesome are awesome no matter where they are.
These are the principles that are talked about in the Tao Te Ching, which contains Lao Tzu's basic understanding of the universe.
Although these things can't be intuitively expressed in the realm of his ascension, they can subtly shorten the time for him to break the mirror.
This is why the main practice of Taoist priests throughout the ages is not the Tao Te Ching, but it all depends on it.
Because the real truth is never the exercises, but the elaboration of the world, which is the most basic thing.
Regardless of whether he will travel in the future, as long as he is still in the world constructed by Chinese culture, he will not be able to escape Lao Tzu's theory.
Lao Tzu's theories will not be wrong, even if he goes to the world of other cultural structures in the future, it is nothing, even if there are some differences, it will not be too big, because the foundation of the world, that is, the Tao, will not change.
This is why He Weitong devotes part of his daily time to studying the Tao Te Ching.
Although, every day is repeated content, repeated truth, he is also tireless.
He Weitong always thought that he did not understand the Tao Te Ching, and he felt that the Tao Te Ching should not be just a piece of text, or a translated vernacular.
He felt that people who really read the Tao Te Ching would change their way of seeing the world.
Of course, this is just his speculation, and he is not sure what kind of person will really read the Tao Te Ching.
Taoist mythology, how many immortals, can be said to be the disciples of Lao Tzu, they all practice in the system constructed by Lao Tzu, in the final analysis, they have not departed from the Tao Te Ching.
There are two major systems of practice in the world, Buddhism and Taoism.
The others, whether they are ghost cultivators or demon cultivators, are more or less related to these two systems.
He Weitong slowly stood up from the top of the tree and began to walk through the mountains.
An hour later, He Weitong returned to the Optimus Tree again.
In the dense woods, little Sito lay down on the bottom of the supertree and fell asleep leisurely.
He Wei looked at the little Si Tou at the foot of the tree and smiled slightly.
The demon clan is the demon clan, and it is like a fish in water in the mountains, and Xiao Sitou is like this now.
The faint green light on Xiao Sito's body reflected the large tree behind her.
She has a deep relationship with this Optimus Tree, and hundreds of years of attachment have made Si Tou and the big tree have a trace of blood entanglement.
This is also why, in the original play, Qin Fang's blood can save Si Tou.
He Weitong watched as the breath of Si Tou and the big tree entangled with each other and promoted each other.
The big tree got the demonic power from Sito, and Sito got that strong vitality from the big tree.
He Weitong came to the huge supertree and stretched out his hand to press it on the mottled surface of the tree.
After He Wei touched the Optimus Tree with his hand, it immediately felt it, and immediately cut off the act of communicating with Sito.
In an instant, it retracted all its breath and turned into an ordinary tree, it was dodging, and it felt the breath on He Weitong's body.
He Weitong couldn't help but smile when he looked at the big tree that reacted so violently, and then withdrew his hand.
He had no ill will towards the Optimus Tree, and he held out his hand, just out of curiosity.
He Weitong didn't stay here long, he took one last look at the big tree, and then picked up the little Si Teng who was sleeping on the ground and jumped away from here gently.
He Weitong leaped over the tree, but he didn't fly far before he was attracted by a flying eagle in the sky.
"Chirp~"
He Weitong stopped at a rapid speed and stopped at the top of a tree.
Suddenly stopped, the force control was different, and the branches on the soles of the feet floated up and down extremely violently.
He Weitong looked at the flying eagle that kept hovering in the airspace overhead, thoughtful.
It was a flying eagle with a wingspan of more than one meter, although it was more than two hundred meters in the air, but in He Weitong's opinion, it was still so conspicuous.