Chapter 8 The Theory of Sacrifice - Laity Philosophy II

The Theory of Sacrifice - Laity Philosophy II "Sacrifice" is to slaughter animals for others and put them on the altar for God.No animal is willing to obediently climb up to the altar and surrender its life as a tool for others to seek blessings.This is the ineffectiveness of livestock, and it is very troublesome for those who use it. Some soft-hearted ones can't get used to whining, and even have to consider whether they should trade sheep for cattle when doing it. , It's really not happy enough!But even so, there is nothing to do with it, because it is a beast after all, it only knows the desire for life, does not understand the value of death, loves the body but not the spirit, and it is hard to reason with it. It is not as easy to deal with this human being who is known as the "spirit of all things" if he has to show a butcher's fierce appearance to force the slaughter.Because the word "sacrifice" is already a strange and beautiful term in the ears of human beings. Many martyrs and martyrs often don't hesitate their parents to raise rice for them, and climb up for words such as "glory" and "greatness". Going to the altar meeting, he gritted his teeth and tried hard to hold back the pain of death.This is called automatic sacrifice.And so he was done, forever.The person who took advantage of it really got the benefits at that time, not only could he always hide that ferocious butcher appearance, but he also had the unforeseen reputation of adult beauty. "His spirit is immortal!" They looked at the victim triumphantly and nodded in praise. Of course, those who accompanied the sacrifice around the altar would also admire their intelligence. Praise its spirit: "How brave it is to sacrifice one's life for righteousness!" The fatness of the meat, in this way, can be regarded as worthy of the painstaking efforts of others to make sacrifices, because it can be immortal from now on. The gods in the world only end up with an empty name to enjoy, and in theory they should also repay the piety of these sacrificers.

What force in the universe is encouraging people to make automatic sacrifices?I suspect. It is said that in our China, Nan Tang was the first one who did not hesitate to replace livestock with his body. "Lu's Spring and Autumn" contains: "Yin Shang Kexia was in the king's world, and there was no rain for five years. Tang Nai prayed in the mulberry forest with his body, cut his hair, cut his claws, and thought he was sacrificed." The trick of sacrifice doesn't seem too difficult.Because in this way, if the Dragon King of the Four Seas really feels sorry for seeing it, and immediately gives away, then this living sacrifice will roll off the altar and get wet in a yellow robe, and it will not be happy to go home to see that the water tanks are full .Let me say one more thing, but asking for nothing is just a waste of time, and the hair of fingers and claws grows faster the more they are cut.This is the calculation and limit of a wise man's sacrifice. Tang Zhen deserves to be the founding father of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.Since then, sacrifice has become the mantra of ordinary people, sacrificing property, sacrificing reputation, sacrificing love, and so on.It seems that a person is good if he is willing to sacrifice everything, and bad if he is unwilling to sacrifice everything. Sacrifice has surpassed a good talk and has become a noble term in morality.

I said that it doesn't matter if one person makes a sacrifice, but sacrifices also have to take into account the price of the sacrifice.I remember when I was young, my mother often told me a story. It said that there was a woman in a neighboring village who was seriously ill but her mind was not blurred. She heard her young son crying for food. At that time, no one else was in the room, so she struggled. With the last of her strength she came to feed her darling, but before the thing caught her she fell to the ground dead.Villages near and far admired her spirit of sacrifice.My mother complimented hers too, of course.But every time I heard this story, I somehow felt uncomfortable in my childish heart.Now I have found out the reason for this discomfort. It is the price of sacrifice. After all, I can't get rid of the philistine smell.I don't know what exactly her youngest son was clamoring to eat. If it doesn't matter whether you eat it or not, isn't her grabbing it a meaningless sacrifice that hurts herself and others?If this thing is actually a kind of omnivorous food that has eaten a bad belly, then even if it is lucky to catch it, it is an act of sending others and harming oneself.Even if it is not an omnivorous food, but necessary food such as rice, tea and water, the child will not die immediately if he gets it or never gets it, so why risk his life to risk his death?Sacrifice for love is moving, but avoiding sacrifice for love makes more sense.

Therefore, I hope that no matter who you are, you must recognize this point, that is, sacrifice is a last resort; if it is a last resort, sacrifice should not be taken lightly; this is true for others, and it is also true for yourself.Seeing that Yu Jiu was dead, Guan Zhong did not hesitate to jump into the prison cart to assist Duke Huan and the nine vassals. To control the world, how is his value compared to Zhao Hu's self-proclaimed servant?Yan Ying's refusal to sacrifice himself because the king is not a dead country, is also the only one he has seen.It is true that people who pull out a hair and benefit the world without doing anything are selfish, irritating and hateful, but if you don't ask whether a hair in the world can help the world, you just sacrifice yourself and make your own hairs and excrement unable to come out. It's just that his aspirations are sad.I mourn for my aspirations, so I can't bear to expose my stupidity. This is why we treat others generously.Counting people from the well is no good, not to mention sacrificing one's precious life in vain to sacrifice one's late emperor, one's husband, and all worthless system thoughts if one is already dead and cannot be saved.What do we say, loyal ministers don't have to be remonstrated to death, only when they die in a military battle can they be considered loyal: if the remonstrance is decent, the emperor will accept it readily, and rewards will be added; The item is ideal.In other words, it is the most admirable action to sacrifice little and pay great price, or to gain benefits without sacrifice.If you have to choose the next best thing, the sacrifice must be sacrificed.As a filial daughter, she went around Beijing to write a letter to save her father. In the Han Dynasty, it was abolished. Come, it would be too uneconomical.Let's imagine that if the gods and ghosts were not active that day, it would be impossible to find corpses in the sea?Any conscious person should not do anything that is always beneficial, but knowing that there is no benefit and that sacrifices cannot be avoided.

There are many who, when they protest against those who, by blind action, have incurred unnecessary victims, are ashamed to say that their death was due to recklessness or stupidity, so they have to do their best to invent some excuses to cover them up, saying that it was theirs. Death is for love, for indignation, for compassion, and so on.It seems that these acts of temperament do not need to be measured by the standard of common sense.Little do they know that the praiseworthy of human behavior lies in its rationality. Whether it is reasonable or not is a question of right and wrong, and what is true is true.What is true must be good, and what is true must be beautiful.Apart from this, there is no love, no compassion, they are all products of common sense.We, like other animals, have lived on the impulse of life since our babies fell to the ground, and we have nothing else to do but hope to satisfy our own appetite.

We only know how to suck on the breast, regardless of whether the breast belongs to the mother or whether it was born on the breast of the nurse.If we can say that newborn babies also have the so-called love in their nature, then the object of their love must be their own food—milk, and the source of milk—the breasts, and then the pair of full breasts woman.If the mother does not breastfeed by herself, the baby does not know how to love her, and the so-called parent-child love is nothing more than a product of common sense; Needless to say, the son is obliged to confess that he sacrificed Zhaojun's life for this.The difference is that people don't know the rationality of courtship, they only ask whether they are cute enough to be common, and they regard habits as their nature, so they stick to it and refuse to relax.Little do they know that this kind of attitude of following the rules and refusing to seek the truth is to do, and those who do must do their best. How stubborn the patients are, they laugh when they don’t want to try hard to seek the truth, but they are strange when they hinder others from seeking the truth. Therefore, many tragedies have been added out of thin air in the history of mankind.

A proverb goes: "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will be victorious in all battles." The reason why we human beings can become the overlord of the earth is not because of the developed compassion; To use others to sacrifice for oneself.Cats do not hunt mice for man's sake, bees do not make honey for man's sake, hens do not lay eggs for man's sake, but because they are weak compared with man in power, so we feel as though they are incapable. We all have an obligation to sacrifice everything for us.We don't think that using cat's mouth and claws is suspected of being exploited by employers, and we don't think that taking honey and seizing eggs is a type of robbery. When it comes to criminal law, it is a crime of destroying the order of the universe. It's just for all of us. They all consider themselves the king of all things, and they are endowed with royal power and have the obligation to make all living beings sacrifice for us.If there is something in it that slightly conflicts with our interests, we have the responsibility to take its life.Just like rats biting miscellaneous objects, locusts hurting rice ears, and tigers and wolves coming out to devour people, etc., we are all happy to die and fear that their death will be miserable.Who said that compassion treats people and things equally?Those who are beneficial to me, love wants to live; those who are not good to me, evil wants to kill; if someone insists on self-sacrifice as a virtue, regardless of the object, he will speak love and compassion to mice and locusts without asking for a price Come on, so, destroying things to feed rats, leaving rice to feed locusts, and devoting oneself to feed tigers and wolves, isn't this being laughed at as madness by others?There will never be such idiots in the world who are willing to make sacrifices for rats, locusts and other things that are harmful to themselves. There have been no such people in the past, there are no such people now, and there will never be any in the future.

To be honest, people are not only unwilling to make sacrifices for things they don't love, but occasionally they are willing to sacrifice some small benefits for things they love, and they are willing to do so because of the fluke heart that may get a bigger price for this small sacrifice. try.Human beings are talented in business, and there are only a few people who do not invest for profit. If he really loses money because of this and does not benefit at all, it is because of his lack of knowledge, and willingness to sacrifice is his excuse.A child who does not know the danger of fire and burns his fingers by touching a lamp is arguably sacrificed in search of the light of the universe. This phenomenon is the best metaphor for all voluntary sacrifices.

True sacrifice is necessary; so we should not praise sacrifice, but avoid it.