Looking at the crowd, Wang Xiaolie emphasized his tone and said: "To learn knowledge and do things, you must first learn to say clearly that you don't know what you don't know. Don't pretend to know if you don't know, which will harm yourself and others. This You must pay attention to one thing. At work, you must also observe, and stay away from those who clearly do not know and still like to talk loudly. Our yamen talks about such a spirit. To put it simply, it is to seek truth from facts. Four words, seek truth from facts, It's easy to say, but difficult to do. Officials can try it themselves and be realistic about the specific things they encounter, and everything will be different."
"Your job is different from that of administrative officials. It is easier to seek truth from facts. What you will do in the future is to collect what people say, think, and think about society in the local area. Don't think this is very simple. In fact, it is very difficult. People What they say, or even what they say orally, is probably not what they are thinking. Many times, they even don’t know what they are thinking. Destiny is unpredictable, and it is a difficult task to find out the destiny from the mouths of the people. . But one thing is that if you change the things that people generally hate and oppose and promote the things that you agree with, you will never make a big mistake. This is basic. How to find out the destiny later depends on your actual work."
In fact, Wang Xiaolie had not thought about how to find out the destiny among the people. It's just that Wang Xiaolie believes that it can be done. If he can't do it for a while, as long as he persists, he will be able to do it one day.
People living in the world are not just individuals, but also belong to various groups and have multiple identities. Who are the people? This question is difficult to answer. Do not select some people from society as the people, do not regard the collective as the people, and do not count them as the people in proportion. In fact, once the people are defined, they become more and more distant from the people.
This is the essence of the middle way of Chinese civilization. The definitions and laws summarized by human beings are always applicable in one place and in one time, but they are not eternal. Once you think that something is eternal, you are on the wrong path.
More than two thousand years ago, elite civilizations emerged in large numbers all over the world, and most civilizations made their mark at that time. The brand of Chinese civilization is Tao, which is unknown. What you don't know is just don't know, don't guess.
Wang Xiaolie doesn’t know what other civilizations are like, but he knows a little about European civilizations because he has heard too much about them. They believe that the world knows itself. Can't tell what to do? Put an omniscient and omnipotent God there.
European theories, no matter what they say, think they have discovered the truth and are close to God. God may have various names and appearances, but if you follow these theories to the end of time, he will always be there. Regardless of whether one believes in God or is an atheist, no matter how these theories say one does not believe in God, if the theory continues, God will always be at the end of time.
After sorting out his thoughts, Wang Xiaolie said: "To govern the world, when doing something, there must always be ideas as the source. In Chinese affairs, everything is inseparable from the word Tao. Government offices are always inseparable from the destiny. If you have time today, let’s speak more clearly.”
"What is the Tao? We can't explain it clearly in the Tao Te Ching, so we call it Tao. Confucius said that if you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. In other schools and sects, no one can explain it clearly. This unclear explanation is the biggest characteristic of Tao. After the pre-Qin Dynasty, many people felt that they could explain it clearly, and there was even Taoism, which transformed thousands of gods. If they think they can explain it clearly, it is no longer Tao."
"We are human beings, living in the mortal world. To observe all things in nature, we rely on seeing, hearing, smelling, and tasting. Can we detect natural things clearly? In fact, we cannot. By relying on In human understanding, we give various names to all things in the world. These names are connected to form various kinds of knowledge. This knowledge creates a world that is different from the real world. What is this called? The ancients called it This is the distinction between name and reality. In the pre-Qin period, the distinction between name and reality was very popular. The most famous ones are famous people, such as Gongsun Long, Deng Xi and others. Later generations always think that they have understood the issues discussed by famous people. Can the solid white be separated? Is it really clear? I can't see. The distinction between name and reality cannot just depend on what they are discussing, but must be seen in two worlds. One is the real world, and the other is. A world created based on the real world. The connections and differences between the two worlds affect people’s thinking all the time.”
"Is Tao the real world? Or the world of that name? In fact, it is neither. It is neither one of these two worlds, nor a simple sum of these two worlds. It should include these two worlds, and there are some other things we say The existence of unclear things. We explore the way from the real world, the world of names, the relationship between the two, etc."
"It is precisely because the Tao is clear and the Tao is unclear, so in the world of Tao, many times we have to understand. If you understand, you understand, and if you don't understand, you don't understand. You can't pretend to understand. So I feel that the creation theory of the past and present is It’s weird. Whether it’s Tai Chi creating two physical phenomena, or one Qi transforming three pure things, the more general it is, the more it makes sense, and the more detailed it is, the more it feels like old farmers talking.”
The biggest characteristic of Tao is that it cannot be explained clearly. If future generations think they can explain clearly, they are delusional. Including in later generations, many people think that they have learned many theories and still understand science and can explain it clearly, which is still delusional. As for some people saying it's a law, a principle, etc., they just don't understand.
Under the principle of Tao, the science of later generations also has another face. It's just that no one knows what it looks like.
The science of later generations grew up in European civilization and must bear the European mark. Along the path of science, there are always people who wonder whether this world was created by God, and whether there is a God? This is inevitable and does not change depending on what you believe.
In Wang Xiaolie's previous life, most people believed that science had only one look, and human society had only one look. If it is different from what you imagined, it means you are lagging behind and you have taken a detour. There is no way. The achievements of the Industrial Revolution in Europe were so dazzling that they gave people a false impression. Some people even think that human society should be like this, and propose global village, globalization and so on.
How can human society look the same under different civilizations? Some places with poor civilization may not be able to change human society after they develop. But for a region with profound civilization like China, industrialization will inevitably bring about a different look.
When China fell behind and was beaten everywhere, people of insight actively learned the advantages of developed civilizations. This is inevitable. As long as there is an opportunity, civilization must absorb the achievements of other civilizations. However, learning is learning, and we must not forget the fundamentals. In the process of learning, some people not only learn the strengths of European civilization, but even learn everything else. He even summed up a set of theories, starting from prehistory, especially ancient Greece and Rome, saying that Europe did not lead China after the Industrial Revolution, but that it has been the leading place since ancient times. It was precisely because of the light of reason passed down by ancient Greece that it led to the Renaissance in Europe and allowed them to have the Industrial Revolution first.
This is wrong. When summarizing history, we must seek truth from facts and cannot belittle or exaggerate. In fact, every civilization with great influence in the world has its own shining moments. When living in this civilization has the upper hand, we say this civilization is excellent. So does living in the highlight moments of other civilizations require another change of view?
If China is backward, it is said that China’s civilization is poor and its culture is not good. So what will we say if China catches up? When studying these, we must not break away from reality and rely on imagination. Rather, we must persist in seeking truth from facts and take the right path. Otherwise, it will be all in vain. Mobile phone users please browse to see Kingdom of Tianhan for a better user experience.
