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What we are going to talk about today is the "Personal Body and Mind Chapter" that has a very strong relationship with everyone. Friends who are interested in health care must pay attention, because your so-called health care may be incorrect.
Let’s put it this way, The physical and mental tear between us modern people has reached a very serious level, and from the perspective of form, humans are becoming more and more slaves but they are completely unaware of it.
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The following content may cause you to be upset, especially for friends who have children at home, but please don’t worry too much, because all the premise is: If , I’m right. That is, this is a hypothesis.
The formation of life
Still, we start from a point that is enough to subvert our cognition. When someone asks you how this advanced creature like humans comes from, you will definitely say that it evolved from ordinary animals. This is what Darwin tells you.
But if you ask a deeper level, how do ordinary species, such as monkeys, come from, that is, how do organisms on our earth form? Now few people can answer it. What will I answer? He may say:
All living things, including humans, are transformed from qi.
At this time, someone said: Your thinking is too ignorant. Can you talk about some scientific spirit?
OK, let’s talk about the proof of modern science seriously now. Before I talk, I will quote a sentence from Lao Tzu in the original text of "Tao Te Ching":
All things embrace yin to bear yang, and qi to be harmonious. Things in the world are born from existence, and things are born from nothing. ——"Tao Te Ching"
To put it bluntly: the interaction between yin and yang produces all things. The so-called:
Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to the world. ——"Tao Te Ching"
When yin and yang are divided, this is already a stage of life and two. So how did this kind of yin and yang come from, and how did the one come from? From the Tao. People are formed by qi, which is actually not my original creation, but a major consensus on the formation of life in Chinese culture.
Sorry, I would like to quote another Confucian classic " Book of Rites " to explain:
The earth's energy is upward, the weather is down, the yin and yang are rubbed, the heaven and earth are shaking, drum it with thunder, exert it with wind and rain, move it with four seasons, warm it with the sun and the moon, and all kinds of transformations are flourishing. ——"Book of Rites"
means that the earth is inanimate in a long period of time, and life is produced by a long period of time on the basis of these conditions.
Note that this is the Chinese wisdom more than two thousand years ago.
An experiment more than 2,000 years later
Let’s look at an experiment conducted by Miller of the University of Chicago in 1953 more than 2,000 years later. He filled methane , ammonia and other gases in a glass container, which is quite similar to the yin and yang gas we just mentioned, and then simulated lightning, lightning strikes, rainfall, temperature changes and other processes. After seven days of experimentation, the basic raw material of life, amino acid , was produced.
Miller believes that he simulates the original environment of the earth, and the original life was born in such an environment. This conclusion has been recognized by the world.
This is just the tip of the iceberg that Western science has proved Chinese wisdom.
Where is the "qi"?
Let’s return to the question: life comes from the changes of yin and yang. Is that qi running in the body? This involves the problem of two different systems of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi runs in meridians, but Western medicine has not yet found the so-called meridians, or people do not recognize the so-called meridians at all.
But The relationship between life and qi has long been deeply embedded in our Chinese cultural genes, such as what we often say: courage, spirit, temperament, vitality, strength, courage, energy, spirit, and qi and blood circulation, etc.
Western medicine can only reach the level of blood circulation, and China first recorded the qi and blood circulation in the "Emperor's Internal Classic", which is a very ancient book.
The West did not discover blood circulation until the 16th century, and this discovery is known as greater than Columbus' discovery of the New World .但气至今还没有被现代医学证明。
But I believe that a person who has a certain depth of understanding of life can probably feel the changes in the qi in his body. Under the premise that the heart rhythm remains unchanged, when the qi is sufficient, your self-confidence will be different, and you will speak more firmly, have courage, and are full of energy.
What is the use of life forming in qi? It is very useful because it has a lot to do with health preservation. From the health preservation of Taoist , we can see how dangerous our modern life is.
above only talks about basic cognition, and everyone should remember it first.
Added to the sentence: Yin and Yang Qi does not mean only two kinds of Qi, but there are many interactions between Yin and Yang Qi.
harm to body and mind
Now let’s take a look around and talk about the Zhuangzi , which is called Lao Zhuangzi’s thought together with Lao Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi is the inheritance and development of Lao Zhuangzi’s thought.
Zhuangzi believes that when a person contacts the outside world through eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc., the human body energy will be consumed, especially when your discriminating mind is very strong, which affects your emotions, it will cause great harm to the body and mind.
Or, your qi is dissipated. The other side of what we often call "qi gathering" and "qi dissipation" are two meanings in it. These are both consumption of life energy. So what should I do?
There are eight words in Zhuangzi that are very famous: is like withered, and the heart is like dead ashes.
Now these eight characters are basically derogatory, but in Zhuangzi, it is a state of being transcendent from the outside world, a state of knowing right and wrong without right and wrong. You are not moved by the stimulation of external things, and you are not moved by joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness ("Zhuangzi"), and you have no dependence on the outside.
He said that Liezi can run for five days and five nights by riding the wind, which is not great because he still has to rely on the wind. Look at what realm Zhuangzi pursues? It is absolutely spiritual freedom , and in the end even himself disappeared.
So-called: The most powerful person has no self, the gods and man have no merits, and the sage has no name.
Because merit, fame, and self are all things that cause pain and harm life.重点提一下：己就是自我。
The view of "self" in the West and the East
Western culture emphasizes living out of oneself, and we are greatly influenced by it now, but the thoughts of Zhuangzi and Laozi are exactly the opposite. They allow people to dissolve themselves. Only by melting themselves can they achieve the state of being with all things and being one. That self is the true self.
In Zhuangzi's eyes, the stronger the world's self-concept, the more painful it is, because the discriminating mind will become clear due to the clarity of the self. In fact, if you pay attention, you will find that most of our troubles in life come from the discriminating mind, and the comparative mind is also born from the discriminating mind. When it comes to being a person, the clearer the boundaries of a person’s self, the more likely they are to conflict with others.
So-called:
is easy to be dirty. ——" Book of Later Han "
Another sentence you may be more familiar with:
When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when the person is observing, there will be no disciples. ——"Hanshu "
, and Lao Tzu suggested:
and its light, with its dust. ——"Tao Te Ching"
For example, you have great skills and very knowledgeable knowledge, but others cannot feel your sharpness and competitive spirit. There will be no pressure to get along with you. If you are confused with everyone, you can "not condemn right and wrong, but stay with the world" ("Zhuangzi").
In this way, you can feel greater happiness, because you are with all things, others, and with Tao, but your happiness is not because of the outside world, but because you can enjoy yourself. This "self" is the "self" in the "Tao Te Ching" that "Tao follows nature". In this way, your inner self can be "only connected by the spiritual connection between heaven and earth" ("Zhuangzi").
After talking about these mysterious things, we will return to reality and look at our modern life and find that there is a big problem.
The life of modern people
As I said just now, modern culture is quite opposite to the ideas of Laozi and Zhuangzi, such as talking about individual freedom and independence, pursuing the so-called personality, and living out of oneself. The warmth of the family in traditional Confucian has also been greatly damaged. Everyone gradually becomes an independent individual, but this independence is often accompanied by the emptiness and loneliness of the spiritual world, and psychological diseases are caused by it.
Because humans are very small as individuals.
coupled with the advancement of technology, people are getting further and further away from nature, the common mother of mankind, and are getting further and further away from the Tao, resulting in serious separation of body and mind.
For example, more and more people can no longer feel the state of being integrated from nature, that is, they cannot enjoy and immerse themselves in it, or think about how to take good photos, share, and accumulate more likes.
, the outward clinging force is actually caused by desire. In addition, we are busy with family and work all day long, and we cannot get peace in our hearts. My heart followed my body and chased forward, but another voice in my heart said: I'm too tired, can I stop for a while? The sound of
has even been completely submerged. In severe society, everyone seems to be dragged away, but for the sake of the family and children, they have no choice. What’s even more pitiful is that children have been inscribed in the form since childhood. Their nature has been blinded and covered by various competition rules imposed by society at a long time.
, coupled with the classification of various industries and subjects and the popularity of mobile phones, has led to less and less mutual understanding and understanding between people. Even people living under the same roof find it difficult to maintain deep emotional maintenance like in the past.
The unity of heaven and man, the unity of man and man becomes the opposite of heaven and man, and the opposite of man and man.
really confirms the sentence of Sartre :
Others are hell. ——Sartre
The damage to life
What’s more serious is that according to Lao Zhuang’s ideological theory, this flower world has caused particularly great damage to life. Lao Tzu said in the "Tao Te Ching":
five colors make people blind, five sounds make people deaf, five flavors make people feel refreshed, and galloping and hunting makes people feel crazy.
The more we come into contact with, the more harm it will cause to life. In this world full of five colors, five sounds and five flavors, it is difficult for us to carefully appreciate the beauty of simplicity and nature, and it is difficult to appreciate the simple string that cleanses the soul like running water. It is difficult to taste the original flavor of food. The use of mobile phones makes people's hearts "crazy" at any time and cannot extricate themselves.
Modern people have almost truly become what Zhuangzi said: Those who lose themselves in things and lose their nature in the vulgarity have become "inverted people", that is, putting the cart before the horse. In the end, it became another kind of "no self", but this "no self" is passive, it is the "no self" enslaved by external things and led by external things, rather than actively melting with all things in the world, and is not what Zhuangzi said, "I lost myself."
In short, humans are very dangerous now because they cause great harm to life. The advancement of medical care has extended the average life expectancy of humans, but this does not mean the increase and continuation of the happiness index. On the contrary, the extension of life expectancy may bring greater loneliness, emptiness, and even pain.
more is confusing
People often say: Modern society has many diverse and many choices. But is this necessarily a good thing?
There are fewer ones, and there are more ones, and there are many ones, and there are many ones. ——"Tao Te Ching"
There are too many choices and too many confusions, and your patience and attention will be consumed greatly. In the end, you can't calm down and be calm in everything you do, including managing your family life.
Note that the qi appears again, your qi is already tumbling in your body and cannot sink.
, the qi that constitutes life, has been continuously consumed by repeated stimulation from the outside world. And what is most lacking in this era is the things that arouse your interest and constantly stimulate you to excite you. In the long run, the nerves in your whole body will be tense, because your qi has become poorly running.
It is worth mentioning that the muscle tension caused by anxiety has long been confirmed by modern science. Judging from Lao Tzu's wisdom, it is because there are too many things that we stuff into our body and mind in , and it is already difficult to "reach the extreme of emptiness and keep quiet" (Tao Te Ching), and it is difficult to "concentrate on the qi and softness" (Tao Te Ching). Our spirit cannot be empty, filled, just like your mobile phone has run out of memory and cannot make room.
Do you think that such a body and mind will not be confused?
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Note: This article was edited from a video speech released on September 20, 2022. Interested friends can watch the video version (telled by me).
