Chapter 17: The Way of East and West

At present, the avenues used in the world can basically be divided into two different operating rules and ideologies, the east and the west, but there is no precise regulation on which one is good and which one is bad. However, in terms of operation, both have their own merits, different fields, and different directions of thinking, so if you want to cultivate the Dao, you must clearly recognize what kind of Tao you are cultivating and what you are following.

There are two kinds of classifications!

In the East, the way of observing the movement of heaven and earth is to record the rules, and then to imitate and follow the rules, it is to actively seek to be one with nature, which is called the way. And the specific manifestation is embodied in the body of people. It's a macro view!

Therefore, the main practice of the Oriental Avenue is to recognize the rules of heaven and earth, and then use them on people, which is the mutual integration of man and nature, man and man, man and group, and group and group!

Abbreviated as people and people!

In the West, the major is to think about the individual, and to think about the cognition of heaven and earth, and the discovery of nature is to start from the subtleties and then observe the larger environment. In the end, it is manifested in people using external objects, using nature, and then mastering and controlling nature, and changing it in their own way!

Abbreviated as the individual and nature.

Therefore, the goal of our practice in the land of China is to see the ultimate law and follow it, while in the West, we see the ultimate law and grasp it. But after all, human beings are small, and if they want to control all the rules, it is impossible to achieve them, born in the sky, raised in the earth, and the requirements of one person to surpass, in the end they must be counterattacked because of the change of the environment of heaven and earth, so that the goal is not achieved, and it has perished. And this goal will never be achieved, because [Zhuangzi] said: There is no end to knowledge, and there is an end to life, and there is no end to it, and there is no end to it!

However, the Eastern civilization can understand the ultimate law in general, and anyone who understands or understands this ultimate rule can be called a 'saint' in the East. The so-called saint is not the imaginary flying heaven and earth, omnipotent, but can see the rules of operation of all things and the trajectory of the transformation of things, and understand the operation of heaven and earth!

The achievements of Oriental Huaxia in the way of man are the highest and most perfect Dao body in the entire history of mankind, because this kind of management between people or between groups is to imitate the way heaven and earth run, and it is naturally impeccable. It is only because the inheritance of the people of later generations is lost, and there is no inheritance of the peerless learning of the ancestors that leads to the burial of the holy learning, and because the Great Dao is contrary to human desires, just as reason is always competing with desire, this kind of Great Dao cannot be perfectly displayed.

Despite this, it is still integrated into life, blood, bones, and daily behavior by the efforts of the ancestors of the past generations for many years, and has been well preserved. This mode of operation is called 'degree', and the specific name is morality.

Thousands of years of precipitation, are in the casting of this holy avenue, in terms of social and cultural stability is has tended to be perfect, history has also proved that this way of operation is correct, thousands of years of only the only thing that has been preserved is this ancient oriental country! But after ignoring the skills, they are much inferior to Western civilization in terms of skills!

Since modern times, Western civilization has bravely tried and experimented, constantly explored, discovered, developed, and has been able to advance rapidly, and belongs to the top civilization in terms of technology and skills using foreign objects! However, the way of operation in terms of cognition between people or social groups is a rudimentary civilization, so it is a long way to go in terms of social group stability. They will face the fate of the reincarnation of splitting, dying, reorganizing, splitting, and dying again, and they cannot escape!

The Oriental Humanistic Way has a very strong sense of belonging and protection, and each generation will consciously assume responsibility, so the Oriental civilization can be preserved as a group.

Although it seems that each generation lives a special freedom, there is no protection, no responsibility, there is no corresponding inheritance and immortality, so this is also the reason why the Western group cannot last long.

Western civilization advocates individual freedom and individual rights, and personal privacy cannot be violated. Even heroes worship individualism, so each of them starts from their own will.

What Oriental Humanities advocates is the spirit of sacrificing oneself for others, sacrificing the small self, fulfilling the big self, giving up the small family, fulfilling everyone, the honor of the group is inviolable, and the dignity of the country is above all else!

The understanding of the true meaning of life in the East refers to how we should see the rules in this group and the rules of the operation of heaven and earth, and grasp them, no longer be confused, unravel the complicated appearances between groups, find the root cause, so that we are no longer swayed by external objects, and do not harm external objects. Leisurely wandering between groups, and between mountains and rivers. This is the state of those who are currently in the Holy Realm, and we have reached the top and left footprints!

The truth of life in the West is how a person lives better, why I exist in this universe, what is the state of human beings in the universe, and the complexity and complexity of their pursuit, no one has ever set foot on the peak, because just like their search for what is the largest and smallest in the universe, there is never an end, and there is only endless cognition.

Like the search for time, there is no beginning, no end, and perhaps no existence at all.

Since we have chosen to look for the humanistic avenue in the East, then we should know the direction of this avenue, which is to find the rules of the operation of heaven and earth, so we know that there is no absolute power, and there is no eternal peak, because we can only live according to the way this heaven and earth operates. We don't take the soul as the Indians, and hide from the physical body, we can not think about the physical body, and we can't be like the Westerners to wantonly destroy the balance and break the rules, because in the end we will be punished by the rules, and the heavens will punish us to destroy our excessive destruction! Just like the bacteria in the human body, parasitic in the human body cannot disrupt the balance of the human body, or evolve wildly, and eventually become cancer, leading to the destruction of the entire body, and the parasitic bacteria will also die.

It is precisely because we understand that we ourselves are just a kind of bacteria or cells on the earth, and we cannot break the rules here until we have the ability to leave this planet or find the next planet, otherwise, we will either be wiped out by the self-protection rules of heaven and earth, just like the body's immune system to balance all kinds of cells and bacteria. Either the whole world will be destroyed, and we will be destroyed.

Therefore, we cannot adopt the negative Indian way, the extreme Western way, we need to abandon its extreme ideas and lines to learn its advanced technology. Maintaining our own golden mean, stabilizing our rules, and balancing our environment is the right direction and path we are looking for!