In the square of Zhanhumen, Li Qi said with a smile: "You seem to have gained something."
"Thank you for your advice, sir. I seem to understand a little bit what you mean."
Li Qize nodded slightly: "You should have a purpose in doing things, practice is just a means, and in order to achieve this purpose, you should have your own set of standards for judging the world, so that you know what is good and what is bad."
"I will think about it." Juye bowed to express gratitude.
He understood what Li Qi meant.
To judge good from bad, the first thing you must have is a standard. Without standards, then everything will be the same and there will be no good or bad.
And this standard is the standard by which people view the world, which is the embodiment of Tao in people.
This standard does not necessarily conform to the external objective world, so it needs to be tempered. Either you smooth the external world and change the entire world, or the external world smoothes you and changes your standards.
But no matter what, the first thing you have to establish is your own standards. With standards, you have the qualifications to examine the world.
Yes, people without standards are not qualified to examine the world, because in your opinion, the world is all the same, good and evil, strength and weakness all exist naturally. In the end, you can only be infiltrated by the world and let the world become you. The only standard is to go with the flow.
However, if you want to establish your own set of standards, you need a lot of practical experience, thinking, and observation.
Juye is still too young and has experienced too few things. It is difficult for him to establish his own standards, that is, he does not have his own 'Tao'. His standards are all instilled by the outside world. He does not even understand where these standards come from. .
To give the simplest example——
The outside world tells you that money is important.
Everyone tells you that money is important. Your actual experience also proves that money is important. The concepts instilled by others, as well as specific events in the external society, all show that money is important.
That is, you also think money is important.
So, why do you think money is important?
Some people may say that money can buy social resources, buy food, buy housing, and even buy the loyalty of others, which leads to the idea that 'money is everything'.
So, is money really everything?
Don’t think this is a simple question, because in the primitive world, or when there was a disaster, would money still be useful when social rules collapsed?
This is not to deny the role of money, but people should think about where does the 'use' of money come from? Why is money useful? Why can a piece of paper do so much?
Finally, after discussion, study, and comparison of history and modern systems, we can come to a conclusion.
That is to say: money is a kind of power to allocate social resources under the current social system. Under the current social system, holding money means having the power to allocate the entire social resources. This power can be exchanged for materials. , the means of production, and labor force, and the source of this power is the 'consensus of the entire society', which is the exchange ability of 'money' jointly given by all the owners of the entire society.
Therefore, the usefulness of money is based on the current social rules. If it changes to another social rule, it may not be useful.
So, what you just know about the nature of 'money' may not be correct, but at least it is a conclusion.
Therefore, only if you know the essence of money can you make better use of money or subvert money.
Instead of holding the empty and superficial view that 'money can buy things, so money is useful'.
It's like you only know how to use magic, but don't know how to get close to the 'Tao' through magic.
Yes, under this set of logic, 'money' is magic, and the operating logic of the entire society is the 'Tao' of society and the way of civilization.
It is the 'Tao' that developed the technique. If you master the Tao, you will be able to better control money.
From this point of view, you don’t know how money works. If others use their own way to cover your money, your money will be useless. No matter how much money you accumulate, it will be useless. It’s like the way of humanity changes the time of day, and countless civilizations practice A lifetime of magic collapsed immediately.
People who just believe in phenomena, regard magic as truth, and regard "Tao" as an illusory thing lack cognitive ability, because they only rely on experience and instinct to understand the world, rashly believe in life experience, and rely on daily life. Common sense of life lacks comprehensive study and rigorous derivation.
If the world is a game, then the ignorant people study the gameplay of the game, study the optimal solution of a certain play method, and study how to improve the numerical value, but the Taoist people study the game code and even the underlying language.
Go explore the 'Tao' and don't spend too much energy on the 'technique'.
When you have a certain understanding of "Tao", you will naturally become proficient in "Shu", even more proficient than those who have studied magic for a lifetime.
This is what Li Qi wants to tell Ju Ye.
This is what Tianxia wants to tell all civilizations in the universe.
The Tao taught by Li Qiyao in Immortal Heaven is this 'Tao'. This is not a specific thinking idea, but a whole set of cognition and thinking methods.
Through this method, the conclusions drawn are likely to be completely opposite, but it does not prevent this set of cognitive thinking methods from continuing to be effective.
Li Qi came to the conclusion through this method that the world exists objectively, just like money exists objectively, but there may be some differences in expression between the world in my eyes and the world in your eyes.
This is what Li Qi thinks is the answer. Li Qi thinks so, but he may not be right.
For spiritual Taoists, they believe that the world is the world, and the definition of human beings will not change the world itself. What they want to find is the 'noumenon of the world', that is, the foundation of everything, and then use this foundation to interpret everything in the world. possibility.
For the devil, their cognition is the real world, and the world itself is shaped by their subjective will. When the eyes are open, the flowers will bloom, and when the eyes are closed, the flowers will be silent.
For Li Dao, the foundation of the world cannot be traced. The limited world of phenomena can only be interpreted subjectively. The true nature is unknowable to us and cannot be described by logic, so we only need to pay attention to the phenomena and summarize. Phenomenon, from the phenomenon, the blind man feels the elephant, and finds out a little bit of the "Tao".
For Taoists, they recognize the ultimate existence of Tao and believe that the ultimate existence of Tao exists in all things. The material itself carries the Tao, and the Tao is the embodiment of the laws of matter. As long as it is paired with 'De', it can go in and out. In the Tao, true freedom is obtained.
This is also the so-called "What is true in all things is Dao; what is connected with heaven and earth is Virtue." '
These are the answers they got through thinking and practice. Therefore, when you explore why the world exists, when you want to understand the essence of the world, and understand what 'Tao' is, you must first understand , for the external world, human practice is the essence.
Therefore, there is a saying that "the Tao is within it". Through "the Tao is within it", we come to the conclusion that "the Tao is outside it".
Although the various orthodox traditions are contradictory to each other, they give people directions and ways to think. This is fundamentally different from being confused and making blind guesses, or simply following the crowd.
Perhaps the views and conclusions of various traditions may be wrong, but the thinking itself is not wrong.
Looking at Ju Ye who was lost in thought again, Li Qi felt that enough had been said.
So, he waved his hand and left behind a trace of book. This was an introductory practice method for Taoism. It systematically explained how to condense the inner alchemy, how to recognize the existence of 'Tao', etc.
In this way, Juye will have his own support after all those powers are exhausted.
As for these so-called 'bad guys' in front of us...
Juye should handle it by himself. Li Qi was curious. After Juye's external cultivation is exhausted, how will he deal with so many existences?
I'm afraid I can only practice the Taoist skills I left behind, right?
This is cognition and practice.
Of course, it doesn't matter if the other party doesn't practice, Li Qi just does it casually.
After doing this, Li Qi left the place and dispelled the formation directly.
The mountain god outside looked at Li Qi who came out and quickly lowered his head.
Li Qi returned the salute and said, "I'm sorry for bothering the Mountain God. Now that the matter is over, please go back."
After saying this, Li Qi disappeared.
After that, Li Qi began to walk in the mortal world.
This journey lasted more than five hundred years.
He met many cities like Bailu City, which seemed to be an example. Later, he faced one of the city lords directly and found that the other party had mastered a practice method similar to the evil method of humanity, that is, gathering the power of people to For personal use.
But this is just a similarity, not a humane method. There is also a very clear development process of Xiantian Kung Fu, so it is obviously developed by Xiantian himself.
It's quite advanced. Xiantian actually mastered this method on his own. Although it is very crude, it is normal for things in the mortal world to be crude. The difference should be big after ascension.
Everywhere he goes, he will find someone like Juye, who is smart, has a good heart, can think, is in a bad situation, and has enough pressure and motivation to do things.
Find such a person, then guide the other person, preach, clear up doubts, and then leave.
And so on.
Occasionally, Li Qi would stop and feel the customs and customs of Immortal Heaven, just like the gods coming to the mortal world to experience life, taste the food from various places and see the scenery.
But he never takes action and disappears directly when encountering conflicts, just like a ghost wandering in the mortal world.
More than five hundred years have passed by in a blink of an eye, and everything has happened so quickly.
Mortal life is like a mayfly, living and dying, drifting with the tide, they live a lifetime, but in fact they only live for three days.
When you are young, when you are strong, when you are old.
These three days repeated themselves, filling their pale and empty lives.
Just like the mortal world in Immortal Heaven.
In the mortal world of immortality, there are endless disputes, and everyone is just working hard to ascend. How are these mortals similar to this situation?
According to Li Qi's speculation, the mortal world in Immortal Heaven may have a history of no less than tens of billions of years.
As a first-class world, a history of tens of billions of years is not unusual.
But for tens of billions of years, the immortal world and the mortal world have been wandering in this barbaric era. Once everyone makes a breakthrough, they will be immediately sent to the real world...
This situation is exactly the same as that of ordinary people.
This is not tens of billions of years of history, this is the same day, the same thing repeated for tens of billions of years.
A history that has stagnated has also resulted in a civilization that has stagnated.
Is this situation intentional by the high-ranking people in Immortal Heaven?
Li Qi didn't know, but he felt that with his current strength, he might be able to make some waves in this stagnant water.
Of course, Li Qi was not planning to do anything big, as that would bring trouble to himself.
If one has weak virtue but has a high position, has little knowledge but has great plans, has little strength but has a heavy responsibility, then it will be like a tripod breaking its legs and overturning a duke's crown. It is a handsome person, and disaster will surely come later.
If you are not virtuous but hold a high position, if you are weak in wisdom but want to plan big things, if you are weak in power but take on heavy responsibilities, you will only bring disaster and ultimately harm others and yourself.
No matter how much you are capable of doing, don't force yourself.
The mortal world of Immortal Heaven is very big. Li Qi has only been wandering within a radius of tens of billions of miles until now. I don’t know if it is one trillionth of the mortal world of Immortal Heaven. After all, this place is based on light. The area is calculated in years.
However, following Li Qi's actions, in this area of the immortal world... a sect, the Zhendao Sect, has become famous in hundreds of years.
Li Qi learned about it and found that this was a newly established sect by the group of people he preached to.
Zhendao Sect has extraordinary unity. Under the huge pressure from the outside world, they still develop rapidly.
Nothing else but the unity brought about by Zhudao’s characteristics.
In the world of immortals and mortals, the side that resents the development of the Zhendao Sect has a large number of people that crushes the Zhendao Sect. However, the disciples of the Zhendao Sect can wake up to each other and carry out actions to coordinate tactics and strategies. On the other hand, although the other side has a large number of people, it is not united. , so it is completely unable to stop Zhendao Sect.
However, in Li Qi's view, there are also Daoist disputes within the Zhendao Sect. After all, different ways of thinking will naturally produce differences, and Daoist disputes will naturally arise. However, after all, the external pressure is too strong, and a sect has too many things to contend with. , so the delay is done secretly, and I don’t dare to be too obvious.
However, everything depends on comparison. On the side of Xiantian, it cannot be called holding back, it is directly cutting off the hindrance. Whoever is responsible for fighting against the Zhendao Sect is equal to being attacked from both sides. Being surrounded by his own allies and the Zhendao Sect at the same time, naturally he cannot fight and can only Defeated steadily.
As the Zhendao Sect became more and more powerful, over the past five hundred years, they had finally become a super power in the area. Their reputation had surpassed that of cities like Bailu City, and there were faint signs of annexing more than a dozen such large cities.
This kind of momentum made Li Qi very interested more than five hundred years later.
He wanted to come and see what the seeds he had sown had grown into now.
After traveling for a few days, Li Qi went to the mountain gate of Zhendao Sect.
Zhendao Sect's mountain gate is also surrounded by numerous prosperous areas, mainly at the foot of the mountain. Due to the gathering of admirers, a large city has been formed.
However, Li Qi discovered that there were unexpectedly many people coming.
This was not normal, so he scanned his shallow thoughts and discovered something.
The founder of Zhen Dao Sect is about to ascend.
(End of chapter)
