Chapter 7 Innate and Acquired

The so-called innate is what exists before being born without wisdom and subjective consciousness to distinguish and control it. The so-called acquired is everything that human beings have begun to distinguish, divide, and organize after they have become wise! It's not the innate nature of the physical body as conventional Taoists say!

There is no difference between human beings and all living creatures on the earth, and the attributes brought by innate nature are basically the same. To put it more broadly, all living beings are just like all kinds of cells and germs in human beings, but human beings, like the cancer cells encountered at present, are beyond the control of the operating rules of the body itself! And the greatest reliance on our detachment is the beginning of wisdom!

Innate attributes: desire, feelings, reason, and all the instincts of survival are born and nurtured by heaven and earth, and this innate attribute can not be abandoned by human beings, and can only be objectively understood, and channeled and used.

All human troubles do not originate from innateness, but from the troubles caused by the division of acquired wisdom.

What is the day after tomorrow? The acquired is that after we human beings have wisdom, we have some artificial rules and artificial qualitatives that we humans know how to think more than ordinary beings in order to protect themselves, which is called acquired attributes!

If human beings are selfish, the root of all living beings is to live and live better.

The root of all life is desire, emotional desire, physical desire to survive, and soul desire to explore, which always pushes human beings to reproduce! This is something that is innate and cannot be changed, and what we do is how to reasonably distribute all these desires, so that all human beings can satisfy their desires on the premise of protecting themselves.

This also uses wisdom to formulate some rules, how to make all people accept the premise of uniformity, that is, within the rules to satisfy desires!

In the chapter on good and evil, it is said that the original motivation of human beings is selfish, and the reason why there is a distinction between good and evil is because of the differences caused by the different realms and patterns of looking at problems!

The so-called good, evil, and selfishness are all acquired and artificially defined attributes, not attributes inherited by human beings from heaven and earth, but we have divided these behaviors in detail. However, sometimes scholars and thinkers of later generations will be confused because they cannot distinguish between innate and acquired qualities, and then their thinking will be fixed, so that they have been arguing for thousands of years about whether acquired human nature is good or evil, which is as ridiculous as the frog that locks itself in a well and is unwilling to jump out of the well, but insists on discussing the sky!

In order to observe the distinction between innate and acquired, we must explore from the child who has an innate essence, because the unenlightened child is the best individual who retains the innate nature!

I spent about a month observing children around the age of two, and when the two children were playing, they each liked a lot of things, and they instinctively took them, often in a very direct way, just reach for them! Doesn't care if the toy or the food is his own! This leads to the beginning of disputes and contradictions. Two children compete with each other like animals fighting for food!

And at this time, the adults who have wisdom will come to educate them, this is someone else's, they can't take it indiscriminately, this is their own, they can be at their disposal, and the essence of their education is how to resolve disputes, and so that neither side will be hurt and attacked by their own! Satisfy both parties!

Because children's desires are based on their nature and have no self-control, adults will settle disputes for them!

The two opposing sides chose to take what they needed under the intervention of wisdom and did not hurt one side, this kind of behavior is called the right good, and without the intervention of wisdom, the opposing sides fight for the desire is the innate nature, this way because of the rules that exist in the harm to each of us, so we characterize it as evil, its original intention is for themselves, they are all selfish behaviors, it doesn't matter whether it is good or evil, it is just a fixed concept set by human beings!

But these two definitions are not a substitute for the innate desires, the selfish nature of human beings. Therefore, we should objectively recognize the essence of human beings, regardless of goodness, good or bad, only starting from the source, and going to the acquired wisdom to balance and harmonize the innate nature.

Therefore, for our own safety, we will look for a way and a rule that satisfies the selfishness of the human beings of the group, and this rule is called good, and in the process of implementation, because of cunning, the rule is only beneficial to one party, or only satisfies one, or satisfies the other at the expense of one party, the rule, which we all call wrong, and evil, and barbaric. Because this kind of rule not only does not calm the group, but also makes the group unstable, no matter what rhetoric and cunning wisdom are used to cover it up! Everyone is a single soul with wisdom, no one is a fool, every person with mature wisdom knows to climb the scales in favor of the scales, this kind of person or group who changes the rules of fairness into unfair rules, and those who do not know it, are shameless barbarians!

They will use all kinds of rhetoric to confuse people and make them think that human beings are inherently hierarchical, some are noble and some are filthy and lowly blood, and their purpose is to fear losing this rule that is beneficial but unfair to them!

Every so-called aristocracy, the so-called royal blood, traces its way up from what they consider to be a lowly and filthy group, so they are also filthy and lowly. All beings are equal, except that they begin to think of themselves as noble after changing their clothes and fur from the so-called lowliness and dirt. Its essence is still a mortal fetus, but the acquired means have deceived the innate nature, and it is ridiculous that even he has deceived himself.

It is impossible for a person who even cheats himself to maintain his prosperity for a long time, because as long as someone is sober, some people will question it, and some people will change if it is questioned!

Therefore, the Chinese nation roared out that epoch-making tone thousands of years ago: What kind of prince will Xiangning have? It is said that the acquired behavior of deceiving the innate has been questioned!

Innate things cannot be changed, but acquired things can be changed, and those who cover up or distort the innate rules by artificial definitions of the acquired are shameless and despicable!

Class is never innate, but artificial.

Good and evil are not innate, but are differentiated by human beings.

Savagery and civilization have never been given by the so-called ridiculously nihilistic God, but are artificially distinguished.

The source of the teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism is nothing more than a culture that observes the rules of heaven and earth and then enables human beings to learn, and its origin is also taken from the soul of heaven and earth, so the return of all laws to one is just a return to the beginning. Science, philosophy, doctrine, everything is the product of the evolution of the thinking of the living beings living on the earth from the rules that operate on the earth, and their roots are all unified.

Those who have learned a subject and stupidly insist that they are right, and others are wrong, and those who insist that they are the most orthodox, and everyone else is the most stupid type of people.

[Zhuangzi] Youyun: Qushi can't speak, and he is also taught! It's about a group of people who are imprisoned by acquired cognition and can't break free from the shackles and explore the innate nature!

Therefore, all beings are inherently equal, and everyone can be holy.

After tens of millions of years of development, people will not be able to distinguish what the original meaning of innate is because various acquired definitions are solidified in their minds, so they will be confused, they will complain, and they will discuss it, so that the road to seeking the Tao is full of fog!

Desire is the root of human development and progress, this cannot be abandoned, and all those who pursue desirelessness are also a different kind of desire.

Selfishness is the nature of human beings, but selfishness is selfishness, there is no evil or good, but the process of using it is wrong.

Feelings are something that human beings are born with, and even birds and animals will have emotions Human beings are no exception, and all ruthless people are just selfish behaviors that are confused and transformed into narrow vision!

If you want to find the avenue, you must break through the shackles of acquired cognition and seek the way of the innate origin!