Chapter: 2470

"You believe in science and the internet, but you don't believe in the wisdom of our ancestors who have left behind thousands of years' worth of precious knowledge. You've gradually discarded this legacy and put it into the category of old-fashioned superstition, which is a manifestation of ignorance itself!"

Su Zhixue asked with some dissatisfaction, "According to what our ancestors said, does everything have a predetermined fate? Is my eating or going somewhere today already predestined?"

Du Haiqing spoke sincerely, "You think that worldly matters don't have a predetermined fate and that everything is up to individual choice. But you haven't thought about it - even as small as a grain of sand, the universe operates under its own set of rules, continuing to run without pause. The more you look at things on a grand scale, the more it's impossible to change."

Su Zhixue immediately asked, "Mom, what is the predetermined fate of a single grain of sand? It might become part of millions of grains in the desert, or sink into a river and eventually enter the ocean, or even be manufactured into glass or mixed into concrete. Does the predetermined fate plan out the destiny of each grain?"

Du Haiqing shook his head and said, "I just mentioned that you have to look at things from a macro perspective, not micro."

"You're looking at it with a micro perspective, thinking grains are insignificant and don't deserve attention. But there are countless grains in the universe, and it's impossible for each grain to have its own predetermined fate."

"But do you know how many stars like the sun exist in the universe?"

Du Haiqing spoke sincerely, "You know, you look at things from a micro perspective, thinking grains are insignificant and don't deserve attention. But if you look at it from a macro perspective, you'll find that even though the entire Earth may seem insignificant in the universe, it's still just like a grain of sand. Perhaps not even as significant as a grain of sand."

He continued, "You young people don't like to talk about science? Then I can tell you that within the observable range and with grounds for prediction, there are approximately 20 billion galaxies in the universe. You hear me correctly, it's 20 billion!"

"Each galaxy has at least tens of thousands of billions, even hundreds of trillions of stars. The sun is just one of a few thousand billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In the entire Milky Way galaxy, the sun is ordinary to the point where it can't be any more ordinary. And in the entire universe, the sun isn't as significant as a grain of sand on Earth."

"The number of stars like the sun in the universe adds up to being many times more than the grains of sand on Earth. Yet you think there are too many grains of sand, so one small grain doesn't deserve fate. I ask you, if a star 100 times bigger than Earth exists in the universe, would it still be just a speck of dust? And could it have fate?"

Du Haiqing's words struck Su Zhiyu like lightning, leaving her unable to say a word.

She had never looked at the world from this perspective before, only trying to think about the entire macrocosmic universe in her mind. As soon as she did, she immediately felt her own insignificance and ignorance.

If the sun is just a grain of sand in the universe, then Earth can only be considered a speck of dust.

If humans are so insignificant that we need to live on a speck of dust in the universe, then what do we represent?

The science we explore within this speck of dust, does it account for any significant portion of all things in the world?

As soon as Su Zhiyu saw that she was no longer open to argument, Du Haining let out a deep sigh and said in a tone that was extremely sincere: "Zhiyu, you need to know that all stars in more than 20 billion star systems have their own laws of operation. What's more, isn't your life just one among tens of billions?"

After saying this, she clasped her hands together and said devoutly: "I used to often go to the temple to burn incense and pray to Buddha. You two and my father all thought I was superstitious, but Buddhism has already said that 'one grain of sand is a world'!"

"Even if it's just one small stone, its internal structure is infinite!"

"One star system is no more than a grain of sand in the universe, but within it contains another vast world."

"The Yi Jing is telling people a principle: everything in the universe, from dust to stars, has its own laws. You may not understand them, but you cannot disrespect them; do you get it?"

Zhiyu hastily nodded her head and whispered apologetically: "Mom, I understand now. I was really too shallow before and didn't understand the Yi Jing or the principles of life..."

Du Haining smiled slightly and said: "Everything in the world has laws. As long as you can find its law, you will be able to see its past, present, and future."

"It's just like how ancient people learned the laws behind celestial phenomena and then started gradually mastering the ability to predict weather;"

"It's just like how modern astronomers have mastered the laws governing the sun and moon's movements and are now able to accurately predict every solar and lunar eclipse in the future, even going back thousands of millions of years..." JrNovels.com