"Enlightenment" - Mr. Ji Qian talked with the students of Boon Lai College

Editor's Note

At Boon Lay College, students learn to act, and if they have doubts and are confused, they will ask Mr. Ji Qian, the dean, to point out at random. The following is a transcript of a student of the college, Nong Yinchun, who had a morning conversation with Mr. Xiaosan two days later.

Student: Sir, I listened to the morning talk two days ago, and I was very impressed, and I wrote a thought, I would like to ask you to take a look.

SIR: Okay. Have a good experience?

Student: See for yourself, sir!

Sir: You read it!

Student: It feels a little strange.

(Sir laughs) (Sir see the experience)

SIR: You wanted to find me yesterday.

Student: Yes.

(After mr. reading)

SIR: Great, good, you can see the touch of life. Very good! O words of enlightenment! With this article, this life is enough! Yeah, that's the way this life is, that's the Word.

Student: Yes. Really, since I wrote it that day, I have always said to Confucius that "I have a very deep and true feeling of "going to the Tao, dying at night", and I feel that there are no regrets in this life.

SIR: Yes. This one is going to cry bitterly. "When you have not seen the Tao, you are like a mourner, and after you have seen the Tao, you are like a mourner." At first opening the sky, and knowing that this is a lifetime, this sight is a lifetime, reading must have this feeling. If a person has not felt this way once in his life, it is a waste of money. Most people can't do it, the whole world, bustling, rushing away, all for the benefit of the coming, all for the name of the past. Oh well! If it is true, and it must be maintained forever, then it can be held high, "Look up at the sky, there is no one like me." (Sir laughs) It's a good thing, rare, but really. However, you should be real this time. In the past, your seniors would sometimes have some understanding, but they have not yet reached this point, and occasionally they will shake up, but they are not very quiet, and I also expect them to be able to read to the end, to be able to be firm and deep. Like your vibration this time, if you can be consistent to the end, you are completely transparent, it will be "do not complain about the sky, not especially people, know my heavens", but you still have a little special meaning (Mr. laughs)

Student: Yes.

Sir: Although I haven't complained about the sky yet, but I have the intention of being a special person, then now we must further not complain about the sky and not be special. It doesn't look like a schooler, but it's actually a school. "He who knows me, his heavens!" Why? Because of the popularity of Tianli, it is in the present. That's it! Heaven and man are not two, transcendence and reality are not two, I talk about it every day, Mr. Mou talks about it every day, wang Yang talks about it tomorrow, it is all true. If it is only if there is nothing, it seems to have feelings and understandings for a while, but it is not really into the heart - it is not deep into the heart, it is not real, it is just a superficial smear, it is dangerous. There is a saying in "Cai Gen Tan": "The heart is a pearl." It is easy to wash it with materialistic obstacles, and it is easy to wash it with the pearl of Judas, and it is easy to wash it with affection, and it is decorated with silver and yellow with juju pearl, and its washing is the most difficult. Silver is silver and gold, decorated with gold and silver on your pearl, which seems to be more beautiful and glorious on the surface, but in fact, the pearl is ruined. So it's better to be stupid, as if the pearl is covered with dust, and that dust is easy to remove. If it is decorated with gold and silver, the appearance is bright, and the brilliance is lost, it is called the "similar law flow", the most terrible, because it is the most obstacle to people, so it is the most unpromising. Most people know that it is dusty, very helpless, very pitiful, but few people know to decorate with silver and yellow, that not only for a while, the light of the pearl can not be emitted, may always be firmly wrapped in a false scene, always recognize the false, but also smug. Many people who have good grades in reading and reading, who have a little talent, have become elites, and some people who have done a little "cultivation work", with the results of their practice, recognize themselves as high and taste shallow, and don't they all fall into this trap? Therefore, Lu Xiangshan once sighed and said, "This way is easy to talk to those who are drowning in lust, but it is difficult to talk to those who are drowning in opinions." We must not be complacent and mistaken with "opinions" as "enlightenment." So the road of life is difficult, the stone road is slippery, it will slip and fall at once (mr. laughs), there are not many people who can take the right road, ridiculous people in the world, calmly the road is not going, there is really no way. I preach every day in the academy just to tell you about it.

Now this realization of yours is very deep, and from this moment on, if you want to meditate on it and never stop, it is called "Tianxingjian, a gentleman who never ceases to improve himself." You said that there is a feeling of "going to the tao, dying at night", which is very good, and this pass must be experienced! Yes, yes, that is"after all the ages and when you meet the Great Sage, the one who knows his solution is also the one who meets him in the twilight." "Ah (sir laughs). And it is the real experience, not the falsehood, not the mantra, not the book bag to say nice things. Very good, I will wait for some students to have this realization, and I hope that every student will have this realization, some people are very difficult, some people can look forward to it, but in the end, what can be achieved, can really have an understanding, is not much, even in the academy is not much, let alone in other places? In fact, it is not really difficult, but he is not willing to rush out, it can also be said that he is not willing to put down, he wants to carry, on the surface it seems to be obedient to be taught, but he does not know the depth of this doctrine, it is deep in the soul, deep beyond the heavens and the earth, oh! No way. But still have to teach! Try it, wait and see. Don't teach, don't wait, how do you know if there is?

Student: The reason why I can have this realization is that I feel that reading Mr. Tang's books during this time has had a great influence on me, like finally pushing me.

Sir: Well, well, then I will encourage everyone to read Mr. Tang's books in the future.

Student: Because I saw in Mr. Tang's book a kind of personality that is "relict and independent".

SIR: Absolutely.

Student: Maybe because Mr. Mou talks about objective knowledge a lot, sometimes he can't feel it. Mr. Tang spoke completely from his own heart, kind and moving.

Sir: Yes, yes, Mr. Mou speaks objectively, Mr. Tang speaks subjectively, both are right, and subjectively speaking is sometimes more moving. When you read books, you must subjectively speak objectively, subjectively speak objectively, and in the end the subject and the guest are the same. I have always told you: "All learning comes from the subjective, but the subjective is not necessarily just subjective, the subjective can have objectivity." "Mr. Mou's philosophy is to speak as objectively as possible, but when I was young, I listened to Mr. Mou's lectures and read Mr. Mou's articles, and soon I could see his subjective feelings from his objective expressions. But on the other hand, "subjective and objective", this sentence is most appropriately used in Mr. Tang, and Mr. Tang's knowledge is of course objective, but it is relatively direct from the self-soul, and the so-called sentences flow out of the lungs. In the end, the knowledge of these two teachers is the same, very good, you not only read Mr. Mou's books, but also from Mr. Tang's path to enlightenment, this is also opened eyes, opened the eyes of heaven, saw the true and false.

Student: From yesterday to this morning, when I read the Analects, Lao Zhuang, and the Buddhist scriptures again, I really had the feeling that "they said what I thought every word", and I could understand how the qualities of the Five Sutras coincided with the Five Classics after the Yang Ming Enlightenment Dao at that time. (Sir laughs), but when reading Buddha, I still feel different, or I feel that there are small flaws in it.

SIR: Good, great, good. If you have this feeling, you must be determined to show this feeling in the future with learning, and you must be able to argue, and there will be no obstacle to arguing. To argue is not to defend oneself, but to objectify this "Tao", which is another kind of "moral idealism", not only in the heart, but also in the academic objectification, if there is an opportunity in the future, but also in the practice of society. The so-called "gaining the will, the zeal is added to the people" is the objectification of morality. Therefore, the objectification of scholarship is moral, and the objectification of politics is also moral, the externalization of morality, and the factualization. The so-called "flowing out of the purest legal world" is not only waiting to flow out into the cultural system of the academic community, but also waiting to flow out into the foreign king's cause of the political world. The flow of the Tao spreads infinitely, flowing like this in this realm, flowing in that realm like that, but they all have their roots in "one", one is many. In this place, we can also see that the words "one is all, all is one" are not false, they are all true. (Sir laughs)

Student: And when I re-read the Buddhist scriptures in the past few days, there is a saying that I feel very deeply, that is, "the right is not the original intention, and the meaning is not outside the power." Because when I say that "ignorance is Dharma, and Dharma is ignorance," I have realized that no matter what the sages say, what they point out, or what they wish to point out, no matter how big or small, no matter how far or near, their connotations are the same. And the Tendai family's guidance can only be "pointing", and he can't really point it out to show you, because this tao is unspecified, and everyone must understand it for themselves. That's why I wrote later in my experience, "This is something that cannot be interpreted by any kind of teaching of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism." ”

Sir: What cannot be seen, what cannot be thought, what cannot be said.

Student: Yes. They can only point out in a way that is as real as possible, and mr. Tang says that it is the metaphysical true self, and Mr. Mou says that it is the moral subject. But this thing, they can only say, when we still look at it in a metaphysical and metaphysical opposition, it is not.

SIR: Right.

Student: So at that time, I saw that "power is not the original intention, and the intention is not outside the right", and this "right" can be said to be the so-called "law of separation", although it is not the original intention, but it is not outside the original intention.

SIR: Well, of course, well said. The idealism of just said virtue is called "Tianli pop" in the words of the ancients, and as long as it is Tianli, it must be popular. Yuan, must be Heng, Heng can be profitable, and Profit is the achievement of Chastity. If Yuan is not virtuous, what is Yuan? So Henry Zhen is not outside the yuan, the same is the meaning. In the same way, the Tao will be great, the great will pass away, the passing will be far away, and the far will be the opposite, but life is often lost in that "far" place, and it cannot be reversed. Only those who have the Tao can witness and exist in the Tao, and all that they see is the Tao, where is there any vientiane? Everything is the Word, but where is the Word? The Word is everything. Vientiane is the law of rights, the Tao is the original meaning, and "the right is not the original intention, the meaning is not outside the right", this experience is very deep, Mr. Tang is good at telling this kind of truth (Mr. Laugh), very good!

Student: I haven't written about this layer in this experience, when I listened to Mr. Morning Training, which place touched me the most? That is, you talk about having a sense of strangeness to things, and then you say that it is further a sense of nothingness, a sense of emptiness. In fact, when I was young, I had a sense of "things" - for all things - for heaven and earth. In the past two years, especially since I went to the Italian Vichy Institute, I found that I began to have a sense of "people" as well, and the sense of the vastness of the whole life was stronger than before. And from this sense of emptiness, which is in the face of reality, he forced you to initiate the "anti"," which is the anti-process that Mr. Sir just said, "Far from being anti.".

Sir: Well, yes, but be aware that the sense of nothingness, the sense of emptiness, or the sense of desolation, is inherently the discovery of primitive resentment, but it is also a layer of "danger", and some people hover in the sense of emptiness, and in the end they do not find a way out. There are two situations in which there is no way out: one is melancholy, and the other is a prodigal son. Therefore, why "virtue is not cultivated, learning is not taught, it is my worries", some people are a little primitive and intelligent, but the primitive wisdom is not deep enough, and no one lectures with him to enlighten him, his anger did not import into the "demen", only the superficial wisdom and lack of virtue, can not use virtue to dissolve the emptiness, to enhance the level of life, his angry life was frustrated. If the original wisdom is strong and the essence of life is thick, although there is no way out, in the end it can still get a self-righteous, similar to a stable territory; but the original wisdom is thin, and it cannot be taught, it cannot find a way out, it is long gone, it is easy to turn into sadness, sadness for a long time, in the end will feel that the heavens and the earth are ruthless, life is boring, you have to live a melancholy life, and even have to live a melancholy life, and even have to bear it and commit suicide, because the heavens and the earth are illusory, what is there to linger on?

Another situation, because he "sees through", feels that life is boring, and feels that the rules are rigid, so he pretends to be dashing, and protects his dignity with anti-social and anti-tradition, so he shows an artist temperament - artists are also smart people! But he didn't want to, nor could he be considerate of the virtues of heaven and earth, he felt that that kind of life was too heavy, he wanted to directly meet in the natural realm, so he withdrew, wanted to stay out of the realm. Outside the degree, in the realistic scene is "quiet" and "secluded", in the performance of life is dashing, skimming, this kind of freedom is not really idle, just do a cynicism, in order to revel in myself, in fact, self-anesthesia. This kind of person can also be admired in a certain aspect, because he has some brilliance, as Mr. Mou said, "beauty is the remaining brilliance of the creation of heaven and earth" (Mr. Laugh), he has aesthetic taste, showing a clear and elegant temperament, but his brilliance is only "residual brilliance". In fact, according to Mencius's opinion, "beauty" should be very full and full, the so-called "fullness is beauty", and the brilliance emitted by fullness is the true brilliance of life itself, not the "remaining brilliance of creation". Of course, if you are full of full of brilliance and let go of the appearance of fullness and full of brilliance, it is the final truth, that is the beauty of what Mr. Mou calls "the unity of truth, goodness and beauty". If there is no moralized beauty, that kind of pretend beauty, is false and vain, so many writers only show their aesthetic talents, without a sense of fullness of temperament, that is ultimately vain, not desirable.

So Li Bai died in the end of the moon, although it may not be true, but the legend also points to a kind of artist's characteristics and the fate brought about by that characteristic. As for Du Fu, his life is relatively solid, so Li Bai is called "Shi Xian", Du Fu is called "Shi Sheng", Shi Xian strengthens the sense of art, and Shi Sheng has the style of a gentleman. In fact, the saint must be immortal, and the virtue must be beautiful. Life is enriched to the extreme, and it is not lost. The virtuous person, on the surface, seems to be very miserable, but in fact he is radiant and free. If Du Fu still had resentment and sorrow in his heart, it was because he was not in enough realm, but it was already remarkable that poets could reach the level of Du Fu, so posterity thought that he had the appearance of a saint. If it is really a saint, like Confucius, do you say that Confucius is a miserable person? We often say that the Confucian religion is joyful, but the average person always thinks that the Confucian religion is miserable - if there is still sorrow, then compassion is the sorrow of compassion for all sentient beings, and that suffering is the suffering of thousands of generations, which is too heavy a burden! But Confucius seems to be sad without sorrow, bitter without suffering, burdened without bearing, and this is the style of a saint. Therefore, we say that the Confucian religion is joyful, and at this time it is bittersweet together, the so-called "worry for life, happiness for life." You have to have a good understanding of this layer of work, so that you can do great things, otherwise, when things come, you will either be busy and hard-standing, or stay outside, idle clouds and wild cranes, and you will not be able to achieve great things.

Student: Sir, you just said that what I wrote is still a bit of a special meaning, where do you mean?

SIR: Oh, in the first paragraph, you said you felt like you didn't have any friends! (Sir laughs)

Student: In fact, after writing to the back, after writing, and then looking at it in reverse, I know that I don't have to write like this. But I didn't want to change it, and I think that was the most direct feeling at that time.

Sir: Yeah, no need to change, no need to change. Talk about the realm, how easy it is to talk about! There is no need to express the realm at any time, there is suffering and suffering, there is resentment, but don't go too far, don't plunge into it and can't get out, people are always people, don't think of yourself as saints, don't turn yourself into "non-human". Emotions are natural, but they need to be restrained, so Zhu Zizhu's Analects says that "the etiquette, the verses of heavenly reason", the etiquette is to show a kind of "moderation", but temperance is not limited by a rigid rule and box, it is also elastic at any time, if the ritual is not elastic, it is rigid, but there is too much elasticity, it will collapse and flood, and it is not right.

I still have a question for you, is your understanding this time that you have a small understanding before, and now you have a big understanding? That is, there was a little bit before, not so thorough, this time more transparent? Or have you never had this experience before?

Student: I don't think it's the same, I think it used to be "gas".

Sir: Oh, in the air, just the courage to bear (sir laughs)

Student: Yes, I think after all, in the academy, a person who learns from the academy will have more or less experienced such a feeling! But I myself clearly feel that this time is very different from before, and the previous comparison is... Well, how to describe it?

Sir: In the past, there was still something to receive, but it was more of a taste of being taught.

Student: Well, yes, although there were times when I had my own inner feelings, that feeling may have been reflected from reality, that is, I was affected by reality, and I was dissatisfied with my real self, so that I had the mentality of wanting to change my life, and my previous progress often came from this road, but I felt...

Sir: It means "to be human".

Student: Yes.

SIR: So now it's pure "for yourself"? Now is to push everything away, to be independent (sir laughs), and the heavens and the earth are here. In the past, you were yearning for heaven and earth, to "do benevolence and righteousness", but now it has the taste of "acting by benevolence and righteousness". By benevolence and righteousness, not by benevolence, before I wanted to do a good job, this truth is right, and the meaning of being taught to be a good student, now there is the meaning from self-consciousness, the meaning of self-consciousness is more concentrated. When self-realization and enlightenment are one, it is very happy, and all the previous things have been endured and all come alive. In the past, I was still reluctant to deal with people, or I felt that I was so bad, and I needed guidance from others; or I would say that my husband's guidance was right, the books I read were right, and I "should do the right thing". "You should do the right thing", this sentence is true, but the meaning of this sentence is to practice benevolence and righteousness, and there is still a layer of "authenticity" in practice.

It doesn't matter if it should be or not, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong – it's the way it is – this is the true intention, the real gain, the real realization. So the quality of what you realize this time is different, but it seems to be similar, it is all self-reflection, it is all "to do this". But is it not because it is right to do so? It's just the way it is, and it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. At this time, you have that kind of "cause and effect, cause and effect, what to think about". "Why do you think about it", why do you still have to worry? "The world returns to the same place, the same and the same way," the same return—the special way, the same way—the hundred worries, what a realm! "Cause is cause and wrong", although it is a Taoist word, it seems to be a slippery head, but it is not. There is no need to make subjective judgments about right and wrong, especially if you don't insist on something according to your own habits, you suddenly realize that this is the way the heavens and the earth are, and the words of the sages are flowing out. When you feel this, you see things differently, and the interpretation and understanding of the scriptures are different. It's not that they're right, they're talking well, so I should do what they say, but that "my heart is like this, and the saints only got my heart first," so the ancients had a debate between "I note the Six Classics" and "The Six Classics note me." If you want to note me from the Six Classics to the Six Classics, you feel that every sentence of the ancients is talking about your heart, and the degree of fit between the heart and the sutra is very close, even one with it. In this way, what you think and say can gradually "flow out of the purest Realm of the Fa-rectification," and the quality of the outflow is different—the same on the surface, but the inner "essence" is different. To be able to have this kind of experience is unavoidable, rare, and seems to be unattainable.

You don't say I follow a certain path, I go to a certain lecture, which book I go to see will have, in fact, there is no guarantee, just "quite helpful" (sir laughs). If you are asked to listen to the morning talk again and read Mr. Tang's book again, you may not have the feeling you have today (Mr. Laugh). This kind of wisdom cannot be repeated, it is not a scientific experiment, it is the reality of life, it is very mysterious, but it is also very simple. Therefore, we have to "wait", like when I open a college, I want to wait for such a person, wait for such a moment. The more such people there are, the more obvious the significance of the academy becomes. If I had to wait ten, twenty, a hundred, a thousand years, I would have waited! Even if "after all the ages", the academy produces a few good students, "those who have their solutions", it is worth it, "Judan Twilight also", I will be very happy. If the college produces a few good students, the ideals of the college can be imparted (sir, he said this, and burst into tears). You must cherish yourself, cherish, it is not easy! Not easy, not for a lifetime! With a few more such people, the Tao will not perish. (The gentleman was silent for a long time, and the classmates also cried.) ）

Student: Sir, if you really understand, it is "a thought of ten thousand years".

Sir: Yes, if you really understand, of course, you will think about it for ten thousand years. Because the mind is infinite, and to comprehend it into the heart is not to bear it in the qi, but to integrate it in theory. Reason is universal to heaven and earth, so you can know the main point of what the masters of all religions are talking about. Of course, some of them are more complete and full, Mr. Mou is called "the religion of Yingyuan"; some are slightly biased, Mr. Tang is called "the sage of the extreme", like Mencius's Example of Boyi, Shu Qi, Liu Xiahui, Yi Yin, etc., that is, the sages of the extreme, and the masters of some religions in the world are also partial, but they can reach the status of sages, although they are biased, they are already remarkable. But in the end, you must be able to distinguish between the circle and the prevailing, so that you can preach the way of the saints.

Student: I think that if a person really takes the sages as his yearning for life, sooner or later he will have this realization.

Sir: Oh, sooner or later, sooner or later, maybe. But if he has not done a lot of work before, his life is not pure, he can't realize it, there is always something in the way, like a roadblock, as if there is a tiger on the road, at an important juncture, he cringes, does not dare to go forward, he does not dare to break through the last pass, because once that threshold is broken, he needs to let go of the whole - let go of all habits, that is, let go of all selfish intentions, and even let go of life and death, the so-called "morning and smell, death can be done at night." Zhuangzi said, "Fu Liezi walks against the wind, and he is good and good, and there are five days in the tenth and then he rebels", but he has not yet realized it. It is necessary for you to let go of the whole thing, so that the mind is completely free and can soar at will, the so-called "taking advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the debate of the six qi." Of course, this is not easy, I can only hope that everyone will be taught, as long as a student is taught, taught, maybe one day, he will realize. But there is a depth and a shallowness in that realization, and there are true and false ones. Just said that someone is taking some "conditions" to decorate on the surface, and he is already a good person, maybe he is not trying to deceive people with decoration, he is only complacent with this brilliance. It is necessary to break these bright and beautiful things in order to truly realize it, to really be able to "think for ten thousand years", otherwise, there is still a kind of admiration, envy, climbing, showing off, this is not enough, this will also move his heart with the changes in the situation, if he finally restrains himself, it is already good, but to reach the sprinkling, detachment, there is still a long-term work to do, so the teaching of the saints is not easy.

You also have to continue to work at any time, to see what situation you encounter, the heart will still move, to reach the "no need to prevent inspection, no need to exhaust", it is considered solid. However, it doesn't matter, you are still early, but this road you have seen, know, you will naturally be vigilant at any time, you have a thought to go missing, immediately know, "only to move is to feel, only to feel that is", as for "March is not against benevolence". If you think about it, the moment you realized something, or what your mind still holds, is the heart that is "not against benevolence", I can imagine that when you suddenly understand, your heart must be both surging and smooth as a mirror, and it is right to have this feeling. Yang Ming said, "When it is not buckled, it is earth-shattering, and when it is buckled, it is only shantideva", as long as you have this feeling, it is almost the same. It's bland, it seems like nothing, it's what it is, what's so wonderful? But there is infinite emotion in the chest, turning the river upside down. That's right, that's true.

Student: It is infinite vitality, but that vitality does not come from what you see in front of you.

Sir: It's not "to make and want to do" (sir laughs), but "I will make the town as nameless and simple", so to say "all things are done together, I am looking at the restoration", there are all things around you and do it, but the "Tao" is also presented in those places as it is. So Lao Tzu is not simple! At least he understands this set, whether he has true experience, we don't know, but he at least understands this set, he is talking about Confucius's state of mind, that is, Yao Shun's state of mind, is Shakya's state of mind, their state of mind is the same. When you read again with this attitude, you know that the realm is layer by layer, and the book you reread is not as if you had read it before. If you want to translate the explanation, it seems to be similar, but the force will be different. The so-called strength is not the same, not to explain the exquisite is not exquisite, nor is it the tone of the firmness or firmness, but there is a kind of ingenuity, at any time there will be inspiration will burst out, the tone of the language will be different.

This is different, sometimes it will be farther and farther away from the human world, the crowd can not understand, if someone can understand, he will also be greatly impacted, as if your words have a thousand powers, can impact people's hearts. This is what makes all religious people moving. There are two factors in the moving of the religious: on the one hand, the preacher has the real ability, but often because on the other hand, the believers have pre-acquired a reverence for the master. If there is no reverence, sometimes words that have weight are ignored, because the people cannot understand it, as deaf as dumb. But the true religious man thinks that it doesn't matter, just let those who understand it understand, so he can not be afraid of tiredness and continue to speak. However, in modern society, we carry forward the way of the sages, which is different from the missionary work of religious scholars, especially in modern society, it is no longer suitable to talk about the Tao in the way of "not a word, do your best", and modern society must also pay attention to logical, speculative, and systematic ways. Of course, the way of the saints is not only a pure logic and pure technical deduction, the most important thing is that it is full of enthusiasm, and there is a sense of reality that gushes out from the heart like a red wheel on the bottom of the sea, but it is also manifested as a step-by-step deduction, and everyone looks at you as if you are talking about knowledge, but in fact, you are talking about wisdom. It is to express wisdom in the way of knowledge, in the process of your performance, interlocking, clear and unambiguous, can not be refuted, but people who understand will feel the flash of wisdom from knowledge.

Student: Sir, at the end of your speech that morning, you said that a young man's ambition must first "cut off the flow of the crowd and cover the sky", and then he can say "follow the waves and go with the wind, and the light and dust".

Sir: Oh, you're saying this realm, yuanjiao. (Sir laughs)

Student: Because I think the so-called "drifting with the flow" and light and dust refer to how to treat reality in terms of the relationship between people and reality. Because a mortal who has no enlightenment, he is already going with the flow, he is also with the light. But just now sir, you said that if you are a wise person, even in the actual knowledge and personnel, there will be a flash of wisdom, which is the second level of "going with the flow and light with dust".

SIR: Yeah, of course. People who can't understand think that the Enlightened one is no different from ordinary people. If it also shows that it is different from ordinary people, this is not the highest. So what did the ancients say about "to man"? To man is only constant; what is "to taste"? The taste is just light.

(Mr. paused for a long time)

This is called "meteorology", like you are quite meteorological, that is, there is a feeling of contact with heaven and earth, this state of mind will naturally manifest, "eyes on the face, full of back", this is called meteorology. You will also be very sensitive to people, it is easy to judge that there is no way, and it is easy to "look at each other and laugh, do not rebel against the heart" with a person with a way. But also to be considerate, to be considerate of sentient beings, to be compassionate of sentient beings, because it is not easy for everyone (sir laughs), do not blame too much, we must expect, "be humble and thin to blame others", you must know that everyone also has more or less Taoist hearts. You now go through this layer of flipping, you look at people, you will know if he really arrived, or not yet, still halfway through. I know even more that he is true, whether it is false - this fake is not deliberately deceiving people, but he has not yet arrived, that is, there is still a layer of film, a room that has not yet been reached, and he does not know it, which is a pity. To find a way, to expect himself to understand, or have some opportunity to help, let him pull up, this is what Zen Buddhism calls "head to head", sometimes a sentence or two can "say the epiphany", but this kind of thing has a time, or he has reached that time, or you can create a moment, give birth. The so-called causes and conditions of buddhism are different, but some intelligent people, if they have some understanding and can speak well, have developed a habit of concealment, slipping their heads, and it is easy to slip over, which makes people anxious. For such a person, I only have to wait, of course, I will also find an opportunity to persuade, but sometimes more persuasion, he is not rejected, he will also be moved, but this kind of small touch on the surface, become a habit, he does not have that "strange feeling", as if the road is familiar, just over there, is not a pity? Therefore, teaching is not easy, can not not be taught, can not often talk, this is not easy, sometimes have to sigh ah! Sighing, or do not give up, always try, try to find an opportunity to push him, push him also want him to cooperate, he is willing, he is willing to think enthusiastically on the spot, all put down, so to say "here is the knowledge of the sword and saw", because he has to die a lot, in order to have a big life. When you first see this new world, there will be a sense of strangeness, there will be a sense of strangeness to the previous world, and there will be a sense of strangeness to yourself - how did I use this before (Mr. laugh), I don't know myself, then this is right (Mr. laugh)!

So on the one hand, I don't know myself, on the other hand, I know myself more and more, I "trust" myself, I am one with myself, I know what I want to do, why I do this I know, I will encounter difficulties I know, how to solve this difficulty I have long known, when this is the case, it is no obstacle, this is "freedom". Freedom is what I know, I want to do, I want to be like this. In this way of dealing with the world, it must be "the god who has passed and the god who exists", I know; it will also be "with the blade of things", endlessly, I also know.

Whoever is enlightened, what he realizes is not anything special new, but something that exists in the original, he will be alert in his heart: Ah, it is so, I know. That's the way the world is, I know! The idea of "I know" is very profound and energetic, like a fountain of chaos, not giving up day and night, I will also move myself - I seem to have a little premonition before, now, I really know it - often have this feeling, this is the strangeness. It is as if the whole life is over again, the whole world is over again. Extremely strange, and very familiar, originally there, a thousand years like a day, there has never been gain, there has been no loss, this can be "carefree and fearless" - from "the benevolent are not worried, the knower is not confused", and the generation of "the brave is not afraid", there is nothing strange or fearful.

Student: I am not afraid because he has already let go of all his fate.

Sir: Well, he is not worried or confused, all fame and fortune, even life and death are put down, he can not be afraid. But not to be afraid is not reckless, "brave and rude is chaotic, straight and rude is hanging", to be moderate, to allocate everything, so that going out is just right, pertinent, I did not talk about "pertinence" a few days ago? Moderation cannot also be, but it can also be achieved at once.

(Sir paused for a long time)

Student: Sir, I would like to give you a courtesy.

SIR: Okay.

(Classmates get up, bow down three times to the gentleman, kneel long)

Student: Thank you sir.

Sir: Well, remember, a thought of ten thousand years, a lifetime. There is no second thought, no second way. This road is calm and pleasant at any time, but you should check it at any time, because you are not familiar with it now, there may be twists and turns, and there will be troubles - it is best not to have, just like Da Shun", "and he hears a good word, sees a good deed, if you decide the river, you can do it at once", if you can take Shun as a teacher, it is good; if not, you will "move and realize, and then you will realize", although it is inevitable that you will move, but it will melt quickly; if it does not work, it will be "my day and three provinces and my body", there are only these three modes, there is nothing else. There are only three ways, which door you want to take, decide for yourself! Okay, flat out. (Classmate flat)

Be well, don't live up to it, don't live up to this realization, don't live up to this lifetime. Very good, I am very happy, really joyful and crying ah (sir laughs), there are doubts in the future can come again, I hope... Well--don't hold out much hope--Wang Longxi said, "The door of enlightenment is not open, it is difficult to learn", learning without enlightenment is ultimately a void. And there are three levels of enlightenment, one is enlightenment, the second is enlightenment, and the third is enlightenment. Your current state of mind may have risen from enlightenment to enlightenment, but it will take a great deal of work to further enlightenment. In the future, you may flip repeatedly, but also wander and swing, this is possible, we dare not compare to the ancients! "Yao Shun's sex person" has been Pei Ran from the very beginning, what this extraordinary person can do; "Tang Wu is the opposite", that is, "only when he moves and realizes, only when he realizes and transforms", then he must also have Yan Yuan's talent, so that he can come back at once; then there is Zengzi, Zengzi is also a preaching instrument! It's just a pity that the Tao preached by Zeng Zi is a bit of a pity, causing the Chinese nation's character to be too introverted and not perfect enough, so it needs to be mentioned again. Now if the entire Chinese nation wants to rejuvenate in this generation, it must first rejuvenate Chinese culture and revive Chinese culture, and we must practice the teachings of Yan Yuan. I hope that your choice will be modeled after Yan Yuan, it is best to be above Yan Yuan, of course, not below ZengZi (Mr. Laugh), so do it yourself! Good!

Student: Okay, thank you sir! (Courtesy, withdrawal)

(Date: 2022-03-01 Revision: Wang Caigui (2022-04-14)

(Attached: Original text of students' experience)

Morning Talk No. 155

The opening of Mr. Today's morning words was very touching. It is not just touching, but vibration, corresponding, interacting with the sages, the visceral joy of meeting the enlightened, the feeling of the joy of the enlightened one, the feeling of nostalgia of the one who knows his understanding.

All along in the academy, even when I was still humble, I often had a feeling, a thought, that is, no one really understood me. I understand the deep wishes that have always existed in my heart, except for my teacher. For it is necessary to understand that there is only one way, one way, that is, he is also here, on this road. Ever since I came back from Viché, this sense of emptiness has been lingering in my mind, and I sometimes wonder: Am I tired of the world myself? Did I do it to someone else? However, thinking about it more carefully, plus my own feelings in the past few years, I know, no, it is true, this is the real world, this is an era of "the world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all are for profit", to put it mildly, this is a world full of high-level animals.

By what is man extraordinary? By the talent of man? By human society, politics, economics, and even learning? Not really! None of this is what makes a human being. So what is it? Why are we always what we are not and not what we are? Mo Ziyan: Since it is no longer the case, why is it easy? Claiming how extraordinary one is, how noble one is to others, how muddy the world is, does not require much wisdom, one only needs to be willing to open one's eyes and anyone can understand it. However, to see all this clearly and positively and to point out the direction of life, to solve the upside-down suspension in the current world, first to solve the upside-down suspension of oneself, this is not a great wisdom, a great sense of understanding can not be obtained. However, what is this great wisdom and great sense? Where did it come from? Few people really know.

So, why is it easy? I can't put myself in the situation that I laugh at! Therefore, I should now say that out of my own purest Realm of Dharma, etc., why is this "human being human"? The reason why people are human is that:

Extremely subjective and extremely objective, extremely real and extremely illusory, yin and yang cannot be measured, and words are not interpreted enough; in Confucianism, benevolence and righteousness cannot be expressed; in The Tao, there is and is not exhausted; in Buddha, Buddha-nature, and Non-Sufficiency; and in Yahweh, the Two Covenants Bible does not say. Right and wrong can be argued with; only this sincerity is everywhere, not coming and going.

Oh my God! Four hours of action, a hundred things are born, and the heavens are full of words!

(Kong Calendar) 2573.02.27 recorded in Takeri