Chapter 38, the unity of knowledge and action
Inside the Little Sage Village.
Xunzi sat opposite Fu Nian.
"Uncle Shi, for some reason, the Ram School began to hype up Senior Brother Ziyou, and at the same time began to close the door and not see any guests, do you know why?" Fu Nian asked,
As the big boss of the small sage village, the head of Confucianism, Fu Nian in addition to teaching and educating people, also needs to deal with all kinds of disputes within Confucianism, and the abnormality of the ram school made him feel bad, if you say who is the strongest in Confucianism, it is not easy to say, but who can cause trouble the most, it must be the ram.
"You should go and ask Ziyou." Xunzi said lightly.
"Senior Brother Ziyou, although I watched Senior Brother Ziyou grow up, but I never saw through him, he doesn't seem to belong to this world, he usually plays very lively in the village, but it seems that there is always a separation from this world." Fu Nian said the problem that he had always had in his heart.
"Ziyou is not like a person in the world, he is a variable, you know? When he was under the Jixia, he should have entered the Dao and become a grandmaster, but his Dao was so big that he himself couldn't see through it, and he couldn't see through it clearly, he thought too much about it, so much that he couldn't bear it, and he lost what a young man should have. Xunzi said.
"Such a grand Dao is indeed not what people in the world should have, why would Senior Brother Ziyou choose such a Dao?" Fu Nian asked,
"It's not so much that he chose the Tao, but that he chose him, Ziyou has been in a tangled state, he wants to do something, but he doesn't know what to do, so I let him choose the "Ten Wings" as his own exercises, "Ten Wings" is written by Confucius Wen Zhou Yi, although there are Confucian thoughts, but the connotation is still Taoist, so I hope to be able to use the Ten Wings to help him understand the Tao in his heart, but he did not understand his Tao, "Ten Wings" can not enlighten the Tao in his heart." Xunzi said
"After two years of travel, he saw all the scenes of suffering, war, people sinking, and starvation, so he gradually realized his own way, what he wanted to do was to change the world, so he had those deafening four sentences."
"Since Senior Brother Ziyou has already understood, why can't he enter the Dao?" Fu asked puzzled.
"Enlightenment only has what he thinks in his heart, and he is still far short of how to achieve what he wants, like a chest containing countless treasures, but missing a key to open it." Xunzi said.
Fu Nian could only sigh, the Tao is mysterious and mysterious, some people who have cultivated all their lives are always only one step away, and some people only understand their own Tao in a moment, and it is not a dream to become a grandmaster, Ziyou's Tao is too big, beyond any of the hundred families, so no one can help him, only on his own.
"I have a question that I have always wanted to ask Uncle Shi, but I don't know whether to ask it or not?" Fu Nian asked.
"What's the problem? Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, where is a little bit of the decisiveness of the head of Confucianism. Xunzi scolded.
"Uncle Shi's lesson is, why did Uncle Shi accept his junior brother back then?" Fu Nian asked.
"That's what you want to ask?" Xunzi asked,
Fu Nian nodded, this is one of the secrets of the entire Little Sage Village, when Xunzi brought back Ziyou, he only said that this is my disciple in the future and will not say more, many people are curious about Ziyou's origin and why he was accepted by Xunzi.
"The head of a generation is curious about the secrets of the gossip all day long, how to teach his disciples well, and how to deal with the internal affairs of Confucianism..........." Xunzi said that he began to preach to Fu Nian, saying that Fu Nian did not dare to raise his head at all, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
"Go back and read the Book of Shang ten times." Xunzi brushed his sleeves away.
It happened that Yan Lu pushed the door in, saw the angry Xunzi and the sweaty Fu Nian who was said, and closed the door again and didn't dare to speak.
"The big husband does things only as promises, what is it like, the road, you come in!" Xunzi said to Yan Lu.
Yan Lu showed a wry smile, he couldn't run away from today's preaching.
Xunzi left after preaching to Yan Lu, leaving the two who looked at each other.
"Senior brother, what are you doing to anger Uncle Shi again?" Yan Lu wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and said.
"No, I just asked Uncle Ziyou why he accepted Senior Brother Ziyou." Fu Nian looked at the back of Xunzi leaving.
Xunzi walked in the Little Sage Village, and couldn't help but think of the six-year-old naughty boy back then, kneeling in front of him and shouting
"Master Xun, I heard that you don't have children, I want to provide for you in old age."
At that time, he was also shocked by the sudden kneeling of this naughty boy, looking at the six-year-old Ziyou, Xunzi felt very interesting, so he accepted Ziyou, thinking about his Xun situation, how could there be a lack of people for the elderly?
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Since he traveled to today, the scenes that happened on Ziyou's body kept flashing in his mind, at first after knowing that this was Qin Shi Mingyue's world, he just wanted to hug his thighs and live well, if possible, he could find a beautiful girl to marry, but he always felt that doing this was no different from the ordinary and boring life in his previous life, so he wanted to do something, at first he didn't know what to do, it was like a stone blocked in his heart, so he began to do evil in the little sage village, to pass the time.
Later, when he went on a journey, he saw too much sorrow in the course of his travels, the people who had been displaced by the war, the people who starved to death on the roads because of the famine, and the civilians who were oppressed wantonly.........
Scene by scene again in front of Ziyou, he understood what he wanted to do, he wanted to shake the whole world with one person, take advantage of the power of heaven, gather the power of the world, seek a stability for this land, and seek a survival for the people, the goal is there, but he lacks a path to achieve, or he is frightened by the thoughts in his heart and does not know how to achieve it.
As the so-called success is also famous, defeat is also reputation, Ziyou has always thought that he is a person who doesn't care about reputation, and he has done all kinds of ridiculous things, but now that he thinks about it, the reason why he is restrained is because he thinks too much and doesn't want to waste his efforts, but what about failure? Failure to do so is a failure.
As the so-called "Shangshu" has "it is difficult to know, but it is difficult to do".
"Hahahaha." Ziyou suddenly laughed loudly, and with Ziyou's laughter, the whole sky was gradually covered by dark clouds, and the wind blew, and Ziyou walked out of the house and stood in the courtyard.
"Sir!" As soon as the Snow Girl wanted to go out, she was stopped by Concubine Yan.
"He's entering the Tao, don't bother."
Hearing what Concubine Yan said, the Snow Girl also calmed down.
"I don't practice, but I learn literature, I am flashy, who is I, I am the unity of knowledge and action, I promote action with knowledge, and I seek knowledge by action, so that I will become my avenue."
The thunder and lightning in the sky struck wildly, Ziyou's voice resounded throughout the whole world, and thunder exploded one after another, and a person in the armor of the general in Yanmen Pass looked at the abnormal changes in the sky and suddenly startled.
"Someone has entered the Tao!"