Wang Yangming was imprisoned for more than five months, and was rescued by relatives and friends, and was released in the second year of Zhengde (1507). However, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, so he was demoted to Guizhou Longchang Yicheng and went there on the same day.
Wang Yangming took a boat along the Grand Canal and hurried away, planning to make a detour to Yuyao to meet his family before going to Guizhou. One day, Wang Yangming was hungry on the road, so he walked into a restaurant. As he sat down, he noticed a few suspicious-looking men next to him. While they were ordering, Wang Yangming stretched out his ears to listen, and found that it was a Beijing accent, and he was shocked:
I'm afraid it's not good!
We have already guessed a group of killers, these people are the Jinyi guards sent by Liu Jin to assassinate Wang Yangming. It's really a good move to "repair the plank road in the open and cross the Chen Cang secretly", Liu Jin is extremely insidious! However, Wang Yangming is a smart man, he relied on the wisdom of studying the art of war for many years, walked the avenue, entered the prosperity, and went to the people, just not to give the killer a chance. Hurry up, hurry up, and you are about to arrive at Yuyao's hometown. However, it is a blessing and not a curse, and it is a disaster that cannot be avoided. One evening, Wang Yangming was still surrounded by Jinyi guards on the edge of the Qiantang River. In front of him is the surging river, and behind him is the tip of the killer's knife. At that moment, he thought of the humiliation of the court staff and the disaster of imprisonment he had suffered, thought of the eunuch Liu Jin so rushed to kill, and thought of his unfinished deeds and unfinished loyalty and filial piety, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, so he made a request to Jin Yiwei before he died-give him time to write a poem, he still has something to say. I don't know if it was out of respect for Wang Yangming's integrity, or out of pity for a dying person, Jinyiwei gave him a pen and paper. Wang Yangming wrote it in one go and wrote two desperate poems. Two of the sentences are written: Dare to bear the world with one body, and be willing to be sentenced to life and death. A full stomach of articles is rather useful, and a century-old courtier is not ashamed. In the face of death, he was upright and upright, and his conscience was clear and loyal. In the face of such Wang Yangming, the Jinyi guards were stunned, and they couldn't bear to do it for a while. Wang Yangming seized this opportunity and made a final request: leave him a whole corpse and let him jump into the river and drown. When the killers hesitated, Wang Yangming took off his clothes, shoes and hats, wrapped the desperate poem in it, and handed it to them. Then he jumped into the river.
A coffin brocade guard returned to Beijing with Wang Yangming's "relics" to recover his life, but Wang Yangming finally died with his excellent water ability, was rescued by a merchant ship, and escaped with difficulty. After several tosses, he finally returned to his hometown in Yuyao, and after saying goodbye to his family, he led two servants to Longchangyi, Guizhou. In the spring of the third year of Zhengde (1508), Wang Yangming arrived at Longchangyi. It was a place full of ancient trees, thorns, snakes, and dragons. The indigenous people are all ethnic minorities who do not understand the language and customs of the Han Chinese. As soon as Wang Yangming arrived at this place, difficulties followed, and he officially opened the mode of breaking through. The material level is indeed difficult and abnormal, but it is not the most uncomfortable for Wang Yangming. The problem of living is good to say, their master and servant found a cave, which is called "playing easy nest"; A shack was erected, and it was named "He Shaoxuan". The problem of food is not difficult, the previous postmaster left them some seeds, and when they arrived it was spring, and by consulting the local natives, they slowly mastered the cultivation technology. It doesn't matter if you live poorly, it doesn't matter if you don't eat well, what bothers Wang Yangming the most is his mental dilemma. Although he got along well with the local natives, and could sing folk songs and dance fanatically with them, as a Confucian scholar who read poetry and books, in such a barren place, with no relatives, neither peers nor sages, he finally fell into the spiritual whirlpool of thinking about the meaning of life and death. In Longchangyi, Wang Yangming obtained a rare purity, and he reviewed the first half of his life in that kind of almost empty purity. For more than 30 years, he studied military affairs, explored science, entered Buddhism and Taoism, and studied dictionaries. Although he has never really achieved positive results in any aspect, although he has been repeatedly frustrated in his studies, imperial examinations, and official career, he realizes that every time he falls, he can get up again and become stronger. Faced with this test of Longchangyi, he concluded: "I have transcended the honor and disgrace of gain and loss, but I cannot transcend life and death. Wang Yangming thought that death would shatter his grand ideals, and his heart was extremely uncomfortable. One day, he prepared a sarcophagus for himself and asked himself, "What will the saint be like when he encounters me in this situation?" Then he sat down, determined to find out.
The thick ink-like darkness in the cave of enlightenment is like an eternal night, and Wang Yangming sits in the sarcophagus and looks back at his past life. A little light in my heart is like a small oil lamp in a hole. When the wind blows, it trembles slightly, and after a few times it will disappear and rekindle. He is like Xiang Yu who is in a ruined boat, like Han Xin who fights against the water, and like Jing Ke who sings in Yishui, putting himself to death and coming back to life! This is a state of mind that returns to zero, throwing away attachments, hopes, regrets, and guilt, and facing one's own heart as sincerely as a child. I don't know how long it took to be enlightened, the dormant life energy in Wang Yangming's body began to brew and churn, just like the boiling lava in the ground found the weak crust, and he was finally enlightened! If you don't feel it, everyone is shocked! What did he realize? "Wang Yang's Next Year's Spectrum" wrote: "I know the way of the sage, my nature is self-sufficient, and those who seek reason from it are also mistaken!" This sentence is the end point of his theory of Zhu Zi, and it is also the logical starting point of Yangming's ideological system. Regarding enlightenment, Fromm said, "The eyes of man are suddenly opened; He and the world suddenly appeared in a completely different light, able to go from a completely different angle. This experience is often preceded by a great deal of anxiety, and after that, a new sense of strength and self-confidence arises. Since then, for Wang Yangming, the mountain is still a mountain, and the water is still water, but he has been reborn. Heaven and earth, my heart, a piece of light! The full text is over, if you like it, then like it or "watch"! Thank you for the meeting, thank you for reading, welcome to follow! Hotspot Engine Program