Chapter 578: The Gentleman Cooks Far Away

I only heard Shen Yirou continue the topic just now, and continued: "Reducing killing should start from people's hearts. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf a person is accustomed to seeing slaughter and blood, then his heart will be numb, and if he wants to educate, he should spend several times the effort. And if a person has grown up in a harmonious and friendly environment and has never seen killing at all, then his heart is naturally full of love, and he can be as good as he does without education. This is why the beast is fierce and ruthless, and the animal is friendly and loving. ”

Xiao Yi heard the reason and said: "Different environments create different people. This king is pampered and has never seen killing, so he has a heart of forbearance. ”

Shen Yirou nodded and said, "So, the king's is indeed because he can't bear it in his heart, so he replaced the cow with a sheep." ”

Xiao Yi nodded and said, "That's true." I already knew what it meant.

I only heard Shen Yirou's tone change, and suddenly sighed: "That king's behavior is not understood, and his actions have not been exempted from killing after all, but his original intention is correct, and his benevolence is commendable." If all the people in the world are like this, there is no killing in their hearts, only forbearance, then the world will definitely reduce a lot of unnecessary killing, and the harm of killing to living beings will be minimized. ”

Xiao Yi felt something in his heart, and said with a slight shock: "Keeping people away from killing and keeping their hearts pure is a good way to educate and educate people." ”

At this time, Shen Yiju said: "Therefore, the Confucian ancestors would say that a gentleman is far away from cooking." ”

"A gentleman is far away from cooking?" Xiao Yi said in surprise, "No wonder there is a huge Qingzhou and there is not a single restaurant." ”

Shen Yirou said: "Throughout the ages, outsiders don't know its original meaning, thinking that Confucianism is eating the meat of cattle and sheep while saying that the gentleman is far away from cooking, which is really hypocritical and pretentious, deceiving the world and stealing fame. ”

Xiao Yi shook his head with a wry smile and said, "If I hadn't listened to the allusion that the king exchanged sheep for cattle, I would have thought the same way." ”

Shen Yirou smiled and said, "Brother Xiao is modest. Then he said: "Only when you don't see killing can you always maintain your unbearable heart." Although the Confucians knew that this move was criticized, they had to continue this policy in order to cultivate benevolence. ”

Xiao Yi sighed and said, "There are always many helpless actions in the world. ”

Shen Yirou nodded first, then shook her head and said, "Saying that it is helpless is actually a way and a state of mind. Outsiders ridicule Confucianism only because they have seen too much killing, and invisibly, their hearts have become numb and indifferent. They are not Confucian disciples, and they simply cannot understand the pure kindness of Confucian disciples and their yearning for a better world. Confucianism relies on this method to cultivate and maintain such a mentality. ”

Xiao Yi said: "Zifei fish knows the joy of fish." Outsiders who are not Confucian disciples have never been able to understand the state of mind of Confucian disciples. ”

Shen Yiju said: "For ordinary people, Confucian disciples always live in their own imaginary world. It is also undeniable that in the eyes of Confucian disciples, the world is always beautiful, or in other words, Confucian disciples believe that through their own efforts, the world will eventually become beautiful. ”

These words are extremely tongue-twisting, and they are quite contrary to the natural Taoism, and it is also thanks to Xiao Yi who can understand and understand their meaning.

At this time, Shen Yirou suddenly tilted her head to look at Xiao Yi's side face, and said with deep meaning: "It's not good to blindly live in fantasy. However, it is also not good to see everything too thoroughly and always look at everything rationally. Sometimes, or even worse, it doesn't do you any good. Confucian disciples always have a pure heart and have unlimited expectations for the world, so that they can continue to forge ahead and improve. Although, after countless generations of efforts, the world has not changed much, and the grand wish of 'opening peace for all generations' has not been achieved, but every Confucian disciple has worked hard and struggled. The wonder of his life is by no means comparable to those who know the outcome and do not do it. Yirou also believes that this is the best attitude towards life. ”

When Xiao Yi heard this, he looked up at the night sky and couldn't speak. Only then did he know that Shen Yirou was using the topic to play, which meant that he had a negative mentality and reminded him not to see things too thoroughly.

The Tao is natural, and there is no dispute with the world. In particular, Xiao Yi integrates the Taoism of all families, and his mood is perfectly in line with nature, even though he always adheres to the meaning of 'doing nothing' in the midst of non-action, but the feeling he gives to outsiders is always negative and decadent.

In the same way, people from other families do not know the mysteries of the law, and they always think that Taoists have negative thoughts of escaping the world.

Xiao Yi knew that Shen Yirou had misunderstood, but he didn't want to explain more. What he was thinking at this time was, "Yirou asked me not to see too thoroughly, is it telling me not to track down my parents?"

When he was about to enter the Confucian Gate, Shen Yirou said these words, no wonder Xiao Yi was so careful.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Yi didn't ask more questions after all, but said: "I can't imagine that there is so much truth behind the sentence 'gentleman is far away from cooking', and I have been taught." ”

Shen Yirou saw that Xiao Yi did not pick up, obviously had no intention of turning back, sighed secretly in her heart, and did not speak again.

The two of them had their own thoughts, their hearts were heavy, and no one spoke for a while, and they continued to move forward.

The higher you go, the fewer pedestrians there are. Later, all that remained of the wide road was the clatter of horses' hooves and the sound of wheels crashing against the road.

After walking for nearly an hour, I looked up sharply and saw a huge temple at the end of the road, on the top of Daqiu City.

The top of the temple is made of glass, which is solemn and elegant and shining under the bright moon.

Xiao Yi couldn't help but be surprised: "Where is that?"

I don't know if it's because of my thoughts, or because I'm about to get home, Shen Yirou was so excited that she didn't fall asleep, and immediately replied: "That's the Temple of Confucius." ”

Xiao Yi was puzzled: "The Temple of Confucius?

Shen Yiju: "Exactly." Knowing that he was confused in his heart, he explained: "Daqiu City is different from other places, and the most important place in the center of the city is set up as the Confucian Temple, which is the embodiment of Confucianism's respect for teachers and education. ”

Xiao Yi said suddenly: "That's exactly how it should be." Then he casually asked: "The center of the city is the Temple of Confucius, where does the Lord of Confucius live?"

Shen Yirou said: "There are many idle houses in the Confucian Temple, and whoever serves as the master of Confucius can bring his family to live in the Confucian Temple and take charge of Confucianism on behalf of the Confucian sage." ”

Xiao Yi said casually: "In this way, isn't there a lot of change of people in the Confucian Temple?" In his opinion, if you change the owner of the door once, you have to move once, and it is really a bit of a labor.

Shen Yirou said: "Not necessarily, in the past 10,000 years, the Confucian Temple has only changed four or five times." ”

Xiao Yi was surprised: "In this way, the strength of the seventy-two families of Confucius is very different?"

There are 3,000 sages and 72 sages. Xiao Yi has some understanding of Confucianism, but in his imagination, the descendants of these seventy-two families are not much different, and they all have the possibility of taking charge of Confucius. Who would have thought that in the past 10,000 years, the Confucian Temple has changed its owner four or five times, which shows that there are only four or five of the seventy-two branches of Confucius.

Sure enough, listening to Shen Yiju: "Although there are many branches of Confucius, they can be called the best, and there are only more than ten branches." And among them, cultivation is as high as learning, and it is even rarer. (To be continued.) )