Chapter 38 one of dreams

I usually write small articles, and when I have friends running publications, I am often called to help. This is what I should do.However, writing an article is, as the saying goes, as difficult as it seems easy. Although it is easy to write, it is really troublesome and difficult when it cannot be written. There is a joke in "Laugh Down": "A scholar went to the exam to write an essay, and it was difficult to come up with ideas. His servants went to wait at the exam gate, and when they saw the papers, there were many people who came out. As the sun was setting, servant A asked servant B, saying, "I don't know how many words there are in an essay. Servant Yi said, "I don't think there are more than five or six hundred characters. I don't think there are five or six hundred characters in my chest. I haven't come out yet." Servant Yi said, don't get anxious. I can’t make it up for a while.” What is said here is not necessarily a joke, the words can’t be made up is one, and the meaning can’t be made up is the second.One is a kind of sarcasm for scholars, and the other is common and common. I have also felt the pain of not being able to hand in the papers many times.Here it can be divided into two situations. A is that the meanings in the articles written are not arranged well, and B has various meanings, and the articles written are limited by the object or nature, and cannot be arranged properly.It’s like I usually write casually, without a certain target audience, just writing what I want to say into words with my heart, the meaning is honest, and the words are still understandable. Or whether I like it or not, I don't care.If it is intended to be shown to the elderly or women, then it is not as simple as this. At least there are restrictions on the target audience. We can't say that the text is too inappropriate.I often want to practice the Hinayana Arahantship is not very difficult, but the difficulty is to learn the Mahayana Bodhisattva, not only vowing to save all living beings, but also saying that the elders, laymen, chief brahmans, who are saved in the body of a woman, should appear in the body of a woman. Festival, it is impossible to meet, so I have to yearn for it.This time when writing an article, I deeply felt this kind of difficulty, hesitated for a long time, and felt that I could not delay any longer, so I reluctantly picked one of the meanings I usually thought about, and made a brief statement, just to cover my responsibilities, and it would not be written well. Of course.

I wrote a small article not long ago, talking about the importance of psychological construction in modern China. There are two main points in this, one is the naturalization of ethics, and the other is the meritoriousness of morality.It is this first point that I would like to explain a few words here.I said in the article "Bollworm and Firefly": "Chinese people are clumsy at observing nature, and often like to connect it with human affairs. The most notable example is Confucianism, such as birds feeding back, lambs kneeling, or fruit eating mothers, all of which are attached to ethics one by one. The second is Taoism, such as the transformation of mulberry insects into fruits and rotten grass into fireflies. Several experienced middle school Chinese teachers said that young students are not interested in this kind of teaching materials. This is undoubtedly a true fact, although they can't understand the reason.Personally, I attach great importance to the so-called natural research. I think that not only is the matter itself very interesting, but also the living conditions of animals and plants are the basis of life. With sufficient common sense in this regard, the meaning of life and its path can be more clearly understood. understanding of understanding.Usually I am very dissatisfied with the scholars and thinkers of the past, because they are too lazy in this regard. If it is modern people, especially young people, of course, the responsibility should be a little deeper.I only saw Mr. Sun Zhongrong, in a book on zoology with his friends in "Zhou Zhi Shu Lin", there are many very sensible words, such as:

"The study of animals is a subject of natural history, and there are no books in ancient China. The five chapters on Erya, insects, fish, birds, animals and animals only explain famous objects, and rarely detail. Mao's poem Lu Shu aims to sell the classics, leaving behind the truth. The theory of Lu Dian and Zheng Qiao , Picking up the superficial and superficial, and the same as others....Since many species of birds, beasts, insects and fish have become extinct in ancient times, the records in ancient books are very sparse. It is not important to compare clouds to shoulder-to-shoulder people, lovebirds, etc., but the poems say that the fruit of the cloud borer wins, and the rotten grass becomes a firefly, so as to catch the changes of eagles, doves, and clams. Insects and beasts, there are very few who have legs, and they are all in even numbers. There are no three-legged ones. In Erya, there are turtles with three legs, and turtles with three legs. The rumors are almost untrue.... The legend of the middle earth says that the dragon, the phoenix, and the tiger Xiu Zhengrui If you think about it, then the science is absolutely not perfect, and today's physics is so brilliant, there is no need to ask the ears of the ancients." If you look at this as modern common sense, it is very common, but if Mr. Sun is still alive, it should be It is admirable to be able to say this at the age of ninety-six.Now it is the Jiashen of the Republic of China, and the youths of the Republic of China are at least 60 years younger than Mr. Sun, and most of them have graduated from high school and junior high school. I hope that I have his kind of knowledge about natural history or biology, and I can fully understand the words quoted above. Then This is already five points of light, because I don't believe in the sparse legends of rotten grass turning into fireflies, and I can also understand that a lamb must kneel down to drink milk, (whether the sheep respect kneeling is up to others. One question,) crows have no family and cannot feed back. Although the original intention of the story of teaching lessons from nature is understandable, it is clear that it is not true.I say five points, because there are still five points. This is the negative section, which is the naturalization of ethics mentioned above.

I like a line in Mencius very much, that is, the reason why human beings are different from beasts.This sentence has always been preached by Taoists, but the interpretation is quite different.They think that the difference between humans and birds is only at one point, but the distance between the two is extremely far. If a person falls into the bird world beyond this line, it is like falling from the thirty-three days to the eighteenth level of hell. is far.I also admit that the difference between humans and birds is only a little bit, but the distance between the two is very close, as if there is only a piece of paper between the inside and the outside of the window, but in fact they are almost far away.I like the section by Mr. Jiao Litang the most, which has been quoted many times. It says:

"The former gentleman once said that life is nothing more than food and drink for men and women. Without food and drink, there is no life, and without men and women, there is no life. Only I want to live, and people also want to live. I want to live, and people also want to live. Mencius's good things and lust are exhausted. Well. You don’t need to forget what is born to me, what is born to me, but don’t forget what is born to others, what is born to people. I have followed the Yiyi for thirty years, and I know what my ancestors said. It’s not easy for a sage.” I once explained it as follows: :

"Diet is for the survival of the individual, and men and women are for the survival of the race. This is the instinct of all creatures. Evolutionists call the will to survive. Humans are also creatures, so this instinct naturally exists. However, the survival of ordinary creatures is simple. As long as he can survive, he will ignore the means. As long as he can survive, he will not hesitate to endanger the survival of others. Humans are not the same. He wants to survive the same as living things, but at first he feels that he cannot achieve his goal alone. He must communicate with others and help each other. Survive well, and then feel that others have the same likes and dislikes as oneself, and try to get along well. The former is a way of survival, and animals can also do it. The latter is the unique morality of survival of human beings, as the ancients said This is the reason why human beings are different from beasts.” The basic morality of human existence is called benevolence in China. Here, simplicity and soundness are the most important features. Although it is unique to human beings, it is not separated from the will of creatures, but it is its lofty growth. It blooms beautiful flowers, and the ancients said that it emerges from the mud without being stained, which is probably the best compliment.

Since the morality of human existence is the exaltation or beautification of biological instinct, we certainly cannot shrink back and return to the way of birds, but we must also be careful not to go too far, so as to violate nature.Although the ancients intuitively established these sound living morals, due to the constraints of the society and the times at that time, and the misunderstanding and use of various reasons by later generations, unintentional or intentional changes occurred, and there were many conflicts with modern times. Society is not only useless but harmful.To put it more generally, it is probably due to the fact that there are many violations of nature.It is certainly a good thing for human beings to abandon the animal ways of the strong eating the weak and living together with males and females. However, in the past, many bad things were done in the name of the king, such as religious wars, ideological and literary inquisition, personal trafficking, and slaughtering. Ducks and prostitution are also unprecedented in the biological world, and it can be said that they have fallen below the level of poultry.We do not have the power to correct morality, but we must have proper knowledge and judgment. We should review such things at any time based on the knowledge of biological anthropology and cultural history, so as to keep our moral theory and practice on the same level. It must neither fall short of the upper position, nor exceed nature, so as to fall into the mud again.This kind of movement cannot be accomplished in a short period of time with a small number of people, not to mention the troubled times now, but as the saying goes, when a person falls into the water, the first thing to do is to rescue himself. The most important thing is for Chinese people, especially young people. It is also the first to save oneself, and as more people are saved, then it is possible to save others.This is the only little dream I have left now, and I still write scribbled articles, that is to say, I am dazzled by this dream.The Republic of China applied for the Spring Festival.

(Written in 1944, from "Bitter and Sweet Mouth")