Chapter 33, through the world, eight laws to educate people

Due to the limitations of ideological methods in ancient China, there was no written record of the study of philosophy, and there were no real thinkers to explore the questions about human nature in detail, but without written materials, it cannot be said that there was no ideological method of "human thinking" in ancient Chinese since the thirteenth century, and there was no generation of philosophical thought, nor can it be said that there was no philosophy in China as Hegel believed, but it is true that as Hegel said, Chinese culture can only be said to be ideas and cannot be characterized as philosophy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

What is philosophy? In the final analysis, philosophy is the study of human nature for the purpose of developing human civilization that arises after human beings have broken away from animal nature, and belongs to the study that human beings have risen from food to the top of the food chain because of spiritual needs.

However, science and philosophy have completely different properties, science is a study of human beings to reflect on their animal nature after they are separated from animal nature, and science is more of a study that looks for past experience and the regularity of past processes. Today, it is said that it is to use big data analysis to calculate the development process of things, and find regularity from the process, so as to provide human development and civilization process.

But you must know that sheep are herds-feeding animals, and must have natural conditions to share their lives quietly.

However, wolf nature is not like this, wolves have independent self, and there is a strict order when living in groups, so the wolf attacks and defends in an orderly manner, independent can fight alone, and in a group, head to tail, orderly.

For example, the modernist painter Gauguin asked himself on the island of Tahiti, far away from modern civilization, "Where do I come from, who am I, and where am I going?", Lao Tzu raised this question in the article "Tao Te Ching", but the answer to this question is not philosophical thinking, but only sheep thinking. Although Lao Tzu talked about military means in the article "Tao Te Ching", it was not a wolf strategy.

Due to the multiple meanings of one word in ancient Chinese, modern people often misinterpret the original meaning of the original work when translating or translating classical literature, resulting in the recipient being unable to comprehend the spirit of the original work. The Tao Te Ching has been misinterpreted by Hegel, but in essence, the Tao Te Ching has nothing to do with philosophy.

From this point of view, if you don't have a super good understanding, you'd better not read the Tao Te Ching, or the translation of the Tao Te Ching. Or what professors tell you about the Tao Te Ching, or you will only be taken to the ditch by him.

"Where am I from?" This is the question posed by idealistic philosophy. In Chinese Taoist thought, the same question was first raised, and Lao Tzu raised this question in the article "Tao Te Ching" and answered this question, but Lao Tzu's answer was still material.

"Where am I from?" I came from the "Gate of Xuanqi", and Lao Tzu believed that "the immortality of the god of grain is called Xuanjiao." The Gate of Xuanqi is the root of heaven and earth. If it exists, it is not used diligently. This sentence tells you about the origin of "I". "Ceres" is the mountain spring in the valley of the mountains and rivers, and "the god of the grain is immortal" means that the mountain spring is continuous and endless, so it is said that the god of the valley is immortal. "The reason why Jiang Hai can be the king of a hundred valleys is because of his goodness, so he can be the king of a hundred valleys." That is, "valley" is the best interpretation of mountain springs.

"The immortality of the god of cereals is called Xuanqi", the mountain spring flows endlessly, just like the animal in the yin gate under the Huangting dantian, there is water, if it is hidden, it is not enough to use it when it is used. "The exit of the Tao is tasteless. Ignore it. Listen to the smell is not enough, use it is not enough", the passage (the exit of the Yin Gate, is the place where the mountain spring exits, a faint spring overflows in the mountains and valleys, here is the original source of life, what you see is the water that is dripping, it seems to be nothing. The sound of a trickle of water was faintly heard. When you use it, the water is not enough, and this is the scene of the mountain spring, but this is where all things are born. Where did I come from? I came down from my mother's dantian, which was the original source of my life.

"Confucius's face is only obedient. The Tao is a thing, but it is only in a trance. There is an elephant in the trance. But there is something in it. There is a fine in it. It's very true. Among them are letters. ”

Literal translation: There are tangible and regular mountain caves, only the passage can be reached, in the passage you will see trance, looming objects, in the trance you will see a scene appearing, looming in the existence of objects, in the deep and obscure place there is the source of the essence, the essence of the spring. The source of the essence, the water of the spring, is pure water, but there is a message of life here.

Translation: There are regular Rong (dissolving) caves in the mountains, only the passage can be reached, in the deep and obscure places of the passage, you will be in a trance, looming to see the objects in the passage. In the depths of the trance-like cave, you will see a scene appearing, looming in the presence of objects, in the deep and obscure place there is the source of the essence of the roots, the water of the mountain spring. The spring water is pure water, but there is a message of life here.

This is where I come from, the origin of all species on the earth is in the valley spring, this is the place where the species originated, so "the immortality of the god of grains is called Xuanqi." The Gate of Xuanqi is the root of heaven and earth." I through the "Confucian Rong" (tangible and regular mountain caves), in the moonlit night "only trance" to the earth, through the mountains and rivers, into the valley "trance" to the Qingquan crossing, "slender" "its essence is very true" pregnant in the mountain spring, raised in the river, confluence in the river and sea, is therefore "the reason why the river and the sea can be the king of a hundred valleys, with its goodness, so it can be the king of a hundred valleys." ”

Where do I come from? I come from under my mother's Huang Ting dantian, and this is the whole of my life. Where do I come from? I come from the vastness of the universe, drifting to the earth through the moonlit night, and entering the mother body through the mysteries to give birth to my body. "Confucius's face is only obedient. "There are things that are mixed and born by nature. Lonely and independent, he will not change, and he can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name, but the strong word is said. "Knowing its male, guarding its female, is the world's stream." For the world stream, Changde does not leave, and returns to the baby. "I was self-conceived.

Who am I? Lao Tzu said, "I will take the world and do it, but I see that it is a last resort." "There is a mixture of things, and they are born by nature. Lonely, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not dying, can be the mother of heaven and earth. I don't know its name, the strong word is said to be the way, the name of the strong is said to be big, the big is gone, the death is far away, the far is said to be the opposite, so the road is big, the sky is big, the earth is big, and the people are also big. There are four major domains, and people live in one of them. Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature. "The way is rushed, or it is not profitable. The abyss is like the sect of all things. Solve its disputes, and its light, with its dust, like or exist. I don't know whose son is the first of the emperors. ”。 But if you read the Tao Te Ching throughout, you won't find the idea of transforming nature, only "The way of heaven is beneficial but not harmful." The way of the sage is not to fight for the idea of "going with the flow and conforming to the principles of heaven."

However, even this cannot be arbitrarily said that there is no philosophical thought in China. We can deduce the development process of Chinese human thinking from historical development, and we can also deduce the enlightenment process of Chinese capitalist thinking after the thirteenth century from the historical development process.

For example, we can find the development process of ancient Chinese capitalist thought from the historical development of Shanxi.

Due to its unique geographical location, Shanxi has experienced the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties since the Song Dynasty, and there have been few wars in the past 800 years. Shanxi and because of the close neighbor of Mongolia, by the nomadic influence is greater, the way of thinking is different than the inland areas, the degree of open-mindedness is higher, the influence of Confucianism and Taoism is limited, so from the Mengyuan period Shanxi people began to enlighten the "three points" thought, opened the budding movement of capitalism, to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi's capitalist economy has formed a scale covering the whole country, the spirit of the Jin merchants in the world is full of the entire Shanxi people, to this day, Shanxi people are serious and rigorous in everything is still everywhere.

In today's Shanxi people, you can still see the advantages of the Jin people in doing things clearly, in an orderly manner, serious and modest, and in Shanxi, you can see the advantages of the Jin people in doing project supervision, high quality, and so on. Although the superstructure of Shanxi has collapsed under the influence of politics in recent years, the people of Shanxi as a whole still maintain their original spiritual outlook, and in a few years, Shanxi people are still the people who are in the forefront of the ideology in the country, because the Jin people have the Jin Shang culture that is advanced in the Central Plains culture as the ideological foundation, and will eventually be ahead of the Central Plains civilization.

The Chinese are not congenitally lacking philosophical ideas and the existence of God, but in a sentence defining the ideological propositions of traditional Chinese culture and the program of action of the Chinese, resulting in China's loss of confidence, lack of soul, and congrenification into power politics. This is what the "Book of Changes" says, "Heaven respects the earth, and the earth is humble, and the universe is fixed." The humble is Chen, and the noble and lowly are in the position. There is constant movement, rigidity and softness. Fang gathers by like, things by groups, and good and evil are born. Formed in the sky, shaped in the earth, and the changes are seen. This sentence has afflicted the Chinese for more than 2,000 years, and its impact on the thinking and methods of the Chinese has had disastrous results.

To this day, the Chinese still respect its legal principle of developing all things, but the Westerners have abandoned it 2,000 years ago, but the Chinese hold it as a magic weapon.

Chinese people are not without fraternity, nor are they lacking wisdom, but they are full of love and wisdom. Chinese is not only wise and wise, but also benevolent and fraternal, since ancient times Chinese is the wisest nation, but also the most caring people, the cause of the Chinese lack of love, the loss of soul spirit and wisdom method is the totalitarian system, is Confucianism.

If we re-examine the traditional thinking of the Chinese, combine the ideological methods of philosophy, and transform the ideological methods of traditional Chinese thinking, we will surely usher in a completely new ideological system.

Through the world, the eight laws educate people.

People should have love, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, and wisdom eight ways of thinking and doing things.

One love, two filial piety, three faith, four benevolence, five righteousness, six rites, seven education, eight wisdom.

Because without love, how can we know filial piety, how can we be trustworthy without filial piety, how can we be benevolent, how can we be righteous without benevolence, how can we use courtesy without righteousness, how can we educate people without rudeness, and how can we pass on wisdom without education.

Why do people have to have love, people exist between all things in the world, this is a thing, but people have a soul, there is a soul and there is perception, there is perception will be the first in the heart, in the heart is worthy of filial piety, knowing the source of filial piety. Filial piety must precede behavior, and filial piety is the foundation of trustworthiness. Trustworthiness is benevolence, benevolence and fraternity, in order to be affectionate and righteous. Righteousness is respectful, connecting the upper and lower, it is incumbent on duty, righteousness is in the right, and there is courtesy. Etiquette is the rule, there is a degree of advance and retreat, and the measure is magnanimous, so that it can be conceived. Educating people for goodness, dialect wisdom, wisdom of the wise, people-oriented.

Man is the animal with the strongest level of intelligence in the world, so man is different from other animals, man has the ability to transform nature, so there is today's artificial world, so everything involving man-made things must be people-oriented, with everyone can adapt, everyone can abide by, everyone can accept, everyone can behave, to formulate the thinking method that everyone can adapt to, everyone can abide by the laws and regulations, everyone can accept the political system, and everyone can behave as the standard.

What is benevolence, the two are benevolent, the yin and yang contract is benevolence, the highest state of benevolence is righteousness, righteousness is the inheritance of the upper enlightenment, carrying the upper force, accepting the suppression of the superiors, the highest state of righteousness is the high degree of unity of people when yin and yang are intertwined, the meaning of the uprising is also this layer of meaning, which means that the monarch and the minister are against the eyes, the husband and wife are against the eyes, and the father and son are against the enemy. Righteousness is the place where benevolent people practice, there must be righteousness, and righteousness is a person.

Righteousness is what it means, which means to connect the previous and the next, cross and reciprocate, and inherit virtue without regret. That's why the ancients called the rebels the rebels.

Righteousness is the only way to know the etiquette, to be a person must be polite, after the righteousness, the righteousness should know that the husband and wife are orderly, there should be a reasonable system of rules between the husband and wife, people are different from animals, can not be exchanged and excessive, the rules of the game between husband and wife are etiquette, righteousness and shame, that is, the rules that husband and wife abide by. Rising to politics is the state system, laws and regulations, and descending to society is the rules of cooperation between people.

Etiquette in the world, a big country and a small country, a small country and a widow, the country must have a polite system, and it is a state of etiquette. Etiquette is effective, in order to raise a proper way, nurture only for the continuation of human civilization, only for the inheritance of love, the extension of filial piety, the spread of confidence, enhance the heart of benevolence and righteousness, and more scientifically enhance the heart of human wisdom.

Therefore, love, filial piety, faith, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, education, and wisdom are the ideological methods practiced by human beings. Only in this way is a human being, especially filial piety, people have seven feelings, filial piety is the first, no filial piety how to be a person, no filial piety heaven and earth extinguished. People can have childbearing, animals can also have childbearing, education is continuing, but people have filial piety to be human, animals have filial piety and supplementary food parents, if people have no filial piety, they are not human.

Chinese are now upside down, modern China is first filial piety, even with education without filial piety, they don't know that this is not as good as animals, the reason why people are people, is because people have love and filial piety, emotional behavior has created people's behavior standards, no filial piety how to have love, no love is not human.

Confucius said: "The five punishments belong to three thousand, and the sin is no greater than unfilial piety", "Filial piety is also the scripture of heaven, the righteousness of the earth, and the behavior of man", "The behavior of man is greater than filial piety". Confucius also said: "The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it" is the beginning of filial piety; "Standing up and doing the way, making a name for yourself in future generations, and showing your parents" is the end of filial piety.

This is the lack of education in China, human nature is filial piety, education is an important means to regain human filial piety, from the original meaning of education and education, childhood is the easiest stage to retrieve the memory of filial piety, but there is no perfect education system, how to perfect filial piety counseling? The important weapon of the country lies in love, the center of gravity of love lies in filial piety, the center of gravity of filial piety must have faith, and the trustworthy person can make friends, blend and harmonize the world, and have peace in the world.

Therefore, it is said that people have ten thousand thoughts, ten thousand loves, filial piety is the first, and the people will have no faith without filial piety, and the country without faith will not last forever.

Filial piety is the foundation of faith, and there is no root without filial piety.

Faith is born from filial piety, and filial piety is self-reliant.

Faith is the first of benevolence and righteousness, and no faith is not handed over.

People do not think that they have no trust, and the country does not think they have no faith.

There is no love and no desire, no filial piety has no foundation, no faith has no friendship, no benevolence does not stand, no righteous person will rebel, no rude person is not a group, no education is self-destruction, no wise man is unethical.

The sky can be without the sun for a day, and people cannot be without love for a day.

The earth can be without yin for a day, and people cannot be without filial piety for a day.

The mountains can be without wind for a day, and people cannot be without faith for a day.

Water can go without flowing for a day, and people can't go without kindness for a day.

The wind can not move for a day, and a man cannot be unrighteous for a day.

The rain can go a day without a note, and a man cannot be rude for a day.

Things can be without light for a day, and people cannot be barren for a day.

An animal may go a day without food, and a man must not be without wisdom for a day.

When the mountains collapse and the earth cracks, man must not be without love, the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, and man must not be without souls: without love, there is no desire. If there is no soul, there is no self, there is no filial piety, and there is no faith without filial piety.

People have no confidence and do not have benevolence, people have no benevolence and righteousness, people have no righteousness and etiquette, people are rude and the world is mixed, people have no women of childbearing age, and people have no wisdom and are invincible.

It is the deceased that people can be incomplete, but they cannot be without love, people can not stand up, but they cannot be without wisdom, and love and wisdom are all the philosophers of the world.