Chapter 43: The scholar who drinks water from a ladle, the debate between right and wrong!
In the old library.
Chen Pipi looked at her third senior sister, and she didn't dare to express her anger.
Although the third senior sister used the vitality of heaven and earth to hinder the conversation with Chen Xuan.
But as a Taoist genius and Master's direct disciple, Chen Pipi has already learned through lip reading.
I clearly understood the conversation between Third Senior Sister and Chen Xuan.
That is a taboo under Haotian. If it were placed in other countries, the debate about right and wrong would be tantamount to a treasonous debate.
But this is the Tang Dynasty, and this is an academy, so the debate about right and wrong just now is no longer a big rebellion.
The academy students who were watching from a distance also scattered away one after another. They did not dare to anger an academy teacher.
In the first class of the academy, they have already learned the principles of the academy, and the fist of teaching happens to be big enough.
After a long time, Yu Lian sat down on the chair again. He just held Langhao's plain hand and could no longer write a hairpin in small regular script.
"Alas!"
Yu Lian's sigh made Chen Pipi beside him startled and he was about to run down to the third floor of the old book building.
Seeing this, Yu Lian's eyes changed slightly and he looked at the panicked Chen Pipi and said, "Pippi, why are you running? Am I making people scared?"
Chen Pipi stopped, looked at the frost on Third Senior Sister's face that had not faded, shook her head and said: "Third Senior Sister, Pippi didn't hear anything."
If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?
He shouldn't have come to this old library to watch Chen Xuan's bustle. It seemed that he was actually becoming a part of the bustle.
Chen Pipi dodged Yu Lian's gaze, but her panic had already given him away.
"Forget it, it's noon, you should go back and cook for the teacher."
Yu Lian smiled gently and let Chen Pipi go.
She was confused because Chen Xuan said, "There is no right or wrong." How could there be no right or wrong?
How could Xiling be right in slandering Mingzong as a demon sect? Who is right or wrong?
Chen Pippi crossed his hands and saluted: "Third Senior Sister, that Pippi is retiring!"
Then Chen Pipi turned around, held the corners of his clothes and walked downstairs to the old bookstore. At this time, he couldn't help but sigh at Chen Xuan's mystery.
When I first heard the debate about right and wrong, I didn’t realize the meaning behind it. However, I thought about it carefully and deeply, but there was something beyond the meaning.
After Chen Pipi left, Yu Lian also tidied up the desk and walked out of the old library.
The academy students coming and going all bowed as disciples, and Yu Lian nodded slightly in response.
Those students who have stayed in the academy for two or three years are already very familiar with this gentle female teacher.
But since that incident a few years ago, no student dared to think anything inappropriate about this female teacher.
Without any undue thoughts, all that is left is naturally awe.
Yu Lian walked along the quiet path, passed the front yard of the academy, and walked along the winding mountain road.
After walking for about two-quarters of an hour, we crossed Chaimen and arrived at the back hill of the academy.
The waterfall in the distance slopes down from the cliff of tens of feet, and converges into a clear lake below.
There is a big white goose in the lake, holding its head proudly and swimming in the lake, as if it is patrolling its territory.
From time to time, they also made sounds of "quack...quack...quack", which was really disturbing.
From time to time, the sound of the piano and flute ensemble comes from the forest on the other side of the lake. It is melodious, ethereal and quiet, which can cleanse the soul.
On the side of a smooth bluestone by the lake, Li Manman, a middle-aged scholar in a worn-out cotton-padded jacket, sat there casually, with a wooden ladle in his hand filled with clear lake water.
Reading a book with a ladle and drinking water, the knowledgeable person is happy with water; the benevolent person is happy;
The wise person moves, the benevolent person is still, the wise person is happy, the benevolent person lives long; it is nothing more than this.
Yu Lian walked to the side of the bluestone, looked at Li Manman, who was still drinking water from the lake, and asked very gently: "Senior Brother, Junior Sister is confused. I wonder, Senior Brother, can you explain it?"
She already had doubts in her heart, and she and Chen Xuan first discussed etiquette, and then right and wrong, which made her doubts even worse.
Doubts are also inner demons. Once the inner demons emerge, they are inevitable.
Li slowly drank all the water in the gourd, and after standing up, he said with some restraint: "Third Junior Sister, what are your doubts?"
People always have doubts of one kind or another in their lives, whether big or small, difficult or easy.
The biggest and most difficult doubt among them is that the demon in the heart is like a bone-corroding fire that cannot be extinguished once it is ignited.
This is why he, the third junior sister, would copy the small regular script with hairpins that Le had written for more than 20 years in an old library.
From a six or seven-year-old girl back then, to today's twenty-eight-year-old beauty, the respected teacher Yu in the front yard of the academy.
Yu Lian looked at the rippling lake surface and said, "I was discussing etiquette with Chen Xuan ten months ago. I couldn't argue with you."
"The etiquette of the academy is not permanent and cannot be refuted, because it hangs in the world forever."
"Today at Mao hour, I discussed with Chen Xuan again the rights and wrongs of the Demon Sect and Xiling."
"Taipingdao Chen Xuanyan said, 'There is no right or wrong at all?' Dare I ask Senior Brother, what does it mean that there is no right or wrong at all?"
Sitting in an old library, copying hairpin-flowered regular script for twenty years, I thought I could get rid of the demons in my heart.
But who would have thought that the demon in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, and when it reached the point where she couldn't get rid of it, she could no longer suppress it.
Li slowly rubbed the wooden ladle in her hand, and finally suppressed a certain thought in her heart. She said calmly: "Third junior sister, the courtesy of the academy is the courtesy of the teacher. It is indeed not permanent. This statement is correct." "But Chen Xuan passed the first seven subjects in the admission examination, so he already respected the etiquette of the academy."
"As for whether there is any right or wrong, if you ask me a question like this, Third Junior Sister, you will only get the answer that there is no right or wrong."
Is Xiling right? Is Xiling wrong?
Is Mo Zong right? Is Ming Zong wrong?
What is right and what is wrong, what is right and what is wrong, there is no right or wrong. If you insist on what others say is right or wrong, you will only be the one who suffers in the end.
Yu Lian asked excitedly: "Senior Brother, Junior Sister is still puzzled as to why there is no right or wrong."
Li slowly sighed and said: "Third junior sister, there is no right or wrong in the first place. There is no right or wrong in the first place. If you stick to this, when will your inner demons be eliminated?"
At this time, the master walked over from the two-story building, and Chen Pipi followed the master with a plate of delicious food.
While eating the delicacies made by Chen Pipi, the Master looked at the excited Yu Lian and said, "Yu Lian, you have been copying hairpin small regular script in the old library for twenty years."
"Why can't you still see that there is nothing right or wrong in what this guy Chen Xuan said?"
"Is worldly perspective really that important? Go ahead and continue copying hairpin regular script, and remember not to argue with that guy Chen Xuan."
"The true cultivation of Taoism is beyond debate, and few people can match it."
There is no right or wrong in the debate between right and wrong.
Right and wrong are all based on what others think. How can their opinions affect what you see?
There is no right or wrong. It does not mean that there is no right or wrong, but that you cannot listen to what others think is right or wrong.
If you believe, don’t doubt it. If you don’t believe in the way you cultivate, how can you let others believe in it?
If you are a true Taoist cultivator, you have a bad intention to argue about right and wrong!
Yu Lian saluted and said: "Teacher, please forgive me for being stupid!"