The narrator said: Ye Yu, let me ask you, is it possible for Ye Feng to deal with all the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance?
Ye Yu said: That's right.
The narrator said: Ye Feng majored in human nature. I can understand that he reached the peak of human nature because he realized the world of mortals and was greedy, angry and ignorant. However, in all Taoist principles other than the humane Tao, one must be pure of heart and have few desires in order to achieve anything. Therefore, it stands to reason that Ye Feng cannot achieve very high achievements in other Taoisms except the humane Tao. But why can Ye Feng understand every principle so profoundly? I know you are going to say that because Humanity has absorbed those Dao principles, it has raised the level of those Dao principles, but Ye Feng obviously truly understood and mastered those Dao principles in his heart, otherwise Ye Feng would not have been able to create Human Dao techniques— - Quiet, pale, brown, embers. This kind of unprecedented innovation in the principles of time and space would not have been possible without Ye Feng's own clear inner understanding. Don't tell me that he is the protagonist and has a protagonist's halo. This is tantamount to avoiding an answer and not answering.
Ye Yu was obviously defeated. After being stunned for a moment, he said: You are not stupid at all. I wonder if you still remember what path Ye Feng took?
The narrator said: The hereditary Taoism is based on Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but it betrays the three schools and forms its own sect. The reference proportion of different Taoism is Taoism, which is the largest, Buddhism the smallest, and Confucianism in the middle.
Ye Yu said: Yes, you were talking about Taoist cultivation before, and Ye Feng has the unconventional achievements you said, not because of his protagonist aura, but because of Buddhism. No matter how small the proportion of Buddhism is, there are still elements of Buddhism in it.
Then let me talk about some Buddhist things.
You should know that to practice Buddhism, you must keep the precepts. There are five precepts in Buddhism, namely, not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual misconduct, not to lie, and not to drink alcohol. These five precepts are the three psychological behaviors of "greed, anger, and ignorance", which are concrete expressions of the body, limbs, and mouth and tongue. Therefore, these five precepts are the benchmark for all Buddhist precepts.
On this point, Buddhism and Confucianism have something in common. Confucianism regards the Five Constant Virtues as the standard for life, while Buddhism regards the Five Precepts as the conditions for attaining true enlightenment in the future. The five constant elements are benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. Among the five precepts, it is benevolence not to kill randomly, righteousness not to steal, propriety not to engage in sexual misconduct, faith not to lie, and wisdom to not drink alcohol and be sober.
However, despite all the high-sounding words, Ye Feng doesn’t think so. Ye Feng thinks:
"When your mind is calm, why do you need to keep the precepts? When your body is upright, why do you need to sit in meditation."
This sentence was said by the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism. Meaning: If you can cultivate your mind, do you still need to keep the precepts? If we can make people righteous, do we need to sit in meditation?
True practice does not need to be hidden in remote mountains and forests, nor does it need to be hidden in monasteries and temples far away from the world. But in the rolling world of mortals, if you can cultivate your mind and become a righteous person through various mortal things, and you can also see through the essence and truth of all the things and people in the world, this is the fruit of cultivation. Just close your eyes. At that moment you can see the Pure Land.
Therefore, the best place for practice is "the world of mortals", and the best way of practice is "refining the heart in the world of mortals". And isn't this Ye Feng's method of cultivating humanity?
Cultivation is not an escape from real problems. On the contrary, every real problem is an opportunity for us to practice and a place for your practice:
If there is something wrong with your body, recovery is your place of practice.
If you have difficulty communicating with your children, educating your children is your place of practice;
If you are estranged from your lover, your relationship is your place of practice;
If you face difficulties in starting a business, the road to entrepreneurship is your place of practice;
Every worry, every emotion, and every fear is an opportunity for practice and a place for you to practice.
The place of spiritual practice is in every painful place in your life, every time you want to be impulsive, every time you are impatient.
Don't try to skip all kinds of real problems and talk about spiritual practice and various noble things. In the end, it will be empty talk. Health problems, education problems, marriage problems, work problems, wherever there are problems, that is where we practice.
Worry is Bodhi. Wherever there are worries, that is where we practice.
At the end of our practice, we must finally understand:
Bodhi has no tree,
The bright mirror is not a platform;
Originally there was nothing,
Where is the dust?
And this sentence was also said by the Sixth Patriarch Zen.
What the above discussion wants to express is that people should learn to understand the "quiet" and "peace" in Buddhist Zen from the "motion" and "chaos" that are disturbing in the secular world. At this point, it coincides with the third conclusion of Taoism's "the opposite is the movement of the Tao" that we mentioned before: "If you want to get something, you must start from the opposite side of that thing." The "quietness" and "peace" of Buddhism require people to start from the opposite side of Buddhism: the "motion" and "chaos" of the secular world, where Buddhism and Taoism reach the same goal through different paths. The inner "peace" and "quietness" pursued by Buddhism are also the highest state of mind without distracting thoughts required by Taoist cultivation to understand the three thousand principles of the world.
So let’s talk about the consistency between the five precepts of Buddhism and the five constant principles of Confucianism. Therefore, in the place of "precepts", Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism are cleverly unified together, and this is what I said before
"Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the three religions are unified!"
I know that your narrator always thinks with disdain that when it comes to the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, I only know about Wang Yangming’s Xinxue. It's like I only know Wang Yangming, the only recognized saint who "unifies the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism", and I don't know anything else at all. So you think I don't know anything, I just know how to learn and sell, but I am just a big liar with no knowledge or skills.
So this time a concrete example of the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism is before you, you should believe that I am not talking nonsense. "The three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are integrated into one" seems to be very high-level, but when it comes to specific people and things, a detailed analysis shows that it is a mixture of some simple principles, and this is the so-called " The great road leads to simplicity."
I can indeed analyze it for you slowly and concretely one by one, but if you don't want to listen to my long-winded specific case analysis of "how to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism into one", and you must make an abstract summary, I can only It can be summarized as something close to Wang Yangming’s philosophy. Everything is still inseparable from the human heart.
After all, Wang Yangming said that one plus one equals two. I can't deliberately say that one plus one equals three just to explain the difference between Wang Yangming and I. How stupid would you be to do such a stupid thing?
Although there are many people in reality who are this kind of brain-dead, but I, Ye Yu, am not this kind of brain-dead!
In a world of fools, no one is wise;
In the eyes of a madman, no one is normal;
In the crow's perception, the swan is also guilty.
Am I right, Narrator?
The narrator heard this and cursed: Get out of here
