Chapter 123: The Secret of Escape

Now, in addition to the things to be purchased, all the things that are available at hand are all allocated to the corresponding stewards and workshops.

At present, only the things of the Spirit Ranch Small World Branch and the Spirit Wine Workshop Small World Branch are missing, and the other departments are all in order.

He also gave a timetable, and the person in charge was very happy.

At the end of the dinner, he said goodbye to everyone and asked them to arrange for them to clean up and clear the field, and he and his two wives returned to the tower first.

In order to seize the time to cultivate, seek defeat and linger too much with the two, send them into their respective rooms, close the door, and start studying the "Easy Formula" recommended by Li San.

In addition to the Preface ("Autumn Water"), "Xiaoyao Jue" is divided into five chapters: "Leisurely Travel", "Theory of Things", "Health Master", "Dechong Fu", and "Great Grandmaster", with a set of cultivation formulas and exercises.

"Easy Formula", originally written by Zhuang Zhou, an ancient cultivator, and later generations sorted it out, is the essence of "Zhuangzi". It is rumored that Zhuang Zhou once lived in seclusion in Nanhua Mountain, and the imperial court edicted Zhuang Zhou as a real person in Nanhua, calling his book "Zhuangzi" as "Nanhua Zhenjing", which is unprecedented, ancient and modern.

Zhuang Zhou, the word Xiu, is a Mongolian from the ancient Song Kingdom, and the ancestor is Song Daigong, the monarch of the Song Kingdom. He was a famous teacher, writer and monk before the end of the Xiuzhen era, and founded an important philosophical school Zhuangxue, known as "Zhuangzi" in the world, and was one of the main representatives of the Taoist school after Laozi.

Because Zhuang Zhou advocated freedom, although he did not establish his own sect, he communicated, lectured and taught everywhere. Zhuangzi had an insight into Yi Li and profoundly pointed out that "Yi is the Tao of Yin and Yang", and that Zhuangzi's thought of "Three Lai" is in line with the Tao of the Three Talents of the Book of Changes. His representative work is "Zhuangzi", among which the famous works include "Wandering Away" and "The Theory of Things". It is the same name as Lao Tzu and is known as Lao Zhuang.

Zhuangzi's words seem to be boastful and boundless, but they all have a foundation and are more important than historical data. It is known as "the nine streams of clamps, including 100 clans".

Zhuangzi was the first to put forward the proposition of the unity of heaven and man.

"Zhuangzi" and four other classics have become several source classics of the Tang Kingdom, which are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient sages after cultivating themselves and virtue, realizing the Tao and enlightening the Tao, and the unity of heaven and man.

"Zhuangzi, Zhuang Zhou, Xiao Zhuang, Xiao Zhou, Zhuang Zhuang, how do you feel that this person is a little familiar, as if I have seen this person somewhere. But when and where, I don't know. However, the name "Easy Formula" is good, and I think it's a good point. ”

Stroking the cover of "Xiaoyao Jue" and the name of "Zhuangzi", Qiu Shi seems to remember something.

"Autumn Water" is the preface to the "Joyful Formula", which mainly discusses how a cultivator should understand external objects and the greatness of heaven and earth, as an introductory guide for cultivators.

The whole article is written by writing the conversation between the sea god of the North Sea and the river god, and the questions and answers are completed in one go, constituting the main body of this article. This long dialogue can be divided into seven segments depending on what is asked and answered. The third fragment further illustrates that it is not easy to understand things, and often "words" cannot be "discussed", and "meaning" cannot be "observed". The fifth piece, "Fugu will be self-transformed", points out that people will not do anything when they perceive external objects, and can only wait for their "self-transformation" from the viewpoint that "all things are together" and "the Tao has no end". The sixth piece, "Contrary to the Essentials and Extremes", points out that if we understand the "Tao", we can understand the principles of affairs and understand the laws of change of things through the conversation on why we should value the "Tao". The seventh fragment, "is the opposite of the truth", that is, the last part of the conversation between the river god and the sea god, puts forward the idea of returning to the original, that is, not destroying nature by man, and takes the idea of "self-transformation" one step further.

In "Autumn Water", the river god asks, "What is natural, and what is man-made?" The sea god replied: "Oxen and horses are born with four legs, which is called natural; Therefore, don't use artificial actions to destroy nature, don't use intentional actions to destroy nature's nature, and don't spare no effort to gain fame. Carefully holding on to the natural nature without losing it is called returning to the original. ”

"Well, that's right! It seems that this Zhuang Zhou is indeed a little interesting, "Qiushui" emphasizes the complexity of understanding things, that is, the relativity of things themselves and the variability of cognitive processes, and points out the difficulty of cognition and accurate judgment. However, overemphasizing the uncertain factors of change in things, and failing to reveal the dialectical relationship between relative and absolute in the cognitive process, it is easy to lead to agnosticism, so in the end, we can only follow the principle of self-transformation and return to inaction. Although the point of view is somewhat negative, it should be done in the realm. ”

After reading the "Preface" ("Autumn Water"), I commented on it briefly and continued to read.

The full text of "Getaway" can be divided into three parts, the first part to "the saint is nameless", emphasizing that in order to truly achieve the state of freedom, one must have "no self", "no merit", and "no name".

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is, and it turns into a bird, and its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is, and it flies angrily, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the sea will migrate to the south. The Southern Hades, the Heavenly Pond also. Those who are harmonious are also strangers. Harmonious words said: 'Pengzhi migrated to the south of the underworld, the water hit three thousand miles, and the one who swayed up was ninety thousand miles), and those who went to rest in June also. 'Wild horses, dust, and creatures blow each other. The firmament of the sky, its righteous color and evil, its far away and unreachable extreme evil, its eyes are also, if it is, it is already gone. And the accumulation of water is not thick, so it is not able to carry the boat. Cover the cup of water on the top of the hall, then the mustard is the boat; the cup is glued, the water is shallow and the boat is big. The accumulation of the wind is not thick, and its negative wings are also weak, so the wind is under the wind for 90,000 miles. Then it is the current Peifeng, the one who bears the blue sky and Mo is dying, and then it is the current Tunan. Shu and Xueyu laughed and said: 'I am determined to fly, grab the elm fang, the time will not come, but control the ground; Xi to 90,000 miles and the south?" How do you know about the second insect? Small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge, and small years are not as good as big years. The morning fungus does not know the obscurity, the cockroach does not know the spring and autumn, and this small year is also. In the south of Chu, there are spirits, who are 500 years old for spring and 500 years old for autumn, and in ancient times, there are people with big chun, who are 8,000 years old for spring and 8,000 years old for autumn. And Peng Zu has heard of it for a long time, and everyone is like it, isn't it also sad?"

"Tang Zhizhi has also asked: 'There is a Stygian Sea in the north of the poor, and Tianchi is also. There is a fish, which is thousands of miles wide, and there is no one who knows its cultivators, and its name is Kun. There is a bird, its name is Peng, the back is like a mountain, the wings are like the clouds hanging from the sky; I jumped up, but a few people flew down, soaring between the basils, and this also flew to the top. And he is also Xi Shi?' This small and big argument is also. ”

"Fu Liezi walked against the wind, and he was good, and there were five days in ten and then he reversed. He is not counted among those who are blessed. Although this is not to be done, there is still something to be treated. If the husband takes advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the argument of the six qis, and swims infinitely, he is evil? Therefore, it is said: The supreme man has no self, the god has no merit, and the saint has no name. ”

"The kun mentioned above, turning a bird into a peng, is really a bit of fun. It seems that people want to cultivate the truth and seek immortals, and more importantly, cultivate the mind and cultivate the realm. As the saying goes, if there is no desire, there is steel. The vision determines the realm, and the mentality determines the way out. On the road of growth, the biggest opponent may be yourself, defeat yourself, rewrite yourself, there is the possibility of further growth, the more you care about yourself, the more difficult it is to see your own shortcomings and shortcomings, so you are confined to the ego, it is difficult to achieve great success. ”

Seeking defeat while watching, while thinking.

The second part to "lose the world", followed by the previous part to further elaborate, explaining that "selflessness" is the only way to get rid of all kinds of shackles and dependence, as long as you really forget yourself, forget everything, you can reach the realm of leisure, and only "selfless" people are the people with the highest spiritual realm.

The third part discusses what is truly useful and useless, explaining that we should not be stuck in things, but should treat uselessness as useful, and further express the purpose of opposing snobbery and devoting ourselves to cultivating the truth, aiming to be free from any constraints, and pursuing the purpose of cultivating the truth freely.

Zhuang Zhou restated the idea of having nothing to rely on, and pursued the absolute freedom of the spiritual world. He felt that everything in objective reality, including the cultivators themselves, was opposed and interdependent, so there was no absolute freedom, and if you wanted to have nothing to rely on, you had to have no self. Therefore, he proposes that everything should conform to nature and transcend reality, and that the life of cultivating truth is mixed with the survival of all things, and that he advocates the pursuit of unconditional spiritual freedom without being stuck in things. ”

The heart of defeat couldn't help but conclude.