The Heaven and the Earth (8)

1 Confucius learned less about the knowledge of practice. He always appraised people by their knowledge within the consciousness.

2 Someday he asked Laotse, “Some people consider themselves as the top talents of governance. They deem that everything has its reason to exist only if it actually exists in this world. Therefore, they think it’s possible what other people think it’s impossible; they agree on what other people think controversial or disapproved.

3 Considering themselves always right; they make very clear something that common people argue and confuse. For example, the common people do not understand what the meaning of “The feeling of the property of the hardness of a stone when we touch it by hand is actually separated from the feeling of the acknowledge of white of the same stone when we see it by eyes”, but they think it is as obvious as a house hanged in the sky. Sir, do you think they are sages?”

4 Laotse said, “These people are just seen as the technocrats, or the proficient craftsmen, or a group of guys who exert their mental and physical energy. They are possessed of assorted technologies, just like the hound employed to prey the fox, and the monkey in mountains been bound and taken to the cities to perform at the market. How are they considered as sages?

5 My dear Confucius. Come! Let me tell you something that you never hear and are told by others before.

6 Most of the people in this world are far from Tao. So all of them have head, body, limbs but they never exert the full function of the mind and listening ability of a human suppose to have. This is why they can’t correspond to Tao or to Bodhisattva, Buddha and God who are shapeless and formless and can guide people into the Tao of natural.

7 The effort of practice without the ability of corresponding to the Tao of natural is doomed in vain. After death, they instead disentangle. Their souls throw off the binding of the consciousness and come back to Tao. Their flesh bodies ruin but self-nature, Buddha-nature, Qi, calmness and refinement rejuvenate instead. It is miserable that most people know nothing about it.

8 As for governance of a country, certainly it is directly relative with human. I deem that a king conforming to Tao should be selfless. He never let his fame and personal affairs to influence his judgment and determination of implementation of the public policy. We call this king is “A man forgetting about self”. A king who really can forget about self is considered to integrate into the Creator and the Nature.”