After Becoming a Taoist

  Chapter 121 The Theory of a Gentleman

   "Father, didn't you notice that monk?"

   "What monk?" Li Fucheng suddenly got up, and there was saliva at the corner of his mouth: "Why did I fall asleep?"

  Li Dandao pulled out a small flying insect from Li Fuchengdao's nose: "What is this?"

   "Sleepy bugs?" Li Dandao pinched him to death. This Mahayana monk was inexplicable, and his words were also inexplicable.

   It seems that the bandit is stepping on the spot.

   By the way, could it be the Yaksha gang?

Li Dandao was thinking about things, but Li Fucheng was interested in the bug: "This bug ran into my nose, but I didn't itch, and I dozed off. It's really a good baby for treating insomnia. Middle-aged, I can't sleep even if I want to."

   blamed Li Dan again: "Why did you squeeze it to death? How good is it to keep it?"

"It's a sleepy worm, it's better to say it's a soul-eating worm. If you don't have enough soul qi, you naturally sleepy. What do you want this thing for? Sleep well."

   "Come on, I'm not used to smelling the scent, the more I smell it, the more sober I feel, I just feel like it's punching my nose." Li Fucheng shook his head and continued to pick up the dead bug's body.

  Li Dan's Tao is still reminiscent of Zhong Liquan's words, the Tao is not far from people.

   Road is not far away. Human beings are the Tao and are far away from others, but they cannot be Tao. This is a phrase in the mean.

   But Taoism also has many scriptures.

  Some people criticize the Buddha and the Tao together, saying that it is a knowledge born in the world, and they are tired of the world and flee from Zen.

  Taoism has never been a born-in-the-world knowledge, the Taoist classics, the Tao Te Ching says: sages are impermanent. With the heart of the people.

   does not mean that he wholeheartedly considers the people. The emperor does not need to have his own thoughts, but listens to the opinions of the people.

   Isn't this the program of our party later, to serve the people wholeheartedly!

   Could it be that he is instructing himself that he does not need to break into the house and become a fairy in the world?

  Li Dandao remembered several Taoist priests, Guiguzi, the legendary immortals, the ancestors of Wang Chan, Xuanweizi, and disciples in Taoism. How active were they in the Warring States Period?

   Thinks of Zhangliang, Marquis of Hanliu, the legendary disciple of Duke Huangshi. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, it is said that he went to practice with Chisongzi and became immortal.

   A little closer, isn't Li Chunfeng too? And the previous Kou Qianzhi.

   seems to be mixed in the red dust.

   Therefore, there is something to say about Taoism: Taoism is divided into two schools of heaven and man. As everyone knows, there is no reason for separation between heaven and man.

   Dao is not far from people, is it that Li Dan Dao asked in the red dust? Practicing the Dharma?

   But think about it, it’s not suitable for you to be born and practice, running to the mountains to be exposed to the wind and the sun, drinking dew, looking for immortal herbs, and refining elixir?

forget it!

  Li Dan said that he was still hesitating before, but now he has completely figured it out.

   I was in a good mood for a while, and I could not help but hum a little song.

   "Humans are not that person, and ghosts are not that ghost, gods and ghosts are more lovely than that gentleman~"

   "Why is your song so gloomy and miserable, why are ghosts and ghosts more cute than a gentleman?"

   "Haha, Dad, you are a gentleman!"

   "Then what do you mean by a righteous person."

   "A gentleman is a hypocrite, a hypocrite, a human being, not a return to nature, a person who restrains his own nature with various behaviors, that is, a person who restrains himself is a gentleman."

   Li Fucheng smiled: "How can a gentleman get a fake character?"

   "Xunzi said that human nature is inherently evil, and Confucius said that human nature is inherently good. Father, which one do you think is right?"

   Li Fucheng said: "I think it's a blank piece of paper, neither good nor evil."

  Li Dandao shook his head: "Human nature is inherently evil. For example, if a baby is in the womb of the mother's womb, it will make his mother restless, take away the mother's vitality, and achieve herself."

   "Even the mother died of dystocia at birth."

   "When you are hungry, you feed on milk. After teething, you bite your mother very hard, and eat **** milk."

   "At the age of two or three, he began to mutilate living beings, chasing chickens and dogs."

   "You can only ask for things from a young age. If you don't have the guidance of your parents, let's see how he changes, stealing, robbing, lazy, irritable and useless."

  Li Dandao said: "With the guidance of parents and timely correction, although there is no great talent, it is also harmless to others."

  Li Dan asked, "Is that so?"

  Li Fucheng nodded: "It's a bit crooked."

  Li Dan said: "Just like planting vegetable seedlings in a vegetable field, you have to hold it with a small stick to grow straight and straight. Are these human interventions?"

   "This is man-made power. The ancient guru drank blood, and in the back there was the concept of ritual and rudeness."

"So when ritual collapses and music breaks down, it's the most chaotic time in the Central Plains, isn't it? Because ritual is restraining people's morality, like a little girl shouting in the street: Indecent! There will be a lot of justice. The gentleman jumped out to help the girl.

   "If it was in ancient times, if a stick was knocked out and dragged into a cave, they would become husband and wife."

   "Etiquette and morality are the biggest differences between humans and animals."

   After listening to Li Fucheng, he immediately felt that what his son said seemed to be the case.

   At this moment, applause came from outside: "Good insight, where do you study, child? Which gentleman teaches?"

   But it was a middle-aged scribe in black.

   "Then if you think that human nature is inherently evil, do you rule the world with etiquette or rule the world with law?"

   "Don't talk about the state! Don't talk about the state!"

  Li Dandao immediately closed his mouth.

  Li Fucheng apologized, "I'm really sorry that the child has made a lot of nonsense and stained your ears."

  Li Dandao also giggled: "We are a pharmacy, a place to govern people, turn left two streets ahead, and the Simen Pavilion. There are many students there, who study the art of governing the country."

  The scribe smiled and said, "It just so happens that I also have a disease, which has been delayed for a long time. I just heard about the gentleman, and I want to hear about ghosts and spirits. I wonder if you can chat with me?"

  Li Dan said with a smile: "The distinguished guests don't go to the Simen Pavilion, look for well-educated people, ask about the world's major events, the current situation and policies, but instead ask me about ghosts and gods. Isn't this just not asking people to ask ghosts and gods?"

Li Dan said again: "Looking at your complexion, you should be free from illness, except that the early birth of Hua Fa is caused by too much work and hard work, you can rest well, if you want to see it, then I can only prescribe some tonic pills. "

   "Haha, it's a good one not to ask the common people, but to ask the ghosts and gods."

   I saw this scribe laughing, a bit of Wei and Jin's wild recklessness.

  Li Dandao grabbed some pills for him and told him how to use it.

   This person took the medicine and dropped a purse: "Don't look for it."

   As a result, Li Dan opened it and saw that it was all copper, which was not enough at all.

   But take a closer look, the money is newly minted and not yet annealed!

   There are only a hundred or so, all of them are new money.

  Who is this person?

  How can I use the new money? Officials?

  The new money has not been used by human hands, and it has just been minted. The words on it are "Wu De Tong Bao."

   Wu character with a hook knife, there is a murderous look, it seems to be written by a military general.

   "Could this be sacrificial money? Reward money?"

  In ancient times, it was true that there was no large-scale unification of copper coins. For example, after four years of Wude, there was Kaiyuan Tongbao, or ingots, which were different from five baht coins.

  Wu De Tong Bao is indeed hardly seen on the market.

   However, although this money is not enough for medicine, if it is of collection value, it is still worth a lot of money after a few years.

   This belongs to the money of the founding emperor and can be made into a magic weapon.

   But this also proves that the scribe in black just now is not an ordinary person.

   (end of this chapter)