Chapter 5 Chapter Three Theory of Thought

I have said before: The ideological aspects of Zhuan Zhu Louzhu's novels are mixed and impure.Generally speaking, it can be summarized as follows: In terms of morality, it is more Confucian.The first character who appeared in the first chapter of the first episode sighed with emotion: The old man met his "comrade" man in white, and said: "After leaving the capital, who wants to meet again here, the characters are still the same, the mountains and rivers are completely different, how can it not be heartbreaking?" A novel of gods and monsters with a vast sea and sky, but the first chapter is loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Even if it is expanded to racial issues, it still does not escape the Confucian ethics.The four virtues of filial piety, loyalty and trust, are embraced very tightly in the novel of Huanzhulouzhu.

In terms of self-cultivation, take Buddhism (Buddhism thought came from a foreign land, but China has almost become its second hometown) as the ultimate point.The highest achievement of a person in the book is not to be a virtuous and good general under the emperor's command, but to be a disciple of a Bodhisattva.Those who write Dharma treasures with the greatest power are all derived from Buddhism, and the general name is called the Supreme Treasure of Buddhism.Compassion is the foundation of fighting. Even when the decent swordsmen punish the cult figures, they also take the precept of "killing them all" to leave a chance for people to repent.People who hate evil like hatred and are ruthless and merciless are charged with the crime of "killing too much evil", so that they will go through many catastrophes to show that karma is not good.

In terms of life, I tried my best to exaggerate the fun of Taoism.In the book, there are several senior swordsmen with boundless magic power, all of whom appear in the posture of playing in the world, neither like the persistence of Confucianism nor the asceticism of Buddhism, and become the middle figures of Confucianism and Buddhism. There is also a common point of contradiction, Confucius, Shi Ying, and Li Er, none of them taught people to be extravagant and extravagant, but in the novel of Huanzhu Loulou, it is enough to demonstrate, such as "Emei Immortal Mansion", which is also colorfully arranged. It is unparalleled in beauty, ten thousand times better than the palace on earth.Although the smell of wine and meat has been washed away, the richness and nobility are still hard to hide.He arranged a "born" environment, and at the same time accommodated "worldly" luxury in this environment.

In a nutshell, the behaviors of the novel characters created by Huanzhuzhuzhuzhu can be described as follows: originally they were like Li Er and Zhuang Zhou, but they gave birth to the eyes of Sakyamuni, but they were for Confucius, Zhuang Zhou, and Zhuang Zhou. Meng Ke went to work in the world.So Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are mixed together. The theories of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all based on idealism. "The king wants his ministers to die, so he has to die"; "The heart is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the heart"; "The sage never dies, but the thieves will never stop" are all words with special effects, and there is no trace of advancing and retreating with material things. The landlord's novels combine the theories of the three schools, and the creation of his ghost stories naturally cannot escape the category of idealism.The seventeenth episode of the seventeenth chapter describes the gold-bearded slave who escaped from the catastrophe and changed his form in the Ziyun Palace under the sea, which can represent that his works are strongly colored by spiritualism.An excerpt follows:

The above paragraph is about Jin Xunu and Erfeng facing each other in the same room, unable to control their emotions, in order to pay tribute to the ape-hearted horse and ruin the "Dao Foundation".In terms of writing, "magic" enters from the outside.The eighth episode five chapters writes that magic is born from within, and the color of spiritualism is more obvious: Spiritualism is a metaphysical theory, and everything is elusive when it comes to metaphysics.If you say there is no such thing, it seems that there is such a thing; if you say that there is such a thing, it seems like there is nothing, and there is no evidence.From this progress, it becomes nothingness.The so-called "being" is the end of nothing; "nothing" is the beginning of being.The third chapter of the forty-sixth episode is about Li Yingqiong and Jinan Gong's fight, which turns from idealism to emptiness.Excerpted below:

From idealism to nothingness, it is a step forward in the "Zen theory", and a step back in the actual life of human beings, reaching the spotless state of Buddhism.The ninth chapter of the sixteenth episode writes that Li Ning and his daughter Yingqiong talk about "Tao", explaining that using silence to stop and ignoring the truth, said: "My little yin and sandalwood magic method is a secret transmission of Buddhism,... On the fifth day of the first month, you will be able to complete your studies....But the Buddhist school uses tranquility as a brake, and practice is only for the purpose of cultivating the Tao and protecting the Dharma. It is not the superior vehicle; Yu Kongming, there is no need for anything, how can there be any appearance of an enemy?"