Ancient sages had thoughts that were profound beyond people's ability to understand and caused people to scold, Yang Zhu's "plucking a dime and benefiting the world is not also", may be the earliest one, may also be the one that people misunderstand the most. People scold yang Zhu for "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world for nothing", but have you ever known that if you can't keep the "one dime" on your body, you may not be able to keep the head in the end. But how many people understand this?
To this day, when people talk about the controversy between a hundred schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when they mention Yang Zhu, they will think of Yang Zhu's famous saying: Pull out a dime and benefit the world, not for it. Yang Zhu has always been regarded as a representative of extreme selfishness. You see, pulling out a dime and benefiting the world, Yang Zhu actually encouraged everyone to "not do it."
This is how the idiom "a dime" comes from. What a good realm of thought is for the sake of the world! And Yang Zhu encouraged everyone to be an iron rooster that "does not pull out a dime", is this not moral corruption?
It is said that selfishness is human nature. However, although ordinary people are also selfish, they will hide it, and Yang Zhu is openly advocating selfishness and wants to say it with great fanfare, lest everyone not know. Mencius's view of Yang Zhu once scolded: Yang Clan is me, is no Junye; Mo Clan and love, is fatherless; fatherless and unjun, is also beast. Mencius righteously scolded Yang Zhu as a "beast", and many people would think that the scolding was good and painful. Of course, Mencius also scolded Mozi, who advocated "simultaneous love", and some people may express their confusion, the truth of which will not be expanded here.
Chinese is so fond of benevolence and morality that he would of course strongly oppose Yang Zhu's idea of advocating selfishness and selfishness. Although some people are full of benevolence and morality, full of belly male thieves and female prostitutes, people still feel that it is much better than Yang Zhu's naked and blatant preaching of selfishness.
Yang Zhu preached that "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world will not do anything", people are disgusted by this, so that Yang Zhu's ideological concepts will be rejected by people. Many of the works of the Hundred Sons and Hundred Families can be passed on to future generations, and Yang Zhu's articles have been lost. Now, the Yang Zhu thought that we can see is only preserved in books such as Mencius and Liezi. As for Yang Zhu, there is no historical record, so Yang Zhu's life is also undocumented. That is to say, because people do not like Yang Zhu's thoughts, Yang Zhu disappeared in the long river of history.
In fact, one of the most important reasons why people hate the ideas preached by Yang Zhu is that Yang Zhu's thoughts are too profound and original, so that the mediocre people not only cannot understand Yang Zhu's ideas and concepts, but also misunderstand Yang Zhu. Yang Zhu's proposal to "pull out a dime and benefit the world is not to do anything", in fact, it shines with the light of thought, misunderstands Yang Zhu, abandons Yang Zhu's thought, it can be said that it has sown the seeds of the people's suffering, and this seed has taken root and blossomed, and the people have suffered a lot. It can be said that scolding Yang Zhu for "not pulling out a dime" mistakenly exhausted the world.
If you think that it is extremely selfish and selfish, and should be opposed, then, in order to "benefit the world", can you pull two cents? It should be possible. If you can pull out two hairs and pull out your hair, can you? "Li Tianxia" is so grand, compared to it, your full head of green silk, what is it? It is completely possible to pluck out your hair. Since you can pull out your hair, then go further, in order to "benefit the world", you need to cut off one of your legs, of course, you can only accept. Further down, in order to "benefit the world", you need to cut off your head, at this time, you are definitely unwilling, but do you still resist?
In the 17th episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Yuan Highway raised the Seventh Army, and Cao Mengde met the three generals", there is a story of Cao Cao "borrowing a human head".
After the cao army refused for more than a month, the grain would be exhausted, and he wrote to Sun Ce and borrowed 100,000 grain and rice, which was not enough to be scattered. The grain management officer Ren Jun's subordinate cangguan Wang Yuan entered the ceremony and said: "There are more soldiers and less grain, so why should we do so?" Cao Yue: "You can scatter Xiao Hu, and save the urgency of the moment." "What if the soldier complains?" "I have my own strategy." "Obey the order, and scatter with a small hull." The secrets made people listen to each village, and all of them complained, and all of them said that they were deceitful. Cao Naimi summoned Wang Yuan into the book: "I want to ask Ru to borrow something to suppress the hearts of the people, and Ru will not be stingy." "What do you want to use?" Fu Yue: "I want to borrow the head of the ru to show the ears of the people." He exclaimed, "So-and-so is not guilty!" Cao Yue: "I also know that Ru is innocent, but if I don't kill Ru, the army will change." After Ru's death, Ru's wife I supported herself, and Ru did not worry about it. When He wanted to say anything more, Cao Zhao shouted the knife and axe hand out of the door, slashed it with a knife, and hung his head high on the pole to show him: "Wang Gao used to do small things and steal official grain, and he respectfully followed the military law." So the grievances began to be resolved.
You see, in order to stabilize the "great profit" of the military's heart, didn't the head of the military grain officer be cut off? Is the official grain unjust? However, since you want to strongly oppose Yang Zhu's "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world", at the critical time, why not use your head?
Since everyone thinks that Yang Zhu's ideological concept of "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world is not doing anything", that is, in the case of need, you can completely pluck a dime. Since you allow others to pluck a dime from you, that is to say, your own "dime" cannot be freely controlled by you, and in order to "benefit the world", it is possible to pull out all your hair, or it is possible to cut off the head of your neck.
Of course, depriving you of your freedom of movement for the sake of "benefiting the world", for example, in some places at the moment, for reasons that are well known, you can't travel, you can't go to the street, you can't go home, you can't earn money to support your family, you can't go to school, except that you are annoyed by yourself, in the eyes of others, it is perfectly normal. In order to "benefit the world", what is the loss of this sacrifice? You can't always learn from Yang Zhu's "dime". As for taking possession of your property and demolishing your house for the sake of "benefiting the world", it is even more important that money is an external thing.
If you easily give up the right to hold on to your "dime", then in the end, you may not be able to keep anything. Yang Zhu Zhen arm shouted "pull out a dime and benefit the world and do not do anything", the result is to attract the anger of the crowd, until people can not keep their own lives, they will find that Yang Zhu "pulled out a dime and benefited the world and did not do anything", it turned out that he was waving the flag for the people to protect their rights and interests.
On January 20, 1961, the 35th president of the United States, Kennedy, famously said in his inaugural speech: Don't ask what the country can do for you, but ask what you can do for the country? At that time, the audience applauded thunderously. And Fred Mann, a well-known economist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, still can't help but retort: I don't want to know what the state has done for us, nor do I want to know what we have done for the country, what I care about is what we can do in this country?
Usually, people scold Yang Zhu for "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world", and when it comes to losing the head of the person, they find that Yang Zhu has long been cursed by people, at this time, no one will stand up for you to fight unevenly, maybe, there will be a cheer of the crowd in the ear, such as what?
If I am willing to "pluck a dime" for the sake of "benefiting the world", it can only mean that I am noble. If someone plucks me "a dime" in the name of "benefiting the world", it should be considered that person is very despicable. My "dime" should be at my own discretion, and I am willing to pluck it myself, and I cannot pluck it if I do not want to pluck others. To keep one's own "dime" is to guard one's rights and freedoms, which is so important. Scolding Yang Zhu for "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world is not done", can only be said, sad and lamentable.
Yang Zhu, who had a profound mind, turned out to be a cry of "pulling out a dime and benefiting the world and not doing anything" more than two thousand years ago, which turned out to be a desperate sound, which was particularly sad and lamentable.