Since then, Xiao Yi has officially settled in Chongzhen. In addition to helping the fat chef clean up the kitchen during the day, he spent the rest of his time learning Taoism in the house. During this period, the Changqing Taoist came back once, did not say much, explained a few words to comprehend the essence of the Taoist treasure, and then went down the mountain again.

In one month, I finished reading the "Qingjing Sutra", and in another month, after reading the "Tao Te Ching", I began to practice the "Nanhua Sutra". On this day, when I first saw that "if the husband takes advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the distinction of the six qis, and the infinite swimming, he will be evil, so he said: 'To man without self, God and man without merit, and saint without name'", I didn't realize that the day was already in the middle of the day, and I hurriedly packed up my books and ran to the kitchen.

After lunch, when cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Xiao Yi thought about the situation in the book, and unconsciously wandered out of the world and realized the power of man and god. Just when I was happy, I suddenly heard a crisp sound of "clang", and a bowl was broken. Xiao Yiden was ashamed and ashamed, hurriedly cleaned up the broken bowls, and waited for the fat chef to scold. Usually, fat chefs always like to preach, and they always speak straightforwardly, but today they are strange and don't make a sound for a long time.

When everything was cleaned up, the fat chef's fat ass sat down on the table and said, "Boy, you have read a few stinky books, so it's a waste of time to work for me, right?"

Xiao Yi said in his heart: "What should come is always coming." But he hurriedly said: "The kid was distracted for a while, please forgive the fat master." ”

The fat chef waved his hand and said, "Don't come to your set." Fatty, I'll teach you what the Tao is today. Xiao Yi hurriedly said: "Please ask the fat master to advise." The fat chef said: "The Tao that Boyang Ancestor said is to follow nature and conform to the way of heaven. It is a natural realization, a way that is truly adapted to the world. Later, people admired Taoism, which was originally a good thing, but they over-beautified the Tao, and became an ideal state, which was depicted beautifully, but the practice of Taoism led people astray. ”

Seeing that Xiao Yi was confused when he heard it, he said, "You tell me how the ancestor said 'Taishang'." Xiao Yi recited: "Taishang, I don't know what I have, secondly, I praise it, secondly, I am afraid of it, and secondly, I insult it." Faith is not enough, there is unbelief. Leisurely, its noble words. When the work is done, the people all say 'I am natural'. The fat chef said: "This is Taishang, and the books you read are, at best, the level of 'pro-praise'." Generations of seekers have regarded the Tao as the supreme thing, and they have not been able to truly enter the Tao for the rest of their lives. In fact, the Word is all around us, in our life of rising and resting, in the trivial things of eating, drinking, and Lazar. If you are obsessed with seeking the Tao, you will be deceived by the desire to seek the Tao, and you will fall into the trap and you will never be able to attain the Tao. ”

The fat chef saw that Xiao Yi couldn't digest it for a while, so he paused before saying: "The chick has the way of the chick, and the owl has the way of the bird." The people have the way of the people, and the dignitaries have the way of the dignitaries. You read the Tao Sutra, learn the Tao Law, it is the Tao, and I cook and wash the dishes is also the Tao. ”

Xiao Yi couldn't understand these words, the fat chef grabbed a bowl casually, put it on the table, and took the pot to fill it with water, and the water did not stop until it overflowed on the table. At this time, the water stains on the table flowed everywhere, and the water in the bowl was already higher than the bowl surface, shaking, and it could fall at any time, but it always did not fall. He pointed to the bowl and said, "This world is like this bowl, we are the water in the bowl, and a person is a drop of water." The Tao actually exists in every inch of space in the bowl, but the world thinks that the higher you go, the more you can attain the Tao, so they step on the shoulders of others and climb up. It can also be said that it is stepping on the shoulders of predecessors. They try to climb high, but what is the end result?" he said, pointing to the water on the table, "and they spilled the bowl, only to fall on the table, and in the end it was nothing more than nothing. ”

This time the fat chef spoke more popularly, Xiao Yi understood it, but asked suspiciously: "The fat master said that the bowl is the world, what is outside the bowl?" The fat chef was stunned for a moment, and said: "This, I don't understand this for you now, and it will not be too late to tell you when the time comes." After a pause, he said, "You bastard, I bothered to preach with you, but you care about other messy things." Why don't you ask what to ask for in this bowl?"

Xiao Yi hurriedly said: "Ask the fat master, how should I ask for the way in this bowl?" The fat chef nodded approvingly, and then said: "This drop of water, gathered together, is a drop of water, but it is only a millimeter." But it spreads out endlessly, and spreads throughout the bowl. For us seekers, this is called realization. The Tao is everywhere and all the time, depending on how much you can understand. Pointing to the circle of water that was higher than the bowl noodles, he said: "Look at these waters, the reason why they can hold on is because they are no longer a drop of water, but scattered throughout the bowl. For water droplets, the bowl is the door of Xuanqi, the root of heaven and earth. Without the bowl, there is nothing. To be able to not leave the bowl and to be able to understand the Tao beyond the bowl is the true Tao. ”

Xiao Yi concentrated on following the rhythm of the fat chef, trying to conceive the "way in the bowl" in his mind, but no matter how much he thought about it, he could not fully understand it. Of course, the fat chef saw Xiao Yi's confusion, and said with a smile: "I have understood this kitchen for hundreds of years, and I haven't understood it thoroughly, how can you understand it if you think about it." Xiao Yi was surprised, "How many hundred years?" The fat chef ignored him and continued: "The Tao cannot rely on thinking, but on understanding, the deeper you think, the farther away from the Tao." After that, he yawned, stretched his waist, and said, "I haven't said so much for a long time, I'm sleepy, take a nap." He staggered out the door.

Xiao Yi looked at the fat chef's back, and couldn't help but be puzzled again, and said in his heart: "How can a cultivator still take a nap?" I heard that the long-lived people in the Chongzhen Sect are only two or three hundred years old, but the fat master said that he has been in the kitchen for hundreds of years, and he is afraid that he is fooling me, right? Besides, which Taoist is willing to stay in the kitchen, the fat master is afraid that he will not be able to seek the Tao, so he will come up with these crooked theories. Although I was suspicious in my heart, I thought that the fat chef's words were not admissible, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that there was some truth in his words, and I couldn't decide the meaning for a while, and I would be suspicious.

The fat chef's words are very different from what the Taoist scriptures teach, that is, Xiao Yigang didn't learn the Tao enough, and he didn't go deep enough to think about the truth in his words, but he changed to other Taoists, the light one said that he was a fallacy, and the heavy one was a fallacy to confuse the public, and his crime was big.

At this time, Xiao Yi's mind was full of fat chef's words. In a trance, I didn't know how to return to my residence, picked up the "Tao Te Ching" and re-read it.

originally thought that he had a thorough understanding of the Tao Te Ching, but this time, it seemed that he realized that what he understood was only scratching the surface. And the "Tao Te Ching" was confirmed with the words of the fat chef, and it was found that the words of the fat chef were very reasonable. Suddenly, the fat chef's status in Xiao Yi's heart was invisibly much taller.

In the next few days, when Xiao Yi met the fat chef, he sincerely felt a sense of respect. Every time I help him wash the dishes, there is no trace of resistance, and I devote myself to it, and suddenly I find that washing dishes is actually a pleasant thing, and my hands and feet are much lighter, and I don't feel a trace of tiredness. Xiao Yi took the opportunity to ask the fat chef, and the fat chef said, "This proves that you have begun to enter the Tao." This change is not so much the result of a change in your mood as it is the realization of the Tao. After a pause, he asked, "Have you re-read the Tao Te Ching these days?" Xiao Yi nodded yes. The fat chef said: "The teachings of the ancestor of Boyang are broad and profound, even if you have a lifetime of enlightenment, you can't be exhaustive. But you can't just be limited to the Tao Te Ching, only by reading a wide range of books can you go into simple terms. Xiao Yi was puzzled: "Didn't the master say that the other scriptures have distorted the original meaning of the ancestor? Why do you still have to study?" The fat chef said: "Everything in the world is relative, there is no right, then there is a mistake? If you don't read other books, how do you know that the ancestor is correct? Every book has a certain truth, big or small, just to see if you can peel off the cocoon and dig out the real truth." Seeing Xiao Yi's gradually unfolding face and gradually kind eyes, he smiled and said, "The son can be taught." ”