When Zhang Yue and Liu Zuo returned to their apartment together.
But seeing Xiang Qi and Huang Haoyi standing outside the door, Zhang Yue and the others couldn't help but be curious: "May I ask what's going on?"
Huang Haoyi pointed towards the house, and the two of them looked inside. Cheng Yizheng was holding a book, sitting on the bed with his knees facing the wall, and he was mumbling words over and over again.
Zhang Yue looked on, dumbfounded, and thought to himself, It's over, it's over, he has led an unparalleled great master of Neo-Confucianism astray.
Zhang Yue suddenly felt infinite regret in his heart. He had nothing to do and was pretending to be cool. Although he did not agree with the views of Neo-Confucianism, without Neo-Confucianism, the history of Chinese thought would have lost one of its most colorful volumes.
In order to show off, if I kill Cheng Yi's point of view, then I will become a sinner.
Zhang Yue didn't know what to do at this moment.
"Sanlang, what exactly did you say to Brother Mochimasa?"
Zhang Yue said: "It's just a verse."
Liu Zuodao: "Oh? Sanlang is proficient in the Buddhist family?"
Buddhist verses are composed of four sentences.
All conditioned dharmas are like bubbles in a dream. It is like dew and electricity, so it should be viewed as such. This is a verse from the Diamond Sutra.
Also, 'Bodhi has no tree, and a bright mirror is not a stand. There is nothing there, so where is the dust? 'This is also a verse.
Buddhist verses generally consist of four sentences. And these four sentences, "There is no good and no disgusting body", are also called the Four Secrets of Mind Learning. Wang Yangming called it the purpose he has learned throughout his life. Many people have thought hard about it for hundreds of years, but Cheng Yi could not understand it in a short time.
When Liu Zuo heard Zhang Yue repeat the "Four Sentences from the Heart", the other party also looked at a loss.
Liu Zuodao: "Brother Cheng has always been like this, let's not disturb him."
Zhang Yue said: "That's all we can do. Let's go to the restaurant for lunch first."
"That's okay! I'm hungry too."
The four of them immediately left together. Zhang Yue looked at Cheng Yi inside the house and said, "Brother Chizheng, we are going to eat!"
Cheng Yi didn't react at all and didn't listen to Zhang Yue's words.
Everyone had no choice but to go to eat first.
Along the way, Liu Zuo and Zhang Yue said: "But on the days of the third and eighth class exams, the public kitchen will set up special dishes, cooking cakes in the spring and autumn, cold cooking in the summer, and steamed buns in the winter. This steamed bun is the most famous, and even our imperial students can't bear to part with it. Eat it and give it to someone you know."
At this moment, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think of the Taixue steamed buns that Cai Que treated him to. They were really delicious.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but ask: "What about weekdays?"
Liu Zuo sighed and said to Qi: "We Tai students have a saying, 'There is Fa Toutuo Temple, and there is no official Yushitai.' But Kunliang is self-promising. We in the university all laugh at ourselves, using the shadow as our wife and the chair as our concubine."
At this point everyone laughed loudly.
Zhang Yue laughed secretly in his heart, isn't it true that the left hand is the right hand?
"As for the 'Unofficial Yushitai', I don't need to say more."
I heard that in recent years, the students of the Taipei University were very fond of commenting on current affairs, even saying that the ministers dared not speak out, and scolding the censor did not dare to scold others. Therefore, it was called the "Unofficial Censor's Platform".
Everyone immediately went to the public kitchen. Today was not a test day, so the food was really mediocre.
The Imperial Academy originally had only 200 people, but recently it has expanded to more than 700 people, so the funds are not enough. On weekdays, the food money spent on students for a month is only 300 cash, which is an average of 10 cash per day.
Therefore, Hu Yuan and other Taixue lecturers used their own salaries to provide extra meals to students on the Wednesday and August test days.
Different from the separate meals in Zhouxue County, Taixue has shared meals, with one room and one table. There is a wooden bucket on the table, which contains about two liters of rice, which is less than five hens of rice per person, and there are some pickles.
As for each person, there is rice soup in a clay pot, and the rest is Wuhe rice. But there is one dish that is the same as the prefecture and county schools, and that is steamed eggplant.
A few steamed eggplants were cut in half, and the white flesh was poured with fermented sauce. It tasted really good.
But when it comes to eating eggplant, we have to talk about Zhu Xi.
When Zhu Xi was lecturing in Wuyi Mountain, he and his students would eat millet rice and eggplant on weekdays. One day, a man named Hu Hong came all the way to visit Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi fed him eggplant and millet rice.
Hu Hong was so angry that he would say to everyone he met, "This is inhumane." A chicken is worth wine, and there is no shortage in the mountains.'
Even if there is nothing in the mountains, you still entertain me with a chicken and wine. I have never seen such an unkind person like you.
Then after Hu Hong became an official, he impeached Zhu Xi as the chief culprit of pseudo-learning!
Such a poor life in Taixue reminded Zhang Yue of "eating second- and third-class food and being a first- and second-class person" in the prefectural and county schools.
But looking at the purple eggplant, Zhang Yue couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Eat purple eggplant today, wear purple clothes tomorrow!"
Everyone laughed after hearing this.
After everyone had eaten, Liu Zuo put the leftovers in clay pots, covered them with bowls, and took them back to the studio.
But I saw Cheng Yi still covering his head in the studio, sitting cross-legged on the couch and thinking hard against the wall. Liu Zuo took the rice and said, "Chizheng, take a bite!"
But Cheng Yi shook his head.
Liu Zuo said helplessly to Zhang Yue: "Sanlang, you'd better give him some advice!"
Zhang Yue was about to step forward, but he hesitated. Thinking of the consequences of leading Cheng Yi astray, would he lose Neo-Confucianism in the future?
There are three schools of Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, namely Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, Lu Jiuyuan's Xinxue, and Lu Zuqian's Merit School, which are three pillars.
Neo-Confucianism was established as an official school by the Ming Dynasty, which was the Ming Dynasty's governing ideology.
A doctrine is adapted to an era.
What makes Zhang Yue better than Cheng Yi is his vision and the knowledge and insights accumulated over a thousand years.
Cheng Yi did not know Wang Yangming, had not read the biography, and did not understand Western philosophy or modern thought. This is not something that a person can transcend no matter how smart he is or how hard he works to experience it. This is the difference in vision.
Zhang Yue sat next to Cheng Yi and asked, "Brother Cheng, have you realized anything?"
Cheng Yi looked at Zhang Yue with bloodshot eyes and said: "Sanlang, I haven't understood it even after thinking about it for a day. There is no good or disgusting body. This is Wu. If the mind is said to have no good and no evil, then the mind, knowledge, and things There is neither good nor evil, so why is it called existence? Since there is nothing but three existences, it should be four nothings. Since there are three existences, there must be four existences, and one cannot be one nothingness."
Zhang Yue smiled when he heard this and asked other questions. I definitely don't understand. When you ask this, I know, because there are ready-made answers in the book that you can copy.
Zhang Yue immediately laughed and said, "I had expected that Brother Chizheng would ask this question!"
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When Cheng Yi heard Zhang Yue's words, he couldn't help but stand in awe, and the people on the side also pricked up their ears.
Zhang Yue's state was so extraordinary, he had already anticipated everything.
Zhang Yue said: "Actually, one nothingness and three existences are the origin, and there is nothing wrong in looking at it from anywhere. However, the theory of four existences and four nothings each holds on to one side, and there is something wrong if it is exhausted."
"Mr. An Ding said that what does it mean to understand the body and use it? The clear body is the clear mind. The heart is neither good nor evil, that is nothingness. The use is the intention, knowledge, and effort, that is existence."
"The four things are to find the ultimate use and then work from the ultimate use to the essence. The four non-existences are to work hard from the heart and reach the essence from the essence."
"What's the difference? One moment it's from Da Yong to the noumenon, and the other moment it's from the noumenon to Da Yong, we're all confused." Liu Zuo couldn't help but say.
"There are two classes of people in this world. One class has sharp roots, and the other has dull roots. According to the theory of the Four Nothings, even Yan Zi may not be able to fully understand the essence of people who are connected to the upper roots. How can we expect ordinary people to do so? . On the contrary, the theory of the Four Beings can be used from Da to Noumenon to guide people with blunt faculties."
"The disease of the theory of the Four Nothings is that it is untrue, and the disease of the theory of the Four Beings is not exhausted in the enlightened body."
Xiang Qi on the side said: "Sanlang made it somewhat clear to me. It's similar to 'Learning without thinking will lead to ignorance; thinking without learning will lead to peril'."
Liu Zuodao: "Learning is to apply it, to know the world, and thinking is to understand the body and know oneself. As Laozi said, it is easy to know others, but it is difficult to know oneself!"
Cheng Yi saw that Zhang Yue was noncommittal. Although he knew that Liu Zuo and Xiang Qiu were wrong, it still gave him a feeling of enlightenment.
Cheng Yi said: "Sanlang, I understand. Before the body is illuminated, the way to find the body is to use it. This is to study things to gain knowledge. The order of this is to read these four sentences upside down. If the body is already illuminated, Then from the clear body to the practical use, this is the correct reading of the four sentences."
Zhang Yue couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this. Yes, that's the truth.
Unexpectedly, I couldn't understand the truth even after reading four sentences and thinking about it for a long time. Cheng Yijing understood it after just a few words.
Cheng Yi seemed to be talking to himself: "Yes, the fourth sentence is about investigating things, the third sentence is about knowing, the second sentence is about sincerity, the second sentence is about righteousness, and finally the first sentence is about being honest."
"This is what is said in the university, 'If you want to correct your mind, you must first be honest with your intention. If you want to be honest with your intention, you must first know the truth. To know things, you must study things.' This is the way of the Four Beings. However, what Brother Zhang said, In addition to the four beings, there is also the four nothings. First, correct your mind, then be sincere in your intentions, then develop your knowledge, and finally understand your things. This is really difficult. This is the way to get started in Buddhism. You must first understand your nature and see your nature. How many people can do it.”
"How can I, Cheng Yi, dare to compare with Yan Zi? Therefore, what I have learned in my life is still above the 'Four Beings'. But without Sanlang's advice, I might not have realized this. Sanlang, you are really my teacher of the Four Us!"
Zhang Yue's face turned red at this moment, and now it was his turn not to understand.
But there was no way, I had to pretend to be so good that I had to finish pretending to him with tears in my eyes.
Zhang Yue said extremely calmly: "Of course, Brother Cheng, this is the end of what I can help you with."
Zhang Yue felt relieved at the moment. From this sentence, he learned that Cheng Yi's thoughts had not been changed by him, but had been inspired by him.
On the contrary, it made his knowledge deeper, which is the improvement of his horizons.
Cheng Yi said: "No, Cheng will be successful in what he has learned in the future. He should thank Sanlang for his advice today. Sanlang is the most knowledgeable person Cheng has ever seen, except for Mr. Lian Anding and the two gentlemen. I always ask for help from Saburo!"
"Don't you dare!" Zhang Yue hurriedly said, "On matters of knowledge, you and I can just sit down and discuss each other. We are not in the same room as asking for help."
Cheng Yi looked at Liu Zuo on his left and right and said, "Well, since Sanlang said so, Cheng will have more discussions with Sanlang in the future."
Hearing this, Zhang Yue just breathed a sigh of relief.
As for the people on his left and right, Cheng Yi has not been convinced by anyone since he entered the Imperial Academy, but now he actually admires Zhang Yue. It seems that Zhang Saburo is a very capable person!
