Chapter 188: Life and Death and Reincarnation
The old man looked at Wu Lang lovingly and solemnly, and said slowly: "Lang'er, remember, you are not an ordinary person, you are a supreme and supreme powerhouse who stands proudly in the world, steps on the blue sky, and holds the sun and moon in his palm!"
"Buzz" ......
Wu Lang's brain was dizzy and blank, and he looked at his father in a daze, his lips trembling......
The old man took Wu Lang's hand with a smile and stood up from the sofa......
Wu Langzhi felt that there was a flower in front of him, all the scenery had changed, and the two of them were already standing in the void, the shining moon was big and round, flashing with white brilliance, close in front of him......
The old man let go of Wu Lang's arm, and Wu Lang still stood in the night sky, without a trace of falling down.
The old man stood with his hands behind his back, stared at the full moon, and said softly: "Life and death are the cyclical process of the existence of living beings, from the beginning of life to the end of death, and its meaning is given to the entire universe, which can be regarded as any form and process of all things from beginning to end. Reincarnation ----- the moment when the living body is rejuvenated, since then the living body has another form of existence, its connotation and meaning are redefined, but it does not violate the rules of nature, the core meaning of reincarnation is that the soul with the meaning of life, it determines the process and direction of reincarnation, when the real physical body and psychological entities, forming a whole meaning of life, we can call it the soul, when the body enters the state of death, the soul will leave and then will enter another physical body, this is the reincarnation that people understand in religious and philosophical thoughts。 Is death the end of life? Is the beginning of life the result of the cycle of death? Once life ends, all things will lose their inevitable meaning, where consciousness and soul have no value to discuss, science is best at using the most objective truth and experiments to verify the truth of things, but it cannot explain the second question from any angle, will consciousness and soul have the possibility of the cycle of life and death?"
"We say that different cultural systems have different ideological values, but it is undeniable that the core values of religious doctrine have fundamental contradictions with scientific values, but the existence of the two is also constructive and affirmative for the progress of social civilization, at the macro level, religious belief can promote cultural and technological exchanges, and can also play a catalytic role in the stability of the country, at the micro level, it can restrain the behavior and moral norms between people, and increase the harmony between people。 Obviously, the legal system of each country has clarified the rights and obligations of religious belief, and endowed religious belief with freedom and significance, that is to say, at the national level, the meaning and essence of religion can be interpreted, and between science and religious belief, the most meaningful elaboration of life and death and reincarnation should be their own appearance. ”
Wu Lang listened to his father's words quietly, and didn't say a word, because he didn't know how to answer questions, but just listened intently to every word and every sentence of his father, and his brain quickly memorized it......
"Throughout the history of the world and the culture of various places, it is not difficult to see that the interpretation of the soul and reincarnation has a deep cultural imprint in the world, especially in the birthplace of some religions, which has long been deeply rooted in the spiritual world of believers, from the ancient Egyptian civilization to the ancient Roman and Greek civilizations in the West, and then to the ancient Indian civilization to the Shenzhou civilization in the East, and then look at the local culture of North and South America and Australia, all of which reflect the spiritual and cultural imprint of the reincarnation of the soul. With the rapid development of high technology in today's world, soul reincarnation has become a diluted and vague, specious spiritual concept, and from a scientific point of view, it is a secret puzzle. ”
"In physics, since Einstein's special theory of relativity and the mass-energy formula have been widely recognized, the theory of the immortality of matter has been recognized all over the world, and the conversion between mass and energy has the law that matter never disappears---- the law of conservation of mass and energy, which shows that matter will not disappear in essence, but is transformed into another form ----- energy, so from a huge macroscopic point of view, from the earth to the solar system and then to the entire universe, it is operating according to this eternal law; Matter in the universe is composed of tiny particles ---- atoms, and all matter, including stars, planets, planetary fragments, interstellar dust, gases, living organisms, water, etc., are composed of basic atoms. Atoms remain unchanged between the mass and energy conversion of matter, the only change is the change in the form of matter, for example, the birth of stars is produced by the accumulation of interstellar dust and gas, N years later, the stars gradually age and eventually form a supernova explosion, all the matter is thrown into the universe, and those materials that are thrown away become the star-making materials of stars after many years, and so on, never stop in the process of evolution. ”
"Another example is that water is almost ubiquitous on the earth, as the most basic dependent factor of all living organisms, water is going on an endless cycle of life and death all the time, plants absorb water and then animals eat and absorb plants, and then are excreted by animals and infiltrate into the ground or are evaporated into water vapor, and the evaporated water vapor becomes rainwater and returns to the ground for plants and animals to absorb, so many forms of repeated cycles are a manifestation of the cycle of life and death. From a biological point of view, the embodiment of the cycle of life and death is also clear and straightforward, all kinds of plants, in addition to competing for beauty and rendering the world, there is another natural mission, that is, to maintain survival and strengthen themselves to continue the next generation, in the face of seasons and natural disasters, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages and never give up their mission, to pass on the descendants according to their own genes, samples, blueprints, this is actually the most implicit embodiment of the cycle of life and death. On the other hand, the natural attributes of animals are completely in line with this characteristic, participating in the evolution of the flesh to accelerate the reproduction of offspring, fighting for survival under the harsh and cruel laws of nature, and being busy fighting for the reproduction of offspring, it is only their flesh itself that is eliminated by the laws of nature, and they are survived, in order to reproduce, the natural mission and genetic information have been passed on, even if they suffer the disaster of extinction, at most they will be turned into atoms and return to the universe, and then become the materials for the construction of other substances, and they are still in the rut of the cycle of life and death, so in the universe, their life forms do not exist, they disappear in the actual sense, but in the rolling evolutionary trend, and the cycle is constantly improving. ”
Wu Lang was dumbfounded and shocked when he heard this: Is this still the father he knew before? Where did he know all this? Could it be that his father was hiding before, and what is the reason?
Wu Lang's mind was racing, and he hurriedly listened carefully to his father's explanation......
The old man stared at the full moon and continued slowly: "Is there a scientific basis for consciousness and soul in biology? This question is difficult to answer from both a scientific and philosophical point of view, some people say that consciousness and soul are not equal to the activity of the brain, and the two can leave the human body and enter any possible space. Although the views of the ancients have withstood the test of time, but human knowledge needs to evolve with the times and profoundly, we want the development of science to be more complete and correct, then we can only come up with more novel and more creative ideas, in the maximum use of the wisdom of the ancients at the same time, but also combined with the rigor of science, the two can be used as dynamic interactive factors to carry out a diversified exploration of the road, rather than taking a single path option. The traditional wisdom of the ancients contains the cognitive content of the subjective world inherent in the ancients, while science can explain and analyze the objective world, so in order to fully understand the world, it is necessary to combine the wisdom of the ancients with modern science. ”
In fact, the meaning of life and death and reincarnation originated in the Neolithic Age before the Bronze Age, when religion began to sprout and human belief systems began to be established during the period of agricultural culture. ”