Chapter 95 Meet the Master of Wisdom

Now our question is: Whether Confucius or Mencius, Socrates or Plato, or Wang Yangming, they all believe that there is something that you haven’t seen yet, and it’s very important to us, so what is it? What is it? The first person to describe this thing was Lao Tzu Li Er. He said in the book, this thing, this thing, is a child without a mother. It’s a long story: There's something mixed, (There's something in one,) Congenitally born. (It was born before heaven and earth.) Lonely! (Soundless and invisible!) Independence does not change, (it never depends on external forces,) Going around without dying, (running in a continuous cycle.)

Can be the mother of heaven and earth. (It can be regarded as the foundation of all things in the world.) I don't know its name, (I don't know its name,) The strong character is called Tao, (call it Tao) Strong is called great. (Reluctantly give it another name called Da.) The great day passed away, (the great became passed away,) The past is far away, (the past becomes far away,) Yuan said anti. (Liaoyuan turned back and restored.) Therefore, the Tao is great, (so it is said to be great,) The sky is big, (The sky is big,) Earth is big, (Earth is big,) People are also big. (People are also big.)

There are four major in the domain, (there are four major in the universe,) And people live in one of them. (And human beings are one.) The law of man and the land, (man takes the land as the law,) The earth follows the sky, (the earth follows the sky as its law,) The law of heaven. (Heaven takes Tao as its law.) Comparing this strange thing with no beginning, no end, and no brain mentioned by Lao Tzu with Plato's cave theory, we will "click" in our hearts: Wow, what Plato saw when he walked out of the cave is exactly this. , He saw it, and many people saw it, but no one could explain it clearly.

Are they not wise men?How come the wise still can't tell? In fact, it's not that they can't speak clearly, but we can't understand.You cannot describe the difference of colors to a blind person.Because for the blind, there is no color at all in the world.You can't describe the difference between various rhythms and rhymes to a deaf person, because for the deaf, rhythm and rhyme also don't exist. Even from the perspective of modern science, we know that human cognition has limitations.What we see with our eyes is only a very narrow range on the spectrum.Our ears can neither hear ultrasonic waves nor infrasound waves. Since you cannot describe colors to a born blind person, nor can you describe sound to a born deaf person, this determines that the lucky one who left the cave has been unable to Then communicate with us.Because the language system created by us humans is like the vision of the blind, just like the hearing of the deaf, it cannot rationally describe things that cannot be perceived.

As for Wang Yangming, he went to heaven and earth, made up fairy tales, married a bunch of wives, was spanked with a cane, and lived with cannibals. He finally walked out of the cave, and finally met Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Socrates, Plato and other wise masters at the pinnacle of wisdom. A person who has made a breakthrough in the field of thought and has a glimpse of ultimate wisdom is like a person who has climbed to the height of the mast. He does not need to shout that he is on the height, everyone knows that he is on the height.Enlightened ones don’t need to speak, everyone knows that he has reached a level of wisdom beyond his own. Therefore, enlightened ones look at things from the perspective of ultimate wisdom. We can understand what he says, just as we It's like being able to understand who wins and loses in a chess game.However, you know who won, but you can't repeat his chess moves. In a word, before you reach the other side of wisdom, your understanding of wisdom always stays in the blind's understanding of color, and the deaf's understanding of rhythm status.

The last question, what is the relationship between ultimate wisdom and benevolence, righteousness, morality, virtue, compassion, kindness, and conscience?