Meeting Laqi had left Li Qi quite pleased.
The young Shaman had grown remarkably well. He had his own views of the world, and used them to measure the world itself, putting them into practice through his own actions and understanding.
That was very good.
To judge whether something was good or bad, the first thing one needed was a standard. Without a standard, all things were the same, and there was no distinction between good and bad.
If one wished to judge whether something was good or bad, establishing a standard was inevitable. Moreover, a Dao had to be carried through and put into practice. If it was not practiced, then that standard was mere empty talk.
And that standard was one's own way of viewing the world—the so-called "one's own Dao."
A lucid being would consciously establish such a standard, then carry it out. They would absorb the experiences around them, combine them with their own thoughts, and ultimately refine their understanding of the various phenomena of this world.
For example: "Is light ultimately a wave or a particle?" "Within a group, if one violated discipline but achieved a good outcome, did it count as wrong?" Questions like these were manifestations of certain phenomena in the world.
A wave? A particle? Or wave-particle duality?
Wrong? Right? Was the outcome more important, or was discipline more important?
These were all part of one's standards. Everyone's standards differed, and some people even held double standards. But one had to know that behind every double standard lay a single hidden standard.
If one did not consciously establish this standard, then one could only accept the so-called "experience" of the outside world.
If one accepted outside experience without thinking, absorbing, or accommodating it, then that experience could easily make the ways of