Chapter 144 saints are mortals

Wang Chong pointed out that if a person is allowed to speak through a wall, can the sage know his skin color, height, birthplace, name and family origin?Dead bodies in the ditch, dead bones in the swamp, can the saint know his occupation and the cause of his death?The sage does not know, not because the sage is not smart, but because he "does not ask with his eyes and mouth", leaving direct experience and indirect experience. According to ancient books, Confucius asked Gongming Jia to know why Gongshu Wenzi did not speak, laugh, or take; It was stealing food; Confucius could not avoid the siege of the Kuang people in time; Confucius mistook Yan Yuan for being killed by the Kuang people; Confucius deliberately did not see Yang Hu, but instead met him on the road; Confucius asked Zilu to ask Chang Ju and Jie Ni for the ferry; Confucius did not know His father's tomb was in Fangshan, but his mother's coffin was buried by the roadside; Confucius learned from his disciples that his parents' graves were washed away by heavy rain; The monarch; Confucius did not know the dragon and Laozi; Yu Shun went to dig a well, and made his father and younger brother guilty of murdering him; Duke Zhou learned about the will of heaven through divination of three turtles; Confucius asked Yanzi to know the meaning of the etiquette he practiced in Lu State, Zhou Gong didn't know that his brother Guan Shu would betray him, so he asked him to monitor Wu Geng.

These sixteen cases fully demonstrate that the saints "hear, see and see are no different from others, and what they see and see is no different from others", and "sages cannot foretell", so they cannot be said to be "excellent in gods"!