Wang Jianping: Daily article: "Theory of Perception. Part 10" (89)
Why do humans change the world and themselves?
Human beings have been changing the world and themselves. Why do we change the world and ourselves? Because we want to achieve the purpose of survival, we create material wealth and change our own form in order to survive as much as possible and adapt to all the requirements of survival. We accumulate wealth and exercise our bodies, we set up families and inherit family traditions, we practice meditation and rebirth of nirvana and rebirth... and other behaviors are all for survival, and even all our civilization and wisdom are for good survival and more guaranteed survival. It can be said that what each human being thinks and does are behaviors with the purpose of survival. Apart from this, our cognition and behavioral activities have no other meaning.
Change the world and change ourselves for survival, which seriously limits our behavioral content. Do we have no other pursuits or wishes besides gaining the right to survive? Life and death have strongly monopolized our existence. Are we satisfied or willing to obey such meaning of existence? Obviously not. What we urgently pursue in life is happiness. Life without happiness is unbearable. Even in the most difficult living conditions and harsh environments, we are still getting happiness as much as possible. Even in pain, we will not give up the possibility of getting a slight happiness. It can be seen that happiness is the essence of survival, and happiness is the purpose of survival. However, can we take happiness as our purpose of survival? Because the behavioral activities of survival are not happy, we cannot regard happiness as the prerequisite for survival, and we cannot change the world and ourselves for happiness.
finally arrived at the era of perception. Human beings have clearly changed the purpose of existence. To perceive pleasure, we will change the world and ourselves to perceive pleasure. This is an essential change in human existence. Pleasure cannot be simply regarded as an upgraded version of happiness. The meaning of happiness is realized by pleasure, but the meaning of pleasure is not only happiness. Pleasure expresses the essential and ultimate meaning of existence, and in the concept of survival, pleasure is only reflected in a narrow sense as happiness. We change the world and ourselves in order to gain pleasure, which changes the meaning of all human behaviors, which changes the relationship between human beings and things, and this changes the form of human beings' existence. What changes the world for pleasure? What changes are things that cannot make us perceive pleasure, and what changes are things that have no value for pleasure. What do we do to create the world? There is no other use, it is used to make us perceive pleasure. Everything is the material for us to perceive pleasure.
We will recombine them to make them an active, orderly, stable, and sustained existence. Otherwise, how can we perceive pleasure from it? In order to perceive pleasure, we must turn the form and process of existence of things into forms and processes that allow us to perceive pleasure, which puts forward new requirements for the transformation of the world. This is very different from the result of our survival from the world. The perceived pleasure is actually to realize a state of existence. The state of existence that allows us to perceive pleasure must be a good holistic existence, and will not be fragmented and separated fragments.If we want to take pleasure from existence, we must meet the overall needs of existence. We must be a link of orderly existence, which puts forward requirements for ourselves. We must change ourselves to meet the needs of perceived pleasure. Otherwise, how can we perceive pleasure from it?
Perceived pleasure is a clear requirement for our own existence, requiring us to meet the overall active, orderly, stable and continuous state of existence. This obviously requires us to change ourselves. We do not meet the conditions for perceived pleasure, do not have the ability to perceived pleasure, and do not operate the behavior of perceived pleasure. How can we perceived pleasure? This means that our own spiritual consciousness and thoughts and behaviors, our social form and life system, and especially the ethical relationship between people, are the key to whether we can perceive pleasure. The relationship between people is the most important relationship of existence and content of existence. It is the main or part of pleasure perception in life and the key factor that determines whether we can obtain beautiful pleasure perception. Therefore, the relationship between people has risen to the main position of existence, replacing the subjective position of matter in the ethics of existence. People are the subject, and the relationship between people is the top priority of existence.
We change ourselves to change people to exist that conform to this relationship. Neither the love or intimacy between people is enough to express this relationship. People need each other, enjoy each other, and experience each other's pleasant information. This is the essence of the relationship between people. People are no longer exclusive, but they cannot do without them. Others are the most important existence, because without the existence of others, perception is impossible. Without the existence of others, existence will lose its meaning. People are connected to an inseparable whole for the purpose of perceiving pleasure. This is a rigid requirement for perceiving pleasure, and we must change ourselves according to this requirement.
Change the world and change ourselves in order to perceive pleasure. This is also the requirement of existence. Existence is the existence of pleasure. When we change the world and ourselves, we still exist with pleasure. This is the real way of heaven. (Continued)
