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Chapter 679 Storytelling

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    Tang Seng told Li Shimin about his bizarre journey of seeking Buddhist scriptures in the palace. Li Shimin was so sleepless and forgetful of food that he was even more energetic than a TV drama follower.

    If Tang Monk¡¯s Buddhism were so interesting, I guess he wouldn¡¯t be left alone.  Tang Seng's Consciousness-only school is unpredictable, highbrow, boring, and cannot attract believers at all.  Although what he said was very reasonable, the masses did not like it. The masses liked the enlightenment. They usually ate and played without delay, but one day they would become Buddhas after enlightenment.

    The most important thing for a master who transmits knowledge is to be able to tell stories. Isn't it because the various schools of thought are so popular that they are good at telling stories and making analogies?  It doesn't know how to tell stories, it can only make boring arguments, and it can't be spread at all.  Even the most popular in Western religions is Ji Feng, such interesting stories as holding a flower and smiling, a stubborn stone nodding, pointing to the moon, and wind blowing.

    Even in Wang Yangming¡¯s era, there were stories about viewing flowers in the mountains.  As for the Qing Dynasty, even Yan Yuan, an educator and thinker who proposed the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor, was unknown because he had no small stories.

    Scholars in the Qing Dynasty criticized the ideological circles of the Song and Ming Dynasties. Because the Manchus entered the customs, the scholar-bureaucrats' desire to destroy humanity was shaken. Can the scholar-bureaucrats protect their country and protect their country? Can they be responsible for the governance of a country?  Yan Yuan had to answer this question at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. Is it okay to be a scholar-bureaucrat?

    Okay, why?  No, why?

    In short, he opposed metaphysics, ancient precepts and other pedantic learning attitudes, but supported the learning method of comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor. In the end, he was not opposed to the scholar-officials, but to the ideas established and developed by the scholar-officials from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. He believed that by the time  At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrat class was not only unpragmatic but also very hostile, which was why the Manchus entered the country.

    ¡°In fact, if we really want to reflect on the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the scholar-official class is the one that should be overthrown. After all, the scholar-official class is the main holder of wealth.

    So what Yan Yuan said is that scholar-bureaucrats are good, but scholar-bureaucrats¡¯ ideas are not good.  Therefore, it is necessary to promote the new scholar-official idea of ??comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor, so as to continue to maintain the development of the country.  In the end, the Great Liquidation accepted this statement and reached an agreement with the original scholar-official class, so that the scholar-official class could continue in the Qing Dynasty.

    After arriving, the scholar-officials of the Qing Dynasty began to crazily criticize "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires". On the one hand, it was because the scholar-officials had long replaced the aristocrats. On the other hand, criticizing Song and Ming thought was also the fanaticism of converts. If we did not criticize Song and Ming thought, how could we let it go?  Does the Qing Dynasty know that the scholar-bureaucrats are now following the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly instead of missing the Ming Dynasty?

    In short, these things all show that if a good thinker wants to be known by others, it is best to be good at telling stories, otherwise no matter how powerful he is, he will remain unknown and unknown.

    Tang Monk was very knowledgeable, but he couldn't teach with fun.  From his behavior during his journey to the West, we can also see that Buddhism is something sacred in his heart and should be taken seriously. How can he explain the meaning of Zen through random stories?  He wouldn't do that.

    So in the end, the Consciousness Only Sect became a minority, and Tang Seng was defeated by the illiterate Huineng who appeared later.  Master Huineng has an advantage, that is, he is illiterate. He deconstructs Buddhist scriptures completely according to his own understanding, which is completely different from Tang Monk's reading of the scriptures.

    In this era of the Tang Dynasty, there were still many illiterates, and even educated people were not necessarily willing to spend time studying the convoluted knowledge of the Knowledge-only Sect, and there were a lot of Western teachings on professional terms, which was not as good as advanced mathematics.  It¡¯s just as difficult, who would be happy with it.

    Tang Seng did not know that his Knowledge-only Sect would be defeated by an illiterate person in the future. At this time, he was very energetic and felt that he could shine Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty could escape from the sea of ??suffering through learning and achieve bliss as soon as possible.  He was confident, thinking that as long as he translated the Buddhist scriptures from the West, everyone would come to learn from them.  He really admired the Tang Dynasty people's love for learning. What the Tang Dynasty people loved was bathing and watching theater, and studying could not be ranked before bathing.

    Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, there have been special bathing holidays to stop bathing.

    This holiday still existed in the Tang Dynasty. If you have time, why not take a bath? There is no need to learn such complicated Buddhism.

    When Tang Seng was recalling the scriptures, his three disciples were eating and drinking at Yunyao's house and talking about the journey to the west. Of course, in their view, the journey to the west was a trouble. Tang Seng was completely burdened by an increase in workload, and sometimes it was very difficult.  Things that were easy to solve were made very complicated by Tang Seng.

    "Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, you can't arrange things behind Master's back.  "

    "I know, I just say it." Sun Wukong can't arrange Tang Seng, because what he said is all the truth, and he didn't add any exaggeration.

    ? ???You're done, I still have a lot of trouble to deal with.  " Yunyao also said bitterly: "In the second mortal world, I, the leader of the Jie Cult, was regarded as the leader of the Demon Cult, and I didn't dare to show it at all.  As a princess, I have to make money for Tang. There are also a group of officials in the court who are against me, and I have to fight with them in a battle of wits and courage.  "

    "You only see rainbows after going through wind and rain. God of Flowers, you are also going through nine or eighty-one difficulties now, and you will be fine in the future. If you need help, you're welcome." Sun Wukong comforted Yunyao.

    Zhu Bajie also said: "Sister Baihua, don't sigh. I tell you, don't work too hard. It doesn't matter whether you make money or not. Being happy is the most important thing."

    "I'm just complaining. It's not that things are difficult to do, it's that they don't recognize good people, and they turn a blind eye to my sincerity." Yunyao is not because things are complicated and difficult, but because they are obviously short-sighted, and they are erratic.  But you can't blame them.

    Sun Wukong also understands, wasn¡¯t he and Tang Seng the same way at the beginning?  "That's just the way mortals are. Just don't care about them. Being a little wronged is nothing."

    Yunyao thinks so too, but nagging in front of friends and getting their support can change her mood.

    "I was wronged in Gao Laozhuang back then. They didn't discriminate against me because I was ugly. I, an old pig, was not as knowledgeable as them. How can ordinary people understand the foresight of our monks? They only think about themselves. They also said that I look ugly.  Ugly, I made so much money for them in those years, why don't I say money is ugly? So if we argue with them, we lose." Zhu Bajie said that he no longer cares about Gao Laozhuang. Now he is the messenger of the Purification Temple.  I will never marry a mortal again.

    The three of them ate and drank and settled in the Prince Consort's Mansion.  Tang Seng went to translate the scriptures, but they couldn't help. They now have to wait for Tang Seng to complete the work before they can return to the West, and they have to wait for a long time.  In order to support Tang Monk's translation work, Li Shimin planned to build a Wild Goose Pagoda to show his respect and to accumulate some merit.

    "However, merit cannot be accumulated by building a pagoda. This has been explained a long time ago.  "Our master is kind-hearted and cannot bear to criticize the emperor." Sha Wujing said: "Doing good deeds for the purpose of accumulating merit will not bring any merit. At most, it will accumulate some blessings."

    Merits are equivalent to currency, and blessings are equivalent to points.  You can instantly exchange various conveniences with currency, but it takes a long time to accumulate points before redeeming them, and you may not necessarily be able to exchange them for the goods you need.

    Yunyao is also opposed to the spectacle. Unless Li Shimin pays for it from his own private money, then she will not object.  Finally, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and took out a sum of money from the inner palace to build a wild goose pagoda specifically for Tang Monk to translate.

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