Chapter 235: Xu Lingti asked: The official usurped the gods

said Yiming, Yiming arrived, and brought an unfamiliar oil bottle.

"Xu Lingti? Why don't you study medicine anymore? ”

Li Xi was very surprised, although this guy's name was not as big as Ye Tianshi, he was also a well-known miracle doctor, but how could he be fooled by Yiming Lao Dao and become a disciple of his Heavenly Saint Sect.

"I was born late and got a glimpse of the Dao Gate here with Elder Yiming, but many joints are still unclear, listen to the elder, Li ...... The general secretary is the one who teaches the Tao, and he specially asks the elders to introduce him to solve the confusion of his later life. ”

Xu Lingti's eyes kept rolling, and he was very surprised, how could this unmasked big man know that he was originally going to study medicine? Well, it seems that he really knows the way of heaven, and he doesn't even need to pinch his fingers to count.

Yes, the miracle doctor is gone, and there is one more magic stick.

Li Xi secretly sighed, he is really a stick in history, history has changed a lot.

But that's good, Xu Ling's womb is a genius, let's see if he can add some flesh and blood to the Divine Dao.

"I just know the bits and pieces, and I don't have the whole picture, so I don't dare to explain the doubts, let's refer to it together."

He is very modest, and when it comes to learning, Xu Lingfei learned the Book of Changes and learned the Tao Te Ching, which is deeper than his attainments.

Xu Lingti didn't learn too specific things in Yiming Lao Dao, after all, Lao Dao was born in the wild road, and he was still a white-headed thief thirty years ago, and the dry goods in his stomach were the same set on the Taoist Dragon and Tiger Sect. But the "Way of God" mentioned by Yiming contained many things, which made Xu Lingti see an unprecedented magnificent door, which made him excited.

So he also had a lot of questions, Li Xi originally did it casually, but later he had to concentrate on dealing with it. Unconsciously, there were a lot of people in the grass hall, Duan Hongshi came, Fan Jin came, Liu Xingchun and Gu Xiyi came, and Wu Ya Jia Hao also came. Li Xi's three daughters-in-law also shrank in the inner room of the hall, listening to this somewhat sermon-like conversation.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of this time to win the hearts of the people, and the specific measure was to enrich the theory of the Divine Way, and began to fool those intellectuals who were active in their minds and unwilling to be restrained, and spread to all aspects of the power he controlled. Now taking advantage of Xu Lingti's outsider to ask, it is just time to sort out the things of God's Dao.

Xu Lingti came up and asked, why does this God's way separate the way of heaven from humanity?

This is what Li Xi had debated with Duan Hongshi earlier, and Dong Zhongshu wrote "Spring and Autumn Dew", which turned the way of heaven into humanity, and the humanity of the three outlines and five constants is the way of heaven. Although Xu Lingti did not go deep into science, this set of things has been precipitated over the generations, and he can't break it, which is also his biggest doubt. However, it can be seen from this that he is studious, not rotten. changed to another Confucian student, such as Fan Jin in the past, and he was about to fork his waist and shout: "Duh! Thou art the wickedness of the Regime! ”

This is the biggest difference between Catholicism and Confucianism, to be precise, the official Confucianism under Dong Zhongshu, in terms of ideological foundation.

For this, Li Xi was deeply emotional.

Why does he mention the way of heaven at every turn, and many of the truths he says are under the guise of heaven, with a very heavy atmosphere of mysticism. The reason is that, in Li Shi's view, under the confinement of Confucianism, especially after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, and further turned Huaxia into a sauce vat with science. The Chinese people have also been mentally and spiritually broken, and they no longer have faith. Subsequently, it was eroded little by little by the so-called "Western Studies" and lost the foundation of Chinese civilization. 【1】

The Chinese people have faith, since ancient times, they believe in a personality god, that is, God, although this belief is somewhat vague, scattered in all kinds of thoughts, and then suffered by the poisonous hands of Confucianism and science, but three hundred years later, there are still fragments left.

What is the connection between faith and Li Shi's affairs?

Faith is to put people in the right place, and faith comes from people's fear of the unknowable. The fact is very simple, people are always small in the world, and everyone has different degrees of self-knowledge. Even in the untrustworthy society of Li Xian's previous life, the "character problems" and "luck" that people often mentioned on their lips are actually the tip of the iceberg of faith.

Li Xi is very grateful to his teacher when he was a journalist, and he is also grateful to the unknown Confucian scholars he met during his interviews. The former uses his decades of personal experience to tell about the horrors of the untrustworthy society, while the latter profoundly analyzes his reflections on Confucianism with Li Shi. The two sides got together, so that when Li Shi communicated with Duan Hongshi, he had a deep understanding of faith.

The unbelieving society, the unbelieving mind, denies the unknowable, and opposes the unknowability in a personal God. The unbelievers always believe that there is a perfect interpretation of everything that can be grasped by oneself and self-proclaimed gods.

This ideological foundation represents a kind of longing of man, and from another point of view, it is not an interpretation of the desire to revere the Divine and hold extraordinary power. But the problem is that when the unbeliever actually does it, he takes his wish as a reality, and when he transforms the ongoing time into a complete one, what he holds in his hand can already perfectly interpret everything, and he himself is already God and God.

Because of the lack of faith, because the desire is taken as reality, the official Confucianism and even the Manchu Qing Dynasty science, resting on their laurels, the atmosphere of arrogance is incomparably thick, and finally pickled Huaxia into a sauce jar.

In order to break this sauce vat and reverse the fate of Huaxia falling into the abyss, in terms of ideology, the core work is to save this faith.

And this work must first start from anti-official Confucianism and science. The heavens of Huaxia were first usurped by the official Confucianism who was initiated by Dong Zhongshu, and then the unknowable awe was further usurped by the science of science, both of which were enemies.

"This question, there are no shocking words, it is difficult to clear, can you listen to it?"

Li Xian asked Xu Lingti, he was still a little worried, Xu Lingti, like him, was also a showman, if his thoughts were still imprisoned in the Four Books and Five Classics, he would play the piano to the cow.

Xu Lingti's eyes were dripping, and he nodded solemnly.

"This, we have to start with the official Confucian, well, it is Dong Zhongshu's set......"

Li Shi said that whether God has a will or not, it is something that we mortals cannot know, and it is okay to be willing to look at it from the heavenly principles without will, that is, the way of heaven, and if you are willing to look at it with a god with a will, these two are just different angles.

This statement Xu Lingti admits that Confucianism believes in Buddhism, and there is really no contradiction between this.

Li Xi continued, but the official Confucian, on the one hand, admitted that God is a god with will, and on the other hand, usurped the surname of God in God with humanity. From this point of view, the essence of official Confucianism is hypocritical, at least before Dong Zhongshu, Taoism "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs", Confucianism does not recognize, the origin of Confucianism, only on the humanity of the bloodline patriarchy, and at the same time believes that this humanity is the way of heaven, and does not erect the god of heaven.

It can be seen that at least in China during the Qin and Han dynasties, the recognition of the divine surname of God was the mainstream thought. Dong Zhongshu respects Confucianism, and this layer of skin must also be approved.

"Look at what "Spring and Autumn Dew" says......"

Li Xi began to analyze the book, which was not something he knew, but was brought from Duan Hongshi.

As the "Spring and Autumn Dew", which established the theory of the induction of heaven and man and the unity of heaven and man, compares man to heaven, which is a typical embodiment of Confucianism, to be precise, the arrogance of officials and Confucianism starting from Dong Zhongshu, and the cutting of heaven and man in order to meet the needs of imperial rule. The twisted theory is very level, first of all, it emphasizes the supreme authority of God, saying that God has a will, and Balabala, just like Christ Jesus, is omnipotent, omniscient, and only sees this, and really thinks that he has read the Bible.

But then Dong Zhongshu's pen turned, God created man according to his own shape, and man is the same as the structure of God, because of yin and yang, five elements, therefore, man is a small sky, and humanity embodies the way of heaven. When people act happily, they will be auspicious, and if they provoke the anger of heaven, they will be punished. At this point, Dong Zhongshu used people to drop the ceiling, and also stuffed in the hierarchical theory of human surnames with the flavor of Legalism, and the argumentation methods used were all far-fetched and mystical.

Later generations commented that Dong Zhongshu's theory of heaven and man induction was "theological idealism", which was deceived by him. First admit the surname of the god of heaven, because everyone recognizes it, and he has to admit it. But after that, he used the unity of heaven and man and the private goods of heaven and man induction to Li Daitao to stiffen. Rub the divine surname of God with the bloodline patriarchal method, frame it with the Three Platforms and Five Constants, and directly spell out the connections and activities between people with the Three Platforms and Five Constants, without mentioning the Heavens, and people do not need to communicate with the Heavens, because the worldly things of the Three Platforms and the Five Constants are communicating with the Heavens and practicing the "Heavenly Dao". From this, a pyramid was built to lead to the king on high, called the Son of Heaven, and only the Son of Heaven could communicate with the Heavens. Everything is to the world, how can there ever be anything outside the world, what is this called theology?

Li Xian spoke so "spicy", Xu Lingti actually just listened quietly. It's no wonder that "Spring and Autumn Dew" is only a layer of skin left after a few teenagers, everyone knows that it is not a good product, but heaven and man feel that this set of things is too deeply imprisoned, and it is difficult to get out, and you have to rely on it to do learning intentionally or unintentionally.

Dong Zhongshu made this set of things for Confucianism at the beginning, and Confucianism itself, including scholars of science, knew the essence of this thing. The theory of the unity of heaven and man and the induction of heaven and man, in later generations of Confucianism, basically did not take it seriously, at least they scoffed at Dong Zhongshu's arguments, and had their own different arguments. But the conclusion is that Confucianism recognizes, and this layer of skin is indeed steady, relying on the means of attachment and superstition, it can fool the vast majority of uneducated people, and it has become the skin of the dynasties, and has been thrown into the part of "etiquette", which has affected many levels, what feng shui, Chinese medicine, have been affected by this layer of skin.

The god of heaven of the Chinese people, the surname of the god was usurped like this. Because humanity is the way of heaven, and believing in the Three Principles and Five Constants is believing in God, why? Heaven and man are one, and heaven and man are inductive. Therefore, don't believe in God, women believe in their husbands, and husbands are wives, and this "outline" is interpreted as the law, which is actually similar to people's belief in God, courtiers believe in kings, and kings believe in themselves, which is believing in God.

As for the five constants, there are many sayings, and the mainstream is benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith. From the perspective of the official Confucian usurpation of God, the first "benevolence", benevolence is human beings, which means that faith must fall on people, not to care about heaven. The second "righteousness", righteousness is the outline, the flow of faith cannot be reversed, the small righteousness of the family is the father and son, and the righteousness of the country is the monarch and the minister. "Li" is the ritual, from what to wear to how to call it, there is a set of rules in all aspects, just like the rules of reciting the Buddha's teachings, this letter must have a complete set of external presentations. Wisdom is to say, sometimes it is difficult to match humanity and heaven, it is not that humanity is different from heaven, but that you are not smart enough to speak mellowly. Since humanity is the way of heaven, then people must be "true", otherwise how can they reflect the truth of God?

From a theological point of view, the official Confucian's means of usurping the gods are very sharp, using the unity of heaven and man, the induction of Li Dai Taozhuang, and then the use of the three outlines and five constants to melt the surname of God, mixed with humanity, the god of heaven of the Chinese people, since the official Confucianism became the main body of thought, was cut off from the surname of God.

"Confucianism seems to be unreligious, and it was always unclear before, but now it seems that it is a freak after the usurpation of God."

Xu Lingti didn't have a good impression of the official Confucian, and after listening to Li Shi's words, he had his own feelings.

(To be continued)