983 Those things about the "heavens".

-Ward 1701, M Hospital-

March 23rd

21：49 PM

Our traditional thinking also respects the heavens, but the concept of that heaven is not particularly clear, as is the case with other Chinese practices. You have no way of knowing what the heavens were known in ancient China, so you can only guess.

It's a place where you can basically guess and survive, which is perhaps good news for people with scarce culture.

There are many sayings in the Book of Songs, the Mandate of Heaven, the Son of Heaven...... In other words, the concept of "heaven" has long been born in our classical thought. Some people believe that the object of early sacrifice including the Temple of Heaven was God, for two reasons: first, there were no idols on the altar of heaven, and Yahweh was a jealous god, which is in line with it; second, it is very likely from the trajectory of the ancestors, because it is also recorded in the Bible that after people separated from the Tower of Babel, a wave of people went east. As for whether it is or not, it is impossible to make a conclusion, because Yang Mian is not a person who specializes in history. He thinks it's very likely. Because the meaning of the early accounts of heaven in the Book of Songs and the accounts in later literary works has changed. However, in the earliest poems, there are also many acts of worshipping things in the natural world as gods, and there are many undesirable things in this work. But it is a good evidence to examine the thinking of early people.

At that time, the ancestors had almost no science and technology, and agriculture was also backward, so it was basically primitive. Their knowledge is based on their own understanding, because whether they had faith at that time, we don't know for sure now.

In their eyes, "heaven" is very high, very big, very mysterious, and in their eyes, it is like the kind of dominant force that has existed from beginning to end, except that it is a self-rational explanation of the mysterious phenomenon of the sky, and it cannot be denied that this is the direct evidence of the early "monotheism", which was respected and feared by the ancestors. People say that they are born from heaven, life is given by heaven, and they also say that the leader of the people is the pride of heaven, which shows that in the eyes of the ancestors, heaven is a very sacred existence. But later, out of thin air, there were many more emperors, heaven and earth, and emperors...... And it was chaotic.

"Heaven" has the ability, "Heaven" has a subject, "Heaven" gives birth to all people, "Heaven" controls all things, and "Heaven" has its own ideas, because people often express their incomprehension or even questioning of some practices of "Heaven" in poetry. In fact, the relationship between "heaven" and man is complex and complex, and after thousands of years of evolution, it is constantly changing and developing. At that time in the Book of Songs, Yang Lan thought that it was already very out of shape, and a very famous sentence in the Book of Poetry was "Heaven gave birth to me, and I am here", which expresses the self-consciousness that people want to focus on their own thoughts.

This is an early form of "self-rationalization", discerning what is reasonable and how it can be justified according to one's own understanding, rather than according to what should be done. It was also the germ of early self-aggrandizement.

When we understand and copy many practices, there is a one-sided phenomenon, and it is easy to take the wrong path by taking it out of context, for example, the self-confidence of the West is not self-aggrandizement, but is based on the fear of God. So in any case, if we don't build the foundation, everything we learn is just a castle in the air, and the gap between us and them can never be broken, because the foundation is different. People's consciousness began to so-called "awakening", Yang Lai believes that it can be described as "slight selfishness", when there is such a tendency, there must be a person in control in order not to be arrogant, but in this point we and the West understanding of the deviation, self-consciousness in our view is slowly for themselves, all rely on themselves, only themselves, in the end as long as they benefit. It would be bad if it developed like this.

It was also in this environment that our ancestors gradually developed a grudge against the "vague heaven" they once relied on, and created other beings to replace him, expecting those beings to "pay with one hand and deliver them with one hand" like the exchange.

This kind of consciousness is gradually "expanding", from the initial dissatisfaction, to the later "awakening", and then to the later "arrogance", and has evolved into the current extremely "big" consciousness, which has removed the horizontal line on the "heavens" and left only oneself.

Perhaps, in the future, people will also remove the horizontal line that hinders their own development on the "big", so that it will be restored to heaven and earth, with only people, no top of their heads, and no restraints on their bodies. The reason for this tendency is not because people have a concept of "unbelief" in their initial understanding of "heaven", and people themselves are very entangled.

984 Loophole of the Legend

-Ward 1701, M Hospital-

March 23rd

21：49 PM

People are extremely susceptible to doubt, but hard to believe, including themselves.

People don't believe in what they think, they don't believe in what they can't understand, they don't believe what others say, and they don't believe in history. To put it simply, there is a tendency to disbelieve everything. The changes in nature and the reasons why everything happens to you are explained by yourself according to the chaotic logic of the individual itself, east and west, so that he finally put together a set of theories that seem to be quite tight, and he continues to deduce and deduce, and in the end he is really unable to fill more and more loopholes and mistakes, and finally he throws himself into a snare and traps himself. Because it's chaotic in itself.

Moreover, there is also a traditional idea that is extremely inconsistent with Western logic: man will conquer heaven. This idea further evolved as: Man can become heaven!

Think about it, this person was still a normal person a few days ago, and then he flew away, not to become a butterfly, but to become a fairy. This kind of thing cannot be understood by our reason, nor can it be explained by knowledge, so how can it be explained by foreigners? It depends on culture, but culturally, it is very different.

One thing is mentioned in all the legends: cultivation, cultivation is the cultural essence of this matter. To put it simply, it's about making a difference. Effort is almost omnipotent.

The essence of cultivation is that people can achieve qualitative changes through their own abilities (such as diligent study, meditation, or refining of natural substances, or the transmission of other people who are already capable...... That is, the essence of human beings becomes gods through cultivation. This is the fundamental idea of the legend of the five thousand years of Xianxia and ghosts.

It's just that a better qualitative change is called an immortal, a little worse is called a chivalrous (it needs to be noted here that the physical qualifications of chivalry are already different from people, so I think that is also a qualitative change), and then a little worse is called a demon, and then a little worse is called a ghost, there is a deduction about the differentiation of the Six Realms that belongs to this foundation, and then there are endless deductions and absurd legends, which sound extremely implausible, but for thousands of years, there have been people who have pursued these false careers, and they do not understand at all that these legends are just the results of fantasy.

How the realm of this world is divided, who knows. As for whether there are really various divisions, no one knows, and the idea that Yang Mian is opposed to is nothing else, that is, this one: people can work hard to become gods by themselves. This point has been impossible since he was a child, and it is illogical without him. This is a big loophole, and he has always wondered why people have not found out, and there is also a loophole, if people have already found out that it is a lie, why would they still believe it, and would rather be deceived. Is it that you have been deceived for a long time and have become numb, or even become a member of the scammers?

Can grass become birds, can birds become people, can people become gods?

No, this is not something that can be changed by itself, relying on the grass to absorb sunlight and air, and becoming a bird? It's kind of ridiculous. But it is undeniable that we have believed in these for thousands of years, so how can we not be lonely?

(The legend of the monster in this is the interpretation of the change of human nature in all things in heaven and earth.) For example, the god of thunder, the god of fire, and the god of water are all analogies of the idols of the gods, that is, the fantasy of the human body is maximized and applied to all things in the world. Grandma said, "I can't do it," so Yang Mian told grandma, "No, not at all." You've been lying to me". ）

Since then, Yang has abandoned this notion and has begun to hope for ideas that will make it more liberal. It is necessary to live away from these absurd legends, to live the truth, to live the truth. If you say that the Book of Poetry is regarded as a poem written in idleness, it is not a grievance, there are many famous sentences in it, "The sky is the same as the clouds, the rain and snow are tingling", "Logging Dingding, the birds are singing", "Guan Guan Ju dove, in the river island" and so on.

There are very poems that do have a beautiful artistic conception reference, but if you think about it carefully, those romances are a little ethereal, so let's hope for it in the real world.

Those strange legends and the so-called theories formed by the "rules" and "principles" in the legends are basically incomprehensible, so it is better not to "deify" some theories excessively, according to this practice, poetry itself can also become gods, isn't it that it has changed from fantasy to absurdity to pure lying, not drafting, and not conscience? Could it be that the god of poetry said that he would automatically help me write such good poems as Li Bai? Is that possible? Isn't this an obvious thing?

Still, take a break.

Take a break.

We are so different from the world.

Therefore, the mainstream ideology cannot understand our concept, and our people still look at themselves more than the outside world, and they are not particularly enlightened in their thinking and understanding of human nature, which is manifested in "not daring to speak the truth", "not daring to express", "not having their own ideas", and so on.

At this point, people prefer good news to reality.

Although this sounds unpleasant, it is a reality in a certain situation, right? Yang Lai thinks so, he feels heartache every time he thinks of this, but he has to admit that this is the reality.

He sighed deeply.