An unrelated chapter of life and death
In fact, many people may be like me, always trying to find the reason why people exist, the life and death of people, and the world after death.
I remember when I was very young, my grandmother always loved to watch ghost movies, and loved to go to people's funeral places to listen to the trumpet; I didn't understand why, I was just curious, and in the same way, curiosity drove me to go with me.
At that time, the feeling that ghost movies gave me was simple, terrifying, someone was going to die, someone was going to be rescued, and someone might come to save them; The room reverberated with the sound of ghosts, and the people were frightened and ran around, and let out hoarse howls incessantly, and finally, there was a miserable, bitter wail that penetrated into the bones.
The funeral is the same, a shed with the entire army green flannel cloth built into the top and three sides, the other side faces the guests, the first thing to see on both sides must be neat, towering wreaths, and then go to carefully distinguish, and suddenly find that under the wreath, next to the green shed, one side is a car pulled by the ox, led by auspiciousness and Ruyi, and the furnishings on the other side can no longer be remembered, because my eyes are all hooked by the bull's head and auspicious Ruyi's eyes, and then a cold sweat.
I don't know if you have ever felt the same way, when you stand in front of the spirit shed, no matter how many people are separated between you and the spirit shed, the eyes of the ox, the auspicious and wishful eyes are all staring at you, even if it is a dark night, they still emit a cold light, when you look at them, it is like being captured by the soul, fear, unable to move.
When the time came, the people who did the white things sounded the horn on time, and it was two or three days in a row, endlessly.
Three days later, you get up early, but you have already found that everyone has taken care of all traces one step ahead of you and disappeared quietly; All that was left was a brazier that was either burning, or already full of ashes, and a blank sheet of paper.
I used to think again and again, why do people die? Isn't that the saddest thing that ever happened? The child endured the pain of the loss of his loved ones, and the deceased still had a lot to do, and he had not had time to tell the child what he wanted to say, but with the memories of the last period of time, he was either painful or passed away peacefully.
Is there really no way to give them eternal life, even if it's just a few more years?
I like physics, I like late nights, because physics makes me understand the world better; The late night made me deeper, more insignificant, and aroused my desire to explore life.
I began to try to interpret life in various ways, to interpret life and death: scientific, superstitious, and self-imaginary.
I was once obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism, and I still have a fervent desire for religion to this day. This is not superstition, a rational analysis of the meaning behind religion will find that "science is human beings grasp and use the natural world, and religion better interprets the world".
I have always been a dialectical person, and even some of the dialectical ones are pathological in the eyes of the world.
In the past, I often held a thick book of "Encyclopedia of the Universe", or "A Brief History of Me" and "A Brief History of Time", and the desire for physics knowledge was far beyond the filling of textbooks. Of course, I am a liberal arts student, but also an art student, and at this moment I still dare to talk about physics without shame only because I only got the last question wrong in the physics paper in the high school diploma exam (the so-called final level exam), of course, this is not a glorious thing, I believe that there are many people with perfect scores, but this is always my confidence, maybe I have no more evidence to get my hands on except it.
The sky was painted with blue flats, and the thin clouds concealed the white moonlight mixed with a small amount of lemon yellow, and the sparkling stars scattered around. Like a butterfly, the boy quietly folded his wings and looked thoughtfully at the sky.
Time will always have an adequate answer for those who do not run out of exploration.
It's been seventeen or eighteen years since I can remember; In these short and long seventeen or eighteen years, I have carefully observed every move of each person, even if it is a micro-expression; I listened attentively to everyone's every word, even the last words.
Albert Einstein wrote at the beginning of his theory of relativity that all physical theories are falsifiable, but no evidence has been found at this stage. Of course, I agree, I don't think that a few Arabic numerals can solve the mysteries of this world by mathematical modeling alone, and from an objective point of view, I don't think that from the cognition of human subjects, the interference of subjective factors can be asked in judgment; Therefore, in any case, science only gives people a more convenient and clearer interpretation and application of subjective objective phenomena that people observe or use with certain tools or means at a certain stage.
And religion, Taoism says: Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to two rituals, two rituals give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip; This is naïve materialism; Buddhism says: Nuwa created man, there are gods in the west to rule the six worlds, and people are reincarnated in life and death; This is objective idealism; Of course, we ask, where does "Wuji" come from? Why? Where do the "gods" come from? Why?
This kind of question is inherently emotional, and I don't think any adult would ask such a question except for a naïve and ignorant child, and it's an answer that has not been scientific or religious in history. Since I personally study Taoism more, I only use Taoist passages to corroborate: "Taishang Induction Chapter", "Tao Te Ching", "Qingjing Sutra", "Taiyi Salvation Tianzun Sutra", "Cross Sutra", etc., most of them are one article that points out the so-called "evil deeds", the other explains how to practice, and another article is used to simplify the way of faith, telling about the benefits of doing so, and penetrating into the lives of believers. In fact, this is actually very sufficient, first set a framework, everything is created by God, and then God will divide the labor to govern the Three Realms and Six Realms, or simply put, to govern people; And the natural phenomena that have been cut out are unfolded by God and incarnated as the power of God. We have no reason to say that this is wrong, that it is not good; Its existence really gave people a simpler understanding when the conditions were not sufficient, and it also killed two birds with one stone, and it also prompted people to behave and be moral.
Of course, over the years, I have developed my own theory of right or wrong.
Let's start with the simplest example, our birth is only the result of natural evolution, and it has no meaning to nature at the moment. Our death is a relief, this world is complicated, we want to live, we must always maintain this or that relationship, for a person this is the most difficult, but also the most tiring; The only thing we can clearly recognize is ourselves, and we have always only speculated on other people, and the accuracy of capable people can be as high as 80% or 90%, while normal people may be up to 50%, which makes us not sure whether such a sentence or action will provoke the other party. Again, if we really have eternal life, perhaps that is the most painful thing, we consider it this way:
We first know that we are going to die, but we don't know what day it is, and do we take each day seriously? And when we first know that we will live forever, of course, there is an infinite amount of time, do we still take each day seriously?
Every day we are painstakingly managing this or that period of things, or feelings or relationships or work, when we are old, we think that we can enjoy pure happiness, first of all, the body is not good, secondly, we still have children, and children have children, and the cycle is inexhaustible, which is significant in Chinese families, and it just so happens that we are going to die, and this reason justifiably brings us the opportunity to end all this painstaking work, and eternal life will only make everything last; So is death still tragic?
Next, let's talk about the so-called "scientific" aspect, which is only conjecture, but of course some have been confirmed now.
Our birth is ascending, from one dimension to two dimensions, from two dimensions to three dimensions.
Our death is also ascending, from three dimensions to four dimensions.
I came across this statement by chance. Of course, I don't believe in this statement at all, because I don't even believe in the so-called high-dimensional space, just from the modeling in "science" can be seen that the first dimension is the point line, the second dimension is the surface, the third dimension is the three-dimensional space, and the fourth dimension or even the higher dimension is constantly interspersed with various so-called dimensions, and the highest dimension is constantly interspersed with its higher dimensions, it is only a particle, then back and forth we always discuss the relationship between one particle and another particle, we can think that the space we are in is the highest dimensional space, It's just that we are three-dimensional, and the subject causes us to be unable to understand, discover, or even create high-dimensional products, so since we are already in the highest dimension, then we die, and we continue this ascension, where do we ascend?
Have you noticed that if we want to explore the question of why we live and why we die, or how we live and where we die, it is an endless thing, and it is always subject to various conditions; Then, we should be flexible, to consider how to live, how to die, this is our most down-to-earth, but also the most profound, science is only an explanation of objective existence, and human nature is indeed like Taoist yin and yang, born and extinguished.
Of course, as mentioned earlier, death is liberation, but to be born as a human being, we must fulfill human obligations, which is very important in the Chinese tradition, and now we are still learning, or have been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, I believe that everyone is very clear about morality, I personally, in fact, do not advocate morality and distinguish between good and bad, good and evil, because all these divisions are based on people, is one-sided, is limited; But naturally, the objective aspect is not something that we can solve alone, what we can solve is this moral good and evil, I don't want to repeat what is good and what is evil here, there are friends who don't understand, or feel that they understand a little bit less can read the "Taishang Induction Chapter", which is very detailed.
I don't want to say the rest about what to do, after all, there is a subjective element in it, it is elastic. Here is just a simple view of life and death from my personal opinion,: life, for nature, has a variety of meanings, for people, the continuation of the life of parents, the pillars of the prosperity of the country, or the evil that brings suffering and pain to others, of course, all good and bad are compared, and they are also judged from people's subjectivity; Death - liberation, to nature is to relieve the pressure of nature, but since you are born, you must do the obligation of life, and when you die, you are liberated, otherwise your death will be a shirk of responsibility and an evasion of faults. Of course, you can also choose to live like me, take care of your parents, be loyal and filial, and when your parents are really old and have to leave us, at least I have a clear conscience about the family; And the rest of the time is to find the fresh and warm beauty of nature and the world that I once had and no longer returned, since I was in junior high school.