Chapter 200: Those Who Understand Will Understand
Your grandmother’s! Whenever I encounter this kind of person, boys are speechless. You don’t want to pay attention to them, but sometimes you can’t bear to ignore them. If you do pay attention, they’ll argue stubbornly without understanding anything.
The moment this person speaks, they’re just operating within the confines of their habitual cognition, not even stopping to think before speaking.
Is what the boy wrote meant to be approved by everyone? Or is it for everyone to see?
I’ve already said it’s for those who can understand. Don’t force yourself to read it if you can’t, or you’ll get trapped in appearances and become entangled.
The reminder is so obvious, why are there still people like this?
It’s truly speechless, why can’t they understand the meaning of “self-righteous”?
It’s when you take what you think as absolute truth, regardless of whether it’s good or bad. Anything you believe to be true is self-righteousness!
I’ve said it so many times, step out and don’t let your personal perspective cloud your judgment when looking at problems. Why can’t you learn?
And they always assume others are the way they imagine them to be. Isn’t it obvious they’re stuck in a big pit? What are they talking about, having climbed out and now seeing clearly?
Where have you climbed out to? Your legs are practically numb from squatting, and you’re still talking about climbing out?
You don’t even understand what the boy’s book is for, nor can you distinguish why you’re insisting on reading it. You haven’t considered these two key points. You keep talking about spiritual intelligence and spiritual roots, or that you’re capable now and can do this or that!
If you were truly capable, you wouldn’t need to say anything. Prove it in your life! Don’t just think about it. In all aspects of your life, see if you can understand principles, if you can avoid being swayed by appearances, and if you’re still troubled. Wouldn’t that tell you everything?
The fact that you’re asking the boy shows you don’t understand! If you don’t understand, why are you pretending?
You’re bragging to someone who can recover from being crippled and grow younger, do you think he’ll indulge you? What are you thinking?
Oh dear, these kinds of people are truly less vital than the boy’s good younger brothers. Once those good younger brothers fall into an appearance, they can immediately react to a single sentence from the boy, realizing they’re following their attachments or created appearances, and stop to adjust in time.
But these people are invincible. They can conjure up a ton of things that aren’t even in the book, and even worse, they argue their way through the whole thing without knowing why they’re reading or arguing.
Can you wake up already? Whether you’re male or female, why do you always feel like you’re something special? Having ambition is good, but this you’re doing isn’t ambition! This is blind delusion, and a half-hearted one at that.
It’s like believing in Buddha and reading Buddhist sutras but not studying their meaning. Cultivating Buddhism just because it’s good, without researching what Buddha is and how to cultivate, you’re just going in circles.
It’s not that the boy is heartless and doesn’t care about these people. Their habits and karma are so heavy, they’re about to take off, and they’re still foolishly unaware!
Having a heart that seeks verification is good, but you need to learn to lower your head and see what you’re doing! If you don’t even know what you’re doing, what are you verifying?
The boy truly admires how his two teachers persevered. He also understands why the Daoist Master stopped helping people treating illnesses after being falsely accused. Human nature is truly a bizarre spectacle that the boy has written about extensively.
The boy is completely different from them. If the boy doesn’t understand something, he will humbly ask for advice from anyone, without adding a single bit of rebuttal or trying to argue with any viewpoint. He will only learn humbly. Even if he has other opinions, he will verify them himself rather than arguing forcefully with the person teaching him.
Who owes you anything? They teach you things and you still argue with them?
Before, when the boy asked for advice from a friend who had been writing for a long time, even though that person hadn’t achieved much, the boy still respectfully asked for advice. Even if he only learned a tiny bit, he still respected them greatly. Why? Because no one is obligated to teach us! No one owes us anything. Learning even a little from others can help us. What kind of virtue do you have? To evaluate someone who is helping you? Have you no shame?
Even if we only learned basic addition and subtraction within ten from them, it might not seem like much later on, but we learned it from them! And after learning from them, you come back and say things like:
“Hey, this is nothing!” or “I think it’s this way or that way.”
What kind of shamelessness is that? Do you have any decency at all?
If you feel you understand, why are you still reading their book? They recovered from being crippled, and you’re still arguing with them! Are you crazy?
Even if you apply something from the book in your life, it’s because you learned it from them or understood it! You don’t even have this basic decency and you haven’t realized it?
Damn, you’re about to live like an ungrateful wretch. Little brother, wake up. You’ll be useless later on.
How can a sentence about wearing fur and horns have you so tied up? Understand principles! What principle are you understanding? Nobody owes you anything! Not even your father or mother owes you anything. Did a wolfdog eat your grateful heart?
If I reply to you, do you assume I’m talking about you?
Let me tell you a story, think about it yourself;
Once upon a time, a strong man was traveling. Because it was very hot, he sat under a big tree to cool off. He felt his face get hot, looked up, and saw a child standing on the tree urinating on him. He wasn’t angry. He smiled and asked the child to come down, gave the child ten yuan, praised the child, saying he’d surely have a promising future, and then left happily.
After the strong man left, the child returned to the tree. A while later, another strong man arrived. He was also tired and sat under the same big tree to cool off. The child on the tree was overjoyed. He thought to himself: the last person he urinated on not only didn’t scold him but gave him money and praised him. So, he decided to do it again to get more money.
He took off his pants, gritted his teeth, and strained with a red face to urinate a large amount, all over the strong man’s face. After finishing, he quickly jumped down from the tree and reached out to ask the strong man for money.
Unexpectedly, this strong man had a bad temper. Seeing a stupid kid dare to urinate on him and then reach out with a silly smile. He frowned, pulled out a butcher knife from behind him, and chopped him up with one stroke.
If you can’t even distinguish between good and bad, then you’re not far from falling into a big pit, little brother.
Just because someone says nice things and approves of you doesn’t mean it’s good. That’s more likely to make you lost. Haven’t you noticed that when some people first argue with a big brother, and the big brother doesn’t want to engage, he’ll say: “Yes, you’re right, you’re absolutely right.”
Or sometimes he’ll just say: “Whatever you think it is, that’s what it is.”
Do you think these are good words? These are the big brother seeing that the person has heavy habits and doesn’t want to get entangled, and instead, he deliberately pushed them further. Those who react will become a bit clearer, while those who don’t will obediently squat in the pit, awaiting the butcher knife of life.
It’s the same as I said, those who don’t understand will never understand, and only those who can understand will truly get it…
