Imagine the world

Written at the time when "The World of Wonder" is about to be completed
The last chapter of this book is relatively long, so it is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower.After the end of the main text of the six hundred chapters, there are several epilogues, telling some stories that happened in the future Huanxiang Country.

The origin of the story in this book is a dream of Hua Zhenxing, who dreamed of a world of fantasy 500 years later.But he didn't travel through the dream, but woke up in reality.

From the beginning, I didn't intend to write to 500 years later, but to write about the starting point where he can realize his dream.

Although the book describes Hua Zhenxing's experience of breaking the delusion, the story itself in the book can be a huge delusion, and it is also a process of breaking the delusion.

Well, to be honest, in fact, my original idea, the story of the whole book is a complete delusion, and the ending is like this——

"This moonlight seems to be able to dissolve everything. Everything in the world, including time and space, is turned into nothingness in the moonlight. A gust of wind blew by, and Hua Zhenxing opened his eyes, looking up at the starry sky between the low eaves.

Last night, he and the big Heishel went to the bar frequented by the local aborigines. When they just came back, they sat for a while against the wall in an alley not far from home.

The Port of Fiso was still the same Port of Fiso. He stood up and walked towards the grocery store. His eyes were no longer drunk or confused, and the world under his feet seemed to be reborn. "

Hua Zhenxing thought that everything he experienced after waking up from a dream turned out to be a delusion, including what he called "breaking the delusion" in the delusion.If I really wrote it like that, many readers may scold me.

"After reading two to three million words, you finally told me that not only did the protagonist have a dream at the beginning of the story, but the whole story is also a big dream of the protagonist!"

Hehehe, so I didn't write that, and made some changes in the serialization.Otherwise, except for the old book friends who know the worldview of my series works well, other readers may be angry.

But it's hard for me to explain. Dreams and illusions are two different things.

In my previous works, I described a lot of so-called delusion-breaking experiences, but the description of the delusion, limited by the space and the plot of the story, has always seemed to be imaginary, and the readers have not experienced that kind of reality.

What is delusion?It may be like this, it can be like this, I use this "Imagination World" to answer.

If you prefer such a story, please make up your own mind and add the ending I wrote above to the end of the main text of the book, and I will not write it myself.

As for why I want to write such a story, since it is already so unserious, I will not talk about serious things, but just talk about some off-topic idle stories.

There is a long-lasting saliva and war post on the Internet, which is what will the world look like in a world where all people cultivate immortals?
Many Xianxia novels give superficial descriptions and imaginations, but they are basically different from the world we are familiar with.

Sometimes I wonder, how does this happen in the world we live in?If it happened, why did it happen?

In a sense, people today's imagination of the world of cultivating immortals for all people in online articles is a bit like the imagination of the ideal world by the ancients nearly 3000 years ago.It can be a pure utopia, or it can have a spiritual core that can support belief.

When I was a child, I read a passage describing the gods: "The geography of mountains and rivers, and all things in the world, are like reading in the palm of your hand." I didn't know it at that time, but I felt amazing and envious. Looking back now, isn't that what we are swiping our phones today?
With a few clicks in our hands, we can even ingest thousands of miles of things in the air, some will be delivered to the door, and some may have to go to the courier station to pick them up.This is the ancients' description of immortals, but have we become immortals?of course not.

This is the result of technological progress and the evolution of the social production system. Some people say it is due to the progress of the times.But the so-called era will not progress by itself, all of these are created by people.

Even if someone stays at home all day and does nothing, he can still enjoy the fruits of the times, just because someone else has provided them for him.

The original intention of all people's efforts is undoubtedly to make their lives better.People have more means to achieve their goals, and their abilities are stronger, so is there a better life?

This question is difficult to answer, because first of all, what is the best way to live?Going back to the Enlightenment Age of civilization nearly 3000 years ago, we will find that ancient thinkers were trying to answer it.

There is a question or premise that is very important to them, that is, what is the meaning of human existence?
In the desolate and dead universe, why is the birth of life and wisdom necessary?Where does the concept of "meaning" come from?

This may not be a physics problem, because physics can only study the cause of life, perhaps the probability events that appear in a large number of samples, to answer the principle of probability.

But principles themselves are not meanings, and may even lead to nothingness.

That's why theologians take advantage of the void to construct the meaning of human existence from the transcendent perspective of divine revelation, which can be used to comfort themselves when facing the vast universe.

Later, when people wanted to bypass the gods and seek meaning for the existence of human beings, they used another argument:
Even if I don't know what the existence of human beings means to the world, my existence is meaningful to me, and even to me it is the whole meaning.

Here leads to another premise question, what is "I"?
On the basis of this answer, to demonstrate that it is because of my existence that I can think about what meaning is; then evolve to the point that existence is meaning itself; and then evolve to the meaning of life, which lies in being able to decide how to exist.

When someone points out that "how to exist" is the "meaning of life", the discussion process is exquisite, but further answers are needed-how should we exist?

Confucius, Mencius and Marne are both doing this.

Switching the perspective to the East, or China’s Enlightenment Age, you will find that almost all thinkers at that time were answering “how people should exist” from the very beginning, and evolved all the above-mentioned processes.

The emergence of consciousness and even wisdom is the "fleeing one" in the evolution of the universe; it is the three that is born of two in "one is two, two is three, and three is all things".

The significance of human beings to this world is "moving against the Tao".

Apart from differences, do the theories of various schools of thought have a common spiritual core?Why can Mo Shangtong, Yang Tehong, and Ke Mengchao sit at the same wine table and quarrel, learn the knowledge of more than 2000 years later, and at the same time let Hua Zhenxing cook for them?
Although the "Zixue" in the pre-Qin period had different propositions, they almost all had a common core——

They do not presuppose the "ideal world", do not a priori "absolute spirit", do not isolate sensibility and rationality, but regard sensibility as the source of rationality, and demonstrate that the birth of human rationality is the inherent requirement for the development of sensibility.

In their view, rationality comes from sensibility, and the so-called "ideal world" and "absolute spirit" are also derivatives of sensibility, which is the delusional state of "I".

Illusion is not meaningless, it is the extreme of sensibility; rationality is the reflection of sensibility, and it is the process of breaking illusion into reality.

They further pointed out that the understanding, restraint and application of desires are the inner needs for the realization of desires.On this basis, deduce the different propositions of each school, and then seek the method of realization, and answer "how to exist".

The answers they gave in that era may not be the most important, but the problem-solving ideas are more important.

I have always wanted to specialize in this topic, but I feel that my knowledge is far from enough, so I can only tell stories first, such as the story of Hua Zhenxing, which seems serious and absurd.

Everyone has a fantasy world.

(End of this chapter)