Why do people do it

What about the fear of "impersonal things"? The reason is that since the ego of each person has become a cocoon, closed between himself and others, man can no longer understand the existence outside of himself, he ignores the divine being, and no longer imagines the perfection of human existence.

In fact, man's own existence is open, and he desires to unite with a higher being in order to make up for his own shortcomings, so the East has

The idea of "the unity of man and nature" is something that the West has

The revelation of the "blending of God and man". The ancient Chinese emphasized

"People" must be with

"Heaven" is unified, coordinated, unanimous, and harmonious, the so-called

"Reaching heaven and earth, praising and educating", but there is no sacred reality in Chinese thought

"Days" correspond,

"Heaven" seems very hollow, and in the end it is put

"The unity of heaven and man" is understood

"Humanization of nature", the result is

"People" instead of

"Days"; in Western thought

"Heaven" is God, Christ, the life-giving Spirit,

"The blending of God and man" refers to the encounter between the divinity of the Triune God and the human nature it redeems in time, but does not produce a third nature, which is the two natures of God and man

Represented by the "incarnation" Jesus Christ, whose ultimate unity is unity

"Heaven" (God) – "New Heavens and New Earth, New Jerusalem". Today, in this age of blasphemous materialism, both the East and the West are no longer worshipped

"Heavenly", but passionately pursuing earthly things, human existence is completely closed to divine existence.

This kind of closed-mindedness of existence makes people begin to understand themselves from their standpoint, as if they were wearing an eye patch.

As a result, the more modern people understand their own human nature, the more they find it difficult to recognize and have no connotation

"Impersonal" things produce fear, and their fears are justified. This is the reason why the more modern artists want to get to know people, the less they have a place in their work.

Actually, the famous sayings of ancient Greece

"Know thyself" meant by itself

"Remember: you're going to die!" However, modern people have misunderstood this sentence. One example might illustrate the problem.

Small children are usually afraid of being left alone in the dark

In an impersonal room, no amount of comfort can be done, but in Western countries with a Christian tradition, parents will say to their children, "Don't be afraid, for God is here." This is a simple and wonderful truth, and because the personal, infinite, and eternal God is real, the same human beings need no longer be afraid

Something that is "impersonal". Many psychologists use this method to show companionship in a pragmatic way

The appearance of "God being" can help the sick to some extent. Carl Jung often told his patients to do everything in life

"As if" God exists, psychological fear can be dealt with. Eight days before Jung's death, he spoke in his last interview with a journalist about what he believed to be God;

"Anything that cuts into my will from outside me, or that emerges from my collective subconscious." His suggestion was, let's call it that

"God", and to

"He" surrendered, why was Jung able to heal many people in this way? For the existence of God has dispelled the right in man's heart

The fear of "impersonal things", it's all too real. The second basic fear is targeting

"Non-existent". Why there are many people right today

What about the fear of "non-existence"? Since it doesn't exist, what can be used to arouse fear? Because modern people generally do not know the origin and end of all things, nor do they know where they came from, the vagaries of doctrine and existence itself make them feel at a loss.

Moreover, most modern people believe that all things, the world, and people are produced by chance and chance, so they deny necessity and domination, which naturally leads to confusion in understanding.

Since everything is made by chance, there are endless possibilities for everything: what exists can become non-existent in one moment, and what does not exist can become existing in another instant, where is there any sense of security?

Existence is also meaningless because it lacks an immovable foundation, and people will naturally be right

"Non-existent" was terrified. The third basic fear is the fear of death. This fear is the most obvious and the most devastating.

"Remember: you're going to die!" It's a brutal fact for everyone. Death is so unquestionable.

Augustine said, "Everything is uncertain, only death is certain." "The power of death will write off the meaning of all the living: every living person is dying, preparing to die, and finally entering into the bosom of death without exception.

Since I am destined to die, and death is not my master, it can come to me at any time, what is the point of my life?

The fear of death is in fact the questioning of the meaning of life, and it is the most fundamental question that puzzles almost all philosophers.

There must be too few people who, like Socrates, look forward to death as a blessing, because it requires the courage to die for the truth.

Plato's thought originated in the uncompromising death of Socrates. For Socrates, the dialogue with the truth – the words

"The Word" (Logos) - which can make him ignore a certain terrible nature of death, and even when the man in charge of the poison admonishes Socrates to speak as little as possible, otherwise the poison will attack more slowly and that he must take two or three servings, Socrates replied, and prepared to drink wine,

"Might as well make two or three servings." Socrates conquered the fear of death, but the people of this age have lost it

In the pursuit of the "Tao", what else can he use to resist this fear? Fear means a threat, a threat to us from time, and a threat to the self that comes with the defects of the ego, which has to do with sin, because

"The wages of sin is death." In Genesis, after Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he was cursed by God: "You will surely die!" This shows that man's fall is a fall into the constraints of time, and death means that time is a limit on man.

The threat of time is not only that it will end our lives, but what is more terrifying is that it may also carry out this end in advance in a * way, such as disease, calamity, etc.

Because there is a desire in every human being to be infinite and to attain eternity (to have children and write books and theories in order to continue one's life), people want death to come later, and in fact man is unable to do this, the fear of death arises, because it is an uninvited guest who may knock on the door at any moment.

Another reason for the fear of death is that people are powerless to take responsibility for what they have done in life. The human conscience desires righteousness and holiness, but there is no goodness in the human flesh, and living in sin gives a person a kind of pain of self-conviction for righteousness.

Because man cannot face death with his own holy knowledge, the fear of death is actually the fear of judgment after death.

How can we alleviate fear and gain the power to control it? I think the first thing is that people must be aware of their own limitations and inadequacies, so as to maintain a reverence for the unknown world, rather than hastily seeing themselves as the ultimate and thinking that they can bear everything.

The real situation is that man is placed in a world that he cannot control, and can no longer break out of the cocoon of fear by his own strength, he must admit that man does not live by himself, he must believe that there is a greater being than himself in this world, and only this greater survivor can protect the survival of man, and the meaning of man's life can be confirmed, and we can overcome it in this way

"Impersonal things", right

"Non-existent", right

The fear of "death". This fact will become more and more acute, because at the end of the century man has come to an extremely fragile situation, and he can no longer find the confidence he had in his previous years, or rather, many cruel facts of history have proved that it is possible for man to become as savage and as wild as an animal when he loses the protection of a greater being.

In such a situation, it is not surprising that one feels fear, but that the fear and insecurity in one's heart must be completely eliminated unless one is made a citizen of another world, a citizen of an eternal world.

This world will give him new and more valuable strength, give him confidence, give him courage, and enable him to successfully liberate himself from the world of fear.

This is indeed a secret, and I would like to quote James Reed again: "It was in this eternal world that Christ discovered the secret of fearlessness." He knew that neither natural disasters nor human cruelty could touch the things of the eternal world in which he lived. In this eternal world, nothing is threatened by water and fire, because the power of water and fire can never reach this realm. Pascal seems to say more clearly in his Thoughts: "True fear comes from faith; False fear comes from doubt. True fear is accompanied by hope because it comes from faith, and because people have fear of the God they believe in. The former is afraid of losing God, and the latter is afraid of finding God. Indeed, fear in the ultimate sense is not simply fear, nor is it an emotion, it is related to the origin of our existence, as long as there is a sense of existence, as long as there is no desire to live, as long as there is no end to thinking, sooner or later will face this problem, because it is so real and unavoidable.

The philosopher Max Scherer said that man has become completely and completely problematic in relation to himself—the beginning of solving these problems lies in the knowledge and estimation of these problems, and I have begun to face and explore the fears I face and their basic forms, which may indicate that I am on my way out of the torment of fear.