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"Hey!" Zhang Daoxuan sighed for a long time: "As the teacher knows, you can stand alone now!"
"It's not in vain for the teacher to teach you!"
"It's just that my Maoshan inheritance will be broken in my Zhang Daoxuan's hands!"
"I am ashamed of the celestial masters of the past, ashamed of my patriarch!"
Ye Fan said quickly: "Master! As long as the disciple is alive, he will never break Maoshan's inheritance!"
"Ye Fan! I know your heart for the teacher!"
"But, you are really not material for being a Taoist priest!"
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Ye Fan stood upright and knelt down facing Zhang Daoxuan's back, and asked with tears in his eyes: "Master! Are you going to drive the apprentice away?"
"Ye Fan, my teacher has watched you grow up since I was a child, and my teacher understands your nature very well!"
"You act eclecticly, and you don't want to be bound by Taoist precepts!"
"Forcing you to become a Taoist priest is unfair to you!"
Ye Fan hastily promised: "Master! This disciple promises that after becoming a Taoist priest, he will abide by the clear rules and precepts, and guarantee that Maoshan is orthodox!"
Zhang Daoxuan shook his head and said: "Ye Fan! As a teacher, I don't care if Maoshan is orthodox or not!"
"Being a teacher just doesn't want to bind you within the Taoist dogma!"
"You are not a bird in a cage, you should have a wider world!"
"But..." Ye Fan just wanted to persuade, but was interrupted by Zhang Daoxuan.
"The inheritance of Maoshan has never been an important thing!"
"Everything has its own law of development, cloudy and sunny, and the reincarnation of heaven, no one can stop it!"
"My generation cultivates the Tao, for the morality in my heart!"
"It's not for fame and fortune!"
"The disappearance of Maoshan does not mean that morality will perish!"
"Our ancestors never stipulated that Taoist practice must be in Taoist temples!"
"There is a way in my heart, and Maoshan is everywhere!"
Ye Fan looked at Zhang Daoxuan's back, speechless for a long time.
He did not expect that Master's thought had reached such a height.
There is a way in the heart, and there is a way everywhere!
Maoshan has never been a proof of identity, but a place for people to practice.
Taoism is universal, not universal.
Should not be limited by the venue!
Tao, originally the law followed by nature, pays attention to going with the flow and following the heart.
However, in the process of the development of Taoism, later generations constantly added various restrictions to it.
Even becoming a Taoist priest has to go through a strict screening process.
This has violated the original intention of 'Tao' from the very beginning.
'Tao' has never been practiced only by Taoists!
'Tao' should be the way of all people in the world, the way of all peoples!
Spring planting and autumn harvest are the Tao, thunder and rain are the Tao, eating and drinking are the Tao...
There is a way to everything!
Suddenly, Ye Fan heard the sound of the Great Dao coming from his mind.
"The Dao can be Dao, and it is very Dao; the name can be named, and it is very famous. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, there is name, and the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always no desire to see its wonderfulness, and there is always desire to see it. The two are the same. They have different names when they come out, and they are also called mysterious, mysterious and mysterious, and the door to all wonders.”
He had read this passage countless times, and thought he had fully comprehended it.
However, when he heard this voice again in his mind.
Only then did Ye Fan realize that his previous interpretation was just wishful thinking.
'Tao' is never complicated, 'Tao' never needs to be interpreted, it is all around us!
You can even reach out and touch it!
Poor him, before, he had been thinking day and night, what is the 'Tao'.
I always feel that only by elevating the 'Tao' to an unparalleled position can the status of the 'Tao' be revealed!
It wasn't until this moment that he realized that he was wrong, very wrong!
At this moment, Zhang Daoxuan said slowly: "Ye Fan! You have realized it!"
Ye Fan kowtowed three times to Zhang Daoxuan, and said gratefully: "Thank you Master for preaching!"
Chapter 307 Crisis
Zhang Daoxuan shook his head, and he said lightly: "Do you know why I never let you become a Taoist priest?"
Ye Fan: "I don't know!"
Zhang Daoxuan explained: "Because, you were originally a Taoist priest!"
"In other words, every person who has Tao in his heart is a Taoist priest!"
"On the contrary, we so-called Taoist priests are the most unlike Taoist priests!"
"Countless precepts, homework day and night, various complicated procedures, and a closed-door cultivation method!"
"Let us become a wooden person who can only memorize, abide by the precepts, and follow the procedures!"
"In this way, how can we understand the true meaning of Dao?"
"A true Taoist priest should travel all over the world and be his home everywhere!"