There was light again in Yan Kudiao's eyes. He looked at Yu Zai carefully again, nodded, and shook his head again.
Akamatsuko was behind, muttering to Guangchengzi, saying that this old Biden must have felt that his apprentice was quite good, but that he was not worthy of teaching him.
"Yes, I think he covets our apprentice."
"Azai silenced him with just two or three words."
The two old men were muttering in the background, standing on the moral high ground created by Azai, pointing fingers at Panyi.
At this time, Yuzai brought the topic to the wooden bucket in his hand.
"Old Master, please look at this fight. Is there anything special about it?"
Yankudiao looked at it carefully and shook his head. He didn't understand, so he was puzzled:
"A dou is just a tool for measuring grain portions. What's so special about it?"
Yuzai smiled:
"This function of measuring grain portions is what makes it special!"
Holding the bucket in his hand, he turned it around on all four sides.
"In the beginning, people had no way to measure grain, so I created the bucket."
"Small fighting has brought convenience to people. Compared with the past, it has made the total size of grain division slightly more accurate. At the same time, it has also brought relative fairness and justice. People all over the world use Hongzhou's fighting as the standard. So when people in the world divide their grain, whether you go from the east to the west or from the south to the north, the buckets you use are all the same."
"As a result, the lives of people all over the world have undergone subtle changes, and in Hongzhou, fighting is also a word to measure a person's talent. The so-called talent is eight fights high."
Ruanzai handed the wooden bucket to Panyi Diao. The old man with a black beard took the wooden bucket and looked at it over and over, as if he wanted to see the flowers.
Yu Zai asked again: "If there are ten fights in the great road that qi masters know, does the old master think that he has eight fights, while the old master Longji doesn't even have one fight?"
After hearing this, Yan Kudiao became energetic and said proudly: "Of course! Lao Longji can't see the smallest detail, even one ten thousandth of it. All he can be proud of is to close his mouth and sleep in Shennong." He died before waking up, because he finally realized that the laws of nature, or to say, this is something that is unspeakable!"
"He taught other qigong masters, taught Shennong and others to learn knowledge. Now it seems that it is called preaching, but the Tao passed down is not the real Tao, but what he thinks he has obtained by himself and belongs to him. It’s just my own path!”
"I know the true laws of heaven. I can accurately predict the movements of the sun, moon and stars. I can understand whether it will be sunny or rainy within seven days, whether there will be a flood or an earthquake. When there is a disaster in the sky, I can avoid it in time. When there is a mistake in the world, I can avoid it in time. I can also discover things in time!"
"It's like your Qi Masters Conference. No one notified me, but I knew something would happen here, so I came, and sure enough I saw these old guys who had done nothing for eight hundred years!"
When Yan Kutiao said this, he was very proud and complacent. His cultivation level among the Qi Refiners was extremely high, and he was even more powerful than Lao Longji back then. At this time, the abilities he claimed were indeed Yuzai was shocked.
Being able to predict changes in wind, rain, and disaster within seven days is an ability that has never been seen in anyone before!
It would be great to get this old man to work at the weather station. It would be like a humanoid self-propelled almanac.
Yu Zai murmured in his heart and continued: "But the old master thinks that this is the limit of the great road that can be understood and achieved?"
"My understanding of Tao is extremely profound. I don't dare to say that I understand it, but I can at least get half of it!"
Yankudiao is still arrogant and proud.
However, Yu Zai smiled and asked: "I can use this bucket to hold grain. The grain will last one day. So, if you use this bucket to hold water, if you are given infinite time, can you scoop out the sea?" What to do?"
Yankuo was confused and shook his head: "The sea is endless, how can I scoop it out with this little bucket!"
Yu Zai: "That's right! You are like Xiao Dou, who claims to have knowledge of the sea, but there is a sea beyond the sea. This is why the sea water cannot be measured!"
When these words came out, Yan Kudiao's body shook slightly, his eyes turned, and he thought a little.
But Yuzai smiled, and in order to express this problem more directly, he squatted down and drew a circle on the ground.
"This is you."
As Yu Zai said this, he drew another big circle outside the circle, then pointed at the big circle and began to talk:
"This is the avenue."
"When you were Madoka, you felt that the knowledge placed in front of you was so vast that it was impossible to comprehend it all."
Many people squatted down to check. Ruanzai squatted on the ground, erased the small circle, and then drew a small raised corner on the big circle.
"But after you study for a period of time, you have learned all the knowledge about the big circle and have your own understanding."
Then, on the outside of this big circle, a larger circle was drawn, and so on endless matryoshka dolls continued.
Yankudiao was greatly shocked:
"What's this?"
He asked about the model of this figure, and Yuzai told him: "Is this the circle of knowledge, the thing outside, or the avenue."
"The area of the big circle is your knowledge, and the area of the small circle is our knowledge. You know more than we do. The outside of these two circles is the part that you and we are ignorant of."
"The Tao is often nameless and simple. Although it is small, there is no one in the world who can do it."
"What's the meaning?"
"The great road is always nameless and simple. Although it is small and invisible, no one in the world can make it obey him."
"You claim to have clearly recognized the great road and know the secrets of heavenly principles, but in fact what you see is just the great road in your own opinion. That is the conclusion you get after studying the great road. It is your conclusion, not Tao’s conclusion.”
These words made Yan Kudiao feel as if he was struck by lightning, as if he was enlightened!
The way he looked at Yu Zai changed completely, and he was a little shocked and horrified.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Zai said the most famous sentence of a certain future philosopher:
"Perhaps the only thing we can know and confirm is that we know nothing."
"In order to learn, you will get better and better, but in order to learn, you will lose more and more."
Yu Zai thinks these two sentences have some meaning.
In fact, you might as well understand it this way: the more you learn, the less you don’t know. What can be learned is knowledge, and knowledge comes from the Tao, so learning increases day by day, while the Tao will decrease day by day, and eventually it will be damaged. Then it is damaged, so that it is inaction, and in the end it is inaction and everything is done. It means that you have learned all the knowledge and principles, and know how to act and when to act, which is the most correct.
