You can see Hangu Pass from a distance, with lofty mountains on both sides and big rivers running through it. The road from Tongguan to Hangu Pass is a narrow land between mountains. It is a majestic pass and a tiger, towering and dangerous. Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Hangu Pass has been an important town in the world. From the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the Weihan Passage starts from Xiaoshan in the west and ends at Hulao Pass in the east. Taihang, Wangwu guards the gate and guards the middle of the pass. Shape wins, but it is the barrier of the Central Plains, a god-sent Yanhuang.
Based on the plateau in the west, Juejian in the east, Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Yellow River in the north, it is like a strong fortress, closed in the valley, as deep and dangerous as a letter, so it is called Hangu.
Before Chen Ang got to the pass, he saw the gate of Hangu Pass was wide open, and a great doctor came out from it, with three long beards under his jaw. This kind of etiquette is not greetings and greetings from later generations, but a grand ceremony with a loud honor. Although Yin Xi is only a doctor, he dare not use the ceremony of the princes, but he is very respectful. The doctor pays homage to King Wen.
If Confucius came here again, I'm afraid he won't accept it, but Lao Tzu dares to accept it.
Wukong went to meet him, but he also returned the gift according to the etiquette system. He and Zilu studied for two months and listened to Confucius' lectures. Only by following the ritual system can we know how extraordinary the saint is in front of the door, even a monkey leading a cow, and he also has the demeanor of a scholar-bureaucrat.
Yin Xi welcomed Chen Ang and Lao Dan into the customs, please enter the official residence, and came to ask questions that night.
He asked Lao Tzu that the rituals are broken and the music is bad. The princes do not respect the emperor Zhou. Seeing the world is in chaos, how is the doctor? Lao Tzu talked with him about doing nothing but not doing it, advocating the rule of the body and the country, taking the two natures as the foundation, things follow it because of it, things move because of it, and follow the heaven and earth to make everything natural, and even have to do it by doing nothing It is called making things natural to me. To make things feel free and easy, good at teaching without words, so that people can transform themselves.
Ask Chen Ang again, Chen Ang told him that things compete for natural selection, survival of the fittest, avoiding harm in the whole life, cherishing oneself for oneself, not being with things so as not to affect the nature of things, doing nothing so that the two will not be burdened with each other, and the two will not interfere with each other.
After Chen Ang finished speaking, he said to the crowd: "All things in nature have nourished all living beings, and they are cured by life and death... The fittest will live, and the uncomfortable will die, so you value yourself! Animals eat their children, insects devour their husbands, and rabbits and antelopes run away. , but the claws and fangs of wolves and tigers are sharp, just because they avoid harm all their lives, and those who value themselves for me, those who do not value themselves, die! Things are like their fathers, and their nature is free. If the father does not value himself, he will perish; if his father values himself, he will live Those who value themselves have sons and those who value others are unparalleled, so all things born in nature value themselves!"
"It's okay to pluck out a hair and benefit the world!"
"Because you pluck a hair, the world will gain a hair, harm yourself and benefit others, and people will kill you again. The way of heaven is born and killed, and if you don't feel well, you will die! Therefore, the things of the way of heaven lie in utilitarianism, the growth of human beings, and the reproduction of all beings lie in selfishness! A son is like his father, and it is said to be hereditary, and those who are hereditary are selfish!"
Yin Xi heard Lao Tzu's true words, became drunk, and praised them endlessly. Hearing Chen Ang's words, he was terrified and thrilled. On the contrary, Wukong, Qingniu, etc. were different types. The weak are born and the weak die, they are eliminated naturally, the strong are selected by nature, the theory of the evolution of all things, but it is better than Lao Tzu's moral words.
Yin Xibai asked Chen Ang: "This is what the sage said, but where is the morality?"
Chen Ang smiled and said: "Listen to me... nature chooses the fittest, not the strong. Tigers and wolves also have their dead, and cunning rabbits also have their survivors. Therefore, the way of natural selection is that the strong cannot win over the weak, and the strong cannot win." Soft, weak and have the way, then they can grow naturally, but strong and without the way, there is also a time of extinction. The way to cherish yourself is first to survive, and second to reproduce, and those who can survive but cannot reproduce, the second is absolutely!"
"That's why loving one's son is the first morality!"
"But the nature of all things is different. When gathered together, they are strong, and when scattered, they are weak. Those who gather in groups are better than those who are lonely. Wolves howling together in the mountains and forests, thinking of survival, are better than lone wolves rampant. It is also the principle of natural selection! Wolves have no way. , how to be better than a lone wolf? In this way, there is a leader, a wolf, who loves his sons and nobles. Therefore, among the clans, the nobles belong to the nobles. They only benefit themselves because they gather together, and hate themselves when they disperse. If the clans are regarded as one person, He loves his people even as he loves himself."
"That's why loving one's family is the second morality!"
Wherever Chen Angxing came, he raised his hands and spoke about the way of vitality to transform all things and blood to reproduce heredity. There are no atoms in this world, but vitality atoms are just one thing with two phases. Bones, and even the body shape of the ancient monster, tell the principle of evolution, deduce this matter from the ancient times in the world, and prepare to describe its species.
Lecture on the evolution of species and the way of extinction.
Later Yin Xi didn't dare to memorize the truth, but only dared to record the ancient landforms and scenery that Chen Ang said, which was handed down to later generations, and it was called "Shan Hai Jing". There was an attendant by his side who secretly wrote down the principles Chen Ang said, but the attendant didn't understand Humanities, although he can get the truth, but he loses the proof. In the ancient times, he half understood the evolution, and in the end he only remembered the way of humanities, but lost the naturalness.
The waiter returned home and taught his son Yang Zhu the way of Chen Ang.
Lao Dan heard Chen Ang's words, nodded and smiled, and said, "Being good...you take your body as the world, if you can send it to the world. Love takes your body as the world, if you can trust the world."
Chen Ang also said that the sky is permanent, but all dharmas are impermanent. All things are the principle of movement, change and development. He said that the sky changes and things change. In order to adapt to the changes of the world, the principle of continuous evolution of species is combined with your own thoughts In order to adapt to the changes in the world, we must grasp the principles behind the movement and changes of things and seek the way. This is called development.
It is said that human beings are different from all things because of their wisdom and enlightenment. Wisdom and enlightenment can seek the Tao and seek change, not the changes of natural elimination. Humans are changeable, so they are better than all kinds in the world, and they can seek the Tao, so they are precious to all living beings in the world.
It is also said that when human beings gather together, they have the virtue of loving their sons, loving their clan, and also have the nature of selfishness and self-love. The clan is superior to itself, and the individual is superior to itself. This conflicts. Everyone’s selfishness is harmful to the clan and self, and there is also wisdom and fickleness. , so between loving the small self and loving the big self, the sexes, human desires and morality evolve.
Among the narrating crowd, if you offend others because you value yourself, in the natural selection of things, some will harm yourself, and everyone will harm others, and you will harm yourself the most. Finally, change from wisdom, conclude a contract, and reach a consensus, just like the collective consciousness among the crowd, this is morality. Morality is also the truth of your own.
Wukong listened to what Chen Ang said about the evolution of the sky and the way of human development, but it penetrated the principle of the evolution of human beings from beasts to humans. In China, the three sages of Lao, Chen, and Kong preached morality, but they have seen the natural jurisprudence of animals, human civilization, and morality. So far, they have finally understood human nature, understood that human nature is also beasts, and governed by wisdom and morality. Bestial conflict.
He gradually realized the difference between wisdom and morality and natural animal nature, and he also touched the way of nature and all things. His knowledge is so high that it is rare in the heaven and the world. From Chen Ang, he obtained the demonic nature of selfishness, greed, ignorance and hatred, and learned human ethics from Confucius, the human nature of ritual and law killing, and finally got Lao Tzu's quiet, inaction, and high moral divinity.
When Yin Xi first heard Lao Tzu's moral words, he was really infatuated. He wished he could go under Lao Tzu's school. Later, when he listened to Chen Ang's teachings, he was inexplicably terrified, and didn't know how much he had listened to. Etiquette is ignored.
Yin Xi stumbled and returned to the official residence, his wife looked pale at him, flustered and out of breath, she quickly stood up and gave him hot water, and asked him what happened, Yin Xi said: "I really heard what the sage said today!"
"Since it is the words of a sage, how can it be so?"
Yin Xi waited for a while to calm down before replying: "The moral words of the sages have lofty meanings, and they are true and up to the Tao. If they are well understood, they will be wise and accessible. Therefore, the sages don't look at life and death, virtuous, and unscrupulous, but look at the reason." The words of the sage's way of heaven... are terrible, dare not listen, dare not listen! People can't get... They are as indifferent as gods. I only know today that people have no self, gods and people have no merit, and saints have no name. These three are not People too."
After Yin Xi left here, Chen Ang said to Lao Tzu, everyone said: "I look at the four major continents, all beings are good and evil, and each side is different. Those who win the Shenzhou in the east respect heaven and earth, worship immortals and gods, there are few Self, like grass and trees, although clean, is like a big tree, which will rot in the wind and rain; those who are in the giant Luzhou in the north, fight for their lives in the sky and the earth, trying to survive the ancients, who are clumsy in nature and sparse in emotion, learning from animals; those in Hezhou in the west are insensitive, Consisting with the status quo, it is almost like a doll of gods and Buddhas, and domestic animals in captivity; but I, who live in Nanbuzhou, value themselves, strive for fickleness, seek development, and do not be fascinated by immortals and Buddhas. This is a world of great struggle and a place of humanity. "
"As the saying goes, the way of heaven is up for grabs, and you should not invade yourself. The morality of other continents is the morality of gods and saints. It seems that gods are enlightened, but in fact they are imprisoned and raised. If there is a slight change, there will be divine punishment to kill. Only Nanzhan Buzhou , is actually the place where human nature develops, morality sprouts from wisdom, and the way to change and develop in the world, impermanent morality, is that morality adapts to people, adapts to human way, continuously develops, and constantly improves, this is the way to seek Tao!"
"I feel pity for all beings in Hezhou, Xi Niu. Classes are solidified, humanity cannot develop, they are raised for Lingshan, and they are no longer human beings. It is really pitiful. The holy Buddha confuses people with the Paradise of Paradise, paranoid spirit, and divorced from material things. Wolves, tigers and elk are friendly. Peace, seems to be liberated, but actually sinks. I have the Way of Freedom, which can liberate all beings!"
Upon hearing this, Wukong kowtowed and said, "Let's ask Patriarch, how can we save sentient beings?"
"Make all living beings value themselves, wolves and tigers are greedy to kill, officials are cruel, people are greedy, ignorant and angry, they are still competing and changing, like a plate of running water, contradictions are everywhere, natural selection, competition, enjoyment, and desire, Freedom, everyone is free, not imprisoned by immortals and Buddhas. Then let it develop naturally and make continuous progress. With the goal of great harmony in the world, immortals and Buddhas can only educate people, not force them to confuse people.”
"The Lingshan in the west confines people's desires, which is really a great evil. I am about to spread the Dharma in the western heavens, to promote the way of freedom of desire, but Lingshan is stubborn, the Buddha is stupid, and the Buddhas in Daleiyin Temple are numb, greedy and superstitious. It is indeed a cancer of the world, a burden of evolution."
Wukong said: "Master, what do you want?"
"Wukong, we are going west here to liberate all living beings, not to fight against Lingshan. I know that Lingshan is powerful, and the Tathagata stubbornly refuses to listen to advice. You go west with me to destroy his Dharma and fight him with ideas. I am He wants to turn Hu into a Buddha, sneak into other sects, put on other cassocks, destroy his Buddhist teachings, and use the name of a monk to practice the way of others. He tells all living beings to restrain their desires and refine their spirits. I want all the beings in Xiniu Hezhou Obey human desires and pay attention to reality. It is spreading humanity to the west and recreating sentient beings!"