Ye Feng thought for a while, thinking about how to use simple examples to explain to Tu Shanling:
"Ling'er, it may be simpler to give some chestnuts. For example, nature itself has no such thing as "effort", so "involution" will not occur in nature. The universe can flow with incomparable precision without effort. Everything in the heaven and earth moves effortlessly. The sun does not work hard to shine and heat, and the earth does not work hard to rotate and revolve. The seasons can change without any effort, and flowers, plants, trees, and animals grow naturally. "
"Effort is a man-made pseudo-concept and does not belong to the state of nature. All things in the world can still operate with zero effort and pressure without making any mistakes. But effort means tension and pressure, and tension and pressure means With anxiety, anxiety will bring pain and unhappiness. Pain and unhappiness are not the natural state of life. Life is inherently joyful and free."
"Taking us humans as an example, perhaps we have too many worries and helplessness and cannot bear the cost of trial and error in order to survive. You think you have made the "right choice", and your relatives, friends, parents and teachers have all chosen the "right choice" for you. " and applause. But you can't have everything go your way. You make the wrong choice, feel burned inside, and extremely anxious. You care too much about what others say is "right", but you forget to ask yourself whether you like it. Whether you are good at it or not. Maybe we have never taken off the mask, stood in front of the mirror, and took a good look at everything about ourselves. Look at our strengths and weaknesses, and examine ourselves."
"In fact, the Tao Te Ching advocates conforming to nature and the way of heaven, and not resisting objective laws. Confucianism later mentioned 'mandate of heaven', and military strategists talked about 'power'. As the saying goes: 'The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.' This sentence summarizes It explains the success of all princes, generals, and reckless heroes throughout the ages. Taoism does not let you lie down and wait to die. Taoism just does not want you to make efforts to go against the odds."
At this time, Tushan Xinyue suddenly interrupted: "Then Mr. Ye, why do you want to make such counter-trend efforts as 'Mortal Immortal Civilization'?"
Ye Feng casually glanced at Tu Shan Xinyue and said: "Because I am not a Taoist, I am a heretic and a traitor to the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism."
After speaking, Ye Feng continued to say to Tu Shanling: "In fact, Taoism does not want you to make efforts that go against the trend, but more importantly, it does not want you to make efforts that go against your own conscience, and does not want you to make efforts that are obsessed with desire. Otherwise The end result: The harder you work, the more painful it will be, so why bother? Why bother?
"In fact, Taoism still advocates 'doing'. As the saying goes, 'doing nothing without doing anything', 'inaction' is just its appearance, and 'doing' is its pursuit. The function of "Tao" is inaction, and its The effect is to do everything. Therefore, it is natural for Tao to follow nature. In fact, this is highly consistent with Zhu Xi's "preserve the principles of nature and destroy human desires" and the essence of Wang Yangming's "unity of knowledge and action, leading to conscience" .”
"Ever since the word "effort" was mentioned, it means going against the trend and going against oneself. For example, if you like an unrestrained life, but for money, you have to join a corporate job with many rules and regulations, you have to abide by them. All rules and regulations. In this case, your efforts will only cause you pain and have no other purpose, and will not bring you any spiritual satisfaction or pleasure. On the contrary, you love planting trees, and you hope to restore a desert into Dense forests, for which you continue to practice tree planting activities. You dig holes, plant trees, apply fertilizer, get up early in the dark, and sweat profusely. You are very hard. At this time, if someone asks you why you work so hard and suffer, you will definitely be confused. , with a blank look on your face. Because you won’t feel that you are working hard or suffering, because in this process, what you get is a steady stream of spiritual satisfaction and pleasure. You enjoy it. This is the essence of Wang Yangming’s philosophy of mind. 'Unity of knowledge and action'. Another example is that the education you received tells you to be filial to your parents and elders, and social ethics require you to be filial to your parents, so you mop the floor, wash the feet, cook, wash clothes, etc. for your parents, but this is not knowledge and action. But when you see that your parents are old and have difficulty moving, and you especially want to buy them a wheelchair and wrap up the sharp places in the room, you are worried that they will get injured and fall due to collision. When you do these various behaviors, you do not There is no idea or concept of deliberately performing filial piety, but you just make these actions naturally and act naturally in accordance with your own heart. At this time, you have achieved the unity of knowledge and action."
"The efforts of Taoists are to follow nature, follow the way of heaven, follow nature, and follow one's own destiny. It is natural, an act that has no regrets, no regrets, no regrets in success or failure. For example, if you can be the best in the world in martial arts. If you command the world, then everyone will strive to be the number one, even at the cost of bloodshed, swords and swords. And if there is no benefit to being number one in martial arts, look at who else will compete for number one in the world, but the corresponding people who learn martial arts will also There will be less, and everyone will pursue other beneficial things. But when other things are not beneficial, what will happen to people? At that time, it is like the carrot in front of the donkey's nose disappears, and the temptation in front of him is gone. , the original intention will come back, and then the donkey will move freely according to his own mind. He likes to eat grass, go wherever he likes, and do what he likes. This peaceful and peaceful state is " The state promoted by the Tao Te Ching is that everyone can do what they like and do what they are good at, instead of working hard and forcing themselves to do things in order to pursue other things."
Tu Shanling finally understood at this moment and said angrily: "Thank you for taking such pains to use such a simple example in order to let me understand."
Ye Feng said: "You're welcome, it's just a last resort."
Tu Shanling scolded: "Go away, don't treat me like a fool!"
Ye Feng said seriously: "Ling'er, I will only say the following once, and I will only listen to your answer once, so there will be no falsehood in what I say below. Although I am a big liar, please believe me this time, trust me What I have said to you before, no matter how big the matter is, I will handle it. So at this moment, I just want to hear your own inner judgment and choice."
Tu Shanling fell silent after hearing this. She looked into Ye Feng's eyes, then at her grandfather and second grandma, and then at Qing Ni who was looking at her because she was worried about her. She bit her red lips, clenched her pink fists, and silently He lowered his head and trembled all over. After a long time, he finally said slowly: "I don't want to marry. I don't want to marry someone I don't know or like. I want to stay by your side, Feng."
Ye Feng smiled and said happily: "I understand. Then leave everything to me."
