Chapter 40 come early tonight

Tonight at 21:48 tonight, Shaanxi Satellite TV's "Open Forum" program will have my talk, so come to the blog early.The past few days have been so lively that I don't have time to read it carefully, so I have to post an article I just wrote here.It's snowing heavily in Beijing, everyone beware of slippery roads.Gentlemen who like to add insult to injury and take advantage of the fire, they have no choice but to do as you please. Confucius on Temple Disaster I once published an article on how to deal with Falun Gong. The title is "Heaven is bound to be a disaster". The main meaning is that I hope that the leaders of various places will treat ordinary Falun Gong members with leniency. , Acting against the sky, God will punish them.The implication is that all those who act against the sky cannot escape the law of the sky.

Recently, I was reading the map of the holy sites of Confucius, and saw the section "Knowing the Disaster in the Temple of Lu", which is very interesting.It made me think not only of Falun Gong, but also related issues such as the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan.The original text is as follows: Confucius was in Chen, and Chen Hou was in Yanzhi.Ziyou heard that priest Yunlu, a passer-by, was crying and went to the ancestral temple to report.Confucius said: "The disaster must be Huan Li?" Chen Hou said: "How do you know it?" He said: "Li Yun's ancestors have meritorious deeds, and their ancestors have virtue, so don't destroy their temples." Huan Li, merits and virtues are not enough to survive Temple, but Lu did not destroy it, it was a natural disaster." Then Lu envoy Guo returned the disaster with Huanli.The Marquis of Chen said to Zigong, "I now know how precious a saint is."

Among ancient thinkers, Confucius was relatively unsuperstitious, and his attitude towards ghosts and gods was "respectful and far away".But he never denied the existence of ghosts and gods, he believed in the "way of heaven" in the dark.He doesn't try to curry favor with heaven or bribe heaven, he just acts according to the principle of a man and consciously stands on the side of heaven, so he believes that "the ancestors have meritorious deeds, and the ancestors have virtues", the ancestral temple can stand, if there is no merit, or the merit is very small , even if the merits are not worth it, the ancestral temple cannot stand.Ancestral temples that are not worth preserving should be destroyed. If people do not destroy them, God will destroy them himself.

There are countless ancestral temples destroyed in Chinese and foreign history, because with the evolution of the times, the value judgment of merit is changing. "Destroying the Four Olds" was not an invention of the Cultural Revolution. If you didn't ransack your home or beat people, but simply abolished old ethics and established new customs, it would be a completely understandable historical practice.We don’t destroy the ancestral temple today, but it doesn’t mean that we understand history better than the Red Guards. We start from the significance of cultural relics protection or the purpose of developing tourism. In fact, it is a kind of “cultural businessman” mentality who uses gods and ancestors to make money .Most people today don't ask what merits and virtues the gods in the ancestral temples have. Although those ancestral temples are still standing and being maintained, in fact, in our hearts, they have been destroyed long ago.Because those gods and ancestors from all directions have not protected us for at least a hundred years.Even in Western Christianity, most believers just follow the cultural conventions and routines. Many people don’t even read the Bible thoroughly. They go to confess once a week, which seems to be a moral fine. in their spiritual toilet.Only Islamic Muslims are more pious than us and are willing to take it seriously.But being too pious can easily lead to fundamentalist thinking that rejects "heretics", just like the "liberal Red Guards" in China today label all those who say a few words of justice for the common people as "leftists". Conscious jihad awareness.In their hearts, there is a ancestral temple, which is the American Statue of Liberty.

According to such troublesome logic, should Japan preserve the Yasukuni Shrine?Then the gods and monsters in the shrine have done more meritorious deeds or sins to the Japanese people?The mainstream thinking in Japan today, of course, believes that merit is great, so whoever is in power must go to worship.However, China and South Korea, etc., who are opposed to visiting the shrine, think it is a big crime.But after all, it is their ancestral temple, and if they don't destroy it themselves, we can't lift 1.3 billion stones and smash their glass across the sea.The United States is so domineering, and it didn't destroy the ancestral temple of Iraq.To destroy a temple, one needs to build it.

Judging from the attitude of the past few years, Japanese people's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine are like streaking. The more spectators, the more addicted they are, and they can't quit for a while.And we don't have our own "Yasukuni Shrine" or "Memorial Hall of Defending the Family and the Nation" to fight against others. Even when the alarm was raised on the anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, some white-collar workers hated it, saying that it interfered with citizens. free life.So I can only believe in Confucius' attitude in this matter. If the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan is really not a thing, then there will be natural disasters.It is not necessarily cowardice or superstition to say this, because natural disasters have been imposed on Japan not eight times out of ten.Apart from "purely natural" disasters such as the Great Tokyo Earthquake and the Great Hanshin Earthquake, the exclusive possession of two atomic bombs may not simply be regarded as a "man-made disaster."Of course Jehovah hates those who do many wrongs.Chinese people hate Japan so much, but I feel a little bit of pity. I don’t know how long this nation, which thinks it’s smart enough to invent instant noodles and karaoke, will go against the sky. Is it because too many natural disasters are numb to suffering?Although many executioners with bloody hands are enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine, I still hope that those ghosts can really bring happiness and peace to the Japanese people after undergoing labor reform in hell.Finally, let me end with a Tibetan mantra that I learned last year without a clear meaning: Maha Kara Bensenbao!