The Heaven and the Earth (11)

1 Zhun Mang traveled east to Dahe for sightseeing. He met Yuan Feng in a place near East Sea.

2 Yuan Feng asked Zhun Mang, “Where are you going?”

3 He answered, “I want to tour around Dahe.”

4 Yuan Feng asked, “Why you choose Dahe?”

5 Zhun Mang said, “Dahe is a sea. It is so vast. Despite how much water you put in or draw out, you can’t fill it up or exhaust it. The sea is so boundless and deep. I like it so I want to be there.”

6 Yuan Feng said, “I would like to see the place where a flock of human living there. Would you like going with me? By the way, may I consult you about what the governance of sage is in the human’s society?”

7 Zhun Mang replied, “I just come back from there and don’t want to go again. From my observation, the governance of sage should conform to the following standards:

1. Governance should be moderate and to the point. Overdoing and beyond are bad.

II. Talent is the term in tryout of official. It is forbidden to obtain official position through backdoor, influence or relation, not to mention buying or selling the position, they are absolutely forbidden.

III. The policy of the state must follow the need of people, and never go ahead of it. Don’t think you are clever enough to be a pilot. Doing thing to meet the need of people is the right direction of governance.

IV. Let people based on their actual need in the real life, to do what they have to do, by which a country naturally enjoys peace and prosperity. It’s factually unnecessary for a leader to bustle in bad shape day and night, to consider what he has to do for his people. A good leader just makes a gesture or a wink; his people will do the works well by themselves.

8 The governance that conforms to the said terms is the governance of sage.”

9 Yuan Feng asked again, “What is the man of perfect virtue and well practice?”

10 Zhun Mang replied, “For the man of perfect virtue and well practice, his heart is tranquil, profound and sound.

11 Staying at home, he does thing in order, sequence and much confidence; never in a mood of absent- minded.

12 In his mind there has no worldly moral rule. He disregards other’s blame or praise. He thinks that it is good to make the people around him happy and satisfied. He feels it justified and at ease that the available resource is allocated appropriately to the people and has solved their urgent problem in life.

13 A little sadness hangs on his face as if he were a baby deprived of mother and were a stray lamb, looking silly.

14 There is enough money in his bank account. He doesn’t know why he is so lucky.

15 He often mentioned that he is lucky to eat something delicious and he always is invited to dinner. He has enjoyed assorted dishes all around the country and dined in various big restaurants. He doesn’t know why.

16 From my observation, these are the common phenomena of the men of perfect virtue and well practice.”

17 Attracted by Zhun Mang’s explanation, Yuan Feng intended to take the opportunity to dig out more treasure from him as Zhun Mang talked with zest.

18 Yuan Feng said, “What is the man of perfect practice who has been a god man.”

19 Closing his eyes and raising his head slowly, Zhun Mang said, “As he practices to reach the level of hearing enlightened, solitary enlightened, and Bodhisattva enlightened; he becomes an arhat, solitary realizer, Bodhisattva and even Buddha, he has jumped out of the transmigration. He clearly knows that his life ends; pure practice is accomplished; his tasks in the world are finished; he would never in the cycle of transmigration again. The fresh body of non-ego can’t confine him any more. The sufferings, such as birth, aging, illness and death, can’t bother him. He acts on nobody’s order, moving freely. He is absolutely free, keeping from the temptation and guidance of the five skandhas, namely form, feeling, conception, impulse and consciousness.

20 I think that is the god man who you mentioned.”