For thousands of years, the most discussed issue of human nature is the question of good and evil in human nature.

Mencius said: Human nature is inherently good!

Xun Zi said: Human nature is evil!

So how to solve the question of whether human nature is inherently good or inherently evil?

First of all, we will quote a sentence from the Tao Te Ching:

Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things!

It means that there is actually only one kind of avenue rule, and this form rule is regarded as two sides of one body because of the intervention of human beings, and the conversion and fusion of two different aspects is called three, and the third form is the position where everything runs in the eyes of human beings!

Human beings are selfish by nature, there is no good or evil, everything is for themselves! This is one of them, the selfish way of acting is defined as good and evil. This is the form of the second life of the life! There is evil in good, and good in evil. This is the form of two to three. The third is to talk about the transformation form of you with me, I with you, yin with yang, and yang with yin, rather than a decomposition form. That's why it's called the third type, and if it's a decomposition form, it will be two to four!

After knowing this principle, looking for the innate nature of human nature in the acquired good and evil is like looking for flowers in the mirror and fishing for the moon in the water.

It's like a frog hiding in a well that never wants to come out and keeps exploring the vastness of the sky.

Good and evil are both acquired and artificially defined ways of getting along, and innate is the way we behave at birth.

If you want to know good and evil, you must know what is the main purpose of these behaviors? What is the reason to do this, there is only one answer, that is, selfishness, the root cause of which is whether it is extremely vicious, or kind and generous, it is for the sake of the attitude of life that you want, each of us is a separate soul and individual, so no matter how the earliest and ultimate goal evolves, everything is for yourself, and this starting point is selfishness.

From the selfish point:

Selfishness is one!

Two forms are derived, called good and evil, which are two!

There is evil in good, and good in evil, which is three!

People are in the three, and their ultimate purpose is still for themselves, so a reincarnation mode of operation and cognition has been formed.

Therefore, the words that the Tao can express in the stage of human cognition are that the Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, three to all things, and all things to one!

Where you came from, where you go back!

Let's start with the evolution and extrapolation of the most primitive state of human beings!

When there is only one person living in the world, or only one person living on an isolated island, then at this time, this single soul, what the individual wants to do, what he needs to do is driven by his own innate instincts, just like he needs to eat, so he kills the animal and eats its flesh and blood. When he was cold, he stripped the fur or leaves of the animals to protect him from the cold. All that is done is to rely on the rules of heaven and earth to operate! At this time, there is no good and evil, and there is no artificial standard for judgment!

If the target is another human, eating its flesh to satisfy hunger, drinking its blood to quench its thirst, and peeling its skin to keep it out of the cold, it will become evil! The two different appearances seem different in the eyes of human beings, but in the eyes of heaven and earth, they are just the rules of operation!

In the Tao Te Ching, it has been said that there is often no desire, to see its wonder, and there is often desire, to observe it! This means that I often observe the wonder of their rules with a ruthless and unwanted attitude, and then observe the boundaries of the rules in an affectionate way. The boundary is what we say is that everything has a degree. Be a person with a degree, do things with a degree, can't go too far, can't do enough! It's all a state that goes beyond the boundary!

Therefore, when we look at the mode of operation, we must observe it with a desireless attitude, and observe its wonderful operation mode with an out-of-the-box vision without any emotional desire! In order to discover the boundaries of the innate root and the true answer under the intervention of desire and affection!

After understanding the root cause, what is confused is the various small rules and definitions that have been created after human beings have lived in groups!

At this time, there are two people in the world, or two people on the island, and when there is enough food, they will have disputes and conflicts because of lazy inertia and greedy desires. In the case of food shortage, they will have disputes, contradictions and fights because of hunger because of the common struggle for one food!

In the case of only one kind of food, starting from the side of the desire to enter the game, when both people want to have it and fight, no matter from whose point of view, the other party is a bad person, and there is no good person.

If you look at it from the perspective of being out of the game without desire, or from the perspective of God, or from the perspective of heaven and earth, there is nothing wrong with either side, they are both fighting for survival, and there is no distinction between good and evil!

At this time, it is the rule of the jungle, whoever is strong will take the food!

If both parties are of equal strength, when life and death are uncertain, they are both afraid of death, and when they are afraid of death, the so-called wisdom is derived at this time, and they will communicate and negotiate, since the original rules of heaven and earth will not favor themselves and will not protect themselves, but if they want to protect themselves and solve the problem, they must use wisdom to find solutions from external objects.

Dividing food in two, one person and half, not only can get food, but also protect oneself from life. Starting from selfishness, there is no distinction between good and evil, and all forms are just to better protect themselves!

When the number of people in the world gradually increases, assuming that there are 100 people living in groups on the island, the rule of the law of the jungle will make people constantly have disputes, contradictions, and wars!

Whoever is strong will get more food, the so-called Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second, there will always be one person who will defeat the remaining ninety-nine, and then enjoy the food alone.

But human beings are intelligent creatures, congenital deficiencies, they will use their wisdom to change the direction of things, when they can't eat food, they will have a common goal, that is, they need to defeat or kill the strongest person, if the individual is in the top position, no one can defeat him, if you unite the other ninety-nine people to resist him, then it will be easy to kill the person at the highest level of the individual.

People are wise, and when everyone knows that there is no extreme peak, they will be afraid, they will be afraid, so they will make agreements and talk about some agreements, and these agreements for selfishness and to protect everyone are the original man-made rules of human beings, which can also be called the way of man.

What do the rules of what we call goodness look like?

It is like a container, this container is the situation of the horizontal state, that is, the so-called balance, fairness, human beings are the same no matter which end of the rule is the same, will not be oppressed, exploited, this kind of rule is the key to the stability of the society and the group, this so-called good rule is the group selfish rule derived from the selfishness of the individual!

What are the rules of evil?

The root cause is the biggest misunderstanding in the wisdom of human cognition, that is, human beings think they can control the rules and override the rules, but in fact, human beings cannot transcend the rules, which is the root of the disaster!

When a person's desires are excessive, he is like the highest peak of every individual and the emperor of every era. He thought he was above the rules, so he started making some rules that everyone needed to follow, and only he didn't need to follow. This kind of artificial rule seems to be detached and overridden on the surface, but secretly the invisible evil rule has been produced and formed, that is, this position and form are not eternal, since it is not eternal, all of us can go and kill him, so as to take his place! This led to war.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was the Anshi Rebellion as an example, An Lushan and Shi Siming both seized the throne in a rebellious way, but after this rule was realized, they were played to the fullest by their sons, and they also suffered from the rebellion of their own children, and were finally strangled by the rules they implemented! This is stupid selfishness!

This is why every dynasty has to be famous in times of war, because this way can protect itself a lot! This selfish behavior is extremely clever!

Whoever wants to turn away from humanity will have a place of fame above men, and because he has a blindfold!

I don't know that the nameless place falls on people, and because there is nothing to die!

So the rules are never something that we can override and detach ourselves from, and the so-called evil is nothing but narrow-sighted selfishness, which will leave behind bad rules, be unbalanced, and eventually return to everyone who performs it to bear the consequences of their own evil!

The so-called kindness is the selfishness of long-term vision, this kind of good rule is to conform to the balance of heaven and earth, is to learn the balance of heaven and earth to evolve the rules, and the final good result will be returned to yourself!

In general, human beings are selfish by nature, and there is no distinction between good and evil!

It's just that the process and method of selfishness are different, kindness is the factor that is beneficial to oneself, and finally the factor that is beneficial to oneself. And evil is to enjoy the elements that are beneficial to oneself by destroying the interests of others, and when this rule is returned to himself, he is afraid, fearful, and this is called short-sighted stupid selfishness!

There is no good or evil, no good and bad, only the wise self-interested, and the foolish.

There is a saying in human beings that the smartest and most top-notch way of life is altruistic behavior! Because there is only one you in the world, and the reward for self-interest can only be one. And he is anyone but you, and the rewards of altruism can be infinitely multiplied! Altruism is the greatest self-interest!

Tao said: Selflessness is selfishness!

The Buddha said: People don't destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake!

If all sentient beings are aware of the root of selfishness, the overall situation of the selfishness is the first thing to abide by Xinyang! Those who take the ultimate in selfishness will be peaceful in the world!