Chapter 138 Xu Ai's Tragedy

It is obviously unfair to say that Mr. Yangming has done nothing in the past three years, but only reached out to the court to ask for treatment and conditions. In fact, in the past three years, Mr. Yangming has made a new breakthrough in learning. It is wrong to say that he has made a breakthrough. Mr. Yangming has already made a breakthrough. wrong understanding. What is the main misunderstanding? That is, the connection and difference between the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. The master tried to discuss the similarities and differences of the three religions and said: "The immortals talk about emptiness, how can a sage add a little reality to emptiness."Buddhism talks about nothing, how can a sage add a tiny bit of being to nothing.But the immortals say that it comes from health preservation, and the Buddhists say that there is no way to get out of the sea of ​​life and death, but they add these intentions to the body.The emptiness of conscience is the emptiness of heaven; the absence of liangzhi is the formlessness of emptiness.The sun, the moon, the wind and thunder, the mountains and rivers, the people and things, all have images and colors.All of them are popular in the void and invisible, and they are not hindered by heaven.A sage just follows his conscience.Everything in the world belongs to me.

The meaning of this passage is that Mr. Yangming thinks: Taoists say that the world is illusory, and Confucianism will not argue with the old Taoists. If you say illusory, it is illusory.Buddhism says that there is nothing in this world, and Confucianism will not compete with monks. If you say that there is nothing, then there is nothing. Whatever you say.However, the illusion mentioned by Taoism is defined from the perspective of health preservation.The nonexistence mentioned by Buddhism is defined from the perspective of life and death.Confucianism will not oppose the definition of Taoism, nor will it oppose the definition of Buddhism, but Confucianism also has its own definition.When discussing issues, if you talk about Confucianism, you must use the definition of Confucianism to explain it, and you cannot use the definition of Buddhism to raise an argument.If you talk about family, you must use the definition of Taoism, and you cannot use the definition of Confucianism as a bullshit.

In a word, disputes between people are often not because of any conflicts in theory, but because of different definitions used by everyone.Take the illusion of Taoism alone, from the perspective of health preservation, your external body is not the main thing, the most important thing is your rational adjustment of your internal organs. In this sense, your body and the outside The world is just an illusion, not the essence of the problem. If Confucianism or Buddhism came to find trouble with Taoism, and did not define illusory from the perspective of health preservation, then everyone would have something to talk about, and it would not be clear after three thousand years, because what everyone said was not the same thing.

But all right, why did Mr. Yangming become interested in discussing the illusion of Taoism and the non-existence of Buddhism? Just because of the impermanence of life, Mr. Yangming's closest disciple and brother-in-law - Xu Ai died. Xu Ai, this poor good boy, died before Mr. Yangming killed Chi Zhongrong, the head of the gangster.My dearest friend passed away, but Mr. Yangming still endured the grief, turned the grief into strength, and insisted on fighting on the front line of defrauding people. His spirit is really commendable. Speaking of Xu Ailai, he should have a higher reputation and a wider reputation in the world, but because he is fascinated by his uncle's sacred teachings, he has become Mr. Yangming's most devoted fan.It was Xu Ai who engraved the first thing that made Mr. Yangming pass down through the ages.To put it simply, Xu Ai is equivalent to Mr. Yangming's head of propaganda. With him, the world will know Mr. Yangming's holy teachings.However, Xu Ai devoted his whole life to spreading the sacred teachings of his uncle, but the result was that he was obliterated in history.

According to the history books, Xu Ai knew that his life was not long, because he had an extraordinary dream: in the dream, he saw himself traveling in Mount Heng, and met an old monk, who patted his back and said : Your son does the same job as Yan Hui.After a while, the old monk said again: "Your son lived the same age as Yan Hui... Yan Hui, the most proud disciple of the most sage teacher Confucius, spent his whole life propagating the teachings of Confucius, but died at a young age.After his death, Confucius beat his chest and cried loudly, saying: Is it God who wants to destroy my sacred teaching?Is it God who wants to destroy my holy teaching...Xu Ai is by Mr. Yangming's side, and the work and role he does are the same as Yan Hui's.In the end, this formed a strange poisonous curse, and finally Xu Ai followed Yan Hui's mistakes and died young.

In fact, Xu Ai's so-called dream is not a real dream.Dreams that are too rational are generated by one's own complicated desires, not the dream itself.In other words, this dream is actually nothing but Xu Ai's unwillingness to fate—he will serve Mr. Yangming's teachings throughout his life, which means giving up his own existence.He knows that no one will pay attention to him in the future history. For a thinker, this is more terrible than death. However, the implementation of sacred thought in the age of ignorance is such a painful and difficult one.Mr. Yangming plus Xu Ai's wisdom may not be able to play a big role.As we know in fact, what remains in history is Mr. Yangming's name and the complicated labyrinth of the teachings of the mind, the true teachings of the mind, which have been lost again.

So Mr. Yangming and Xu Ai, one of them must make a sacrifice. And this person can only be Xu Ai. This is Xu Ai's tragedy. Wisdom is private, and it must be rebuilt in the brains of the inheritors. This private characteristic constitutes a natural obstacle to the inheritance of wisdom.Therefore, compared with Mr. Yangming, some people chose a lighter route, not choosing wisdom but choosing culture, thus leaving a greater reputation in history than Mr. Yangming. This person who is more famous than Mr. Yangming is Tang Yin, Tang Bohu!