Dai Jianye said of Lao Tzu: "For the Heavenly Path"

Dai Jianye said of Lao Tzu: "For the Heavenly Path"

"For the Heavenly Path" is not only the purpose of the Ming Emperor to carry out benevolent government, but also an excuse for the Emperor to kill innocents, but also the banner of the peasant uprising, and the banner of the uprising of the good men in Liangshan in "Water Margin" reads "Rob the rich and help the poor, for the Heavenly Path".

So, what is the "Heavenly Dao"? For example, the Way of Heaven is a bit like a bow, the bow string is high to lower it, the string is lowered, the string is lowered, it is shortened; the string is shorter, and the string is shorter. It can be seen that the essence of the "Heavenly Dao" is to reduce the surplus to make up for the deficiency, and what it emphasizes is fairness and justice.

"Humanity", on the other hand, is reduced enough to provide for surplus, depriving extreme poverty to enrich the elderly, and it is "humanity" that undermines fairness, justice and justice in the world.

After mankind entered the "civilized" society, it began to plunder and squeeze the weak and small groups that were extremely unimmunicated, no matter whether the country was "prosperous" or "dead", no matter whether the society was governed or chaotic, the lower classes of the people were always the objects of slaughter, enslavement and exploitation, just as the Yuan Dynasty writer Zhang Yanghao said in the song "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for the Ancients": "Xing, the people suffer; death, the people suffer!" Not to mention that "the people of the chaotic world are not as good as dogs", even if they were born in the "Taiping Prosperous World", they are still "hungry and dead", such as the tragic scene described in su Shunqin's "Chengnan Feeling Yong Uncle" in the Song Dynasty, which occurred in the "Taiping Prosperous World" of the Northern Song Dynasty: "Seven or eight out of ten died, when the road crossed its corpse; the dog was its bone, and the black kite pecked at its skin." Hu is a cruel people, all this bird and beast fat? ...... The high position is tired of sorghum meat, sitting on the clouds. "Prosperous world" is always the "prosperous world" of the ruler, it has never belonged to the lower classes, natural disasters and social unrest are the first to suffer from the lower classes, and the powerful can even make a windfall in disasters and turmoil. Du Fu's famous work "Years of YanXing" was written during the war-torn period when "the head of the city of all nations blew the corner": "Last year, rice was expensive and lacked military food, and this year rice was a big injury to farmers." The high-mada officials are tired of wine and meat, and this generation of grapefruit Maozi is empty. The situation is everywhere to men and women, cut kindness and forbearance and love and rent mediocre. ”

Why does "humanity" always act against the "way of heaven", and the damage everywhere is not enough to be more than enough?

This is mainly because it is difficult for "man" to be as desireless and selfless as "heaven", and only by wanting and doing nothing can he be just, and being selfless and selfless will be fair. Many careerists mixed into the official arena or went to the battlefield, desperately "fighting the world" or "robbing the world" in order to "sit in the world" in order to "sit in the world" in the future, so Zhang Taiyan said indignantly after the Xinhai Revolution: "Wolves, dogs, rats, and rats, and the dead are not blind.", so the ancients who were accustomed to changing dynasties said bitterly: "Most of the jiangshan belong to thieves."

Once they have "robbed" the world or "stolen" the world, of course, they must completely occupy the world and indulge in the enjoyment of the world, plunder the wealth of the world for their own squandering, forcibly recruit the people of the world for their own service, and occupy the daughters of the world for their own sexual pleasures. As soon as he ascended to the Dragon Court, as soon as he stole a high position, he immediately tore off the guise of "saving the people from water and fire" in those years, and soon forgot the earlier promise of "liberating the people from hanging upside down", and the people just came out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth again.

In this way, the mission of "for the Way of Heaven" can only be accomplished through those poor people who are slaughtered and enslaved, who are forced into desperate situations and put to death and come back to life, to "fight and rob the rich and save the poor" in exchange for social justice, and to restore justice on earth by overthrowing tyrants with armed rebellion.

Unfortunately, the use of violent means to achieve fairness and justice often wreaks havoc on the economy, brings devastating shocks to society and makes the earth bleed into rivers. The result of the house-raiding is not to lift all the poor out of poverty and put everyone on the road to common prosperity, but to destroy the majority of the rich and turn everyone into the same poor egg.

Wang Fuzhi once said with deep feeling: "Only the bow has 'high' and 'lower', and the posterity must do its 'or' and 'lift'; only the 'surplus' and 'insufficient', and the posterity has to give its 'damage' and 'make up'." Those who lose themselves are not harmed, but those who suffer from nature are in a terrible calamity. ”

Only those who are "Tao" can self-destruct their surplus in order to provide for the world. They are selfless and selfless and are in harmony with "heaven" and have no desire and no action and are in the same body with "Tao", at which time "humanity" and "Heavenly Tao" may be unified. They are not for their own self-fattening but for the country, not for their own pleasure but for the well-being of the people, to borrow Fan Zhongyan's words, they "worry about the world before the world, and enjoy the happiness of the world after the world." The world's inhabitants can't sleep without a house, and the people of the world can't eat when they are hungry.

If there is no wealth, there is no poverty, and if there is no nobility, there is no lowliness. If you don't know what is biased, you will be naturally just, and if you don't know what an egoistic society is, you will be naturally fair.

In daily life, it is more and more that the rich add icing on the cake to themselves, and it is rare to see people sending charcoal to the poor, thus causing the polarization between the rich and the poor to become more and more serious, a very small number of rich people are rich enough to rival the country, and the majority of people are poor and sleep on the streets.

(See original Chapter 77)