Du Lan looked at the tangled Ji Mujie, the calm medical student, and the clenched Arisu Ryohei. Looking at the three of them, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "What you said is very good, but you still need to pay attention to the way you communicate. That is, when facing people with different ideas and ideologies from your own, you cannot try to replace them with your own ideology." "You should know that the so-called ideas and ideologies are relative, because only when you know ugliness can you understand. Beauty, because you know low, you can understand high, because you know unkindness, you can pursue benevolence, and because you live in your original family, you always hope to change your family."
The life coach's small class has begun, this time it is a one-to-three class.
"There is benevolence and righteousness when there is no great way, there is great hypocrisy when there is wisdom, there is disharmony between the six relatives, there is filial piety, there is chaos in the country, there are loyal ministers." Dulan said: "Do you three understand? Everyone in the world knows that beauty is beauty, and this is evil. Any None of the values can exist independently. When you meet an evil person, you cannot think of turning the other person into a good person, because kindness is born in response to evil.” “Benevolence was born under the great road, and at the same time When there is unkindness, there is also deception when there is wisdom. When there is kindness from father to son, there is fratricide between father and son. When there are loyal ministers, there are also treacherous ministers. Jiamujie, with your ruthlessness, you have a habitat. Ryohei’s Masayoshi. You want to kill Arisu Ryohei, which is obviously wrong, because you can kill this person, but you cannot kill the spirit he represents.”
Jiao Mujie remained silent while the medical student was thoughtful.
The medical student said: "So the Tao is based on benevolence and unkindness, and is a unity. That's why the Tao creates one, one gives birth to the two, and there is the Tao that does nothing but does everything." As expected of a top student, even the "Tao Te Ching" can read: "That's why the Tao is It is a power that cannot be mastered by humans. The most people can do is master benevolence and unkindness. The Tao is so high that it cannot be reached."
Indeed, human thoughts must be in struggle, so in the end, in order to unify, an absolute existence above all thoughts must be proposed.
God, Brahman, Tao, and absolute spirit are all actually this supreme existence, and cannot have its opposite. Unlike benevolence and righteousness, the opposite is unkindness and unrighteousness. Absolute existence has no opposite, and is an absolute unity.
Lao Tzu understood that there will be negative sides to any ideology. He also knew that no matter which ideology he chose, he could not avoid the emergence of its negative sides. Therefore, he proposed that "the opposite is the movement of Tao", which means that an ideology will inevitably emerge. On the contrary, this is the law of Tao, which is the endogenous nature of contradiction.
Therefore, Lao Tzu did not advocate any kind of ideology, but proposed "Tao", and also said that Tao is not Tao and is not Tao. In other words, the absolute existence of Tao is difficult to explain in words, but he just wants to say that Lao Tzu can do it.
Of course, Tao also has limitations. Tao cannot actually make things better on its own initiative. It needs people to spread the Tao, so later generations say, 'it is people who spread Tao, not Tao who spreads people'. But if someone insists on going against Tao, the result will be certain. It would be very tragic.
The Tao is superior and will not actively affect human society. It is human society that makes its own choice whether to abide by it or not.
Moreover, I didn’t say how to spread the Tao. This is unlike religion, which has specific measures, such as worshiping together or observing precepts. I didn’t say what to do specifically, but only what not to do. The main thing is
Just don’t get into trouble, don’t forcefully promote any ideology, just do nothing.
If you only tell everyone what not to do, but not what to do, everyone will be confused. Even if I say that the best thing is like water, he doesn't tell you how to be like water. Be strong when you should be strong, and be weak when you should be weak.
Let people judge for themselves.
Unlike religions and other schools of thought, they directly tell you what you should do, even specific to different situations.
Bang bang, Dulan applauded the medical students. It seemed that he really understood it and said, "Then it's time to spread the word. What are you going to do?"
Lao Tzu did not teach people how to spread the Tao, unlike religion which requires preaching.
"Wuwei, although I know that the collective is more important than the individual, I cannot keep emphasizing it because the collective must also respect individual freedom. The two are contradictory and unified. I cannot be too attached to qualities such as benevolence and propriety, justice and fairness.
There must be moderation, otherwise benevolence will turn into unkindness, justice will turn into evil, and a boundary must be maintained." The medical student said that he would adjust himself at any time in the future to be a person of moderation and a person with boundaries.
Du Lan said: "The idea is good, the difficulty is not easy, just try hard." "What about you, Jia Mujie, do you still want to continue to promote ruthlessness and kill people who disagree with you?"
Ji Mujie knew that even if he killed Arisu Ryohei, he would not be able to achieve a real victory, because he only mastered one ideology, and there would inevitably be an opposite ideology. This cannot be changed unless he
Mastered the absolute road.
Only Tao cannot be divided, and Tao is the carrier of all contradictions.
Just like Confucianism and Mohism are facing each other, it's like selecting talents. If there are two talents, one is a relative of Confucius or Mozi, and the other is a stranger, then Confucius will definitely select his relatives. This is called
Don’t avoid relatives when choosing the virtuous. The Mohist family will definitely choose strangers. This is called respecting the virtuous and not avoiding strangers.
Confucius chose this way to protect the ritual system, and Mozi chose this way to set an example for the world. A thousand pieces of gold buy bones.
Confucianism and Mohism are like two sides of a coin. Although they both hope to restore order, their methods are different. In the end, although the Mohist idea of "love and benefit each other" was not realized because it was too ideal, many of Mozi's ideas are still
It has been passed down and used from generation to generation, and has not disappeared. It has always appeared alternately with Confucianism. For example, buying bones for a thousand gold is really a classic talent selection method.
Ji Mujie knew very well that killing Arisu Ryohei would be useless. He would still not get the reputation and beauty he needed, and there would still be opponents of his ruthless line.
He said nothing. Although he knew the limitations of ruthlessness, he didn't know how to change it at all, because he had always been a victim of ruthlessness on earth and had never learned any other route besides ruthlessness. If
Not ruthless, he doesn't know what to do at all. This is my limitation. I can't tell others how to promote Taoism.
Monotheistic religions tell believers that if they want to see God, first they must not commit suicide, secondly they must be pious, thirdly, fourthly...if they follow the steps step by step, they will almost be able to see God after death.
Buddhism also tells believers to meditate or let go of their obsessions and achieve enlightenment. In short, if you do this or that, you can become a Buddha.
Even Taoism says that by refining elixirs and refining qi, one can live a long life and attain Taoism and become an immortal.
It's just that I didn't tell you how to spread the Tao. He just said do nothing and don't be obsessed with any ideological battles, because winning the battle is only temporary. If you win, you will lose soon, and it is easy for people to fall into Confused, falling into nihilism where everything is meaningless.
In fact, I still have a goal, which is to make the country rich and the people strong, which is the goal pursued by all thinkers in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. No one in the Hundred Schools of Thought contends that they do not pursue this point. This is true for Confucianism, Law, and Mohism, but it is difficult for Taoism to achieve it in terms of methodology. .
Both Mohism and Taoism had shortcomings in practice, so Confucianism and Legalism won out in the end.
Jiamujie was also confused, because according to Lao Tzu, everything is meaningless. Anyway, whatever he pursues, he will eventually become the opposite of himself. Nihilism kept popping up, and the muzzle of the gun slowly fell. He only felt that people There's no point in living, so it's better to give yourself a shot.
This is also one of the shortcomings of studying the Tao Te Ching, nihilism. Another shortcoming is that it is easy to fall into conspiracy thinking, that is, jumping left and right among different ideologies, choosing which one is more advantageous, without any position at all.