Monasticism and Spiritual Practice (II)
Comparing Chinese and Western cultures, it is really, very interestingly, and it seems that they represent two completely different evolutionary directions of human beings.
Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Boxing and Martial Arts, Oil Painting and Chinese Painting, Western and Chinese Food, Stone Castle and Civil Garden, Bodybuilding and Cultivation, Alphabet and Chinese, Western and Folk Music, Science and Chinese Studies, Suits and Robes, Diamonds and Jade, Coke and Tea, Bread and Steamed Buns...... Wait a minute.
The disagreement is manifested in the Word. The former is more man-made, and it is difficult to understand the latter, yes, yes, and the latter is more natural and can fully accommodate the former.
The former is more like cultivation, and the latter is more like monasticism.
Chinese painting is far less like Western painting, Western painting can be painted like a photo, and Chinese painting rarely pursues the image of painting, what you want is to do as you like, and it is best to draw artistic conception. What impressionism, fauvism, avant-garde, and nondescript foreigners have come up with. Chinese architecture, first of all, is Kanyu feng shui, garden layout, the British and French troops ran into the Old Summer Palace, once wondered if this was the imperial palace, it was all natural landscapes, and there were actually farmhouses.
Where to find nature now? The cities and villages have been changed, and modern civilization is dominated by the West, and its essence is selfish plunder, which has caused great damage to the natural environment, which is incompatible with the traditional Chinese idea of the unity of heaven and man.
Actually, a lot of arguments are boring. For example, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are debating a lot. I can only snicker to myself, what they say about Western medicine and Chinese medicine is pure nonsense. Now it is equivalent to classifying the newly developed medical theories, technologies, devices, and drugs in the modern world as Western medicine. Classifying the ancient as traditional Chinese medicine, that is, modern medicine is too uncompromising, and the understanding of the human body has not made much progress in the past hundred years, and the disadvantages of traditional Chinese medicine are not very obvious. As everyone knows, ancient Chinese medicine has always been the leader, and it used to be said that medical skills are not good, and they all said: You are a Mongolian doctor. The so-called Mongolian doctor used to be Western medicine. The pulse diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine is the most scientific diagnosis technique in ancient times, and now it is of course more accurate to measure blood pressure and heartbeat. Traditional Chinese medicine was the first to perform anesthetic surgery, the first to dissect the human body, the first to do vaccines, and the first to do sanitation and disinfection....... and now it has become Western medicine. In fact, there is nothing to oppose between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and it should be called the combination of ancient and modern medicine.
There are also martial arts. Medical skills and martial arts embody the supernatural powers of monks. Ancient gods and modern masters like to play magic. Martial arts are now ruined, and have become a grip to humiliate traditions, and Tai Chi masters have become a laughing stock. Tai Chi is the top boxing method, because the only practice is slow, slow is more difficult than fast, which is determined by the sense of completion, which will be analyzed in the later chapters. In Chinese martial arts, the inner fist far surpasses the outer fist, the former can reach the Dao realm after practice, and the latter can become a killer at most.
Martial arts can be divided into battlefield fighting and folk self-defense brawls. The disadvantages on the battlefield and the disadvantages of resisting the government can only be made up for through military training. Looking at the countries of the world, there is only one company that can develop martial arts technology to such a point. There are so many patterns that it can be similar to Chinese food. There are hundreds and thousands of schools inherited in the rivers and lakes, almost all-encompassing. Who wants to say that the Chinese have no spirit of resistance, are not martial, and directly dig out the heart of a black tiger and pry the yin legs.
The great development of martial arts was in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the disadvantages of this period were too great.
Because the guns appeared. The first invasion of the British and French forces, which was still an arquebus, did not work when it rained, and was almost surrounded and annihilated by the peasants in Sanyuanli, Guangzhou, with hoes and dung forks. But when you keep in formation and deal with the Qing army like a weak chicken, you will be invincible all the way. Broadswords and spears can't be stabbed, don't believe you compare them yourself. The broadsword team during the anti-Japanese period can touch the camp at night, and the 30 army stabbing of devils on the battlefield really requires extremely high martial arts. With the sick man-like constitution of the Chinese at that time, it was indeed too difficult.
The martial arts that were killed in the bloody rain have now lost their practicality, and we can only appreciate their style from martial arts fantasy novels.
The gods of the West and the immortals of China are two species, one with wings on his back and flying in the sky, how real; One soars through the clouds and fog, and walks against the wind.
The former developed scientific and technological civilization, and the latter developed, ahem, fortune telling, feng shui, and metaphysics. But the great scientists have said that the end of science is theology. Therefore, the first fat is not called fat, and then the fat collapses the kang, and in the future, maybe cultivating immortals is the right way.
Hearing this, Fan Ren was already impatient, are you sure you are talking about cultivating immortals? You are more Tang Seng than Tang Seng.
Cultivating immortals is evolution, you don't really think that you can evolve by getting a mobile phone, right? Evolution and evolution depend on culture, cultivating immortal culture, do you understand?
Culture is the foundation of personal quality, cultural self-confidence is indispensable for cultivating immortals, self-confidence is the premise of everything, but if there is a trace of doubt about the self, the seeds of ambiguity will be planted in the heart, and the inferiority complex in the heart will be obscene, and the appearance will be obscene, and the possibility of entering the Tao realm will be lost.
Of course, there are dross in traditional culture, especially the backwardness in recent centuries, and the comprehensive smear in recent decades, so that the descendants of the dragon have almost lost their cultural self-confidence, including the right to speak. We vigorously introduced and promoted the international bestseller "A Brief History of Mankind", and the Chinese only gave less than two pages, and the club was about to be expelled.
In this environment, personal self-confidence is particularly valuable and is the foundation of cultivation.
People are not confident, nothing can be accomplished, not to mention such a big topic as cultivation, which requires the Tao to be clear, "to eliminate the mysteries, can be flawless", as mentioned earlier, faith is the source of willpower, in the issue of self-confidence, there is no room for the slightest flaw.
Doesn't it mean that humility benefits and is full of losses? Self-confidence is not blind self-confidence, let alone arrogance, confident people will be more modest, because with this confidence, unconfident people will go to publicity.
Self-confidence does not come out of thin air, it is based on spiritual achievements, and it needs the blessing of the country's national and cultural bloodlines. Absolute self-confidence requires not only absolute strength, but also absolute morality. If there is a deficit in virtue, there will be a deficiency in the Taoist heart.
Fan Ren, it's not easy to be a good person. Why can't good people fight bad people, because good people talk about the law, and bad people can do whatever it takes. Of course, in a country with sound laws, bad people can't take any advantage, not to mention the existence of retribution.
Fan Ren's eyes lit up: Is there really retribution in this world?
Lao Sun's eyes wandered and he changed the subject.
How to quickly adapt to an unfamiliar environment? Be one of them.
A person's speech and demeanor can be in line with the way of heaven, which is the charm.
Pretty men and women are of course popular, but even more popular are the same kind of people who smell the same, and those who are unconventional are always the object of exclusion.
How to please a person? Just try to get along with him. Note: Convergence is not a sycophant, but the effect is far more than a sycophant. Convergence is not just about agreeing, it's about imitating each other's voices, appearances, and mannerisms. It's strange if the other party doesn't see you as a confidant.
The easiest people in a crowd are the ones who make others feel safest. Leaders are popular and provide the greatest sense of security. If you can share the joys and sorrows with your subordinates, then you will be blessed with double blessings, and you will gain countless loyal fans.
Why are cats and dogs pampered? Because cats and dogs can accompany and never object to their owners.
Why are flowers and trees pleasing to the eye? Flowers and plants are natural objects, which are more in line with the way of heaven than geometric buildings.
How to appreciate a tree? Imagine yourself as a tree.
How to appreciate a strange stone and imagine yourself as a stone.
The ego doesn't like convergence. What I like is to show off my personality.
Young people who have just entered the society should be restrained. Middle-aged people should be tolerant when their ideals are frustrated. The elderly have been trained with ease, and they know their fate.
The Mandate of Heaven is the Laws of Nature, and the ultimate of cultivation is the unity of Heaven and Man.
Cultivation is to seek happiness from external materials, and cultivation is to seek happiness from the heart.
Fan Ren's struggle, seeking both internally and externally, also complement each other. A person's achievement, that is, wealth, status, and honor, is also reflected in health, happiness, and longevity. The quality of life is like drinking ice water, knowing whether it is warm or cold.
I still feel that I can't solve the headache, and it seems that a link is missing. Asceticism is also a form of cultivation, the principle of which is not yet clear. Is it by embracing suffering, enduring suffering, detaching suffering, and thus attaining selflessness? The purpose of one's cultivation is not to be happier, but to be more sober, that is, to be more quiet. Happiness is only a superficial level of gain. Happiness and pain are two sides of the same coin, a symbiosis that transforms into each other, pain and happiness.
Through meditation, you are bringing your consciousness closer to the original spirit. If you are as ignorant as a baby, you will be able to realize the primordial spirit, and then your extraordinary sense of the body and the world are rooted in this
Cultivation and cultivation is the only way to go to Elysium, this road is by no means easy to walk, there are many divergent paths along the way, and there are many corpses, Fan Ren, Fan Ren, Fan Ren! What are you running?
The original god left me, but what a helpless!