The quality of life cannot be measured by the so-called success of material and money today, but by whether you are happy, because happiness is what you really belong to. If it can make you remember it in the future and it is happiness.
——Kunpeng Theory
The more changes change, the more sediment will flood, human nature and desire will flood and stir together, making it so turbid that it is difficult to see clearly.
So at this time, for most ordinary people, watching the changes is the best countermeasure.
As Pythagoras advocated, we should be an audience in the arena of life, rather than being an athlete.
1. Review of the previous situation
In "Reading Feiduo's Chapter on the Soul (Forty-two)", Kunpenglun mainly shared:
What is the essence of the soul? (24)
This part Socrates tells the situation inside the earth over there:
First, has many deep holes leading to the ground, most of which are round, some are very deep and wide, some are very deep and open, and some are very narrow, and some are not deep but very wide.
Second, All deep holes are interconnected, and a large amount of water convection is convective inside.
3 Third, has an incredible and endless river. The rivers are hot and cold, and there are even fire rivers. There are many rivers that are mudslide .
Fourth, All rivers have risen and fallen due to the underground oscillation force.
Fifth, There are many cracks underground. The largest one is the canyon that runs through the earth. It is the legendary abyss of the underworld. All rivers inject it and then gush out from it.
6, Water flows to the low areas of the earth, fills the rivers, and then flows through the earth through underground channels. Finally, after reaching some places, the sea, lakes, rivers and flowing springs are formed.
7, There are four main rivers among the many underground rivers, namely:
Oke'ano (Ocean River);
Ake'ron (Sad River), and finally gathered at Lake Akelucia (Sad Lake), which is also the place where most undead will stay before reincarnation;
Piliflegesson (Flame River);
Stix (Hate River), injected into the form of Lake Styx (Hate Lake).
These four rivers are opposite in pairs. The outermost and closest to the ground is opposite to the deepest Akeron (Sad River); the river of fire (passion) (Pilifolaigueson) and the river of ice (hatred) (Stiks).
2. What is the essence of the soul? (25)
After introducing the situation underground, Socrates further introduced what kind of experience the soul will have in the underground after death.
"When the new undead is guided by their respective guardian elves to reach this place, the first thing to do is to be delivered to the judgment. The basis for the judgment is whether he is kind and pious when he is alive."
"Those undead who are judged to live a sexual life in bad or evil and spend their whole life in ordinary life will be sent to A Ke Rong (Sad River), where they boarded the raft prepared for them, and then they would be sent to Lake Akelucia (Sad Lake). "
" They lived there and cleaned themselves by rewards and punishments received based on their merits and demerits during their lifetime. For example, if anyone has done anything wronged, they will be free from unrighteous things by punishment, and some will be rewarded for their good deeds."
" Anyone who is considered to be incurable because of his great sins and unforgivable evils, such as: either he has stole many great sages, or has committed murders, committed many acts that violate etiquette or happened to have other such behaviors, will be thrown into the abyss of the underworld according to the seriousness of their crimes, and will never turn over and will never come back. "
" Those hopeless ones are considered to have committed a serious crime, such as: committing violence against their father or mother on impulse, spending the rest of their lives with regret, or becoming murderers in some other way, although they will inevitably be thrown into the abyss of the underworld, after they are thrown in, they stay there for a year, and then, Botao will rush the murderer into Stix (Wailing River), and rush the father-killer and mother-killer into Piliflegesson (Fire River). "
" Once they were brought to Lake Akelucia (Lake of Sadness), they would shout, shout, and cry here. The murderers called for the people they abused and killed, and the father-killer told them to treat them wantonly. They shouted and begged for forgiveness, allowing them to climb into Lake Akelucia (Lake of Sadness) and accept them. "
" Once they convinced the victims and climbed into Lake Akelucia (Lake of Sadness), they ended their evil; if they did not convince the victims, they were taken into the abyss of the underworld, from there (after another year) to enter these rivers again. "
" After all, they will continue to suffer these until they convinced the person they had hurt, after all, this is the punishment given to them by the judge. "
Please note that we will see that the destiny is dominating the punishment, not Zeus , Underworld is the real judge, and here again "judgment".
's punishment for the hopeless person can also be compared with the corresponding description in " Ideal Country ". It can be said that the experience of that kind of soul is really miserable, and he dares to try to escape from the underworld. After being caught, he will be "bound to his hands, feet and heads, throw them to the ground, give them a whip, and then drag them to the side of the road, let the thorns thorns break their skin... and will be thrown into Taltaros (bottom of the underworld, hell). "
And hopelessness is not based on the power of divinity, but requires them to be able to convince those who are persecuted by them. This indicates that the realization of justice is largely in the hands of fellow citizens, not in the hands of gods.
" Anyone who is judged to be pious for life will gain freedom from these places underground and be released, just like being released from bondage, ascending to a clean dwelling, living on the earth. "
" As for those who thoroughly cleanse themselves by their love of wisdom, they have completely left their bodies since then, arrived at a better place than these places, and lived a pure life. However, these places are not easy to describe, not to mention that there is not enough time at the moment, so we cannot explain it in detail. "
Obviously, in Socrates's view, those who love wisdom to cleanse themselves are the most pious soul holy people, because their souls are occupied by wisdom. Although their next life will live from the bottom of the earth to the top of the earth, not to the sky like the previous type of people, their residence is better than the previous type of people.
However, Socrates immediately kept silent about how to be better, because what he wanted to teach is the virtues of the city-state.
" However, for these things we have already told, Simeas, we should do everything we can to distinguish between virtue and wisdom in life. After all, the more beautiful this prize is, the greater the hope is. "
+ Socrates distinguished three kinds of life:
Ordinary life, such people account for the majority;
The lives of evil people are saved or unsustainable;
The lives of good people are divided into two categories: love wisdom and not love wisdom.
. "Raft" was mentioned before. This word also appeared before the conversation, referring to the "say", theories, and principles that people who love wisdom rely on to spend the ocean of life, or can also be directly understood as wisdom. Therefore, "Raft" has different effects on loving wisdom and not loving wisdom.
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