Chapter 26 This World is a God's World
Due to the influence of the Yili school of the Book of Changes, Chinese classical culture is derived from empirical logic, arranging, enumerating, and summarizing the development laws of personnel behavior, concrete, analyzing, reasoning, synthesizing, and logical things, so it is far superior to Western culture in terms of empirical logic.
Western culture attaches great importance to objective and figurative logical thinking such as negation, reasoning, and criticism, while classical Chinese culture focuses on affirmation, comparison, argumentation, summarization, and sensory concrete empirical logical thinking.
Western culture attaches great importance to objective and rational thinking, while classical Chinese culture focuses on intuitive and perceptual thinking, so when you read Western literature books, you have more objective and rational knowledge, while when you read Chinese classical literature, especially orthodox literature, you will feel that there are few objective things, and there is a lot of empirical, established, and guiding knowledge, which is very intuitive.
If you read Western romance novels, you will find that Westerners write romance and attach importance to spiritual things, describe people's emotions very deeply, write around the bend, go around, and go far without seeing the truth; while Chinese write romance and attach importance to material things, directly, a stick is inserted into the end, saying what is, very straightforward.
Due to the deep influence of Chinese political culture, Chinese classical culture is not clearly classified, very vague and general, and cannot distinguish Chinese classical literature. The taste. However, in terms of Chinese classical folk culture, it is not that it does not pay attention to spiritual things, and Chinese classical folk culture is rich in spiritual elements. For example, folk cultural products such as "The Story of the West Wing", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", and "Xishan Saving Mother" are rich in spiritual components, creating spiritual beacons for the spiritual world of the Chinese nation and lighting the spiritual night sky of the Chinese.
Therefore, no matter what nationality it is, it should have its own spiritual homeland, and the spirit is the soul of a nation, which plays the role of a spiritual cofferdam and embankment.
What is hateful is that in recent years, some screenwriters have arbitrarily modified the spiritual food of the Chinese nation, arbitrarily modified the myths and stories that have been passed down through the ages, and pulled the spiritual myths of the Chinese nation into godless beings, intending to create a godless world, and the evil consequences caused by this may take many generations to eliminate.
The person involved can really be described as killing without mercy.
In fact, contemporary Chinese culture is not an atheistic culture, but a true theistic culture. The materialist worldview we believe in is the true culture of God, materialism holds that the world is material, but it is also spiritual, and there is no godless world. This point is clearly defined by materialism, "Marxism believes that materialism is one of the two basic schools of philosophy, which is opposed to idealism, and advocates that matter is the first nature, spirit is the second nature, the origin of the world is matter, and spirit is the projection and reflection of matter." "Materialism holds that the world is a rational world, and rationality contains spiritual reason and material reason, but materialism believes that the world is a world in which material reason dominates spiritual reason, but it is not otherwise the existence of spiritual reason. Therefore, our constitution has a clause on the creation of spiritual civilization, which is very clear.
The level of a nation's spiritual realm determines the level of a nation's culture to a large extent, because culture comes from the spirit, and then culture creates a nation's civilization, culture is the backbone of civilization, not material is the backbone of civilization, material is only the appearance of things, you can see and touch, but when material reason is not the beacon of human civilization, it cannot guide you to the other side of civilization, but spiritual reason is the beacon that guides the direction of civilization.
When the spiritual beacon is destroyed, people lose their way to the other side of civilization.
The real managers should take care of the spiritual culture of their own nation far more than they should care for the material culture, and when the spiritual home of a nation is shattered, it is not easy to rebuild it.
In terms of spiritual reason and material reason, spiritual reason is always greater than material reason, because man is a person and not a thing after all.
Therefore, no nation can stand on top of the material with one foot, but abandon the other foot of the spirit and walk with one foot. We need to know that the world is not purely material, if the world is purely material, only stars, mountains, and trees, then what are the animals that live among the stars, mountains, and trees? Is it pure matter, or is it a substance with a soul?
The answer is: This world is a world of gods, because there is a substance with a soul in this world. And human beings are the higher substances in these substances that have souls, so the human spirit is the projection and reflection of matter.
Whether it is an Oriental or a Westerner, everyone has an immortal god in their hearts, Westerners call it God, and Chinese call it God. They are all gods, gods of divine power and boundless power. It's just that the God of the West is the extension of the individual soul, full of self-spiritual tension, when the human will expands to the realm of absolute spirit, man is with God, and everyone can produce a god of infinite energy in their hearts, elevating man to the realm of selflessness, dissolving in the earth and blue sky, and becoming a God with the same honor and power as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
And the God of the Chinese is the same God of the West as the God of the West, the God of the Chinese is anthropomorphized and materialized, but the God of the Chinese is the projection and reflection of the Chinese's natural rationality, and it must be the God of "one yin and one yang, followed by goodness, and the nature of the one who becomes it".
"One yin and one yang is the way", this sentence is to say that a yin and a yang are the way, the Tao is a conceptual and physical thing, more contains specific things, the Tao is only in the case of a yin and a yang is the way, for example, a man and a woman are not the way, then you are a man and a woman are not the way, the Tao must be interconnected to be regarded as the Tao, a single yin, or a yang, or two, more than one yin can not be said to be the Tao. In human beings, this is, of course, the communication between the body and the mind, which is called the way.
Therefore, the result of the combination of material and spiritual "Dao" can only be generated through the intercommunication of yin and yang.
Today, we can understand that we start from the ontology, nature, and origin of things, and that everything is composed of one yin and one yang, and that everything exists in the opposite poles, and that there are interactions between them, and that everything can only be generated in the mutual body of yin and yang. Zhu Xi's commentary on this article is: "The body of the Tao is nothing more than yin and yang."
What is the meaning of "the one who follows is good, and the one who becomes is also good"? It means inheritance and development. Good, will mean the word, from the sheep from the word. Good, there is a sheep on the top of the oracle, and there are two sheep on the bottom, and there is a mouth under the sheep, which means that the sheep have a mouth or breath, or the image of eating grass, which means good. The broad meaning is that people are alive, and many people are good. From here, it is not difficult for us to understand the meaning of this sentence, the original meaning of "the successor is good", that is, in this world, what is the ontology, nature, and origin of the integration of yin and yang of things? That is to say, the ultimate goal of the integration of yin and yang in everything in the world is to develop and continue, and only when it develops, continues, and exists, is it the ultimate good. This phrase has the meaning of Western philosophical ontology, but it is more reasonable than philosophical ontology. Philosophical existentialism is very straightforward, that is, "what exists is reasonable", as for why it exists and why it is reasonable, Western philosophy does not say. But Chinese philosophy says that existence can only exist in the mutual body of yin and yang, and existence is the projection and reflection of the blending of yin and yang in matter. Of course, Chinese philosophy is general, including all things in the universe. Western philosophy, on the other hand, is clearly categorized, with existence projected and reflected in spirit and matter, respectively.
The nature of the person who becomes is also, "Shuo Wen" says: "Success, it is also." It means that when something develops into a certain form or condition, it is completed. Sex is more complicated, and the "Shuowen" says: "Sex, the yang energy of people, and the good nature is also." "Guangya" said: "Sex, quality also." "The Book of Rites: The Mean" says: "The destiny of heaven is sex. It can be seen that the ancients' understanding of "sex" was not uniform. Today, the meaning of the word "sex" should be two kinds: material "sex" and spiritual "sex", and more projection and reflection should be spirituality. Sex is the sublimation of the spirit after the combination of material and spiritual sex, and it is the sublimation of the materiality and spirituality of things and the creativity and vitality of things. Then the true meaning of this sentence is that the development and perfection of anything is the sublimation of the creativity and vitality of things.
The ultimate goal of the integration of yin and yang in any thing in the world is to develop and continue, and only when it develops, continues, and exists is the ultimate goodness, the ultimate way of heaven, and the law, and the development, completeness, and perfection of anything is the sublimation of the creativity and vitality of things.
This sentence contains the philosophy of the generation of all things in the universe and is the law of the creation of the universe. Only the integration, continuation, existence, and development of anything is the last word, and anything that has no creativity and vitality, or that is about to become extinct and does not exist, is imperfect; and anything that cannot be blended, continued, existed, and developed in accordance with the laws of nature has no value and significance of existence. The strengths and weaknesses of classical Chinese culture are reflected here. The advantage is that the philosophy is deep and incisive, and the disadvantage is that it is vague, general, and not specific.
It is precisely because of these reasons of Chinese classical culture that Chinese classical thought and culture cannot be specific to the connotation of things, resulting in an ambiguous, general, and unspecific appearance.
In fact, human beings, whether they are in the east, west, south, or north, have a "god" of infinite energy in their hearts, and the reason for this is that human beings are finite, while the universe is infinite. When human beings seek to know the infinite god of the universe, they are often confused by the infinite energy of nature and cannot solve the full face of nature, which makes human beings inevitably have a psychological yearning for reverence for nature in their thoughts, which is the reason why human beings are "fascinated".
Therefore, it is not wrong for human beings to believe in the power of God, but it is contrary to the self-dignity of human beings to blindly deify. Because in this world, only human beings can produce culture, and then civilization, and the purpose of human civilization is to better demonstrate the tension of culture and promote the development and continuation of human civilization.
It can be seen that the "Book of Changes" is respected as the source of Chinese classical culture is a very accurate conclusion, the "Book of Changes" idea covers all the knowledge concepts of today's Eastern and Western cultures, thousands of years ago the people along the Yellow River in China unearthed the "Book of Changes" culture, since then illuminated the entire eastern soil, guiding the Chinese people to civilization, more civilized social development, it is not only the cultural abuse of the Chinese nation, will also be the cultural abuse of the people of the world.
Therefore, strictly speaking, culture is the product of the spiritual level, culture is the reflection and reflection of the spirit, and culture is more embodied in the spiritual level. For example, when someone writes a book, the words are only the appearance, he writes the words, and what is embodied here is the material, but the real thing is what he writes, and the content of the words he writes is what he wants to express, and it is the projection and reflection of his spirit. Therefore, the origin of culture is spirit, spirit is the first nature, material is the second nature, and material is only the projection and reflection of spirit.