Chapter 39: What is the Tao?

At this stage, Chu Lan's consciousness cannot be called "divine thought", and the dantian is only a dantian in the physiological and pathological sense, far from reaching the point of the "one" dantian of the Taoist holding Yuan Shouyi, even if it is practiced day and night, it is not a moment and a half to be able to integrate the sea of qi and open up the dantian.

Zong Ying's philosophy has always been "go with the flow", and because of this concept, the ideas he instilled downwards are also Taoist nature, and it is better to follow the fate than to force it.

On this day, Zong Ying, who had not yet begun to preach as a high-grade Jindan, received the decree of the head of the sect and would talk about the Tao of the Xuan Tao for the new outer disciples in Yintai Mountain.

This news spread out like flowing water, and before the time of Zong Ying's preaching, most of the outer disciples of the department spontaneously came to the top of Yintai Mountain, and under the spontaneous organization of their respective partners, they were arranged in a neat and orderly manner, sitting on the ground and waiting for Zong Ying to open.

Chu Lan, as Zong Ying, the Taoist child of Grandmaster Jindan, had the honor to attend his dojo, of course, she had to be responsible for serving tea and pouring water in the gap between Zong Ying's preaching.

However, this benefit was enough for Chu Lan to be secretly happy for a long time.

As a miscellaneous Dao boy who was not even an outer disciple of this intermediate cultivation sect, Chu Lan had now begun to vaguely appreciate the benefits of having an open-minded and strict teacher.

That is, no matter how you sit or lie down, if you want to go further on the path, you must be more in line with the Taoist system, and you must not blindly advance according to your own reality, and all kinds of nuances are really beyond the comprehension of the scattered and wild cultivation that you practice alone.

Just after the hour, Zong Ying, dressed in a pale cyan robe and a bamboo crown, walked slowly from his grass house to a white jade platform in the center of Yintai Mountain, and after sitting down lightly, he didn't speak at first.

The gaze of the cold wind swept the audience, and wherever his gaze went, the crowd immediately sat in silence, and the outer disciples who couldn't calm down would automatically converge their expressions, and everyone couldn't help but be attracted by his bearing, and couldn't help but stretch their necks and wait for him to speak.

"What is the Word, and what is the Word, this is what I want to tell you today. After a while, Zong Ying spoke slowly, and his voice pierced through the top of the mountain in a hundred zhang radius, so that everyone could hear it clearly but not harshly and preached, "Those who are Taoist must not be separated from each other, but they can be separated from the Tao." Therefore, a gentleman is cautious of what he does not see, and fearful of what he does not hear. Don't see it, don't see it. Therefore, the gentleman is cautious and ......"

The opening actually starts with Confucianism......

Chu Lan flipped through her memories and found that she was inexplicably familiar with Zong Ying's words, but it was only due to the memory fragments left by the traveler, she stood relatively close, and she could clearly see the indifferent and distant look in Zong Ying's eyebrows.

"Again, the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are not in the middle, and the middle is the sum. Those who are in the middle are also the great foundation of the world, and those who are harmonious are also the way of the world. To neutralize, heaven is in the ascendancy, and all things are nurtured. In addition, the "Book of Changes" says: One yin and one yang are the way ......"

Zong Ying's voice spread to the audience, and ninety percent of the outer disciples showed a look of confusion on their faces, not understanding what the truth was that he did not talk about the clear meaning of the Dao of his own sect, but talked about the doctrine of the sons of the hundred schools.

"For those who cultivate the truth, the Tao gives birth to all things, and the Tao is in all things and everything, and it is independent of the outside. This concept is not only valued by Taoists and Confucianists, but also used by secular state religions. The Tao is divided into non-constant, constant, pathetic, non-Tao, perceptible, imperceptible, imaginable, unthinkable, attributed, non-attributed, and so on. The word Tao contains countless laws, not an organization, a family - to do enlightenment is to constantly sublimate, to find the source of life, to achieve eternity. ”

Zong Ying paused, Chu Lan on the side immediately offered the tea, and after he took a sip, he took half a step back with the tea bowl in his hand, only to hear Zong Ying say again: "A long time ago, the truth that sounded so simple to us now was unheard of in the ancients. Therefore, my main lecture today is, "Popularizing the Tao is also our path......"