"How do you understand?" Aman asked curiously.

"I..." Xie Lingyun looked up at the bright night sky and the bright moon. The cool breeze blew, quite happy. He smiled and said, "I think it means that heaven and earth are unkind and righteous."

Aman was stunned and asked with a questioning face, "What?"

"Do you know what a straw dog is?" Xie Lingyun asked. Aman became suspicious when he heard this and replied inconclusively: "It's just a kind of dog."

He smiled and nodded: "It is a dog made of straw and grass, not a real dog. The ancient ancestors believed that dogs had high spirituality. During sacrifices, dog meat was a necessary sacrifice for blessings. However, after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancestors thought that dogs were highly spiritual and loyal. Why did they kill them as sacrifices instead? Isn't it contrary to the laws of heaven? So slowly, they stopped using dog meat as sacrifices. However, the customs passed down from generation to generation were not abandoned. Therefore, during sacrifices, the ancestors had to use straw and grass as fake dogs to replace real dogs."

"Before the altar, the straw dog seemed to be standing up at that time. Everyone treated it grandly and regarded it as an important sacrifice, not careless at all. When the ceremony was over, everyone would cross the river and burn the bridge, and throw it away the straw dog as waste. Passers-by could trample on it at will, and the people could pick it up and cook it home, and no one cared about it.

"Why is it a straw dog? I don't say it's grass or dust, but the world regards everything as a straw dog. Why?

The usual interpretation means that straw dogs are noble when used, and abandoned after use. All things are actually like this. Just like a flower, when it blooms, it is beautiful but will wither and wither; the sea water will wither, solid stones will rot, and people will also be born, old, sick and dead. From prosperity to failure, the heaven and earth will not give other kindness to anyone, and they will let all things go their own way, that's all.

Therefore, the birth, death and creation of all things in the world are natural and accidental. It is not someone who is dominating, nor is it the will of heaven and earth. It is the same principle as the Three Treatises on the origin and nature of emptiness. All things arise from causes and conditions, and have no self-nature, and eventually become nirvana. Therefore, heaven and earth are not kind, no matter whether you think they are not kind and be kind, or you still feel that heaven has no ambitions."

After hearing what he said, the two of them had returned to the Xishan Taoist Temple and walked towards the southern forest. Aman asked thoughtfully: "If we ascend to become immortals, jump out of the three realms, and gain immortality, wouldn't we be straw dogs?"

"Who knows, maybe the gods and immortals in the sky are also straw dogs, and they all think they have immortality, but who knows whether they will die again after billions of years?" Xie Lingyun sneered.

"Hmph, living a billion years is enough. I'll be impatient if I continue to live." Aman waved his hand and asked another question: "So, what does the saints mean to treat the people as straw dogs?"

"I said before, it usually means that the saints follow the heavens and act." Xie Lingyun shrugged helplessly and said, "I know you want to ask if the saints are trampled on by the people after using the straw dog? If you choose to be unkind and benevolent, there is no problem. If you choose a benevolent person, there are other problems. Does a saint mean that a saint is not a human? Haha."

Aman glared at his blue eyes, and the more he thought about it, the sooner he was going crazy, and said angrily: "I was so confused by you."

"Any interpretation has flaws and contradictions, so this sentence is difficult to interpret. This does not include what the Tao Te Ching continues to say, "There is still a slight thorn between heaven and earth, empty but unyielding, moving and getting out. It is better to keep the middle than to hear more and lose more than to be poor.

Isn’t the world like a bellows? It’s quiet and empty inside. When you move, your energy will arise, which is the cause of cause. The more you move, the more you move, the more you create everything.”

Xie Lingyun laughed: "Anyway, do you understand what a straw dog is now? Why did Laojun choose a straw dog? I have a different understanding."

"What? What?" Aman asked happily.

"What are the straw dogs used for?" Xie Lingyun asked her, and Aman rolled his eyes and said, "You said just now, the sacrifices for sacrifices are for worshiping God and praying for blessings."

"Sacrifices are correct. Sacrifices are for the purpose of communicating with the upper realm, and praying for better days. Is the purpose of the whole sacrifice like the world is pursuing the mysterious answer, the great way of the door of wonder?"

Seeing that she didn't understand, Xie Lingyun pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Imagine that there is a world with eight seasons a year; there is another world with ten suns in the sky; there is another world with all things flying in the air; there is another world with no gold, wood, water, fire and earth, but there is such something that our world does not have?"

"I didn't expect anything." Aman shook his head.

Xie Lingyun continued: "In Buddhist terms, we are in a dust of the Saha world. This dust is a small world. Look at the stars in the sky, almost every one is a small world. One thousand is a thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, one thousand worlds, that is, the Saha world.

That is the universe, that is, the Tao, Laojun said, 'There are things that are mixed into heaven and earth, and can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name, and the strong word is called Tao. So heaven and earth are not the highest, and the parents of heaven and earth are Tao. Does Tao have only one child? I don't think so, 'Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. What do you think, how many heavens and earth does a Tao have?"

"It's just that there are so many small worlds in the world, right..." Aman frowned and looked at his ten fingers. It was really not enough...

"I have calculated before, according to Buddhism, there are 1 billion." Xie Lingyun smiled and looked at the galaxy in the night sky, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's appropriate to say that our world is a tiny of dust."

There are many different heavens. We are the world of the earth. Do you know that in Tushita Heaven, the lifespan of the heavens is 4,000 years old, but one day and night is equal to four hundred years old in the world. In other words, four thousand years old is actually our 5700 million years old. If the heavens want to love Yunyu, hehe, just hold your hand. When a baby is born, he will be an eight-year-old child on earth, and will be adults in seven days."

"Ah? Then we are so trash." Aman was shocked, "It's unfair, it's too unfair. They were born to be our immortality."

"Do you understand if the heaven and earth are not kind?" Xie Lingyun laughed and then expressed his understanding: "Every heaven and earth of Tao are different. Maybe there are still heavens who are only ten years old. After hearing our longevity words here, they have to scream like you. All these heavens and earth are using their own things to prove the truth and seek the truth. You said that you would make the heavens live by 100 years, and I said that it would be better for me to make the heavens live by 100 years. Isn't this just 'taking all things as straw dogs,'"

Aman once again thoughtful and gritted his teeth, "If you let me be Pangu, I will let everyone... After men and women like each other, no one will change their minds, nor will they like others."

"Ahem, yes, when you become the heavenly king who can open up the world." Xie Lingyun muttered, and said, "In the transformation of the world, there is only joy but not suffering. The heavenly people can enjoy all kinds of wonderful desires as they wish. Men and women need clouds and rain. The scriptures say that laughing at each other will make a relationship. Hey, if we think, just look at each other, and then the child will be born from our lap, and will be born like the twelve years old on earth. This is really a time to give birth to a child at one glance."

"Look at your bad looks, you must be thinking about something bad." Aman angrily punched him in the shoulder. Now the whole woman in Jinling is Ake. If this is Hualetian, wouldn't he have a lot of children if he walks around the street?

"Where is the preaching?" Xie Lingyun quickly turned the topic back and said seriously: "Besides, the sages are not kind, Confucius practices Confucianism in Lu, Shang Yang practices law in Qin, and Taoism, Mohism, militia, military genius... These saints, whether they are full of benevolence and righteousness, or fame and fortune, aren't they all "taking the people as straw dogs?"

They want to realize their ambitions and ambitions and to educate their ideals and harmony, but who told them that you are right? Your vow will make the people happy forever? Lu was destroyed by Chu, Qin was destroyed by Han, wasn’t it just a straw dog?”

"Oh," he said, and he couldn't help but sigh, and he felt a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and the fox. "I wrote five thousand words and the Buddha passed down ten sects. Why did they twitch the bellows and create the two sects of Taoism and Buddhism? Look at the current situation, the endless struggles in the world are their original wishes? Isn't it another straw dog?

If you don’t make a wish, it is actually a good thing. At least you won’t be smart. I think Laojun has already expected it to evolve into this, so he said, ‘It’s better to keep the most knowledge and do not know much. Instead of exploring all the principles, it’s better to follow nature.”

"Hmph, I didn't practice sexual skills before, you said I was stupid, but now I want to practice, you said I will be smart." Aman was very dissatisfied with his mouth and pouted high.

"It's not just about you, I'm the same as myself." Xie Lingyun laughed.

Aman said suspiciously: "You mean you are not sure whether your suffering in eliminating the Three Realms is good or bad?" Seeing him nodding, she became even more confused: "Didn't this say this is the original vow of all saints, immortals and Buddhas? Why not?

"Who said that this vow would be good? The Tao can be told, it is very good." Xie Lingyun looked at the stars in the sky, listened to the chirping of insects in the forest, sighed: "What is the Tao? It cannot be said, there is no suffering, but only all happiness, what is the world like? "Everyone in the world knows that beauty is beauty, this is evil; everyone knows that good is good, this is bad.

I have always been unable to understand. Without suffering, where does happiness come from? Everyone knows that happiness is joy, but it is already suffering? It is so contradictory, I can't figure it out."

"Oh," Aman sighed softly, she couldn't figure it out even more, and asked, "Then do you want to continue?"

"So, if I become a saint on earth, I will be really unkind. I seek the Tao to save all living beings in the three realms, but it is also because of my own pursuit. Laojun said that he dare not be the first in the world, which is not without reason.

"Why did you dare?" Aman asked.

Xie Lingyun couldn't help but ponder, yes, why, even if he really has the ability to "eternally eliminate the sufferings of the three realms", aren't he afraid of destroying the three realms? All beings have no sufferings and no happiness, no desires and no desires, no disputes and no words... What is that

After thinking about it, he had no idea. He smiled: "A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger. I dare now, maybe I won't dare to become an old cow in the future. Try to keep it as much as possible."

"Then what do you think about my heart of Tao?"
Chapter completed!