Chapter 2601: Learning from scriptures, lack of true scriptures
Chang'an, the Palace of the General Hussar.
"This is the message sent by the fast horse..." A guard handed over the information in his hand.
Fei Qian took it, opened it, looked up and down, and nodded.
Just having Qiao and getting to the bottom of it is only one aspect of information. Fei Qian also needs other information to supplement it, and this other source of information is Yang Fu from Xining.
This piece of information is just a supplement of details sent from Xining.
The pilgrims did not move quickly and slowly traveled from Longyou to Longxi. Fei Qian was able to send carrier pigeons to contact Xining. He first obtained some relevant information and then asked Yang Fu to continue sending people to the snow area to investigate.
Some questions I learned.
First of all, it is certain that there are people who seek scriptures.
The matter of pretending to be an envoy to defraud is actually not a rare thing in Chinese history.
Most in the Ming Dynasty.
Why was there the most in the Ming Dynasty? Because the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, but there was a carrying number (except for tribute), so naturally there was a large group of people who specialized in this business, and they also deceived the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. What kind of lion poem was written?
He was showing off, but ended up slapping himself in the mouth.
Of course, it is not only found in ancient China, but also in foreign countries. There are Hu Jian's maritime merchants who pretend to be officials to go to the South China Sea, and there are too many Arabs who pretend to be Chinese envoys to go to the Mediterranean to defraud. So don't think that the ancients didn't know how to use it.
Information asymmetry causes trouble...
The pilgrims are indeed from the snowy area.
Yang Fu described the relevant investigation in his letter and said that there were traces to follow. It was not the kind of "foreign envoy" that appeared after a few people thought about it in a tent.
As for the detailed identity of this scripture seeker and his status in the snow area, further detailed verification is needed.
Because people have social attributes, Fei Qian needs this Buddhist scripture learner, but that does not mean that he only needs his identity as a "scripture learner"...
After Fei Qian read the information, he handed it to Pang Tong and motioned for Pang Tong to take a look at it too.
After these two days of adjustment, Pang Tong gradually recovered, and decided to take some time after finishing some things in the spring, preferably before midsummer. After all, midsummer has relatively fewer things, and then
He can quickly take Wuguan Road to Wancheng.
In order to achieve this goal, Pang Tong now needs to lose weight and exercise every day...
The road to Wuguan is not very easy to walk. You can walk on horseback. There are even places where you have to dismount and walk. If you want to ride comfortably in a car, it will definitely not work. So Pang Tong must first lose at least one or two chins, otherwise
I don’t know whether he died of exhaustion first or the horse died of exhaustion first.
However, exercise does not happen overnight, otherwise it will cause muscle ablation, which is really hopeless for a big man.
Right now, we still need to deal with the matter of the Buddhist monks first.
When humans think, God laughs.
Shi Yuan was thinking, Fei Qian was smiling.
The gods of the five directions are also God.
The hussar general is also Party A.
Religion has the inherent ability to corrode thoughts. It is like a double-edged sword. How to use it well is now placed in front of Hussar, and also in front of all the middle and upper class people involved in this Buddhist scripture incident.
In front of officials.
Most officials do not believe in any religion. What is also interesting is that once officials start to believe in religion, a large part of them will not be able to be officials.
Therefore, Fei Qian was unwilling to vigorously promote religion in China.
Especially when leaders and people in power believe in religion, it is often a sign that their regime begins to collapse. Many emperors in history have personally verified this, and once the person in power believes in or is obsessed with religion, it will also
It will also cause middle- and low-level officials to take advantage of opportunities to commit corruption and make money on a large scale...
The virtues of these officials in China are generally considered to be traditional. Those who are not profitable are just thundering without rain, forwarding and forwarding, learning and learning and learning, and that's it. But if there is any benefit, it is just to hear the wind.
Rain, the crime of human trafficking by officials can also be evaded by orders and procedures, while cutting down a tree at the door of the common people can be punished by ruining their entire family.
Therefore, Fei Qian did not mention anything about the so-called real people of the Five Directions Catholic Church. It was only for the sake of overall strategy that he did not scold Qiao Bing and others for such flattering behavior.
Taoism is a tool, and Confucianism is also a tool. If you regard the tool as your own destiny, you are naturally putting the cart before the horse.
"Yellow Turban, Five Dou, Taoist scriptures are good, but those who use them are not good." Fei Qian said slowly, "Bewitching life and death, falsely talking about the kingdom of heaven, in the end, they are just a small group of ambitious people... Now that I think about it, I should take a warning.
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"The so-called fabricated scriptures cannot be used..." Pang Tong nodded silently, and after a moment he said, "This is the "true scripture"...what should I give?"
In Qiao Bing's meeting in Longxi, he said that Fei Qian had already memorized some scriptures, which was actually a lie. He was just trying to deal with Wei Kang.
In fact, Fei Qian still has a headache about this problem.
This is a big and difficult question.
In fact, it is not just the Yellow Turbans and Five Dou. Religions in many feudal dynasties in history have eventually led to the deception of the people. They used methods such as deception, deception, fraud, etc. to absorb money, divide accounts between 30 and 70, bribe officials, and even become localized.
It's a regional thing...
In fact, it's not that the officials can't see clearly these guys who are cheating under the guise of religion, nor is it that the superiors are completely deceived, but sometimes the superiors don't really want the subordinates to think, let alone push away the pressure on the people's wisdom.
Those stones.
If people really start to think about it, there won’t be enough street lights!
Therefore, compared to enlightening the people, the superiors of the feudal dynasty preferred to use religion to paralyze them.
Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism.
Yes, in its later stages, Confucianism also became similar to a religion. Aren’t the various rituals and rules that gods and gods talk about just the same clear rules and precepts as other religions? In the end, Confucianism could not get rid of the troubles of idealism. As Wang Mingyang said,
"The mind is reason", and there are those who advocate that one is born knowing it. Apart from freaks like Fei Qian, who else can know the past, present and future from birth? Isn't it the same as the "Buddha in the heart" of Buddhism?
Are they similar?
In later generations, some people do not like to go around and around, but like to go straight. Whether it is being stabbed or stabbing someone else, it is best to see blood when the knife goes down. Then see the ancient times, or other times when you go around.
If they go around things, they feel very unhappy, irritable, and feel it is a waste of time. However, these people have never considered why they become impatient and anxious. They like simple and direct things and do not like to use their brains? Again
When did it start to become like this? Has it been like this since childhood? When did that little person who was once full of curiosity about the world and liked to ask why was defeated, crushed, and disappeared?
As the old saying goes, which kind of people are the rulers of a feudal dynasty more willing to accept: those with a thief's heart or those with a thief's courage?
To a certain extent, in the feudal dynasty, these people were cultivated who liked to simplify, did not like to think, and had no curiosity about the outside world. However, the overall social trend of thought also gradually deteriorated, making China difficult to move forward and closed to the outside world.
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Therefore, what Fei Qian wants more is to use the enlightenment effect of religion, rather than the other function of religion, the paralysis effect.
Class is inevitable, but as long as class can still flow, then the overall society will still have a certain degree of activity.
With surplus value, classes will inevitably emerge. In times of social turmoil, anyone has the opportunity to break the class gap. However, in a relatively stable stage, it is not possible to cross classes through "simple efforts".
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At most, "simple efforts" can only maintain the original class without falling. To break through the original class and reach a higher level, not only requires "excessive efforts", but also a certain amount of luck. After all,
In this world, if you work hard, you will definitely be rewarded.
There is no reward. The harder you work, the more painful it will be.
So the paralysis of religion...well, or the role of "sexual joy" is reflected. Different eras are just different religions, but their effects are still the same, and the corresponding groups are also
the same.
Fei Qian thought, this is just like Confucianism. There is nothing wrong with Confucianism itself, but it becomes a religion...
After all, in an era when most people do not have access to education, the natural gathering effect of religion can replace part of the intellectual enlightenment. Of course, it is only a small part. Although this small part also includes those who have been distorted by religion.
Knowledge, but for those ancient people whose eyes and ears were blindfolded since birth, it was a little light in the darkness, supporting them to survive.
Therefore, we cannot blindly veto it, nor can we blindly condone it.
To use it well, you must have a system.
If you want to have a system, you need to have Taoist scriptures as a basis.
Fei Qian said slowly, "Although the gods of the five directions are imaginary, these sects... are all real. Since they are real, there should be norms... there should be meanings in the scriptures..."
"This is the current difficulty. Temporary editing is obviously inappropriate. If there are any mistakes in the scriptures, they will have to be added later..." Pang Tong glanced at Fei Qian, "Can it be used... Well, what I mean is
, first replace one or two with other scriptures... But in this way, I always feel that... something seems inappropriate, but I can't figure out what is wrong..."
"Replacement?" Fei Qian frowned. He didn't know why, but felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this method.
Travelers are not omnipotent.
Although Fei Qian knows a lot, that's because he has the blessing of rich information in later generations, plus office workers, chatting and spanking all day long, naturally he has developed some skills. Not to mention, Fei Qian's level is really not that good.
What? If you don’t believe me, just go find a taxi in Kyoto and ask the taxi driver. The taxi driver will tell you that all international and domestic political and current events will not be repeated in one day...
It was normal for office workers to make overall plans, make personnel arrangements, and replace one wall with another. However, Fei Qian didn't know why at the moment, and felt that it was not very good to just replace people like this.
Although there is indeed a big hole in the Dao Sutra.
Quite a big hole.
These are all issues left over from history.
Buddhism does not have this problem. Of course, Buddhism is not yet flourishing.
Are the scriptures that those Buddhist disciples in the later dynasties brought in, all imported from abroad? Do you understand when you read them over and over again? Do you understand me? Do you understand? If you don’t understand, it’s easy. Uh, I’m wrong.
You don’t understand what I’m teaching you. Look, this is a so-and-so true scripture, here is another true scripture, and here is another true scripture among the true scriptures...
Therefore, there is no need to worry about Buddhist classics.
As for the Confucian disciples on the other side, everyone knows that virtue.
This book belongs to my master, this book belongs to my master’s relatives, this book belongs to my master’s relatives’ friends, and that one also belongs to my family!
Originally, Confucianism only had the Five Classics, but later it quietly became the Six Classics. As soon as I turned my head, oh, it became the Nine Classics. In the blink of an eye, it became the Thirteen Classics! If future generations hadn't turned pale when they looked at it, so many classics would have been lost.
The scriptures, coupled with a large number of commentaries, and a mountain of interpretations are derived. It is really impossible to read or memorize it. It is impossible to say that all Confucian students want to come up with the forty-two classics.
In comparison, the disciples of Taoism are quite pitiful.
When Fei Qian thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh. What did those old Huangs and those who founded the Han Dynasty do?
Where is Zhang Liang? Stand up and tell me, even if you make up your own story, you still have to complete it completely. Just make a "Su Shu" and that's it. Who can understand, even those who shout for water every day?
Readers who just like dry and sloppy articles can’t understand it, so how can they promote it? And what about “Huangshi Gong’s Three Strategies”? You’re so polite, only three strategies? This is only three strategies?!
Moreover, the "Su Shu" and "Three Strategies" were also made too targeted. The emperor saw that if a smart person could read this, then why not? So with a wave of his hand, everything was settled.
Even if the people behind me want to search for pirated copies, they will not be able to find the full text...
As for the "Su Shu" of later generations, that's haha. After all, people pretended to be written by ancient people. This was what some people did during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Fei Qian scratched his head and felt a little troubled. It was all caused by Fei Qian's random chat with Zuo Ciqiao and others. Everyone thought he had an idea in mind, but in fact Fei Qian had not thought of it at all.
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What Fei Qian, Zuo Ciqiao and others were talking about before was the basic teachings of Taoism.
It is not difficult to discuss these. What is difficult is the specific scriptures.
For example, what is "Tao"? Lao Tzu said it in one sentence, only 5,000 words.
If you still feel that the five thousand words of Lao Tzu seem to be weak, then it can be simpler. It is to pursue the "Tao" as the goal of belief, to use "Tao" as the method of cultivation, to use "Tao" as the ideological instruction, to educate all living beings, and to pursue
Harmony, peace in the world, peace and happiness in the end with "Tao", longevity, immortality after attaining Tao...
What Fei Qian and Zuo Ci were discussing was this, and only this.
What did Zuo Ci originally do? He couldn't explain it himself, and he didn't even say what he believed in. The method of cultivation was also very confusing, including bigu, golden elixir, and swallowing clouds and mist to collect the sun and moon.
It’s hard to tell what the essence is, what goals we want to achieve, but then I met Fei Qian, and after reviewing it from beginning to end, I immediately regarded Fei Qian as a fellow-traveler...
Well, this word, forget it, that’s probably what it means.
As for Fei Qian, Qiao Bing and others who discussed and determined the five gods, the main thing is to determine the origin of "Tao".
After all, the original Taoism tells that Taoism existed before heaven and earth were divided. It started before the great catastrophe and passed through the five stages of Taiyi, Taichu, Taisu, Taishi, and Taiji. Qingqing
Floating up, the heavy turbidity condensed down, and then the heaven and the earth came out. From the beginning of Xuan Yuan, three Qi, three days of transformation. Laojun's eyes turned into the sun and moon, his hair turned into stars, his muscles turned into fertile soil, and his bones turned into hard
rocks, the breath of breath turned into wind and clouds, the voice and the divine light in the eyes turned into thunder and lightning, the blood in the body turned into rivers and lakes, the hair turned into vegetation...
Wait, Laojun?
Isn’t this Pangu’s job?
Then the primitive Taoist guys murmured for a long time, and Zhengyi Lingran said that Pangu was transformed by Laojun. Later, Laojun also transformed into Xuanyuan, Huangdi, and Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period...
As for the eighty-one incarnations of Laojun, it was at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, Wang Fu, a Taoist, debated with Bo Yuan, a monk from an aristocratic background, but they repeatedly lost. In desperation, he forged the "Laozi Transformation"
Hu Jing", claiming that Lao Tzu traveled west and was reincarnated as Sakyamuni Buddha. The Buddhists were not to be outdone, and retaliated with tooth for tooth, claiming that Lao Tzu was actually a disciple of the Buddha. Both parties immediately began to manifest "Great Transformation", and everything transformed.
Fei Qian was not so arrogant. He proposed at that time that the confusion between the specific gods and the system of Taoist gods in primitive Taoism was not conducive to the development of religion. The more Laojun transformed, the more complicated the system became, and even there were differences between them.
This is a contradiction. The simpler the belief, the purer it is. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the Five Directions of God religion was proposed. On the one hand, it is combined with some foundations of primitive Taoism. On the other hand, it is simple and easy to implement.
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The eighty-one incarnations of Laojun, such a complicated process, so many complicated incarnations, really speaking, which class in the feudal dynasty can be expected to remember it? Yes, only by knowing the characters and mastering a certain amount of knowledge
Only a large number of noble disciples can understand it and understand the ins and outs of these eighty-one incarnations, or understand its storyline.
But this is equivalent to the fact that Taoism had the wrong goal at the beginning. To accept followers of this kind of nobles, it was actually competing with Confucianism. How could it be possible to overtake Confucianism, which had been deployed for a long time?
For example, when he was preaching, there was no way he could call the gods of the five directions directly. This was simply an idea that only Bang Gui came up with. What Fei Qian wanted was an upright sect, not a secret cult in private. He was most likely persecuted.
Only those who are used to it and are ready to run away at any time can develop such a pattern.
Because there were no standardized points for preaching and no specific goals found, Taoism did not develop well in the late Chinese period, and even Buddhism could not succeed. The root lies here. After Buddhism was introduced to China, it saw that there was no way to go up, so it immediately turned around.
Next, I came up with a set of templates for attaining enlightenment. Even the meaning of the scriptures was lost. Just one sentence, "I have a predestined relationship with my Buddha" became...
Fei Qian corrected such problems one by one without having time to touch on the Taoist scriptures.
Now, after Fei Qian came up with the new system of the Five Directions God Religion, the development of Taoism has expanded rapidly. Whether it is the preaching of Taoism itself or the belief of ordinary people, it is more convenient and faster than the original model.
More effective.
This also attracted scripture seekers from the snowy area, but here is the embarrassing problem. The scripture seekers came, but they had no scriptures to give...
