Chapter 199: The Chicken is the Way of Heaven
The sunlight shone through the door of the Scripture Hall and shone on the ground, and Old Man Wu of the Scripture Hall turned around and stepped into the light and shadow ……
Rows and rows of wooden shelves were placed around the scripture hall, and the books on them emitted a nice smell of books, and he began to concentrate on tending those shelves.
Little Daoist Li Yi blushed and looked at Meng Fan: "Senior Brother Niu Ba …… I didn't expect this matter, Grandpa Wu is usually very kind, I don't know why he has become like this today."
Meng Fan was not surprised, looking at the old man's hunched figure, skimmed his lips and smiled, it seems that his good luck doesn't come often, reached out and patted Li Yi's shoulder, said gently, "Listening to the scriptures is also a good thing, it just so happens that lately, there are many things on my mind, I'll be back over for tomorrow's morning class."
"Okay." Li Yi barely managed to squeeze out a smile, and Meng Fan turned around to walk out, but he bumped into a Taoist priest head-on, that Taoist priest wore a white Taoist robe, which was very different from the dress code of the Tiger Yang Guan, so he should not be a disciple of the Tiger Yang Guan.
After the collision, Li Yi gave the other party to make amends, there are often foreign Taoist priests come to the scripture hall to talk about sutra, but also not strange.
The white-robed Taoist priest was about sixty years old with a flowing white beard, seeing the little Taoist priest's courteousness, he smiled, his eyes swept Li Yi and Meng Fan, then he opened his mouth and asked, "Today, I am the boat, and you are the water, when we met just now, is the boat carrying the waves, or is the water going to overturn the boat?"
The little Taoist priest heard this and froze, knowing that the other party was sort of testing himself, and that he, as an errand boy in the parlor, was really incapable of answering such Taoist witticisms, so he shook his head.
The white-robed Daoist smiled, his gaze resting on Meng Fan's face, and said directly to Meng Fan, "I'm not asking him, I'm asking you."
"Heh ……" Meng Fan was stunned, how would he talk to someone about the sutras, just now he was kicked out by old man Wu because he hadn't listened to the sutras, so he waved his hand and casually said a sentence he had learned when he was in school, "Goodness of the upper world is like water, the water is favorable to All things without contention."
Anyway, it's all about water coming and going, and after saying that, he continued to walk out. And he wanted to express the meaning is also very simple, that is, you go to find other people to play with water, I do not accompany you to play.
However, when the old man Wu who was guarding the scripture hall heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and his gaze looked over.
Old man Wu naturally recognized that white-robed Taoist priest, and he had a huge headache once he saw that white-robed Taoist priest.
The white-robed Taoist priest had been staying in Tiger Yang Guan for a period of time, and every day, he would pester him to sit and discuss the Dao, the questions were tricky and very difficult to deal with, always asking him to be speechless and gray before leaving with a big smile, causing him to have a bit of a mental breakdown!
There were several times when he wanted to open his mouth and scold the other party away, but he couldn't pull his face as the scripture hall's scripture keeper, so he had to endure this ordeal every day.
"No good." That white-robed Taoist priest shook his head when he heard Meng Fan's words, and without any further ado, he yanked Meng Fan's arm, Meng Fan tugged a bit but didn't break free, and realized that the white-robed Taoist priest's force was very strong, and he was afraid that his cultivation level wasn't low, so he squinted his eyes and looked at the white-robed Taoist priest, and reached out and pointed to Old Man Wu who was hiding on the sidelines, "The person you're looking for is over there."
"If you meet, it is fate." The white-robed Taoist monk tugged at Meng Fan with one hand, stroked his beard with the other, and said somewhat roguishly, "Answer me one question, and I'll let you go."
Witnessing this scene, Old Man Wu hurriedly turned his face to the side, as if he was terrified of the white-robed Daoist's words, or perhaps he was afraid that Meng Fan and Li Yi would ask him for help.
"Senior Brother Niu Ba." Seeing this, Junior Daoist Li Yi also felt that the white-robed Daoist had gone a little too far, and said to Meng Fan with a bitter smile, "Just say whatever you want, you haven't heard of the Scriptures anyway, so it's fine if you can't say it well."
"…… Okay." Meng Fan frowned, being forced to ask questions, his heart was naturally unhappy, and said to the white-robed Taoist priest in a bad mood, "You can just ask …… languages, mathematics, mathematics and chemistry."
That white-robed Taoist priest sniffed and froze, then haha laughed, loosened his hand, looked at the sky outside the scripture hall, and said with a loud voice, "The old man traveled the earth, only to find the answer to a question."
As he said this, he glanced at Old Man Wu again, "Old Taoist Wu answered very well, but unfortunately it's not the answer I want." After saying this his gaze focused on Meng Fan again, "Just answer as you please, whether or not you know how to discuss the Dao, just say what's in your heart, now I can ask you …… what is the Heavenly Dao?"
What is the Heavenly Dao?
Little Taoist Li Yi heard a stare, feeling that this question is too huge and too general, press simply not good to answer Well, can not help but look at the eyes to Meng Fan, hoping that their own Meng Niu Ba senior brother can give a convincing answer and let ……
And the old man Wu, who was hiding at the side, heard it, the corner of his mouth twitched a few times, stepped a little further away, lowered his head, and continued to pretend to organize the bookshelves.
"Heavenly Dao ah ……"
Listened to the white-robed Taoist's question, Meng Fan straight want to laugh, can't imagine that someone will ask himself such a boring question, the way of heaven with scientific explanation, is the rules of the universe operation, which is only a word can speak clearly, if then involved in the theoretical concepts of Taoism and Buddhism, it is even more obscure and unclear ……
Anyway, do not answer do not let go, Meng Fan is thinking how to make up a couple of sentences, in front of the eyes suddenly appeared in the village to play erhu Zhao Blind shadow to, then smiled blindly said up ……
"I have a friend, is a blind man, he can not see the night, also can not see the day, but it, he raised two chickens, all day and chicken companion, the chicken screamed, he knew the daybreak, the chicken nest, he knew the daybreak, and the Taoist you, eyes are very good, can see the sunrise and sunset, to see clearly the black and white of the world, but everywhere asking what is the way of the heavens! …… Then I will tell you now, the chicken is the Way of Heaven."
"Chicken is the Way of Heaven?"
White-robed Taoist froze, he had never heard such a strange answer, subconsciously began to analyze Meng Fan's words with his own thoughts, wanting to prove that the chicken is not the Way of Heaven, the results of the more the analysis of the more shocked, the more they found that the chicken is the Way of Heaven, the chicken to see the sun rising, issued the first cry, followed by the allusion to people hearing the chicken, smelled successively, so the chicken is not earlier than the people to hear the Way? And think of the chicken has wings and does not fly, in line with the so-called Taoist neutral and calm, bao guang hidden, and, the chicken and will lay eggs, eggs and will give birth to chickens, it is the Tao Te Ching inside the said, people law, the law of the earth, the law of the day, the law of the sky, the law of the road, the law of the road natural ……
The white-robed Taoist frowned tightly, and his expression was grave, and then suddenly his body was shaken, and he realized that the chicken is really the living Tao of Heaven wow!
"The chicken is …… the Heavenly Dao!"
The white-robed Taoist murmured read this sentence, the expression of trance up, and then froze in a daze to go outside, soon disappeared, outside the bright sunshine, white clouds such as cotton wool, floating and scattered ……
Meng Fan shook his head with a bitter smile, and realized that the Taoist priests' discussion of the sutras was similar to the school's philosophy class, which was all about metaphysical things, or else the "I Ching – Series of Rhetoric" wouldn't have said that "the metaphysical is called the Tao". In his opinion, these people were all a bit neurotic.
"Let's go."
Meng Fan said to Li Yi, lifted his steps and walked outside, Li Yi's gaze was filled with a strange color, closely following Meng Fan, looking at Meng Fan's back in admiration, muttering, "So chicken is the Way of Heaven, now I know ……"
"Wait!" At this time, Old Man Wu from the Scripture Hall suddenly appeared out of nowhere and shouted with an agitated expression, "Meng Niu Ba, please stay!"