Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 118 Talking with Pan Shizheng
After Li Tai sowed the seeds of the bookstore, he quickly put the matter aside.
Because Du Chuke brought a strong and slender middle-aged man to look for him, saying that he got an expert.

Li Tai, who is a cultivator, can't tell, but Li Tai can be sure that if this person doesn't make sense, he must be very talented in physics.

Seeing that Li Tai had no airs, Pan Shizheng immediately saluted Li Tai: "Pan Shizheng, a man from the mountains, has met the King of Yue!"

Du Chuke enthusiastically promoted Pan Shizheng to Li Tai, Du Chuke said:

"This person is the Daoist Shangqing I met when I settled down in Songshan Mountain. He has won the true meaning of Taoism, and I hope the king of Yue will value him!"

Li Tai asked people to serve tea first, and Pan Shizheng took a sip. Although the tea tasted a bit bitter at first but not astringent, it was the aftertaste that surprised Pan Shizheng involuntarily.

Looking down at his tea, there is nothing weird added to this tea, only the clear sweet spring, and the tea leaves exuding the fragrance, simplifying the complexity, but it has a unique charm.

Li Tai watched Pan Shizheng drinking tea a little fascinated, but he didn't care much.

Most of the first batch of people who came to drink tea in the Yue Palace were surprised by this relatively pure way of drinking tea.

Compared with Li Tai's simple and straightforward way of drinking tea, adding strange ingredients is the mainstream of this era.

However, for people like Pan Shizheng who live in seclusion and practice Taoism, this way of drinking tea is the real way of drinking tea!
"People in the mountains and fields have never seen such sweet spring tea, it is impolite to be rude!" Master Pan apologized to Li Tai.

"Baihe, prepare a catty of green bamboo leaves, take it with you when the real person leaves!" Li Tai turned his head and said to Pan Shizheng,
"The real person is a high scholar, and I am a layman, I hope the real person should not refuse.

Zhuyeqing from Shudi is brewed with boiling water, and it is best to drink from the second brew. "

"It's hard to turn down the kindness of the King of Yue, but the poor will turn it down!" Pan Shizheng didn't delay anything, but accepted it happily.

Then Master Pan said to Li Tai, "I heard from Shan Bin that King Yue is interested in Taoism?"

"Actually, I'm also very interested in cultivating immortals, but it's a pity that I can't get started!" Li Tai complained.

However, before Pan Shizheng could reply, Li Tai said solemnly, "Strictly speaking, I think the Taoist theory is too advanced!"

"Everything that is tangible contains Taoism!" Master Pan said solemnly, "The king of Yue can feel this, and his body has Taoism, so he should seek the truth without precepts!"

Li Tai couldn't help frowning when he heard Pan Shizheng's divine words. To be honest, he really didn't understand.

It was as if I was in the royal family and had watched several Buddhist and Taoist debates.

The result of their mutual dialectics is that after listening to it, I only feel that my wisdom has been enlightened, my realm has been improved, my body is floating like a fairy, and my head is empty.

Anyway, apart from proving that I am a fool, I really can't hear anything.

But the guys around all seemed enlightened, as if their intelligence had increased by N points after listening to this debate, but they didn't feel anything at all.

Li Tai said seriously: "Pan Zhenzhen invited you here this time because I think the current Taoism is too advanced.

It's so high that only you Taoists and Buddhists can understand it, so I think it's wrong!

I think the Dao is true, so it cannot only be understood by Yangchun Baixue.

I think that people in Lower Riba can also understand Dao. This is the reason why I came to you! "

"King Yue is really courageous, he really is very human!" Pan Shizheng praised Li Tai when he heard Li Tai's words, and then said,
"I beg you, King Yue, to forgive me for my lack of talent and learning. I can't cross all living beings in the world. If you want to enlighten the world, you must ask my teacher, the king and Dharma Lord."

It's easy to make things messy, but it's hard to make things simple.

In particular, Taoism, which is divine and Taoist, even spreads thousands of volumes of false books, but actually spreads a single sentence.

But I really want to summarize the true biography into one sentence, and let everyone understand it, and be able to truly cultivate...

Forget it, this is definitely not what Pan Shizheng can do now.

As for the level of being able to achieve this level, it is probably the level at which Newton summed up the three theorems of mechanics.

More importantly, the theorems summarized by Newton can be verified in real life, but the testimonies passed down from Taoism, because they have no aura and practice, at best they can prolong life.

At least in the case where the comparison is not obvious, even if this mantra is placed in front of all living beings, no one will believe it!
Therefore, Master Pan's first thought when he heard King Yue's idea was that King Yue wanted to play tricks on him.

Of course, if the king of Yue really had this idea instead of playing tricks on himself, then Pan Shizheng said, find my teacher, I can't do it in a poor way.

"Really Pan, why don't you listen to my thoughts?" Li Tai said to Master Pan.

"Please discuss the Tao, King Yue!" Pan Shizheng's expression became serious, he hoped that Li Tai just didn't know the seriousness because of his young age.

Of course, if the King of Yue really thought he could do it and explain the Dao in a simple way, then he could only find a way to leave, because he really couldn't do this job!

"First of all, I think Tao is complete, true, eternal, and all things!" Li Tai said seriously to Pan Shizheng.

"Tao is the source of all things!" Pan Shizheng heard Li Tai's words, and said something in response.

And Li Tai continued, "So, I think that unless you are a god-man like the ancestor Lao Tzu, no matter how intelligent a normal person is, no matter how deep his Dao is, he still can't comprehend what Dao is, at least I can't, what about you, a real person ?”

"My aptitude is in front of the Taiqing Daode Tianzun, how can I have the qualifications to compare!" Pan Shizheng also sighed.

"So in my opinion, people can't attain the Tao, what people do is only a shortcut!" Li Tai elaborated his point of view seriously.

"No matter how lofty or far-reaching Taoism is, as long as it cannot surpass Lao Tzu, no one can speak the truth.

There are tens of thousands of future generations, but none of them can surpass Lao Tzu, and it is impossible to attain the Tao after all.

So the right path is wrong from the very beginning! "

Hearing these words suddenly, Pan Shizheng couldn't help being taken aback, even if Du Chuke heard Li Tai's words, he was first surprised, then stunned, and then immediately winked at Li Tai.

Du Chuke murmured in his heart, "King Yue, you have smashed the pot of Confucianism, and now you are here to smash the pot of Taoism?
Didn't you just ask them to prove the way? Why do you need to say so much! "

When Master Pan heard Li Tai's words, he couldn't help standing up angrily. He couldn't speak for a while if he wanted to say something or refute.

At least logically speaking, there is nothing wrong, people who cannot surpass Lao Tzu, or even cannot match Lao Tzu, are naturally not qualified to speak out.

But the problem is, who can compare himself to Lao Tzu, and what is more important is to be recognized by the world!

However, Pan Shizheng still sat down, looked at Li Tai and said, "The king of Yue invited me to entertain the poor?"

"No! I think the real person has misunderstood me. I consider myself the most devout seeker of Tao today!" Li Tai shook his head and said,

"I just think that as long as you don't surpass Lao Tzu, it's impossible for that person to attain the Tao.

And if you want to surpass Lao Tzu, who can prove that you can attain the Tao?

So I think it is necessary to change the way of thinking. Since individuals cannot obtain the Tao, they can collectively obtain the Tao! "

"How can a group achieve the Tao!" Master Pan couldn't help being aroused a little curious when he heard Li Tai's words, so he asked.

"First of all, get rid of the false and keep the true!" Li Tai said,

"If you want to gain the Tao, you must first prove the Tao. If you are a false Tao, if you continue to force it, then it will be the opposite, and it was wrong from the beginning!"

"How to prove the Tao!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Pan Shizheng sat down involuntarily and continued to ask.

"Mathematics!" Li Tai looked at Master Pan and said seriously.

"Mathematics? Hmm..." Master Pan was a little stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, and then he couldn't help thinking.

Li Tai continued: "Lao Tzu said: Five colors make people blind, five sounds make people deaf, five flavors make people happy, galloping and hunting make people mad, and hard-to-find goods make people hinder.

Therefore, when the true scriptures and the false scriptures are mixed with each other, ordinary people like us cannot distinguish the true from the false.

But when the truth can only be debated by debate, is the so-called truth itself important?
Why can't it all be fake!
But only with mathematics, no matter what kind of debate you have, it is clear at a glance whether it is true or false, and one plus one equals two after all. "

Master Pan opened his mouth when he heard this, but he didn't argue with Li Tai in the end.

Because there seems to be nothing to argue about, because mathematics seems to be true that right is right, and wrong is wrong, and it is clear at a glance.

At least for the vast majority of wise men, it is difficult to deduce mathematical conclusions, but to prove right or wrong, most people can prove the results as long as they have learned the method.

"Second point, you should know by studying things!" Master Pan frowned slightly when he heard Li Tai's words, "This seems to be Confucianism."

"The stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. After all, I can't find a more suitable word!" Li Tai admitted frankly that he lacked knowledge, and continued,

"The simplest is the Five Elements Theory, which is based on the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth that constitute the world, and the five elements generate and restrain each other.

Then what I want to ask is the fire in it, is it just a process of changing things, or is it a real substance! "

Hearing Li Tai's words, Pan Shizheng couldn't help but widen his eyes, although the Five Elements Theory was rarely mentioned after the Han Dynasty.

After all, Wu Huan Hua has broken quite a lot of inheritance, but it is not that the Five Elements is gone, but that it has further integrated into the Chinese nation.

Needless to say, the system of traditional Chinese medicine draws on the theory of the Five Elements Theory, and even Dong Zhongshu also absorbed Confucianism when he dealt with things such as the divine right of kings and the relationship between heaven and man.

As a result, when Li Tai opened his mouth, he wanted to dig the foundation of Taoism.

"King Yue, the Five Elements Theory has existed since ancient times, and we can see the fire!"

Pan Shizheng felt that he wanted to correct Li Tai's fallacies.

After all, if the fire does not exist, Pan Shizheng feels that most of the whole Taoism will collapse.

"I know!" Li Tai nodded and said, "But the five colors make people blind, and the five tones make people deaf, maybe it's because we humans have eyes that we are deceived by the color of the flame.

Otherwise, the other four, metal, wood, water, soil, can be weighed, touched, and calculated mathematically.

But fire is the only thing that cannot be counted mathematically, and any thing that cannot be counted mathematically needs to be doubted about its existence.

Because my eyes can deceive me, my ears can deceive me, even my senses can deceive me.

But math won't, no it won't! "

"Actually, could mathematics deceive you too!" Pan Shizheng couldn't help complaining when he heard Li Tai's words.

What kind of Taoist real person, what kind of Taoist master, in front of Li Tai's theories that dig the foundation of Taoism, but are logically self-consistent, Pan Shizheng feels that cultivating Taoism is not very important.

What should I do now, cover my ears, turn around and leave, and then announce that Li Tai is an enemy of Daoism!
But the true will to seek the Tao made Master Pan stay because he really wanted to obtain the Tao.

Although Li Tai's theory is full of crooked ways, it has a special charm, which makes Pan Shizheng want to continue listening to the lecture.

"After eliminating the false and preserving the true, and through investigating things to gain knowledge, then the third point is the three lives and all things!" Li Tai said calmly:

"After, proof of mathematics, after exploring the essence of things, then we can no longer look at things in isolation.

Because things are constantly developing, one life produces two, two produces three, three and three produce all things.

When we do not look at things with the eyes of development, but look at things with static eyes, the road of continuous development will inevitably get farther and farther away from us, and we will not stop and wait for others! "

"Not only Lao Tzu, but even Chuang Tzu once said, 'My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit. If there is a limit, there is no limit, and there is no limit!'" Pan Shizheng sighed, "This is not to persuade the world to be unreasonable, but to persuade people Don't be limited by yourself.

Because people who are limited cannot catch up with the road of continuous development. "

"So that's what it means!" Li Tai couldn't help but suddenly realized when he heard Pan Shizheng's words. To be honest, Li Tai didn't understand either.

However, Li Tai said, "This is the fourth point I want to say.

I always thought that Zhuangzi was trying to persuade people not to pursue knowledge.

Because knowledge is boundless and personal life is limited, it is very dangerous to use limited life to pursue unlimited knowledge.

But what if we break away from the concept of human beings and use the entire Chinese nation to pursue those proven avenues?

Is it just chasing after the infinite, is this a way to get close to the Tao! "

"Chasing Wuya with Wuya?" Hearing Li Tai's words, Pan Shizheng was somewhat stunned.

"Well!" Li Tai said, "The core of my fourth point is inheritance and enlightenment!

Because there is only one Tao, but the Tao has transformed into tens of thousands, becoming the ever-existing truth.

Then can we prove the existence of the basic way first, and then use the basic way to verify other ways.

For example, the simplest one is the Pythagorean theorem, hook three strands, four strings and five, and you can get a right triangle.

Then can we use it as a diagram to draw a square with it as the side, and see if the area of ​​the square formed by the three hooks and four is equal to the square area of ​​the five strings.

Then is it possible to form a right-angled triangle from hooking three strands, four strings, and five? Can it be confirmed that the square of the hook and the square of the strands can be used to obtain the square of the chord, thereby proving the right-angled triangle.

Going back again, can this method be used to prove that a triangle is a right triangle in the future, then whether this is a theorem.

If this is an immutable theorem, does it prove that it is one of the incarnations of one of the billions of branches of Tao.

Then, among us human beings, there are constantly elites who can find the branches of the avenue, so that our people can continue to take shortcuts.

Until one day we find all the branches of the Tao and help us humans piece together the appearance of the Dao, and then there will be an unprecedented elite who can coordinate all knowledge, so as to truly help human beings complete the leap from the shortcut to the enlightenment!
This is my delusion about enlightenment and even enlightenment!Please also correct Pan Zhenren! "

Pan Zhenren's eyes widened. He felt that his wisdom was enlightened, his realm had been improved, his body was floating like a celestial being, and his head was empty.

Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?
(End of this chapter)