The book was used as a trick book
But what Huang Shigong really wants to teach is hidden in that shoe
The story of that shoe
Let's start with a bridge over 2,000 years ago
A young man walks across the bridge
He was no ordinary man.
He just did something amazing
Found a strong man
Built a big iron spine of 120 catties
Snipe Qin Shi Huang in Bolangsha
Iron vertebra hit the passenger car
Qin Shi Huang narrowly escaped
He also became a wanted criminal in the country
Only incognito
Escaped to Xiapi
Right on that bridge
A scruffily dressed old man approached
I deliberately dropped my shoes under the bridge
And you turn to him and you say
kid
Go down and help me pick up my shoes
Think about this scene
This young man
It's Zhang Liang
The descendants of the nobles of Korea during the Warring States Period
Spend all your wealth just to avenge the motherland
Just confronted the most powerful man in the world
Planned a life-and-death sniper
What's his temper?
Someone whose handwriting is the size of a day
But he held back
I went down and picked up my shoes
Kneel on the ground and dress the old man
The old man smiled and left
Go out and come back
Say
You kid can teach
Five days later before dawn
Come meet me here.
Zhang Liang went on time
The old man has arrived first
Call him late
Send him back
Second time
Too late again.
Third time
Zhang Liang went to wait in the middle of the night
The old man is finally satisfied
Hand him a book
Said a word
Read this as the king's teacher
This book
According to historical records
It's Taigong's Art of War
Later, Song Dynasty scholar Zhang Shangying argued that
Its real name
It's plain books.
Everybody knows the story.
Zhang Liang relies on the wisdom in this book
Assisted Liu Bang to lay down the world of the Han Dynasty
Blocked for detention
He became one of the most legendary strategists in Chinese history
So for two thousand years
Most people are studying this book
What is the secret written in it?
Can make a wanted criminal in exile
Become the teacher of the emperor
Hello, everyone.
I am Wang Lijie
Today's plain book is very different from the previous ones
It's not fiction.
It's not theater.
It's a game theory booklet of just over 1,300 words
Legend has it that the author was the old man who threw his shoes on the bridge
Huangshigong
But I want to tell you today
Most of the popular readings are reversed
What Huang Shigong really wants to teach Zhang Liang
It's not in that book.
In that shoe
This is the fifth installment of the series Deconstructing Classics with Buddhism
In the previous four issues, we dismantled the seeds and seasons of the mirror flower edge.
Journey to the West's Heart Ape and Me
The Persistence and Awakening of the Dream of Red Mansions
The Obsession and Sleep of the Peony Pavilion
Today's plain book is very different from the previous ones
This book is so short that you can read it in ten minutes
But it's used as a book of Machiavellian
Imperial Heart
Workplace upgrade manuals have been around for two thousand years
What I want you to see today is
It has never been a book that only teaches you how to win
It's a mirror.
It's not your opponent.
It's your own consciousness.
At what level?
Let's go back to that shoe first
Why did Huang Shigong throw his shoes away?
The standard interpretation is
He is testing Zhang Liang's patience and humility
But think about it in terms of the framework that our channel has established.
What he's really testing
What's that?
What was Zhang Liang's state at that time?
A young man driven by the fire of vengeance
His entire cognitive system
It is filled with a single seed
Qin destroyed my country
I want revenge
How high is the precision and weight of this seed?
So high that he can spend all his wealth
go all out
Bet your life on an assassination
His Moonah
Around the identity of the Avengers
Built a steel fortress
All the information.
All decisions
All behaviors
All filtered and driven by this identity
Huang Shigong threw that shoe
Not a test of patience
He is testing
The young man's profound knowledge
Is there any possibility of loosening?
A man I was so paranoid that I dared to assassinate the emperor
In the face of an unreasonable request
Picking up shoes for a strange old man
Wear shoes
Put that I word down
Even if it's just for a second
Zhang Liang put it down
It's not because he's modest.
It's because of his conscious system
There is still a trace of flexibility
Although the last knowledge is powerful
But didn't lock him completely
He can still be here. I am a dignified Korean nobleman
And forget it
Pick it up for him
Make a different choice
This second of loosening
That's where it all started.
Huang Shigong made three appointments
Three tests
What you are doing is essentially the same thing as the Five Elements Mountain pressing the Monkey King
Repeated creation of external stimuli
Look at your automatic response mode
Can it be interrupted?
Every time Zhang Liang held back his anger
Each time he arrived earlier than the last time
His consciousness loosened a little
When I went to wait in the middle of the night for the third time
Who am I?
Why should I suffer from this kind of gas automatic circuit?
It's no longer his default reaction
When Huang Shigong gave him the book, he said
Read this as the king's teacher
Most people understand it as
Read this book
You can be the emperor's teacher
But I tend to think that
This sentence is more like a diagnosis
Your current state
Finally, I deserve to read this book
It's not how profound the book is
Is your consciousness
Finally made room to receive it
OK
What was in that book?
The full text of the plain book is less than 1,400 words
The core mentions five words
Road
Germany
ren
righteousness
The original text of the plain book says
These five are one.
And if we look within Lao Tzu's framework
Between these five words
There's a hierarchy going down from the top.
A diagnosis of degeneration from the inside out
Road
Is the highest level
See things as they are
Actions are completely in tune with karma
No more points, no less points
In the words of our channel
It's a circle.
There is no overlay performed by the meter
It's completely open to independent data streams.
Germany
It is the natural flow of Tao
You don't have to be a virtuous person
When your perception is clear enough
It just happens automatically.
It's like water flowing down without effort.
It just follows the terrain
ren
It's been taken a step back
You start to need to take the initiative to care for others
It means you have a distinction between yourself and someone else
Heart is good
But the I'm doing good label.
It has been vaguely pasted
righteousness
Take another step back
You need principles to guide your behavior
What to do
What not to do
A set of rules is required to judge
Intuition is no longer enough
You have to rely on the framework to make up for it
ceremony
bottom layer
You need external rules
ceremony
Social norms to constrain oneself
To this floor
Behavior is entirely dependent on external rules
The inner awareness has retreated to the furthest point
Do you see it?
This is not a low-to-high upgrade path
It's diagnosing degeneration from the inside out.
Each step back
You are one layer away from the truth
All you need is an extra layer of external support
Your system is vulnerable
This is what I said
After losing the way
Loss of virtue comes later
benevolence follows righteousness
Ritual after injustice
Exactly the same.
It's no coincidence.
The Underlying Ideological Core of Plain Books
It's Taoist
Now I'm going to ask you a particularly topical question.
Today's paid knowledge market
Self-improvement market
Efficiency tool market
The things you paid for
You feel it
They are helping you go up
Or are you making the bottom layer stronger for you?
Habits of Highly Effective People
The five mental models of successful people
Transform your life in five minutes a day
You can feel the texture of these products.
It's all about propriety and righteousness.
Give you the framework
Give you rules
Give you a list
Give you standard operating procedures
Was it helpful?
useful
But the plain book points to an uncomfortable truth
The more tools you stack on the layer of ritual and righteousness
The more dependent
The further away you may be from Tao and virtue
It's not because the tools are bad.
Because the tool itself becomes a kind of pervasive attachment
Your reliance on the framework
It clouds your instincts.
This is like walking alone. It's fine
Someone gave him a cane.
It is more stable to use this
He used
It's really more stable.
And he never put down his cane again.
After a long time
His own legs had deteriorated.
The cane went from an aid to a necessity
He thought it was crutches that allowed him to walk.
Forget he would have gone
Sushu is talking about this
You don't need any more frameworks
What you need is to take the things that cloud your intuition
Clean up
Now back to Zhang Liang
The arc of his life
It is the best footnote for vegetarian books
Bolangsha piercing Qin
This is pure Mna consciousness driving
revenge
anger
I must
Failure is inevitable
Because the bottom line of his entire operation
It is a seed of obsession
It's not awareness of the situation.
Meet Huangshi Gong
Get plain book
The conscious system starts to loosen
He wants revenge from me
Switched to I want to understand how the world works
Direction of attention
Completely changed
Assist Liu Bang
This is the actual deployment of Sushu wisdom
Zhang Liang was called by later generations
Strategizing
A thousand miles away
But look carefully at what he did in the Chu-Han dispute
It's almost all seen kung fu
He doesn't charge
That's Han Xin's business
He doesn't do logistics
That's Xiao He's business
He did it.
When everyone can't see clearly
Point out the way things really are
Liu Bang wants to seal the descendants of the Six Kingdoms to win over people's hearts
He said no.
Everyone at the Hongmen banquet panicked
He could see clearly where to go
His power does not come from skill
From Qingming
But the best part is the last step
After the establishment of the Han Dynasty
Han Xin was killed
Xiao He was imprisoned
The heroes under Liu Bang were unlucky one after another
What about Zhang Liang?
He voluntarily surrendered all power
Said that he was going to learn to cultivate immortals from red pine seeds
Then disappeared
For two thousand years
People see it as a rush of political wisdom
But using our framework
This is a complete
The arc from mystery to enlightenment
You put the three heroes of Liu Bang's camp together and watch
I saw three figures on the five-story staircase
Han Xin
Trapped in righteousness
He has an account in his heart
How many battles have I fought?
How much did you do?
What should you give me?
He took an abacus to measure the return of the Heavenly Dao
The better the calculation
The tighter he ties himself
In the end, it was this obsession that sent him to a dead end
Xiao He
Stop at Ren level
He did his best.
do your best
But always be a good minister within the framework of the monarch and minister
The frame protected him
It limited him.
And Zhang Liang
To the end
Standing in the position of the road
He saw the rules of the whole game
Then calmly walked out of the game
power
status
fame
It's all based on his data stream
Come when you should
Go when you have to go
No need to grab
No need to run away
And this got me thinking about one thing.
There are many people today who are learning all kinds of wisdom.
read
listen to the class
Build a framework
learn model
Those are good things.
But the plain book reminds you of a trap
Have you learned wisdom itself?
It became an obsession.
You've collected a hundred mental models.
Built 30 knowledge bases
I read 500 books
But have you ever had a quiet moment?
Turn off all input
Just sit there
And ask yourself this question.
After peeling off these frames
What else can I see?
The instant answer
Probably more than 500 books combined.
Books are written for those who are ready
And ready means ready.
Not enough knowledge
Is enough shading
So the real secret of plain books
Not in those 1,300 words
Can you be like Zhang Liang?
In the face of a seemingly unreasonable request
Why should I put that down?
Can it be in your own life?
Find that shoe-picking moment
One that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Make your chest blocked
The moment when your automatic reaction mode is interrupted
Then choose not to follow the inertia
Every time such a choice is made
Your consciousness is a little looser
You take one step closer
It doesn't take 1,300 words.
Don't even need a word
All you need is
A shoe
For the content of this issue
What do you think?
Where do you think you stand on the moral and righteous level now?
In your life
Is there a moment when Huang Shigong throws his shoes?
What do you want to hear in the next installment of this series?
Welcome to let me know in the comment area.
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.