Chapter 9 talk about lessons

They hate dirt so they love cleanliness, so people who are obsessed with cleanliness would rather not take a bath than borrow other people's bathing utensils.The distinction between uncleanness and cleanliness turns out to be the distinction between others and oneself.People who think they are clean always think that others are dirty, and even feel that they are dirty, which makes them feel better than clean others. They are often sweaty and smelly, and they refuse to borrow toothbrushes and towels that others have used.Of course, unless you are willing to sell your lover, you will never be willing to disclose it to your friends with a towel and toothbrush.In this way, we do not love cleanliness, but self-love. The idiom "keep oneself clean" contains a profound psychological observation.To be honest, the differences between right and wrong, good and evil, evil and righteous in the world are sometimes just the differences between people and me, just like the filth and cleanliness of the body.Therefore, if you want to pretend to be a good person, you must first call everyone in the world bad.Speaking of this, we can't help but think of the female ghost's answer to the vixen in "Liao Zhai": "You say I am not a human, so are you a human?"

I often wonder why there are so many people in the world who volunteer to be the voluntary mentors of mankind, publish articles every day, and teach mankind a lesson. "That animal called man" can't be completely wiped out, and there are some who can sacrifice themselves and forget themselves.I am even more surprised that there are so many people teaching mankind, why mankind has not improved.Of course, this seems to say that there are so many licensed doctors in the world who are benevolent and benevolent, so why do human beings still have diseases.However, although a doctor treats a disease, he also hopes that the person will get sick: he prepares a bitter potion, and asks for a high price; saving someone's life is saving his own life, and he cannot eat unless a patient takes the medicine.Therefore, it is not surprising that there are mentors but human nature does not improve; it is very intriguing that human nature cannot be improved but there are still people who are responsible for teaching.Anyway, people cannot be taught to repent.Lecture-like articles are not practical for the people of the world. Although they are not practical, they meet the needs. It is like when we are sick, we have to delay the doctor and take medicine, although the disease may not be cured.If human beings really learn well and don't need to learn lessons, wouldn't it be a waste of time for many people?So from the responsibility of life to the attitude of critics, I wrote one after another in the style of open-air preaching. Anyway, although the articles are worthless, the paper and ink do not cost money.

Middle age seems to be closely related to Taoist teachings.We can also see this interesting fact by observing the writers alone.There are many literati who suddenly take up the burden of saving the world when they reach their forties, and they all curse and correct everything in front of them.Arnold, Ruskin, William Morris, and the surviving TSEliot, JMMurry, etc. are examples of modern Britain that everyone knows.Even the beautiful Oscar Wilde, on the verge of death, showed kindness and talked about socialism.If we still want to find examples, we can see them among our friends.The purpose of this respectable transformation is of course very pure, to save the world and educate mankind, but the pure purpose may have complicated motives.The cry of righteousness is sometimes a cover for the decline of literary creativity, sometimes it is anger at the despair of life, sometimes it is a temptation to change careers, and sometimes it is the jealousy of middle-aged people when they see others as teenagers.For example, a middle-aged woman loses her beauty, does not wear good makeup, naturally reduces communication, and is willing to be a decent housewife, and thinks that young women's clothes are monsters, and they look down on them.Ruo Nan (Jules Janin) said that Balzac was Columbus who discovered the forty-year-old woman.Men in their forties seem to be yet to be discovered.Saints like Confucius don’t know much about the characteristics of middle-aged people; therefore, "The Analects of Confucius Ji Shizhang" records the three precepts in life, only saying that young people are lustful, middle-aged people are prone to fighting, and old people are fond of profit, forgetting to mention the good lessons of middle age.Of course, some people like to preach and preach since they were young. This just means that they are born middle-aged, and they should celebrate ninety or one hundred years old when they live to sixty.

There is a kind of human financial management that is only about borrowing and not paying back, so there is a kind of human morality that is just teaching others, not that you have any morality.It is said in ancient books that "the one who can endure all the words" is a "good person".A truly good person gives but does not receive. He is only allowed to teach others, but never to be taught by others. This is the so-called "spirit of self-sacrifice". The change from an artistic view of life to a Taoist view of life can be said to be the emergence of a new era of life.But the beginning of each period is at the same time the downfall of another.For example, in the eyes of professional people, breakfast is the beginning of the day, and they can work when they are full; but in the eyes of the leisure class who play cards and dance all night, breakfast is only the end of last night, and they can sleep when they are full.The birth of moral lessons may be the death of literary creation.Here I have no intention of appraising or criticizing, because the value of lessons and creations depends entirely on the person.Some people’s literary creation is simply preaching with a mask on, so it’s better to just talk about Taoism; on the other hand, someone’s Taoism, which can make something out of nothing and pass off the false as the truth, can be counted as creation like poetry, novels, rumors, and lies.

Simple-minded people may say that it is hypocrisy to teach others that they have no morals.Our answer is: what is wrong with false Taoism?False Taoism is more valuable than true Taoism.If you have morality and teach others, then it is no wonder; if you can teach others with morality without morality, then you can see your ability.If you are educated, you can teach, but you may be educated; if you are uneducated, but you can teach, it is like a business without capital, and that is art.Taoist scholars who come to promote morality are just like shopkeepers who advertise their own inventory. They can’t help but advertise themselves;On a further level, if a truly virtuous person advocates morality, he will slowly lose his original morality.La Rochefoucauld's "Maximes Supprimees" (Maximes Supprimees) 589 said: "Moralists, like Snque, have not taught the teachings to reduce the evil of mankind. ;It just increases your pride by teaching others. "You feel that others are not good and need your lessons, and you can't help putting on airs. At first you said that others lacked ideals, but gradually you felt that you were an ideal person, compulsive Others come to learn from you.If you are proud of your talents and learning, you will not lose your talents and learning because of your pride. If you are proud of your poverty, you will not become rich because of your pride. However, morality and pride cannot stand side by side.Most of the great crimes and cruelties in the world—there is no greater crime than cruelty—are mostly committed by people with genuine moral ideals.When an immoral person commits a crime, he knows it is a sin; if a truly moral person harms someone, he still feels that it is the price due to morality.God wants to punish human beings, sometimes there will be a famine, sometimes there will be a plague or war, sometimes a moralist will be born, with ideals that are too noble for ordinary people to realize, accompanied by self-confidence and incitement that are proportional to his ideals, fusion Involuntary pride.Christian philosophy counts pride as one of the seven deadly sins.Volume 3 of Wang Yangming also said: "The serious illness of life is just a word of pride. If you have me, you are proud, and you are the chief of all evils." According to this, true Taoism can be regarded as the initial stage of evil.Conversely speaking, when false Taoism is used to promote morality, it often turns falsehood into reality, and habits are transformed into nature, which really improves a little bit of morality.Flirting can turn into love, imitation and introduction create, arty will develop connoisseurship, and many real things in the world start from fakes.Therefore, false Taoism can be said to be the learning period of true Taoism.However, whether it is false or true, good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds.Students of the true way may go to heaven after death, and students of the false way go to lecture halls before death.What a relief!

Therefore, those who are not worthy of teaching others should teach others; the more false theories are, the more they should attack the false teachings.The characteristic of hypocrisy can be said to be shameless and partial to face.According to what Prince Hamlet scolded his fiancée in Shakespeare's play, when a woman dresses up, she also cares about face and is shameless (God has given thou one face, but you make yourself another).Hypocrisy is the art of beauty. As I write this, I have a sudden whim.Isn't this article just a lesson?Could it be that I am also middle-aged and halfway through my life!Black and white words on white paper cannot be taken back, so let’s end this nonsense.