Chapter 71 Chapter 71 The Artistic Conception of "Empty"

Kong is composed of a "cavity" and a "gong", which means, in your own lair, work hard. Only those who work hard know what emptiness is.Only those whose minds are filled with their own interests will know what the meaning of empty artistic conception is.Only when your mind is full can you experience the wonderful realm of emptiness. Tang Taizong Li Shimin once entertained court officials at Xuanwu Gate.During the banquet, Li Shimin was so excited that he picked up a pen and wrote a picture.This calligraphy was written in the Feibai style that Li Shimin is best at. After writing it, Li Shimin asked the officials: "Which one of you wants this calligraphy?" Give me, give me..." Everyone quarreled, yelling, and rushed over across the table, trying to grab the handwriting.At this time, there was a sound of whoosh, and a black shadow jumped over the heads of the officials and landed directly beside Li Shimin. It turned out to be the servant Liu Shun.But seeing him step on the table with one foot and the armrest of Li Shimin's chair with the other, condescendingly, with a loud shout, he snatched the words from Li Shimin's hand face to face.

The ministers were stunned for a while, and they clamored angrily at the same time. They all said that the servant Liu Shun did not take the emperor seriously. This is a typical bully and should be severely punished.But Li Shimin laughed, and said: "It's quite elegant for Chang Shi to sit on the bed (the chair in the Tang Dynasty, called the bed) and win the word. Don't spoil the scenery, everyone, drinking and drinking." Why didn't Li Shimin investigate Liu Shun's crime of torturing the emperor? Firstly, Liu Shun's desperate behavior in order to get Li Shimin's name made Li Shimin greatly benefited and felt that he was great.For his own few characters, he even risked his life. This is an affirmation of his calligraphy art.How can such a person who affirms his own artistic achievements be punished?

Secondly, since Li Shimin was able to become a peerless emperor, it was because he had an insight into human nature and knew that when Liu Shun did this, he only had one thought in his mind, which was to grab this painting. , how could he care about this at this juncture? This state is called emptiness.This is obviously full. This person’s mind is filled with a thought. How can it be called empty? The human skull is not a simple container.When we call a container empty, we mean that inside the container there is nothing but the bare, slippery inner walls of the container.However, although the human brain has an inner wall and an outer wall, the human mind has no container to hold it.

Usually people have the illusion that the skull is a container for the brain.To say that a person's mind is empty means that the thoughts in this person's head are empty.But this statement is wrong and lacks logical basis. Although the skull is hard and rough, with holes such as mouths and noses on it, human thoughts are not contained by the skull.Think about it, when we sit in a room, the thinking in our brains can imagine beyond the universe hundreds of billions of light-years away. How can such a huge universe be able to fit in such a small brain? ? Think about it again, if a person has no concept of the universe and lacks the most basic modern scientific knowledge, then no matter how hard his brain thinks, he will not be able to imagine the panorama of the universe.The reason why people's thinking can traverse the world is because there is a set of scientific knowledge system at work in advance.

In other words, the container of thinking is not the brain, but another kind of cognition of the human universe and social nature, which constitutes the thinking container itself. Let’s take Liu Shun, who was on the bed to win the word, as an example. When he only had the idea of ​​winning the word, this thought formed a container, and the idea contained in the idea of ​​winning the word was the thing inside the container. .If Liu Shun intentionally insulted Li Shimin, then his thought of seizing the characters was to insult the emperor.But Li Shimin knew that Liu Shun had no such idea, in fact, Liu Shun had no idea at all. He only had an empty container in his mind, and this container was composed of the idea of ​​grabbing characters, and there was nothing else in his mind. thought.

So at this time, Liu Shun had truly reached a state of emptiness. Here, if we must use the simplest sentence to describe the artistic conception of Kong, then this sentence is: If you want to be empty, you must first have a brain. If you want to be empty, you will become a tool first, and you will not be empty without a tool.People without brains, even if they want to be empty, don't know where to start. When Chen Sichu, the Tai Historian of the Ming Dynasty, was at home, a guest surnamed Lin came and asked Chen Sichu to help him find an official.This guest was not an unknown person, he said that he was the tenth grandson of Lin Hejing, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After hearing this, Chen Sichu hurriedly asked the guests to sit down, then brought a copy of "The Biography of Lin Hejing", and turned to one page, so that the guests could read it clearly for themselves.The guest opened his eyes wide and saw that it was clearly written on that page. The poet Lin Hejing lived in seclusion among the mountains and forests. He took plum blossoms as his wife and cranes as his son. of future generations. Only then did the guest realize that his relatives were not in the right relationship, and at the moment of embarrassment, Chen Sichu became emotional again, and wrote a poem on the spot, presenting it to the guest.The poem says:

He Jing did not marry a wife back then, How do offspring have grandchildren? I think you are an idle flower and grass, It is not a branch of Gushanmei. Shi Cheng, the guest's chance to be an official was ruined so tragically. However, why did Chen Sichu spoil the scenery so much and not give the guests any face?The reason is simple to say, this guest's mind is not empty.To be more specific, in the guest's mind, there is not even a container for thinking, and there is no time to think about it, so seeing such a good opportunity in front of him, he just can't grasp it. It's a pity to think about it.