"If the heavens follow the will of the heavens, then the heavens will be lacking." The young man retorted.
Zhang Houlu was quick-witted and immediately replied, "After a person dies, their nature returns to its origin. There is no lack of heavens."
The young man suddenly picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at Zhang Houlu.
Zhang Houlu was a scholar. If a foreign object were to attack him, it would have been repelled by his strength. However, everyone was shocked to see that the stone actually ignored Zhang Houlu's strength. It drew a beautiful arc and gently landed on Zhang Houlu's forehead, leaving a shallow red mark.
Some of the scholars were angry. How dare a scholar attack a scholar!
However, they could not vent their anger. They all waited to see how Zhang Houlu would deal with it.
Zhang Houlu was stunned in place. It was as if he had been hit and was in a daze.
"The stone returns to its origin. Where does your pain come from and where does it go? Where is your shock, your confusion, and your worry? "The young man asked.
Zhang Houlu was still sitting there without moving.
The others stared blankly at Zhang Houlu, and then turned to look at the unprepossessing young man. They were all deeply shocked. If a great scholar were to say something like this, it wouldn't be strange. But how could a scholar say such a simple and profound principle?
Everyone gave up their prejudices and thought about the young man's words.
A scholar answered, "The pain comes from your strength. Therefore, the pain is naturally given to him by you."
The young man looked at the stone in front of the tiger skin and asked, "Why can I make him feel pain?"
The scholar continued, "The answer is too complicated. I can say that it is your strength. However, when your body is moving, your mind is also moving. The reason why you can move is partly because of your talent and partly because of your food. If you continue to ask, you will return to the beginning. It is all given by the heavens."
"The angel gave him pain and borrowed me to make him feel pain. The heavens gave him his nature and borrowed my strength to make him regain his nature. "
After the young man finished speaking, everyone was stunned.
Zhang Houlu slapped his thigh and shouted, "That's right!"
Everyone was shocked.
Zhang Houlu looked as if he could not see them. He looked straight at the young man and said, "The strength used by the heavens is the Dao. All things should follow the Dao of the heavens. "
"The Dao, the passage, is it correct?" The young man asked.
Zhang Houlu hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Yes."
"Then the beginning and the end of the passage, are they also Daos?" The young man asked.
Zhang Houlu was stunned for a few breaths. His expression changed several times before he gritted his teeth and said, "It can be considered Dao."
"Is there Dao outside of Dao?"
Zhang Houlu braced himself and said, "The Dao that is not the Dao is still the Dao."
The young man picked up another stone and hit Zhang Houlu's head again, asking, "Does it hurt?"
Zhang Houlu argued, "It didn't hurt at first, it hurts now, and it won't hurt soon. It's all Dao."
Fang Yun picked up the stone for the third time, but he didn't throw it. He asked, "Does it hurt?"
Zhang Houlu quickly said, "If it lands on me, it will hurt. If it doesn't, it won't hurt."
Fang Yun was thrown out, landing right on Zhang Houlu's head before falling to the ground.
Zhang Houlu was stunned.
"Does it hurt or not?" Fang Yun asked.
"It doesn't hurt," Zhang Houlu replied slowly.
Everyone saw the confusion in Zhang Houlu's eyes, and then they were also confused.
"The path is the Dao, and the Dao is not empty! If it's right, it's wrong. If you can't distinguish right from wrong, it's not the Dao. The Dao of man should be clear, or else the human world will be in chaos. The Dao of Heaven should be clear, or else the myriad worlds will be in chaos. If there are no four seasons in the sky, no sun and moon, and it's hot and cold, bright and dark, how can man survive? If all things are Dao, then Dao is endless, where will Heaven be? It's the Dao of righteousness, "the young man said.
Zhang Houlu said solemnly, "You're right, sir. The Dao of a scholar is the Dao, and the Dao of not doing it is not the Dao. However, what's wrong with following the Dao, knowing one's nature, and obtaining the Mandate of Heaven? "
The young man said, "Let me ask you, what is the Mandate of Heaven, what is the Mandate of Heaven?"
Zhang Houlu was stunned on the spot. His gaze changed, and the energy around him surged. His forehead was dripping with sweat.
Everyone thought about the young man's words carefully and found that it made a lot of sense. It completely overturned the view of the Mandate of Heaven.
Before this, everyone thought that the Mandate of Heaven was the Mandate of Heaven, and talent gave one's nature. However, no one looked at the problem from another angle like the young man. Since Heaven was a supreme existence, it must have more power. It couldn't only have the power to give one's nature.
Other than nature, what else could man get from Heaven?
Were those things given by Heaven through other means, or were they given by Heaven because it didn't want to?
The young man continued, "The Mandate of Heaven, the Mandate of Heaven, should be obtained. What Heaven doesn't mandate, what man thinks, what he wants, what he wants, can also be obtained! "
When the young man finished speaking, he walked out. He seemed to be walking slowly, but he covered dozens of feet in one step.
Zhang Houlu was stunned for a few breaths. Suddenly, he slapped his head and chased after him with One Step On The Cloud. As he chased, he shouted, "Sir, please teach me! If I don't cultivate the Mandate of Heaven, what power should I cultivate? "
"Reason!" The young man spat out a word and disappeared.
Zhang Houlu was stunned on the spot. He suddenly remembered that someone had said the word "reason" before, but he didn't know who said it.
He squatted on the ground and pulled his hair with his left hand while his right index finger kept writing the word "reason" on the ground. He was thinking hard. Suddenly, he stood up with bright eyes.
"I remember now!"
Zhang Houlu roared and rushed straight to Jingguo's capital.
Many scholars wanted to know what the two of them had said in the end, but their literary ranks were too low, so they quickly lost track of them.
The people of Yu Town finally stopped at the place where Zhang Houlu had stopped. They looked at the crooked "reason" word.
"Who do you think that young man is?"
"I'm not sure, but I remember someone saying on the ranking list a few days ago that unknown young men have appeared in various parts of the human race. Their literary ranks aren't high, and they aren't famous, but their words are powerful and can enlighten people. They aren't inferior to Grand Scholars or even Great Confucians. After that, people tried to find those young men, but they couldn't find any trace of that person. It's very strange. This person is a bit like the person mentioned by the person on the ranking list. "
"I don't think it's important who that young man is. What's important is what he said and the reason he said."
"Yes, we don't have to think so much. We just have to understand his reason."
"I kind of understand the Dao he said. It's that the Dao should be real and not fake. If it's right, it's not right. If it's wrong, it's not Dao. We always think that everything has a Dao, but in reality, some so-called Daos aren't real Daos. For example, the Sage Dao of the School of Vertical and Horizontal was completely swallowed up by the Political Dao. We can be sure that the Sage Dao of the School of Vertical and Horizontal isn't Dao, but the Political Dao is. "
"Yes, his explanation of Dao is very clear. There's nothing difficult to understand. However, I'm a little confused about the Mandate of Heaven he talked about. "
"Me too. Because in the end, I understood that the young man wanted to deny the entire cultivation method of the Mandate of Heaven. "
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