Chapter 284: Humanity and Divinity
Wu Wei noticed that religious scriptures have remained unchanged for thousands of years, but practitioners have obtained a progressive and pleasant experience through thousands of repetitions of memorization and silent recitation. Paul, the foremost missionary of Christianity, experienced firsthand the joy and joy of God's calling. Religious scriptures involve the origin of life and the root of life, and they can always bring people a long-lasting and new joyful experience when read through the ages, unlike some popular high-sounding words, but they disappear without a trace like clouds of smoke when they are popular. Wu Wei confidently leads to the path of happiness and makes unremitting efforts to get close to God and the Buddha, which is a very risky self-effort, and in the process of this effort, he experiences continuous pleasure, and the continuous pleasurable experiences consolidate and strengthen his self-confidence. He derives pleasure from the development of his own divinity.
Wu Wei believes that in the past, our investigation of human beings often only focused on their human side, while the divine side of human beings was neglected. "Out of the gods" and "true gods" are a description of the divinity of man. The ability of human beings to understand and understand their own nature is their divinity. If there is no divinity in human beings, human self-confidence lacks a solid internal foundation, and human self-improvement is like being built on the sand, and the carefully constructed edifice of life will often collapse unexpectedly. When people universally develop and enhance this ability, and universally develop their own divinity, man himself becomes a god, and the social psychological and mass basis for the existence of external gods and religions disappears, and people can find a place of spiritual solace and establish the ultimate basis for their own actions, so that there is no longer a need for an external god. Being in reality and being regarded as entering a state of nothingness, thinking abstractly in the metaphysical spiritual world, and reaching a certain state of "concentration" is a state of human divinity. The divinity of man can also be explained as the otherworldly state that man has attained, the so-called state that cannot be attained by ordinary states. People's prayers and desires for future destiny, and some unreasonable mysterious experiences that occasionally appear, awaken people's strong spiritual needs. This kind of thinking has a close relationship with religion. If science is the revelation and expression of human nature. Religion is the revelation and expression of man's divinity, while cult is a distorted expression of man's divinity.
The three major religions of the world believe that man is a unity of human nature and divinity. Buddhism believes that all living beings have Buddha nature. As long as everyone breaks through this inner nature, the mind is a Buddha. The orthodox doctrine of Christianity holds that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three in one, and that the divine nature should be attached to the human nature. In Islam, the gift is given by Allah a priori, and everyone has it, so that Allah can be recognized. Confucianism also believes that everyone can be Yao Shun, affirming the unity of human nature and divinity. In real life, there is a subconscious religion. That is, in real life, people reduce suffering to mysterious fate, or reduce certain acts of disaster elimination and refuge to mysterious grounds that are difficult to understand. This will relieve people's mental pressure and nervousness on unpredictable factors, dissolve the anxiety of existence, and seek some kind of spiritual comfort. This can be said to be the rational basis for religious existence in a certain way.
The existence of religion contributes to the realization of the divinity of man. In daily life, from the perspective of credit, it is important to make a certain amount of promises and moderate commitments, and cannot make indiscriminate promises that exceed the ability to bear. However, in the teachings of religion, there is an infinite promise, a promise that people will be rescued when they encounter all kinds of difficulties, dangers, dangers, and desperate situations, and it is an unquestionable promise to be saved. in everyday life. People are always desperate to get help in times of trouble, but the promise of help from reality is always relatively limited. In real life, when encountering danger and predicament, enlightenment, admonition, and assistance from mentors and friends are extremely precious, but often the rescuer will be limited by a certain degree of commitment and taboo. In terms of assistance, he did not dare to say yes, but what he sought was to "do what he can" and "depending on the situation", so as to prevent his promise from becoming a burden for himself in the future. Avoid the reputation of being discredited by misusing promises. In the realm of religion, it is not subject to the taboo of daily commitments. Take the Bible, for example, as the crystallization of human wisdom. Design the various situations that people may encounter that urgently need to be promised to be saved, and God will invariably make a positive promise of help. It's a pure spiritual salvation. If salvation cannot be proved in this life, one can look forward to the next. In particular, the spiritual comforting and soothing effects of spiritual salvation and the effective spirit of resistance that it inspires, together with the changes in circumstances that may arise from a large number of contingencies, also strengthen the credibility of God's promise of salvation in a certain way. In other words, God only talks to the spirit of man, which is a metaphor for the spirit of salvation and indirectly achieves the role of practical salvation. The salvation of affliction is a temporary salvation, and the spiritual salvation is the salvation of a lifetime.
From the point of view of the purely spiritual salvation function of religion, it has the effect of invigorating people's spirit, restoring people's spirit, and enhancing people's spirit of struggle, and has a positive effect on realizing the salvation of reality. For example, if a patient with terminal cancer receives a promise from an authoritative doctor that he will be cured, it will stimulate his spirit of fighting against the incurable disease, so as to effectively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, and often receive unexpected miraculous results. In the story of Robinson, written by Zhou Fu, the exiled Robinson has a longing and strong desire to be saved and is in a state of despair for a long time, and in this case, the spiritual salvation effect of the affirmative promise of God's salvation from the Bible is undoubtedly enormous. In reality, it is impossible to have a situation where you will encounter salvation no matter what kind of danger you encounter, and it is impossible to have your own "benefactor" to talk to you and save you spiritually every time you encounter a crisis, so for believers, it is only in the realm of pure spirituality that unreality can seek the path of religion to be realized, and to realize the omniscient and omnipotent God who is everywhere and everywhere. If we are not satisfied with or find it difficult to establish religious beliefs, but to return to reality for spiritual salvation, we must not be satisfied with a life of conformity, nor with the relief of daily suffering, but should go beyond the worldly meaning of life and seek and establish some noble goal.
The saving effect of Christianity on man is to establish in the human mind the realization of the consciousness of sin
Let people be saved from sinful thoughts themselves, and use this as the fundamental yardstick, listen to God's teachings, and not do things that are sorry for God. In real life, a sense of morality is truly established. It is very difficult to achieve the formation of a sense of guilt, and then the self-discipline and restraint of morality. Judging from the personal experience of the criminals, only when the criminals are deeply aware of and experience the danger of their crimes and have a sense of guilt, can they be freed from the state of sin, have a painful heart of remorse, release huge psychological pressure, and feel extremely relaxed in their hearts. In the words of many awakened criminals, the feeling of true transformation is not applicable in terms of rebirth. It is best described as resurrection from the dead, and the expression xiàn is bitter weeping, and the expression xiàn without weeping is seen as not achieving true transformation. Christianity can inject the idea of sin into people before they have sinned in their preconceived notions, forming an inner standard that governs people's thoughts and behaviors, which can be used as a yardstick for reference in real life. Atheists, on the other hand, need to experience, learn, and think in real life, and gradually form more perfect moral and other standards. Human soundness refers not only to the richness and extensiveness of one's personal experience and the sufficiency of one's inner experience. Moreover, it contains a set of rules and beliefs for survival involving all fields and aspects of life, which are gradually formed and established in this process. The concept of religion is not a substitute for this first-hand process and the spiritual results that are formed accordingly. Religion is made up of a ready-made set of rituals and beliefs, which from the outset requires the believer to treat even the most simple canons and creeds strictly, seriously, and reverently, without violating the slightest bit, and to give nobility to prayer. In the act of accumulating over time, thousands of times, and endlessly repeating rituals. Prove the integrity and steadfastness of your faith. This belief can withstand a severe test. Any factor that may impact or weaken this belief will be effectively rejected.
The steadfastness of some religious believers actually begins with physical self-control, from eating and drinking
of strict selection and moderation. Peace of mind begins with the restraint of carnal desires. Abstinence has the power to protect the body and mind. This honesty that is faithful to the tenets of the canon has acquired a personified character, which helps to foster a sense of credibility that is so much needed in the business world. For some non-believers. Whether speaking or acting, he often shows a lack of self-restraint and a lack of seriousness towards his words and actions. There are also many people who are absorbed in their daily lives. I don't think about anything like value. The direct needs of life, such as clothing, food, shelter and transportation, guide their lives. However, if there is a lack of a certain pursuit, a laissez-faire attitude towards life, even if it is a very simple request to do what can be done, it is not possible. Anyone who has a certain spiritual pursuit, as long as it is a pursuit that is a little higher than reality, all reflect a strict and serious attitude towards their words and deeds, and this strict and serious behavior itself will gradually generate an experience of spiritual purification. "No one is perfect, no one is perfect", which shows that ordinary people living in reality can hardly achieve the realm of perfection even if they use their own efforts. However, if ordinary people in reality hold the belief that "gold should be pure and people must be perfect", fulfill it with religious piety, and take everything seriously, they can also achieve the state of "perfect people and true people" that can be achieved through the strengthening of religious rituals, and the divine nature of human beings can be perfectly realized.
Mysterious, mysterious, divine and hidden, secret but not revealed. The secrecy of God shows that God is a spirit, belongs to the spirit, and truly restricts human behavior. The mystique of the gods sometimes puts religion and science in opposition to each other, making people feel that there is religious knowledge outside of scientific knowledge. The existence of religious phenomena reflects a certain internal connection between the spiritual world and the existence of thinking activities in a certain way. The existence of religious phenomena should not be attributed to the result of low mental capacity and low level of psychological evolution, but should be followed and explored to explore some internal connection between the existence of the spiritual world.
Christianity is the communication between God and man, and the servant is used as the intermediary between God and man. God is invisible, intangible, inaudible, and inaudible, and God has no physical reality, so how can he teach people to be trustworthy? Christianity solves and breaks through the most incredible hurdles, making God credible through the existence of Jesus. The credible basis of reality is the existence of people who need to be liberated from suffering and suffering. Religion is a spiritual higher level of liberation. God designs his self-image, and in order to make people believe, he specially sets up a situation of alien existence, performs miracles, and performs magic tricks, and the heart of the alien is hardened and finally conquered. How to dispel people's doubts about the existence of God? This is the unavoidable question of establishing faith, and it is also a question of how to make faith in God the only way out for the soul. In the Old Testament, it is said that God is not to be seen, but if he is seen, he who is seen will die. This clozes the mind of seeing God, or the curse of doubts, which breeds fear. Temper your mind, practice penance, and don't forget the gods. Faith brings blessing, and unbelief leads to misfortune. How do you sublimate a momentary thought into an eternal belief? In the face of the repeated vacillation and wandering of believers, the repeated rescues and repeated evils and repeated relinquishes show that the road of firm faith has gone through ups and downs, and only then can we finally reach the sacred and inviolable realm of the soul. Sin came from Adam, and grace came from Jesus. Jesus is God's renunciation for the multitude, and he is moved by righteousness. Through the resurrection of Christ, the body disappears, and the spirit acquires eternal existence, which becomes the basis of faith.
Jesus did not rely on the miracles of the Old Testament, but moved the believers with his dedication to the crucifixion, and his sincerity, knowledge, affection, and courage touched people. Sincerity comes first, love your neighbor as yourself, and endure to the end and you will be saved. Aristotle, in his science of persuasion, described three means of convincing. They are logical means, emotional means, and reputation means. Christianity is the unity of three means to overcome the obstacle of spiritual existence. After Jesus, preaching became a profession. The preachers take a counter-argumentative approach to implant faith in God in the faith. The preachers deliberately prevent the believers from fearing God, proposing the counter-argument that the wicked will be happy all their lives, and the good will be miserable all their lives. Why, then, doesn't God bring the wicked themselves to their own fulfillment? How to resolve the inherent contradiction that the wicked should not be recompensed for evil and the good should not be rewarded? Since God is omniscient and omnipotent, why can't this contradiction be resolved? Tong guò makes a counter-argument. The preacher is clearly telling the people that God punishes people with suffering in order to save their lives, and is to prove the sincerity of their state of mind in the midst of suffering.
Within the scope of the examination of survival consciousness, the pressure of survival is generated. How do you build some kind of ultimate spiritual support to achieve spiritual security? Is there such a solid spiritual factor in the consciousness system that can be used as a spiritual support? In the process of survival, people will be subjected to this pressure for a long time or even for life, and will need to have a spirit of perseverance and resistance, regardless of the secularization that it produces. This kind of spirit will become an eternal existence, eternal need, is a kind of "spiritual hard core" formed through the adjustment, accumulation and accumulation of the spiritual world, is derived from the rational consciousness of the existence of the market economy, and is a psychological response to the high recognition of the market economy. The market economy is an economy based on the rule of law, an economy of competition, and an economy of credibility based on morality. In the bipolar structure of the antagonism between the existence of human beings and the existence of the market economy, only by relying on the spirit of resistance can we seek spiritual peace and establish the inner support of the consciousness of survival. If we are not looking for some kind of ultimate and mystical ground in the realm of religion, but if we strip away the cloak of mystification and return it to its original appearance, we must seek a place of spiritual tranquility in the specific structure of the existence of the market economy.
In the consciousness of the Chinese people, there is a lack of consciousness of original sin in the minds of Westerners, so that suffering loses the meaning of salvation proof. In the secularized sense, suffering is endowed with a last resort, a way to achieve a certain goal in life, lacking the ultimate meaning of the otherworldly like that of Westerners. When it is confirmed that the goal of life is difficult to achieve, suffering becomes a senseless sacrifice, a kind of torture, and an extremely unbearable thing. If the learning goal is not reached, the motivation for learning will easily disappear.
The universalization of the consciousness of survival is the inevitable product and inevitable expression of the development of the market economy to a certain stage, and everyone bears pressure and even suffering, and has the legitimacy of its existence, "as it should be." This is a psychological mechanism of "must be so" identity. "The market economy is a society that does not make people angry, and if you want to be angry, you will be angry with yourself." But we should not bear it passively, but actively fight it.
Even if we are aware of the existence of tragedy, and even the causes of tragedy, can we completely avoid tragedy? If the occurrence of tragic existence cannot be effectively avoided, will this exacerbate and deepen people's spiritual and spiritual suffering, and will the value of human life slip into a futile struggle, thus aggravating the tragic feeling? In fact, the tragedy of tragedy does not lie in ignorance of the occurrence of tragedy, or in knowing but helplessness, but in mistaking tragedy for comedy. This is a tragedy that must happen, a tragedy that must be so, a tragic fate, a tragedy of fate. Character tragedy is a tragedy caused by the fact that personality factors are not tolerated by society and fall into the predicament of isolation and helplessness. Tragic existences such as suffering and suffering are inevitable, but human efforts are of great value in alleviating and alleviating tragic suffering. Real life is different from literature and art, and the achievements of tragic art creation in literature can bring people high-level artistic enjoyment, while in real life, people's efforts are precisely to prevent and avoid the occurrence of tragedy, and how to reduce and shorten tragic losses after tragedy.
The history of human tragedy proves that the development of human intellect and reason, whether facing the natural world, human society itself, or even facing human individuals, still shows the limitations and vulnerabilities of human beings in conquering nature, society, and human individual behavior. What human beings can do is to reduce the risk and the disaster as much as possible by reducing the negligence and sin. This means that the actions of human beings and their consequences are always known and controlled. Unfortunately, to achieve this, it is necessary to attain the state of self-knowledge, self-knowledge, and omniscience, which is almost impossible in real social life. Regardless of the limitations of human cognitive capabilities, the asymmetry of information and the barriers of interests between different people and groups can also make it difficult for people to reach a consensus on the same event and take joint action. What's more, the objects and things that people manipulate have their own laws of activity, and people often have only partial and limited control over them.
Social processes have a natural dissipating power for the existence of tragedy. If we don't pay attention, don't pay attention, don't think, or we are very forgetful, no matter how much social change, social upheaval, and scale of social suffering, suffering, and destruction are brought about, the social process will soon return to calm without leaving a trace, as if nothing had happened, and everything will be deposited as a thing of the past. The reason why we pay attention, pay attention, remember and think about tragedy is to effectively prevent tragedy from happening. (To be continued......)