Maoseton geomantic lecture

Although Wang Yangming has been exposed to the thoughts of Neo-Confucianism since he was a child, he firmly believes in Zhu's thought of "learning from others", so he hopes to answer his doubts through his patient taste and meditation on everything in the world and know what the so-called "justice" is. Watching bamboo is Wang Yangming's experiment of thinking about truth. He hopes to have an experience of "learning from things" with his friends by watching bamboo.

In fact, Wang Yangming doesn't know much about "Wu Ge", so he will sit next to bamboo with his friends every day and think about these problems, hoping that the day of his enlightenment will come soon. But a few days later, Wang Yangming's friend fell ill, and then Wang Yangming persisted, but on the seventh day, Wang Yangming himself fell ill in bed, but this incident also made Wang Yangming more and more suspicious of Zhu's theory.

After that, he embarked on a journey to find the true meaning of life. The turning point in his mind was "realizing the Tao in the Dragon Field", but the conditions in the Dragon Field were very bitter and cold, and his entourage fell ill one after another. So at that time, Wang Yangming was thinking, what would a saint do if faced with such a situation? But there was no reasonable explanation for this problem until one night, Wang Yangming suddenly jumped out of his sleep. It turned out that his answer was already there in his sleep, which is also a practice of truth.

Wang Yangming had doubts in his heart, so he began to seek the truth. He knows that truth can only be discovered by his own practice, and truth comes from practice. If everything is thought by our own heart, it is difficult for us to get the answer, so this is also the inspiration from Wang Yangming.