Ming Dynasty: He was ordered to give lectures in prison, but Lao Zhu eavesdropped and made people nu

Chapter 397 Zhuangzi enlightened in his dream

"The appearance is vicissitudes of life, lying in the weeds, and it has been beaten by wind and rain for many years."

"Zhuangzi jumped off his horse and hit the skeleton a few times with his whip. The skeleton made a 'clang' sound, as if it was talking to him."

Xu Miaoyun shuddered when she heard this and returned to reality from her wild thoughts.

"So Zhuangzi struck twice and asked: Is it because you are greedy for physical enjoyment and violate the principles of health preservation, sir?"

Lin Che poured herself a glass of water and moistened her throat:

"Two more strikes."

"Or did you die because you were hunted down because of the great event of national subjugation?"

"Keep banging."

"Or maybe he did something embarrassing and was afraid of bringing shame to his parents, wife and children, so he committed suicide in shame?"

"The same beating as before."

"Is that because of the cold or hunger?"

"Two final blows."

"How about enjoying your life to the fullest and growing old naturally?"

After a pause, Lin Che said calmly: "After finishing speaking, Zhuangzi lit a bonfire on the spot and then fell asleep with the skull on his pillow."

Xu Miaoyun: "???"

"In the middle of the night, Zhuangzi dreamed of the owner of the skeleton. The other person said: Listening to you, it sounds like a person who is good at debating, but you never got the point."

"I've been asking nonsense for a long time."

Lin Che handed the remaining half glass of water to the astonished Xu Miaoyun, and asked with interest:

"Would you like to guess what the skeleton said to Zhuangzi next?"

"Zhuangzi realized the Tao in his dream. What did he realize?"

Xu Miaoyun: "!!!"

Hear this.

Xu Miaoyun shuddered involuntarily and felt goosebumps all over her body.

The name is a story told by Lin Chejian, but it is somehow permeable.

After all, in this era, people are in great awe of ghosts and gods, and even the emperor, who is aloof, is very taboo about these things.

Beating the skull, sleeping on it, and chatting in dreams.

If it were an ordinary person, he would probably be scared to death.

Too outrageous.

Seeing that the girl tightened her grip and didn't make a sound for a long time, Lin Che couldn't help shaking her head and laughing, and then stopped teasing her:

"The skeleton said to Zhuangzi: The sad things you said before are just the troubles of living people, and only you will care about them."

"No dead man is willing to answer the questions of a living man."

"But do you want to hear about the joy of the dead?"

Hearing this, Xu Miaoyun frowned and continued to speak as if she shouldn't have spoken. She thought to herself, where does the joy of the dead come from?

Could it be that there really is a paradise?

Death is like a lamp going out, how can we talk about happiness?

Is this too contradictory?

"Zhuangzi said what he wanted to hear without thinking."

After a pause, Lin Che continued:

"The skeleton owner said: "A person will not be ruled by others above, nor will he be made things difficult by officials below, nor will he worry about the end of his life. "

"I don't have to worry about class differences."

"No need to count time, no need to worry about heat or cold, I am happier than any other king."

"However, Zhuangzi didn't believe this, so he said: I am an old friend of the God in charge of life, and I can ask him to restore your life."

"Give you a form."

"Then I will send you back to your hometown to be with your temperamental children."

"If you are willing, I will tell her, what do you think of this..."

Hear this. Xu Miaoyun's almond-shaped eyes widened in disbelief, and she looked at Lin Che with confusion.

He searched through the memories in his mind, but he couldn't think of any time when Zhuangzi had made friends with immortals.

Why is it becoming more and more impossible?

"Here, Mr. Lin, the eldest son really has the ability to communicate with gods?

"Can you help the owner of the skeleton to reshape his body and return to the earth?"

Faced with the girl's surprise and confusion, Lin Che waved her hand lightly, telling the other party to calm down and not be anxious, and said slowly: "After the skeleton master heard this, he immediately became extremely unhappy, and immediately rejected Zhuang Zi's proposal, and said A sharp rebuttal.”

"Do you want me to give up the joy of being a king and return to the human world to suffer?"

"Dead people have long looked down on life and death. Life and death are things that you living people care about, not what we dead people pursue."

After that, he left angrily.

"The dream also ended abruptly."

Looking at the astonished Xu Miaoyun, Lin Che explained with a smile:

"In fact, Zhuangzi has no ability to communicate with gods. He is just teasing the owner of the skeleton. In other words, it is also to verify the true path."

"The Taoist ancestor said: Man follows the earth, earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and Tao follows nature."

"People's pursuit of happiness has never been more than an obsession."

"Everything comes from chance and enters into opportunity. This is Zhuangzi's answer to the changes in the world, and everything people see, hear, and perceive is just the process of changes in all things."

"Even you yourself are changing into something else and being transformed by something else all the time..."

Lin Che looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window with some sadness.

"When you are alive, your past self is dying every moment, a new self is dying every moment, and a new self is born every moment."

"When the cycle of death and rebirth continues, countless changes become the only inconvenient thing in the world."

"Therefore, why be happy about life and why be worried about death? Existence is a chance, and death is also inevitable."

"In short, if you look at it with enthusiasm, everything is uncontrollable."

"Therefore, helplessness and desolation are inevitable. Observe with an extremely cold eye, the sublimation of heaven and earth is the natural order."

Lin Che concluded

"People are just in a certain chain. Everyone has a lifelong destiny. Living well now is the most important thing."

"How long does it take for life and death to rest? Things change, stars change, spring returns."

"What is impermanence and permanence?"

"What is life and deathlessness?"

"These thoughts are the source of trouble!"

"Heaven and earth are inherently inactive. If the human world can be non-intentional, the myriad forms will eventually fall into one form."

"If people "have never tasted death, they have not tasted life", these meaningless thoughts are really just in vain."

“The more we pursue happiness, the farther we get away from it.”

“Only those who know how to stop and examine their hearts are truly enlightened.”

The words fell.

Xu Miaoyun was thoughtful, suppressing the shock in her heart at this moment, and nodded solemnly: "Thank you sir for your generous advice."

"The little girl has learned a lesson."

"The more you want too much, the more counterproductive it is. The process of chasing those things is not seeking happiness at all, but to satisfy selfish desires."

"Once you have desires, you will suffer if you don't get what you want."

"And know how to stop and look inside."

"How many people in the past and present have been able to do this?"

"Rare in number, one in a million!"

(End of this chapter)