1 00:00:00,466 --> 00:00:03,966 Dragon Field Enlightenment: Eight words that Wang Yangming exchanged for half his life 2 00:00:04,866 --> 00:00:06,000 Guizhou Longchang 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:06,700 1508 4 00:00:07,633 --> 00:00:09,400 A thirty-seven year old man 5 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,533 Lie in a stone coffin every night 6 00:00:12,333 --> 00:00:13,066 This is not a metaphor 7 00:00:13,866 --> 00:00:15,600 He actually carved himself a sarcophagus. 8 00:00:16,466 --> 00:00:18,533 Reading the Book of Changes in the cave during the day 9 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:20,433 Lie in this coffin at night 10 00:00:20,466 --> 00:00:21,966 Close your eyes. 11 00:00:21,966 --> 00:00:23,900 Ask yourself the same question 12 00:00:23,933 --> 00:00:25,633 If I die here tomorrow 13 00:00:25,633 --> 00:00:27,566 What else have I not understood in my life? 14 00:00:28,266 --> 00:00:29,133 One year ago. 15 00:00:29,166 --> 00:00:32,066 He is still the head of the sixth-rank military department in Beijing 16 00:00:32,066 --> 00:00:33,100 The future is bright 17 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,533 His father is the champion of the dynasty 18 00:00:35,533 --> 00:00:37,600 He was a jinshi at the age of 28 19 00:00:38,666 --> 00:00:41,400 Among the elites of the entire Ming Empire 20 00:00:41,433 --> 00:00:42,766 He is the smartest 21 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:43,800 most read 22 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,900 One of the most ambitious few 23 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:47,633 Now. 24 00:00:47,633 --> 00:00:50,266 He lives in a snake-infested cave 25 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:52,900 All the attendants around me fell ill 26 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:54,766 He got miasma himself 27 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:55,533 May die at any time 28 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,333 There are locals who live for dozens of miles around 29 00:01:00,033 --> 00:01:01,600 No one knew who he was. 30 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,900 No one cares who he is 31 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:05,000 His name is Wang Shouren 32 00:01:05,033 --> 00:01:06,733 Later people called him Wang Yangming 33 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:08,833 One night in the middle of the night 34 00:01:08,833 --> 00:01:10,700 He suddenly sat up from the sarcophagus 35 00:01:10,733 --> 00:01:11,533 Yelled 36 00:01:12,433 --> 00:01:14,866 The original words of the history books are not aware of the leap 37 00:01:14,866 --> 00:01:16,600 Followers are shocked 38 00:01:16,633 --> 00:01:18,633 He screamed uncontrollably 39 00:01:18,633 --> 00:01:20,333 The people sleeping next to them were awakened 40 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,500 He said something. 41 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:23,866 Way of the Saints 42 00:01:23,866 --> 00:01:25,266 I am self-sufficient 43 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:27,400 It is wrong to seek reason from things 44 00:01:28,133 --> 00:01:29,833 Translated into vernacular is 45 00:01:29,966 --> 00:01:31,500 I've been looking for something all my life 46 00:01:31,533 --> 00:01:32,800 It's always been in me. 47 00:01:33,766 --> 00:01:36,533 I used to look for reason in things outside 48 00:01:36,533 --> 00:01:37,233 Looking in the wrong direction 49 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 In the history of Chinese thought, this is called enlightenment in the dragon field 50 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,866 It is believed by many scholars that the last 500 years 51 00:01:44,866 --> 00:01:48,100 One of the most significant events in Chinese philosophy 52 00:01:48,833 --> 00:01:50,533 Every time I read this story 53 00:01:50,533 --> 00:01:53,366 And what really struck me was not what he realized. 54 00:01:53,366 --> 00:01:55,300 It is the place where enlightenment occurs 55 00:01:55,333 --> 00:01:56,033 A coffin 56 00:01:56,833 --> 00:01:57,800 Not the study 57 00:01:57,833 --> 00:01:59,033 Not a temple 58 00:01:59,033 --> 00:02:02,666 It's not any place where you think great ideas should come. 59 00:02:03,533 --> 00:02:06,766 It's a man who has been stripped of everything by fate 60 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,833 The place closest to death 61 00:02:08,833 --> 00:02:11,633 Found the answer that everyone alive was looking for 62 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:13,200 Hello 63 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:13,866 Hello. 64 00:02:13,866 --> 00:02:14,466 I am Wang Lijie 65 00:02:15,266 --> 00:02:17,300 Today's story about spiritual practice 66 00:02:17,333 --> 00:02:18,833 I want to dismantle Wang Yangming. 67 00:02:19,666 --> 00:02:23,633 This is the first time in our series that we have moved from the Buddhist tradition to the Confucian tradition 68 00:02:24,233 --> 00:02:24,933 Certainly. 69 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:27,766 Wang Yangming himself has made many criticisms of Buddhism 70 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,333 But the underlying mechanisms of cognitive awakening 71 00:02:30,333 --> 00:02:32,133 These two paths lead to the depths 72 00:02:32,133 --> 00:02:33,466 Almost hit the same place 73 00:02:34,433 --> 00:02:35,433 Before we start 74 00:02:35,466 --> 00:02:37,133 I want to do a rumor defuse first 75 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,566 Wang Yangming's most famous four words are the unity of knowledge and action 76 00:02:42,433 --> 00:02:45,933 If you ask a hundred people, what does it mean to know and do as one? 77 00:02:45,933 --> 00:02:48,866 About 95 people will give you the same answer 78 00:02:48,866 --> 00:02:50,266 Know it and do it 79 00:02:51,366 --> 00:02:52,600 Know is know 80 00:02:52,633 --> 00:02:53,933 Action is action 81 00:02:53,933 --> 00:02:57,333 The unity of knowledge and action is to put what we know into action 82 00:02:58,433 --> 00:03:00,266 This understanding is too reasonable 83 00:03:00,266 --> 00:03:03,433 Reasonable enough for you to think it's common sense? 84 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,700 What's there to bring up specifically? 85 00:03:05,866 --> 00:03:08,033 But what if I told you 86 00:03:08,033 --> 00:03:11,666 What Wang Yangming said about the unity of knowledge and action is not what he means at all 87 00:03:11,766 --> 00:03:12,866 What he said 88 00:03:12,866 --> 00:03:14,100 No, you have a message. 89 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,200 He said it would work. 90 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,400 It's not that you made a move. 91 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:19,066 Here's what he said. 92 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:21,000 If you really know something 93 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,700 You're already good at it. 94 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:25,233 These two things were never separate 95 00:03:26,066 --> 00:03:28,400 You say you know you should get up early to exercise but you can't 96 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,133 Feel this sentence 97 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,366 When you say that 98 00:03:32,366 --> 00:03:33,966 You think the problem is mobility. 99 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:37,333 But Wang Yangming will point to your feelings and say 100 00:03:37,333 --> 00:03:38,466 Look carefully 101 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:40,333 The moment you say "can't do it" 102 00:03:40,333 --> 00:03:43,133 Is there any peace of mind in your body? 103 00:03:43,266 --> 00:03:45,566 That peace of mind is your true "knowledge" 104 00:03:46,433 --> 00:03:49,433 What you really know is, "Sleep is more comfortable than exercise." 105 00:03:50,433 --> 00:03:52,333 You think you know it's better to get up early 106 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:54,633 In fact, what you know is quilt warmth 107 00:03:55,566 --> 00:03:57,033 This distinction is not a word game 108 00:03:58,033 --> 00:04:01,000 It points to an extremely deep cognitive mechanism. 109 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,900 A mechanism that we can precisely disassemble using the framework we established in previous issues 110 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:06,500 But 111 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:08,500 Before disassembling this mechanism 112 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,200 I have to start the story of Wang Yangming from the beginning 113 00:04:12,033 --> 00:04:16,766 Because the unity of knowledge and action is not something he came up with sitting in his study 114 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,700 He bought it with half his life's blood and tears 115 00:04:20,733 --> 00:04:22,600 When Wang Yangming was eleven or twelve years old 116 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,033 Did something that made all adults laugh 117 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:27,266 He asked his teacher 118 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:29,333 What is the most important thing in life? 119 00:04:29,966 --> 00:04:30,800 The teacher said 120 00:04:30,833 --> 00:04:32,366 Of course, study hard 121 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:32,933 Acquire fame 122 00:04:33,666 --> 00:04:34,866 He shook his head. 123 00:04:34,866 --> 00:04:35,400 Say 124 00:04:35,433 --> 00:04:36,166 I don't think so. 125 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,333 First things in life 126 00:04:38,333 --> 00:04:39,366 Should be a sage 127 00:04:40,233 --> 00:04:42,133 The teacher thinks the child is too naive 128 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:43,833 his father 129 00:04:43,866 --> 00:04:45,400 Dignified champion Wang Hua 130 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,133 I didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing it. 131 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:49,166 But Wang Yangming is serious 132 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,400 He began to study the official philosophy of the time 133 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,100 Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism 134 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:55,200 Zhu Xi said 135 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,633 Everything in the world contains reason 136 00:04:57,666 --> 00:04:58,966 You have to go through the grid. 137 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,533 That is, serious study of external things 138 00:05:01,566 --> 00:05:02,300 Come to know these principles 139 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,433 The more things there are. 140 00:05:04,433 --> 00:05:05,566 The closer you get to the saint 141 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,633 At the age of 21 142 00:05:07,666 --> 00:05:10,300 Wang Yangming decided to seriously practice Zhu Xi's method 143 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,500 He dragged a friend into the yard 144 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:14,833 Start gridding against a few bamboos 145 00:05:15,866 --> 00:05:17,233 Just staring at the bamboo 146 00:05:17,233 --> 00:05:18,733 Think hard 147 00:05:18,733 --> 00:05:21,766 I want to separate the principles of heaven and earth from bamboo 148 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:25,033 His friend had sex for three days 149 00:05:25,066 --> 00:05:27,166 Dizzy 150 00:05:27,166 --> 00:05:27,600 fell ill 151 00:05:28,466 --> 00:05:31,800 Wang Yangming felt that his friend must not have enough energy 152 00:05:31,833 --> 00:05:32,566 So come by yourself 153 00:05:33,666 --> 00:05:36,000 As a result, he withstood it for seven days and nights 154 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,766 It doesn't make any sense 155 00:05:37,766 --> 00:05:39,466 Instead, he developed a serious illness 156 00:05:40,366 --> 00:05:44,500 This story came to be known as Tingqian Gezhu 157 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,066 It was passed down as a joke for over 500 years 158 00:05:47,733 --> 00:05:51,166 But I want to do a not-so-funny teardown using the framework of predictive coding 159 00:05:52,066 --> 00:05:53,933 When Wang Yangming put bamboo 160 00:05:53,933 --> 00:05:55,666 What is his brain doing? 161 00:05:55,866 --> 00:05:57,866 He came with a very strong presupposition 162 00:05:57,866 --> 00:06:00,066 There must be justice hidden in bamboo 163 00:06:00,066 --> 00:06:02,133 Then take this preset and put a bamboo on it. 164 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:03,900 But bamboo is bamboo. 165 00:06:04,466 --> 00:06:05,533 It owes you nothing. 166 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:07,633 What Wang Yangming did 167 00:06:07,633 --> 00:06:10,666 It's basically a story you made up yourself. 168 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:12,400 To cover the real thing in front of you 169 00:06:13,366 --> 00:06:14,866 He's not looking at the bamboo. 170 00:06:14,866 --> 00:06:18,466 He's projecting the answers from his brain onto the bamboo. 171 00:06:18,466 --> 00:06:19,566 Then wait for the bamboo to nod 172 00:06:20,433 --> 00:06:21,433 Of course Bamboo won't nod 173 00:06:22,033 --> 00:06:23,566 It just sits there quietly. 174 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:26,266 But what's even more interesting is what happened. 175 00:06:27,066 --> 00:06:28,566 After the failure of the bamboo grid 176 00:06:28,566 --> 00:06:30,500 What conclusion did Wang Yangming reach? 177 00:06:30,566 --> 00:06:32,200 He did not doubt Zhu Xi's method 178 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:34,233 He concluded that 179 00:06:34,266 --> 00:06:36,966 Saints are probably not what ordinary people can do 180 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,266 I don't think I have that talent. 181 00:06:38,633 --> 00:06:40,100 Did you notice 182 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:41,833 You often do it yourself 183 00:06:41,966 --> 00:06:43,033 Method is useless 184 00:06:43,066 --> 00:06:44,333 You don't doubt the method 185 00:06:44,366 --> 00:06:45,000 You doubt yourself. 186 00:06:45,966 --> 00:06:46,833 Stock loss 187 00:06:46,866 --> 00:06:49,300 You don't think there's something wrong with that strategy. 188 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:50,900 You will wonder if I am not suitable for investing in stocks 189 00:06:51,633 --> 00:06:52,766 The relationship failed. 190 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,333 You don't wonder if we're not a good fit at all 191 00:06:55,333 --> 00:06:56,833 You wonder if I'm not good enough 192 00:06:57,733 --> 00:07:02,033 People have a strange loyalty to what they believe in 193 00:07:02,066 --> 00:07:03,400 I would rather deny myself 194 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Don't touch that belief 195 00:07:05,233 --> 00:07:08,733 So Wang Yangming put the matter of being a sage on hold for the time being 196 00:07:09,366 --> 00:07:10,433 He went to the exams 197 00:07:10,433 --> 00:07:11,533 To become an official 198 00:07:11,566 --> 00:07:12,833 To study the art of war 199 00:07:12,833 --> 00:07:13,633 Go study Buddhism 200 00:07:14,566 --> 00:07:16,300 Every road takes a step 201 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:17,700 Every road is blocked 202 00:07:18,666 --> 00:07:22,300 He's like a fund manager constantly switching investment strategies 203 00:07:22,333 --> 00:07:24,766 Try value investing 204 00:07:24,766 --> 00:07:27,233 Try quantitative trading 205 00:07:27,233 --> 00:07:29,433 Try macro hedging 206 00:07:29,466 --> 00:07:32,766 But never stopped to ask a fundamental question 207 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,033 Is there something wrong with my stock selection framework itself? 208 00:07:36,133 --> 00:07:38,333 This state continued until he was thirty-four years old 209 00:07:39,066 --> 00:07:39,800 That year 210 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,000 His life was thrown into the abyss 211 00:07:42,933 --> 00:07:44,033 1506 212 00:07:44,066 --> 00:07:45,733 The eunuch Liu Jin controlled the court 213 00:07:46,566 --> 00:07:47,966 Wang Yangming's colleague 214 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,600 Several speakers in Nanjing 215 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,233 Liu Jin was arrested and sent to prison for his outspoken advice 216 00:07:53,066 --> 00:07:55,366 Wang Yangming wrote to speak for them 217 00:07:55,366 --> 00:07:56,500 The result angered Liu Jin 218 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:58,933 And here's what happened. 219 00:07:58,933 --> 00:08:01,200 You need to construct a picture in your mind 220 00:08:02,166 --> 00:08:04,266 Wang Yangming was dragged to the noon gate 221 00:08:04,266 --> 00:08:06,300 In front of all the civil and military officials 222 00:08:06,333 --> 00:08:07,533 Pants ripped off 223 00:08:07,533 --> 00:08:09,066 Forty strokes with a cane 224 00:08:10,666 --> 00:08:12,333 In the era of Liu Jin 225 00:08:12,366 --> 00:08:15,033 The cane is no longer a symbolic punishment 226 00:08:15,066 --> 00:08:16,466 The mat has been removed 227 00:08:16,466 --> 00:08:19,266 Executioners are specially trained 228 00:08:19,266 --> 00:08:22,200 Can break the bones inside but not visible from the outside 229 00:08:23,033 --> 00:08:25,700 During the same period, among the officials who were killed 230 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:26,833 Someone was killed on the spot 231 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,000 Wang Yangming is not dead 232 00:08:29,166 --> 00:08:31,033 But he was beaten to death. 233 00:08:31,066 --> 00:08:32,300 Thrown into the prison of Jinyiwei 234 00:08:33,866 --> 00:08:34,766 After waking up 235 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:36,700 He was sentenced to a sentence 236 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:38,133 Demoted to Guizhou Longchang Station 237 00:08:38,166 --> 00:08:38,600 Dangyicheng 238 00:08:39,300 --> 00:08:40,633 What is Yicheng? 239 00:08:40,666 --> 00:08:43,566 About the equivalent of a janitor at an abandoned post station 240 00:08:43,566 --> 00:08:44,966 It's not even officially established 241 00:08:45,833 --> 00:08:47,400 From Beijing to Longchang 242 00:08:47,433 --> 00:08:49,766 The straight-line distance is more than 2,000 kilometers. 243 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,500 It was the most desolate southwest mountain road in China at that time 244 00:08:53,366 --> 00:08:54,533 And here's what's even worse. 245 00:08:54,566 --> 00:08:56,366 Liu Jin doesn't plan to let him live to the Dragon Field 246 00:08:57,300 --> 00:08:58,300 Historical records 247 00:08:58,300 --> 00:08:59,933 On his way to office 248 00:08:59,966 --> 00:09:01,200 Liu Jin sent someone to hunt him down 249 00:09:02,166 --> 00:09:04,233 Wang Yangming walked to the Qiantang River 250 00:09:04,233 --> 00:09:06,900 Leave your hat and shoes on the shore 251 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:09,666 Fake a suicide scene by jumping into a river 252 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:11,133 Deceived the person who was chasing 253 00:09:11,166 --> 00:09:11,966 Just saved a life 254 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,900 I have been an angel investor for over a decade 255 00:09:14,933 --> 00:09:17,733 I have seen countless entrepreneurs go through their darkest moments 256 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:20,700 The company only has one month's money left in the account 257 00:09:20,733 --> 00:09:22,933 Collective departure of the core team 258 00:09:22,933 --> 00:09:24,666 Investors block your phone 259 00:09:25,566 --> 00:09:27,333 I'm all too familiar with that feeling 260 00:09:28,133 --> 00:09:32,766 But what Wang Yangming experienced was 10,000 times more extreme than any entrepreneurial failure 261 00:09:32,766 --> 00:09:34,533 He didn't lose his career. 262 00:09:34,566 --> 00:09:35,800 He almost lost his life. 263 00:09:36,666 --> 00:09:38,233 And you pay attention to one detail 264 00:09:39,133 --> 00:09:41,666 After all his identity tags were stripped 265 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,833 He is no longer the son of the champion 266 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:45,833 No longer an officer of the Ministry of War 267 00:09:45,866 --> 00:09:48,166 No longer a member of Beijing's social circle 268 00:09:48,433 --> 00:09:50,533 He found that what he couldn't let go of the most in his heart 269 00:09:50,566 --> 00:09:51,666 What's that? 270 00:09:51,766 --> 00:09:52,400 Not an official position 271 00:09:53,266 --> 00:09:53,866 Not face 272 00:09:55,066 --> 00:09:56,500 Is a problem 273 00:09:56,533 --> 00:09:58,300 The saint is in my position 274 00:09:58,300 --> 00:09:59,500 What would you do? 275 00:09:59,633 --> 00:10:02,133 This question haunted him throughout the years of the Dragon Farm 276 00:10:02,933 --> 00:10:05,133 He spent his days and nights in the sarcophagus thinking about it. 277 00:10:06,066 --> 00:10:08,000 He has figured out the gains and losses, honors and humiliations 278 00:10:08,333 --> 00:10:10,433 Only the test of life and death has not passed 279 00:10:11,566 --> 00:10:12,766 He said it himself. 280 00:10:12,766 --> 00:10:14,400 I'm just waiting for my fate 281 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,200 I can only wait for the verdict of fate 282 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:18,333 Then one night 283 00:10:19,233 --> 00:10:22,266 Suddenly in the middle of the night, I realized the purpose of knowing 284 00:10:22,266 --> 00:10:23,933 If there is a person who speaks in his sleep 285 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:26,600 Half asleep and half awake 286 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,333 It seemed as if a voice was speaking to him 287 00:10:29,266 --> 00:10:32,700 He suddenly understood the true meaning of these four words 288 00:10:33,633 --> 00:10:34,866 It's not the bamboo that goes to the extra noodles. 289 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,066 It's something in your heart 290 00:10:37,933 --> 00:10:39,900 Not to look outside for reason 291 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,966 It's discovering that the truth is already in your heart 292 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,500 Just too much knowledge 293 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:46,333 fear 294 00:10:46,333 --> 00:10:48,366 Desire and the expectations of others are obscured 295 00:10:49,266 --> 00:10:50,366 Way of the Saints 296 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,133 I am self-sufficient 297 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:55,700 Let me use the framework of our series to do an exact teardown 298 00:10:56,833 --> 00:10:58,566 Wang Yangming before the Dragon Farm 299 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,500 What's his cognitive system like? 300 00:11:00,633 --> 00:11:03,800 There's an incredibly complex set running through his brain. 301 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,200 Extremely sophisticated knowledge models 302 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:10,000 Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism gave him a perfect picture of the world 303 00:11:10,033 --> 00:11:12,666 Everything in the world has its own reason 304 00:11:12,666 --> 00:11:14,233 Through continuous learning 305 00:11:14,233 --> 00:11:15,333 keep accumulating 306 00:11:15,366 --> 00:11:17,000 You can approach the truth infinitely 307 00:11:18,066 --> 00:11:20,433 And he believed in this model. 308 00:11:20,433 --> 00:11:22,866 And not just because it's a personal belief. 309 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:26,266 Also because it was the official ideology of the entire Ming Empire 310 00:11:27,166 --> 00:11:28,933 Every imperial examination 311 00:11:28,966 --> 00:11:30,633 Every court debate 312 00:11:30,633 --> 00:11:32,533 Are reinforcing the model over and over again 313 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,700 But what did Dragon Field do? 314 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,900 Dragon Farm violently removes all the supports of this model 315 00:11:40,733 --> 00:11:41,866 Your official position 316 00:11:41,866 --> 00:11:42,100 No. 317 00:11:43,033 --> 00:11:44,633 Your social connections 318 00:11:44,633 --> 00:11:44,766 Broken 319 00:11:45,566 --> 00:11:46,833 Your material foundation 320 00:11:46,833 --> 00:11:47,100 No. 321 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,233 Your personal safety 322 00:11:49,266 --> 00:11:51,766 May die at any time 323 00:11:52,733 --> 00:11:54,233 You are full of economy 324 00:11:54,233 --> 00:11:56,366 In a place that doesn't even speak the language 325 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,233 Can't use a word 326 00:11:58,333 --> 00:11:59,833 What Dragon Farm does 327 00:11:59,833 --> 00:12:02,666 It's essentially the same mechanism as deep meditation. 328 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:05,700 Meditation is about letting go. 329 00:12:05,733 --> 00:12:08,633 Loosen the grip on thought layer by layer 330 00:12:09,033 --> 00:12:12,366 Quiet the brain's never-ending prediction machine 331 00:12:13,166 --> 00:12:14,633 Dragon Farm is passive 332 00:12:14,633 --> 00:12:16,300 It's not that you choose to let go 333 00:12:16,333 --> 00:12:19,733 It's fate that takes everything you can hold on to 334 00:12:20,766 --> 00:12:23,300 But the results point to the same place 335 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,500 When all the layers have been stripped away 336 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:29,833 The low-level signal that had been obscured was finally heard 337 00:12:30,533 --> 00:12:34,133 This is completely consistent with the Tathagata-Tibetan framework we talked about in previous issues 338 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:37,400 Awakening is not about gaining something new 339 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,300 But remove the cover 340 00:12:39,433 --> 00:12:42,500 Practice is not about adding something to a cup 341 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:44,733 It's to dump the excess in the cup. 342 00:12:45,733 --> 00:12:48,066 Wang Yangming was a young bamboo 343 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,100 Is doing addition desperately 344 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,700 Pour more information into the cognitive system 345 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:54,033 More analysis 346 00:12:54,066 --> 00:12:54,766 More concepts 347 00:12:55,866 --> 00:12:57,366 The moment of enlightenment in Longchang 348 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,633 After all addition fails 349 00:12:59,633 --> 00:13:00,700 Subtraction happens automatically 350 00:13:01,533 --> 00:13:03,966 I am self-sufficient 351 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,700 It was the Tathagata who changed into a Confucian dress 352 00:13:07,566 --> 00:13:09,566 You are complete 353 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,566 You don't need to find anything from the outside to complete yourself 354 00:13:13,266 --> 00:13:14,200 OK 355 00:13:14,233 --> 00:13:15,266 This is the moment of enlightenment 356 00:13:16,233 --> 00:13:18,333 But what is more valuable is after enlightenment 357 00:13:19,166 --> 00:13:22,233 After enlightenment, Wang Yangming did not stay in the Dragon Farm to live in seclusion 358 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:24,533 He returned to officialdom. 359 00:13:24,533 --> 00:13:26,366 Back to the most sinister 360 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,733 In the most complex power vortices 361 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:30,033 1519 362 00:13:30,033 --> 00:13:31,233 Ning Wang and Zhu Chenhao rebelled 363 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,566 100,000 rebels 364 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,600 Controls a large area of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River 365 00:13:36,533 --> 00:13:39,333 Wang Yangming had almost no regular army in his hands at that time 366 00:13:40,333 --> 00:13:43,066 The military reinforcements of the imperial court could not quench the thirst 367 00:13:44,033 --> 00:13:46,166 Everyone thinks this battle is impossible to fight 368 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:49,333 But it took Wang Yangming forty-three days 369 00:13:49,333 --> 00:13:50,566 The rebellion was quelled 370 00:13:51,333 --> 00:13:52,233 He didn't hit it hard 371 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:54,933 He spread false information 372 00:13:54,933 --> 00:13:57,600 Let King Ning think that the imperial army has approached 373 00:13:57,633 --> 00:13:58,966 Stalled King Ning's attack rhythm 374 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,566 Then he was in the days when King Ning hesitated 375 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,700 Quickly organize the local militia to attack King Ning's lair in Nanchang 376 00:14:07,633 --> 00:14:08,733 King Ning rescued 377 00:14:08,833 --> 00:14:10,800 He set up an ambush and annihilated it on Poyang Lake 378 00:14:11,666 --> 00:14:15,866 This military case has been studied repeatedly throughout Chinese history 379 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:18,300 It wasn't because of how slick his tactics were. 380 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:22,133 It's because it exhibits a very rare quality of decision-making. 381 00:14:22,166 --> 00:14:24,100 Extremely incomplete information 382 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:25,833 Extremely scarce resources 383 00:14:25,833 --> 00:14:28,266 When time is of the essence 384 00:14:28,266 --> 00:14:30,133 Make the choice that happens to be the best 385 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,000 In the language of investment 386 00:14:33,033 --> 00:14:35,500 This is in an extremely volatile market 387 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,800 When all models fail 388 00:14:37,833 --> 00:14:39,966 Intuitively made the right judgment 389 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:42,000 But it wasn't luck. 390 00:14:42,766 --> 00:14:44,800 That's the real meaning of doing what you know. 391 00:14:45,633 --> 00:14:47,866 When Wang Yangming faced King Ning's rebels 392 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:50,266 He didn't have time to read the military book 393 00:14:50,266 --> 00:14:53,266 There was no time for a military conference to discuss it for three days 394 00:14:53,266 --> 00:14:56,200 No time to build a spreadsheet model 395 00:14:56,233 --> 00:14:57,700 To deduce the winning rate of each solution 396 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:02,500 He had to make a decision on the order of the day and execute it immediately. 397 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:06,133 If knowing and doing are two separate things 398 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,166 Analyze first 399 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:08,300 post execution 400 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:09,433 Then he was too late 401 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:10,966 But he had time. 402 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:12,933 Because with him 403 00:15:12,933 --> 00:15:15,233 Judgment and action are the same thing 404 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:17,900 His years of military thinking 405 00:15:17,933 --> 00:15:19,800 Years of human insight 406 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,500 Years of awareness of fear and greed 407 00:15:22,533 --> 00:15:25,533 It is no longer a knowledge item stored in the brain 408 00:15:25,566 --> 00:15:28,166 It becomes the underlying parameters of his cognitive system 409 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,933 He doesn't need to invoke that knowledge to apply it. 410 00:15:31,933 --> 00:15:34,833 They have internalized the way he sees the world 411 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,833 When you see it, you know what to do at the same time 412 00:15:38,933 --> 00:15:41,666 Knowing and doing are the same thing 413 00:15:42,433 --> 00:15:43,933 That's the combination of knowing and doing. 414 00:15:44,566 --> 00:15:47,266 When I do angel investing, I meet a type of founder 415 00:15:47,266 --> 00:15:50,066 And I was struck by their reaction to the crisis. 416 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,733 Not the kind that makes me calm down 417 00:15:52,733 --> 00:15:55,400 And then someone who gives you a well-thought-out plan 418 00:15:56,266 --> 00:15:58,366 It's the kind of thing you haven't finished talking about 419 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,333 He is already in action 420 00:16:00,333 --> 00:16:03,000 And he's moving in the right direction. 421 00:16:03,766 --> 00:16:05,533 You ask him why he made that decision 422 00:16:05,566 --> 00:16:06,500 He can't quite tell 423 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,833 He just knew it was the right thing to do. 424 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:10,733 This knowledge 425 00:16:10,766 --> 00:16:13,566 And you read an investment article online 426 00:16:13,566 --> 00:16:16,800 And say I know the kind of knowing that should be held for a long time 427 00:16:16,833 --> 00:16:18,500 They're two completely different things. 428 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,566 The former is true knowledge 429 00:16:21,566 --> 00:16:23,000 It has become a part of you 430 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:25,633 The latter is just information 431 00:16:25,666 --> 00:16:27,933 It's still floating on the surface of your consciousness 432 00:16:27,933 --> 00:16:30,266 When markets move, they get swept away by fear. 433 00:16:31,366 --> 00:16:34,266 Wang Yangming put forward a concept called conscience in his later years 434 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:36,400 What is conscience? 435 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:41,333 He said that conscience is the judgment that comes naturally to you without learning. 436 00:16:42,066 --> 00:16:44,066 You saw the child fall into the well 437 00:16:44,066 --> 00:16:45,233 Your heart is tight 438 00:16:45,266 --> 00:16:46,000 I want to reach out and pull 439 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,500 That tightness is not something you think of 440 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:51,200 You didn't deduce it. 441 00:16:51,233 --> 00:16:52,366 It's what you already have 442 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:56,300 Practice is not about learning a theory of kindness. 443 00:16:56,333 --> 00:16:59,266 But to take something that obscures this natural judgment 444 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:00,166 fear 445 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,000 Greed 446 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:01,666 face 447 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:02,466 calculate 448 00:17:02,466 --> 00:17:03,200 Remove layer by layer 449 00:17:03,733 --> 00:17:05,566 He called it practice. 450 00:17:06,466 --> 00:17:08,233 It's not sitting behind closed doors. 451 00:17:08,666 --> 00:17:10,566 But in real events 452 00:17:10,566 --> 00:17:12,033 In real difficulties 453 00:17:12,066 --> 00:17:16,133 Be aware of your own reactions in real interpersonal conflicts 454 00:17:16,133 --> 00:17:19,233 To identify which of those responses is conscience 455 00:17:19,266 --> 00:17:20,133 What are habits? 456 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:25,333 This is the same underlying mechanism as meditation in Buddhism 457 00:17:25,333 --> 00:17:26,266 Don't chase 458 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:27,233 Do not resist 459 00:17:27,233 --> 00:17:27,866 Just see 460 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,066 It's just that what you see when you stop looking is your inner thoughts 461 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,133 Wang Yangming saw the battlefield 462 00:17:34,133 --> 00:17:35,000 court 463 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:35,500 And people's hearts 464 00:17:36,566 --> 00:17:37,833 The scene is different 465 00:17:37,833 --> 00:17:40,133 But the one who saw the action was exactly the same 466 00:17:41,566 --> 00:17:43,233 1529 467 00:17:43,233 --> 00:17:45,733 Wang Yangming fell seriously ill on the boat returning home from Guangxi 468 00:17:46,633 --> 00:17:47,966 The disciple asked him what his last words were 469 00:17:48,833 --> 00:17:50,000 He said eight words 470 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:50,966 And I closed my eyes. 471 00:17:51,933 --> 00:17:53,033 This heart is bright 472 00:17:53,033 --> 00:17:53,733 And so on. 473 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,300 This heart is bright 474 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:57,666 What else is there to say? 475 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:58,866 Think about this arc. 476 00:17:59,666 --> 00:18:01,200 At the age of eleven or twelve, I aspire to be a saint 477 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Twenty-one-year-old bamboo grid to vomit blood 478 00:18:05,033 --> 00:18:06,900 Do addition to the extreme 479 00:18:06,933 --> 00:18:07,333 Failed 480 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:10,233 Thirty-four-year-old beaten half to death 481 00:18:10,233 --> 00:18:10,933 Exile to the Wild 482 00:18:11,833 --> 00:18:14,266 Thirty-seven years old, enlightened in a coffin 483 00:18:14,266 --> 00:18:15,933 And the answer wasn't out there. 484 00:18:15,966 --> 00:18:16,666 In your own heart 485 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:19,566 After enlightenment, it is not a retreat 486 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,233 But to return to the cruelest reality 487 00:18:22,266 --> 00:18:24,566 Use things to hone and verify your own understanding 488 00:18:25,466 --> 00:18:26,900 On his deathbed at fifty-seven 489 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:28,100 Eight words for a lifetime 490 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 What impresses me the most about this arc 491 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,366 It's not how brilliant the moment of enlightenment is 492 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,300 But how necessary the detours of the ten years before enlightenment were 493 00:18:37,333 --> 00:18:40,433 If Wang Yangming didn't check the bamboo grid until he vomited blood 494 00:18:40,466 --> 00:18:43,000 He won't know that outward reasoning is a dead end. 495 00:18:43,933 --> 00:18:46,966 If he hadn't been in officialdom for more than ten years 496 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,700 He wouldn't have amassed enough human insight 497 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,100 To support subsequent military and political judgments 498 00:18:52,966 --> 00:18:55,100 If he hadn't been beaten half to death by the staff 499 00:18:55,133 --> 00:18:56,400 Not being hunted down 500 00:18:56,433 --> 00:18:58,366 I almost starved to death at the Dragon Farm 501 00:18:58,966 --> 00:19:02,600 There were deep-seated beliefs in his brain that wouldn't have been wiped out by violence. 502 00:19:03,566 --> 00:19:04,833 These detours are not wasted 503 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:07,300 They are necessary prerequisites for enlightenment 504 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:13,433 This is the same structure that we repeatedly dismantled in previous issues 505 00:19:13,466 --> 00:19:16,033 Practice is not a smooth upward curve 506 00:19:16,066 --> 00:19:17,966 It will first dig your deep things out 507 00:19:18,933 --> 00:19:21,033 Wang Yangming almost died in the Dragon Farm 508 00:19:21,066 --> 00:19:23,000 It wasn't fate that was punishing him. 509 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,233 It's fate that's helping him subtract. 510 00:19:25,266 --> 00:19:29,100 Help him put away the things he couldn't bear to put down no matter what 511 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:29,766 Violently demolish 512 00:19:30,666 --> 00:19:31,600 OK 513 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,166 And then finally, I want to talk about a dimension that many people don't think about. 514 00:19:35,233 --> 00:19:38,200 Wang Yangming said after enlightenment that my nature is self-sufficient 515 00:19:38,266 --> 00:19:39,700 My nature lacks nothing 516 00:19:40,466 --> 00:19:41,900 But he didn't stop there. 517 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,066 He spent the last 20 years of his life doing one thing 518 00:19:46,066 --> 00:19:46,800 hone on things 519 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,133 In a real war 520 00:19:49,133 --> 00:19:50,700 In real politics 521 00:19:50,733 --> 00:19:52,100 In true teaching 522 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:54,033 Constantly test and deepen this understanding 523 00:19:54,966 --> 00:19:56,200 What does that mean? 524 00:19:56,266 --> 00:19:57,800 It means enlightenment is not the end 525 00:19:58,633 --> 00:20:00,833 Realizing that natural self-sufficiency is just the beginning 526 00:20:01,566 --> 00:20:03,266 You have to come back to life. 527 00:20:03,266 --> 00:20:05,866 Use every real situation to polish this realization 528 00:20:07,066 --> 00:20:10,200 Wang Yangming made mistakes after enlightenment in Longchang 529 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,533 There were setbacks. 530 00:20:11,566 --> 00:20:12,833 And anger and unwillingness 531 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,100 But the difference between him and before enlightenment is 532 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:18,100 He can see that he is making a mistake. 533 00:20:18,266 --> 00:20:20,133 I can see myself angry 534 00:20:20,166 --> 00:20:22,600 And that very sight changes everything. 535 00:20:23,566 --> 00:20:25,466 The last issue talked about Dharma and Emperor Wu of Liang 536 00:20:25,466 --> 00:20:29,166 We say that the deepest pitfall resembles compassion the most. 537 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,533 Emperor Wu of Liang turned meditation into another form of self-aggrandizement 538 00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:36,900 Wang Yangming's story provides us with an antidote to this problem 539 00:20:36,966 --> 00:20:38,700 Don't practice in your head 540 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:39,733 You hone in on things. 541 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,266 What you think you understand 542 00:20:42,266 --> 00:20:43,566 Go and verify it in life. 543 00:20:44,366 --> 00:20:45,600 If it cannot be verified 544 00:20:45,633 --> 00:20:46,100 Then you don't understand 545 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,000 For the content of this issue 546 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,433 What do you think? 547 00:20:50,566 --> 00:20:52,833 Have you ever experienced some kind of dragon farm? 548 00:20:52,833 --> 00:20:56,666 A situation where everything that used to work fails. 549 00:20:56,833 --> 00:20:58,000 In that desperate situation 550 00:20:58,033 --> 00:20:59,466 What do you see? 551 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,133 One more question. 552 00:21:01,133 --> 00:21:04,800 How much of your life is actually just information storage? 553 00:21:04,833 --> 00:21:06,566 Rather than true knowledge 554 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:08,966 Welcome to chat about your observations in the comment area. 555 00:21:09,733 --> 00:21:11,266 One last question for you. 556 00:21:12,166 --> 00:21:14,433 Wang Yangming said that knowledge and action are unified 557 00:21:14,466 --> 00:21:16,700 Say you really know and you will do it naturally 558 00:21:17,566 --> 00:21:18,900 But have you ever considered 559 00:21:18,933 --> 00:21:19,966 Something. 560 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,866 Maybe you have to do it first 561 00:21:21,866 --> 00:21:23,900 To really know 562 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,633 Maybe knowing and doing is not a matter of who comes first 563 00:21:27,633 --> 00:21:30,466 It's that they begin as two sides of the same river. 564 00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:33,900 You can't read the temperature of the water from the shore. 565 00:21:34,666 --> 00:21:35,400 You have to jump in. 566 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:37,800 I am Wang Lijie 567 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:38,866 See you next time.