Chapter 197: Words of the Various Philosophers in the Past

Yan State, the atmosphere here has changed since Ye Fan left.

In the Jixia Academy, many students looked at the vacant teacher and began to discuss what happened.

"Teacher, why are you not here today?"

"Is the teacher sick and resting?"

"Do you think the teacher has something to do today, so..."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, the teacher has never stopped teaching."

"So what happened?"

"Cough."

A cough, and then Yan Wuxia walked out.

She was wearing the white robe that Ye Fan used to teach as a teacher, holding a bamboo scroll in her hand.

Looking around at the quiet people, Yan Wuxia explained.

"The teacher went to preach."

"The teacher finally went to preach." Someone showed an expression of expected.

Ye Fan preached and gave these students the so-called Dao Second Words, about Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Mohism, military and other hundreds of schools of thought, and the result was that these people had a cognition in their hearts-Ye Fan would eventually leave.

"I will take over the Master's position as the Master of Jixia Academy and continue to teach."

Yan Wuxia finished speaking and looked at the reactions of the crowd.

"Are you good enough to teach us?" A young man stood up and asked Yan Wuxia.

"Of course." Yan Wuxia nodded.

She walked to the Master's seat, sat cross-legged, and invited the disciples in a calm tone.

"Discuss the Dao."

"Discuss the Dao." The young man was unceremonious and sat in the front disciple position opposite Yan Wuxia.

"My name is Li Er."

"Who goes first?"

"Let me talk about the Dao I have learned."

After Li Er finished speaking, many disciples quietly watched the two people's discussion of the Dao.

"What I learn is 'virtue'."

"Virtue is the foundation, and Tao is the sublimation of virtue."

"Without the foundation of virtue, it is very likely that one will fail in dealing with people, managing the family, and governing the country, and will not be able to "cultivate Taoism."

"Cultivating "virtue" is to create a good external environment for cultivating Taoism, which may also be what everyone needs; Taoists need to have a peaceful state of mind and a detached life, which also requires "virtue."

Li Er's tone was flat, and he began to describe the moral truth he saw.

"Taoism is everywhere, and "Taoism" is not just tangible "matter", thoughtful "spirit", and rational "law", but the invisible and intangible, the most empty and spiritual root of the universe that caused all this. "Matter", "spirit", and "law" are all transformed by "Taoism."

Moral truth, this is the exploration of man and nature described in the Tao Te Ching taught by Ye Fan.

Yan Wuxia pointed at himself, and then pointed at Li Er.

"How to cultivate Taoism?"

"Keep your heart and move forward."

Yan Wuxia shook his head and sighed at this very empty word.

"In thousands of households, all beings are different. You and I are different. How can Tao and virtue simply move forward with a heart?"

"The old man selling charcoal, the fisherman by the river, you and me, humans and non-humans, in this chaotic world, can we move forward with a heart?"

"Maybe." Li Er's eyes were firm.

"How to do it?"

"...cultivate the mind."

"What is the heart?"

"Where the mind goes, where the thoughts move, where the heart goes, is the original heart."

"Mountains and seas can move, the sun and the moon can change, and people are in the world, how can the right and wrong of the original heart be judged." Yan Wuxia bluntly pointed out the drawbacks.

"No good or evil, all are the original heart."

After Li Er said this, some students couldn't help but speak out their own ideas: "No, it is to cultivate a kind heart."

"Kindness is the most important thing. Without kindness, how can people live in harmony and love each other? The human heart is chaotic, and kindness must be cultivated."

After this student said this, Li Er retorted: "Between good and good, for great good, small good is evil."

Relatively speaking, there is no absolute kindness.

The student bluntly retorted: "No good or evil, is it a human or a beast!"

"The great way is like this, and those who pursue the way must stick to their original heart."

Two different theories, Li Er believes that the great way is like this, the moral truth, follow the original heart.

Another student has a different opinion, to cultivate a kind heart.

At this moment, it is like the ancient philosophers discussing their exploration of man and nature.

The unity of man and nature in Taoism, the benevolence of Confucianism, the non-aggression of Mohism, the rule of law in Legalism...different views, collision of ideas.

The two of them argued fiercely, listing one event after another, and then when neither of them could convince the other, they looked at Yan Wuxia.

Once, Ye Fan could answer questions equally for many students with different ideas and teach them what this ideal thinking would bring.

Now it was Yan Wuxia's turn.

You become a teacher, so you naturally need to answer questions for your disciples.

Yan Wuxia took a deep breath and looked at the verbal battle between the two with a headache.

What can I say, it's really a headache.

Any idea is right if you look into it deeply.

It's like a group of people looking at a mountain. Some people see the difficulty of climbing the mountain, some people see the magnificence of the top of the mountain overlooking the clouds, some people see the nature of the beasts playing in the mountain, and some people see the mineral resources buried deep under the mountain.

Too many landscapes, because of their different original thoughts, so there are completely different ideas.

It's hard to tell them right or wrong, because from this perspective, they are really "right".

In a sense, warriors don't like each other, and even regard each other as demons.

At this time, Yan Wuxia suddenly thought of the content related to the Tianli Sect she had once taught.

Taking a deep breath, Yan Wuxia spoke, still describing the relevant concepts of the Tianli Sect to the disciples according to Bai Mo's instructions.

"So that's it, the world is actually like this." Li Er stretched out his hand and pounded his palm, then said to himself: "As long as everyone is practicing Taoism, then this world..."

"We should practice Buddhism."

"No, it should be Dharma."

"Are you kidding? It's obviously the unity of heaven and man."

"Ahem." Yan Wuxia stopped the contradictions of these disciples and proposed a personal indirect.

"You can preach like the Master."

"I want to establish Taoism!"

"I want to establish Legalism!"

"I want to establish Mohism!"

... One voice after another, some disciples reported to each other, and some disciples went alone.

At this moment, they reached an amazing consensus - preaching.

Pass on the ideas they have learned, combine them with the real life of this world, and let the ideas and concepts be sown in the hearts of all living beings like seeds.

Yan Wuxia watched them leave and took a deep breath.

Jixia Academy, the students taught by Ye Fan are really too valuable. As the protagonist's disciples, they are born with the responsibility of becoming the masters of all schools of thought and will inevitably become sages.

So, all this is an inevitable result.

"Even if I know the fate of all this, I still can't change anything." Yan Wuxia said to himself.

Like a fish peeking into the river of fate, Yan Wuxia leaned out and saw the "future", but knowing the fate, he couldn't change it at all.

As the protagonist, Ye Fan preached to the disciples as a master, spreading the ideas of the various schools of thought on the earth. These disciples will inevitably leave Jixia Academy at some time in the future and preach in different regions.

"Jixia Academy, Palace Master and Master, Tianli Sect." Yan Wuxia walked into the courtyard, looking at the Bodhi tree with branches and leaves shining in the sun, with many thoughts in his heart...

The doctrine of Tianli Sect - the mixture of [information] from the rest of Baimo in the gray fog space packed by Baimo, and the pigments different from the original scroll.

If the universe of the Heaven-shading Sect is regarded as a painting, and Ye Fan paints and depicts the story on the canvas, then the teachings of the Tianli Sect are equivalent to new "paints". If these pigments cannot be accepted, they will become green-skinned, corrupted and mad, and if they are accepted, they will become members of the Tianli Sect such as Yan Wuxia and Yan Ruyu.

Yan Wuxia accepted the "forbidden knowledge" and gave the key descriptions to these "disciples" as a lower-level inheritance [abridged version, not the level of complete fallen demons]