Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 508 Two Worlds
Looking at the crowd, Wang Xiaolie said in a more emphatic tone: "In fact, after the decline of the distinction between name and reality, people have an illusion that the world they know is the real world. This illusion may not be true at a certain stage. What, but one day, it will bring people into a desperate situation. To know the world, we must always keep in mind that the world we have known is not the real world.”

"The biggest difficulty for you to do in the future is to keep a clear mind. To record the world, especially the people at the bottom, often encounter that they think things are simple and their language is vulgar. Sometimes, they even feel that They are very old, but they don’t know much. It’s ridiculous to think and do things like children. There is no way, the world is like this. They can only rely on the government to make more people literate and learn knowledge, no It happened overnight. However, no matter how simple the people seem, when they get together, it is not so simple."

"We must understand that the real world is not one plus one equals two. A person plus a person, or even a thing plus a thing, does not simply become two. In addition to two, there will be something more, something less The people in a village, if you look at it individually, everyone thinks about the same and does the same thing. But there are always differences between people, and the difference may be big or small. When the whole village is put together, you can find the villagers' The whole is very different. The difference is not that most people say to grow melons, while a few people say to grow beans, which is bigger than smaller. It is that outside of daily life, you will find something that you don’t have in daily life. What is it, I am now It’s hard to tell, and we can only rely on you to solve it slowly in practice.”

"The difference between the individual and the collective is particularly noteworthy. In the past, except for the government and businessmen, people had less contact with each other and their thinking was relatively simple. But when people have more contact with each other and have a wider understanding of the world, the differences will become greater and greater. This is not Because there are collective interests, or something that is easy to explain, but it is not clear. At least not now. Whether it will be clear in the future, God knows."

"To find out the destiny from the people, it is not simply to know what the people watch and listen to, but more importantly, to know what the people think. It is difficult to know what the people think, so don't think too easily. What do the people think? It is related to their personal experience, what they heard, and the knowledge they learned. In addition, it is also related to how people discuss with each other. It has a lot to do with it. On the one hand, we want Knowing that people watch and listen to people, on the other hand, you must never rely on people watching and listening to people. How to do it depends on you.”

Having said this, Wang Xiaolie stopped, took a sip of tea, and remained silent for a while.After a while, he said: "The government wants to do this and that because it thinks it is correct. Why do you think it is correct? In other words, where does the correct knowledge come from? It mainly comes from practice. It is the practice of the past. Summary, the analysis of current practice, and the prospect of future practice. Of course, this is not all. Human beings are different from other animals because there are always some things that are not clear. If you can’t explain clearly, you can’t explain clearly , Don’t force yourself to explain clearly. Many mistakes are caused by pretending to know without knowing it. You must pay attention to this in your work in the future.”

"The reason why Tao is Tao is that it is not clear. First admit that Tao is not clear, and then seek the knowledge that is clear. These knowledge we have established are combined to become theories. We must remember that all theories They are not based on the real world, they have limitations. Don’t think that because a theory makes sense, it will never change, thinking that you have found the truth. In other words, the current human beings do not yet have the conditions to know the truth. All Truth and theory are all time and place, and are subject to conditions. There are many theories, which seem to be very reasonable. But if you follow these theories and go to the end of time in thought, you will find existing problems. In the time At the end, some theories are actually a dead end, and there is no exit. Or it is something that does not conform to our cognition, and it is also unacceptable.”

"A clear understanding of the difference between the real world and our understanding of the world is the basis for understanding the world under the guidance of the Tao. Whether it is the real world or the world we know, it is all caused by the limitations of human beings. Don't make myths. Frankly speaking , It is not scary to have gods and Buddhas all over the sky, but it is not right to myth the gods and Buddhas all over the sky. I believe in this god, you believe in that god, we believe in the same god and get closer. Gods and Buddhas all over the sky also have to retreat. It is precisely because of this that the government has the status of the gods. People and gods must be under the management of the government. Why? Because the government that governs the world according to the Tao is called the government. Destiny."

"There is one more question that needs to be clarified. Dao changes remain unchanged? "Book of Changes" is about change, because it is difficult to understand, and its status is high. To be honest, I have no research on Yi, so I don't express much opinion. But Dao The issue of change and invariance can still be discussed. From ancient times to the present, there have been various opinions on the change and invariance of the Tao, so there is no need to elaborate. I have said it before, but the Tao is not clear. If it is not clear, how can I know the Tao? Is it changing or not? So we don’t know that Tao has changed. If we don’t know, we don’t know. Knowing more and more. In this sense, the understanding of the Tao is changing. Some people think that they understand the Tao and understand everything, and they say that it is changing anytime, anywhere, or it will never change forever. Those How can the government control people who understand the Dao? They can only let them leave the secular world, and together with other religions, they are called Fangwai."

"In this world, there are always people who pretend to know what they don't know. Does he know? God knows. We ordinary people don't guess about things that only God knows. Just ignore it. For example, the Buddha said that there are thousands of things. In the world, there is also the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss in the West. Taoism also has the heavens, and there are many immortals. Is this true? God knows, so we won’t ask further. It’s not suitable. What should we do? We can only let them go outside, and don’t affect the world.”

"No religion can affect the government's governance of the secular world. Those who cannot go outside the country must be banned. Why? Because the theories of these people are in conflict with the Tao itself. We can't explain the world, they say I know very well, how can this work? Is it impossible for the government to govern? What should the normal world look like? We think it is roughly like this. No matter what it is or what it is, it is concentrated in a certain place. , the farther the distance is, the smaller the number of people will be. However, is it true that the concentrated place is correct, and other opinions are wrong? Not necessarily. Therefore, the government's approach is not to forcibly narrow this curve, but to guide it. The center of the curve, we call it the mainstream. It is easy to fight against different opinions, but it is much harder to guide the mainstream.”

While talking, Wang Xiaolie drew a normal curve.This curve is not just a mathematical problem, and its influence on all aspects of human beings is far beyond the imagination of many people.In other words, this curve is closer to the real world.

Wang Xiaolie said: "If we draw the real world as a line on the map, then the world we know is sometimes on the left of this line, sometimes on the right of this line, sometimes far away, but mostly Time is close to the real world. There will be many similarities in this process of moving away or approaching. ——This matter may be simple to say, but it is actually very complicated. Let’s discuss it slowly in the future.”

Suddenly, Wang Xiaolie felt dull.A regime must first unify its thinking, and these words have to be said by itself.But if you tell yourself, how many people can listen to it?Perhaps, only when you have ruled for a long time, will someone really study it carefully.

Any theory is inseparable from the study of practice.If you break away from practice and only talk about theory, you will leave the real world and enter the world built by human beings with knowledge and thought.It sounds reasonable at first, but it will actually get farther and farther away from the real world.These two worlds are somewhat similar to the rational world and the perceptual world talked about by Westerners, but they have different understandings and expressions.

Chinese civilization itself has neither prevented the Chinese from studying science, nor prevented the Chinese from progressing in thought.Later generations are just making excuses because they are too far behind Europe and the United States, and the Chinese themselves have lost confidence.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Europe and the United States entered industrialization and invaded China on a large scale.So why China lags behind, first of all, we must study clearly the situation in China during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the situation in Europe and the United States.The previous Qing Dynasty had already lagged behind Europe, so it is necessary to study the history of the Qing Dynasty carefully to find out the reasons for its backwardness.It is impossible to be confused about the history of this period, and to say that China is backward is because of Chinese culture.

The army cannot fight because it emphasizes civility over martial arts.The overall backwardness is due to poor culture.It is not acceptable to draw conclusions that are completely disregarded by reality and based on imagination.Once the theory is divorced from practice, it will draw outrageous conclusions.

The Song Dynasty’s military was backward because it emphasized civility over military affairs, and the Ming Dynasty’s military backwardness was also due to its emphasis on civility over military affairs. So what about the Qing Dynasty, which came to this conclusion and did not emphasize civility over military affairs?A British army of [-] to [-] could run across China, and an allied army of tens of thousands of powers could easily occupy the capital. Was the Qing army considered strong at that time?The Qing army can't do it, and why?
China's culture is not good, and it has been at the top of the world for thousands of years. How come you can't do it?

The country is backward, and it is right to study in the West.But learning is to make the country rich and strong and rejuvenate.For individuals, it is a personal choice to stay abroad after studying abroad because of the treatment and so on.But for the country, it is not to send people to study abroad in order to let you stay abroad, but to serve the motherland after learning knowledge.

You can't feel that you have become a prophet just because you have learned some knowledge abroad. The people of the motherland are waiting for you to be enlightened.The reason is simple. If it is an exam, each country has different test papers.Even if you study the answers abroad, it is still wrong to write them on the test paper of your own country.Not to mention, there are not many people who really learn things.

(End of this chapter)