Chapter 380: From Faith to Feelings

Through reading Marx's works, Ye Chao believes that in Marx's view, there is a clear distinction between good and bad beliefs, and all theistic religions are evil, and only atheistic religions are just. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, this is the point of view of the proletarian mentor, and Ye Chao does not think that he is all right or wrong.

However, judging from this criterion, Taoism and Confucianism produced in China happen to meet Marx's criteria.

In fact, the truth is also this: most Chinese do not believe in ghosts, gods, God, or Allah.

So the Chinese have no faith at all?

Some.

What the ancient Chinese people really believed in was the unity of Taoism and Confucianism, which was morality.

However, comparatively speaking, it is unsound to just regard morality as a belief, and the harm caused by this unsoundness has accumulated over a long period of time.

Some people say that China's 300 years of backwardness in modern times is actually due to China's belief in 2,000 years of morality.

So, what is the essence of morality?

Some people believe that this should be understood in two aspects: Tao is the way, virtue is the organization, and therefore morality together is the development of the group's 'gang' and 'master' righteousness. Establishing a 'gang and developing' a gang is the "religion" that China has believed in for 2,000 years, and to put it bluntly, the belief of the Chinese is as simple as that.

But from today's point of view, a moral person is not a person with a truly perfect personality, and cannot even be called an upright person. Because morality is not the same as nobility, morality is not equal to world truth, and sometimes "morality" is actually gangs and gangs.

Those who don't know how to form gangs are actually people who have no "morality", people who don't understand the true essence of traditional Chinese culture, people who can't get along in China, and people who don't fit in.

However, only talking about the "moral danger" has harmed China for 2,000 years, so before Lu Xun bravely stood up and spoke out: the benevolence, righteousness and morality mentioned by Confucius and Mencius are the knife that kills people without seeing blood in China. Because this religion stifles all heresy, all changes, and all unsociability that led to China's advance, it also stifles what Confucius himself called "harmony without difference."

Confucius's own theories are also self-contradictory and empty, because he did not address the political system needed to "harmony without difference".

More specifically, it is a failure to solve the problem of how the core of a group, the king, the leader, should be formed and rotated. Think about it, how the core of an organization is created and evolved has not been solved, will the organization have a future?

Ye Chao believes that Lu Xun's other words are very reasonable.

Lu Xun did not deny Confucius and Mencius entirely, what he denied was an idea, a cultural way of thinking, not one or two people.

Lu Xun hopes to wake up the Chinese people, not just thinking about attacking traditional culture, let alone trying to defeat Confucius and Mencius to show off.

He is undoubtedly a fighter.

Actually, let's be honest. The times are evolving, and it would be foolish for people today to govern the world without changing the "sage" view of the ancients.

The saint, he is not a god, he only understands the world of his time, but he cannot understand the situation of the world today. So, is it appropriate to use his thinking without flexibility in today's world, it is definitely not appropriate.

Now it seems that Lu Xun's remarks are a bit radical, but this radicalism is needed at that time to wake up the "sleeping Chinese people". He believed that Confucius was just a student of Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao Te Ching, and that he was far from being as great as he imagined.

Confucius's doctrine is actually no longer on the table today, let alone his generations of disciples and grandchildren?

Ye Chao believes that his doctrine, for the time being, is only suitable for study as a classic.

True faith does not come from written books, but must come from the exploration of the wordless heavenly books, the origin of the universe. For a person who has the courage to explore the truth, everything in books is false and real, and it is better to believe in books than to have no books.

Practice leads to true knowledge, faith lies in truth, and truth lies in the latest understanding of the world. Faith comes from our understanding of the one and only world, and the quality of faith comes from the amount of our understanding of the truth of the world.

It is also said that there are levels of faith, from the lowest to the highest level of faith, in the following order:

Belief in the "law of the jungle".

This is a belief that the mind is still at the animal level, which is very primitive but also very marketable -- "the victor is the prince and the loser", "no poison is not a husband", "the weak eat the strong, the fittest survive," and so on are representatives of this belief.

"If you have money, you are a master, and if you have milk, you are a mother".

As long as the temptation is great enough, government officials can be corrupt and derelict in their duties, police officers can shelter criminals, intellectuals can reverse right and wrong, 'virgin' women can "go to the soup and go to the fire", loving couples can turn against each other, and siblings can kill each other.

This is quite depraved, much more selfish than the first faith.

"The poor are not moved, the rich are not lewd" faith.

This kind of believer values personality and dignity and attaches importance to reputation -- "do not eat food that comes from," "a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way," and "do not do unto others what you do not want to be done to yourself."

"Loyalty and filial piety" faith.

The whole set of Chinese Confucian teachings falls under this category of beliefs.

Faith for the family, for the people, for the country, and for the religion.

Uh, what's that...... It can be said that this is the belief of typical mortals......

Belief in the unity of man and nature.

This is a belief based on Taoism, including "being good to oneself", "doing nothing", "not wanting", etc., and this belief has a long history in China......

Belief in God and Buddha.

In this regard, the main beliefs are Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam.

Faith in the Zen temple of life.

The main theme is "walk in the way of God." This is based on the wisdom and scientific achievements of Jesus, Shakyamuni, Muhammad, Lao Tzu and the essence of the thoughts of human sages and sages, and the belief that ten thousand rivers return to the sea, which is considered by many people to be the highest level of faith and the limit of human wisdom.

Faith is antimatter, it is the navigator of the soul, and what kind of faith there is, what kind of life outcome will be.

As long as it is a human being, there will be faith, and without faith, it is just a "dog" animal.

However, there is faith, in fact, it is just a dog, don't you see what Lao Tzu said in the "Tao Te Ching", heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are dogs.

But a dog with faith is, after all, much better than a dog without faith.

A person of faith has a backbone in his behavior and behavior......

People need faith to live, and any faith is better than nothing, and of course, pious faith that needs to have religious feelings is the choice of ordinary people.

Most people, with some religious feelings, are actually good.

Whether people have religious feelings or not is completely different, and if they have a little religious feelings, they will live a down-to-earth, down-to-earth, honest, honest, peaceful, tranquil, abundant, calm, and detached life.

If people do not have a little religious feelings, they will live in a hurry, impetuousness, anxiety, worry, fear, suspicion and prevention everywhere, always be vigilant, and the heart is not peaceful, such as sitting on pins and needles, or complacent and arrogant, bluffing, and feeling that they have not met talents, and feel that the world is uneven, in short, they cannot obtain the peace and tranquility in their hearts.