Chapter 7 arts and sciences

arts and sciences Read newspapers in the early morning, domestic and foreign, all kinds of telecommunications, browse one by one, if you are a little sensitive, you will feel that any corner of the world, whatever happens, can be related to your current life.The word "World Net" used by Chinese poets is now more accurate.The world is really like a net, with one horizontal and one vertical, pulling east and west, binding you tightly inside.If you live in a bustling city, such as Shanghai, and you throw away the newspaper and go to the street, you will feel the chaos and chaos outside, so you can't help but feel less nervous, and listen to all directions and see all directions.In short, the more advanced science is today, the more crowded the world is, and the more oppressive people feel in life because of this, there is no room for maneuver.The place of the personal ego is almost gone.Only in the evening or late at night, when you have finished the business of the day and are not disturbed by others, you can occasionally feel relaxed and have a leisurely moment.Otherwise, you may temporarily withdraw to a scenic spot or a secluded place in the countryside for a day or two of vacation. Your state of mind at that time will really be like a tired bird returning to the forest, letting go of everything and loosening everything.You will say this is my real life!

Let us remember the above verse and advance our imagination by one or two centuries, or even seven or eight hundred years, or one or two thousand years. What would life be like at that time?Needless to say, at that time, modern science had not yet emerged, the world was loose and not compact, and life was leisurely and not flustered.You are for you, I am for me, relatively irrelevant.Their external world, the material environment, is narrower than ours, but their inner world, the world in their hearts, is wider than ours.In a nutshell, their daily life should generally be like us when we leave our office every evening, or like us on weekend afternoons and Sundays. Their lives are more comfortable and comfortable, or it can be said that they live their whole lives. Often as we travel on spring break.You might as well compare a village with a factory.You know the difference in frame of mind and emotion between a farmer working in the field and a worker in a factory.Another example is to imagine a hotel on a harbor pier and a Buddhist temple in a deep mountain. When you and a large group of businessmen from afar come to this hotel on a seaport for the first time, you will be accompanied by two or three friends. , sitting on a mountain sedan chair, or crossing a donkey, and looking for the gate of an ancient temple with big trees standing all over the world, you will roughly understand the difference between modern life and ancient life in people's hearts.

But then again, as long as people in ancient times were sensitive, why didn't they feel that they were born in the world?And their feelings will be more sensitive and stronger than ours.Their era is not far from the muddled ancient times, just like a wild horse, first put on the bridle and saddle, he will always think of his long forest and abundant grass.After waiting for him to yoke for a long time, he also gradually forgot.It is also like a candle, in a quiet room, without the outside wind blowing, its brilliance will naturally be brighter and bigger.People in ancient times were less stimulated by external factors, while modern people are stimulated more by external factors. A candle is lit in a quiet courtyard, and another candle is lit in the wind, and the radiance shines, which is naturally different.The minds of ancient people are more sensitive than modern people.All religious literature and art, which are produced by the brilliance of the heart, seem to be not as good as they used to be.

Ancient life was like watching a revolving lantern, and modern life is like watching a kaleidoscope. In short, the world is full of diversity and endless changes.There are many stimuli on the outside, but unexpectedly, there are also many overlapping areas on the inside.For example, in a room, things keep coming in through the windows. There are too many stuffed, and the whole room is piled up, black and white, making it impossible to move.There is no longer light and air.Modern people seem to think that the things in the house should be stuffed, and they only pay attention to how to stack the things in his house.The ancient people seemed to understand the usefulness of empty houses, and they always didn't like to let things from the outside be stuffed in casually.He often folds the house clean so that he can sit up freely.He often wants to keep his mind empty, at least as you sometimes do on a Saturday afternoon.Looking forward to the ancient times and returning to nature, this is the period of brilliance that is most likely to shine in the depths of their hearts when human beings are just getting rid of the ignorance and the dawn of culture.All great religions, great arts and great literature sprout and develop from here.

Material life and professional life are different.On the one hand, they tighten the relationship between each other in life, and on the other hand, they cut off the relationship in life from each other.If you can let go of all the heavy burdens, clean up all the stimuli accumulated in your heart, and suddenly feel empty, then your heart will start to be liberated from the outside, but at the same time it will start to harmonize with the outside.The inside and the outside are condensed into one piece, and there is no difference.Although your state of mind at that time was the most momentary, it was also the most eternal.Why?The state of mind of the moment is always stained with some colors and dressed up in some patterns. From these patterns and colors, the heart is separated from the heart and isolated.There is only one emptiness state of mind, which is the most difficult to face and experience, but that emptiness state of mind is universal and understandable.Your heart and mine cannot be alike, only an empty heart is nothing but you and me.The mind of the previous moment cannot be like the mind of the next moment. There is only an empty mind, which is eternal.If you meet this empty heart, you will meet thousands of hearts, the hearts of generations, which is the common source of true religious art and literature in ancient times.The most momentary is the most eternal, the most empty is the most real.If we call this state of mind the most artistic state of mind, then the life unfolded by this state of mind is the most artistic life.

With the development of science, the world's network cables are tightened, material life and professional life are becoming more and more differentiated, society is becoming more complex, personal life is more stimulated and restrained by the outside world, the heart and heart are becoming more and more complicated, and religion, art and literature are gradually declining. , which is far backward than before.Science and art seem to be two opposite trends, which is the sigh of modern sensitive people.But life is always one life, and its branches and branches can vary widely.Looking back to the source, wouldn't it still start from the same life.Science seems to focus on quantity rather than quality. They are used to analyzing the extremely complex to the extremely simple, and transforming the extremely concrete to the extremely abstract.Mathematics and geometry are the most scientific sciences. Shapes and numbers are just forms without content, so everything can be deduced.Since then, he has led various categories of modern science.Personnel is the most specific, the most complex, and the most difficult to generalize. Life cannot be said to be just a form, and personnel cannot be measured or calculated by numbers.But if you can simplify and abstract human affairs, and make life reach a state where there is only form but no content, wouldn't it be a great way to scientific life.The starting point of all human affairs is the human heart. Now the content of the heart is simplified and purified, all the dross on the heart is cleared, all the stains on the heart are washed, and the heart often returns to the ancient and even the natural state. Leave him empty and empty.At that time, one thought is ten thousand thoughts, ten thousand thoughts are one thought, and it seems that there is only quantity and no quality. It is not as good as a triangle and a circle in geometry, and it is not as good as two plus two equals four in mathematics.If you can catch it here, this is what Buddhism calls the original face of parents before they were born!Before the parents were born, where was the original face?This simply means that this state of mind is the mother of all states of mind, and all states of mind are manifested from this state of mind.It seems that all kinds of theories in science can be staged step by step from the most basic reasoning of form and number.As another example, this mentality can also be said to be just like the atomic energy recently invented by the scientific community.From then on, all the abilities of various substances can be displayed.Regardless of religion, art and literature, all human wisdom and mental strength should also be drawn from this source.If you can peel off your own heart layer by layer, cut it off step by step, and reach a stage where there is nothing left and you are resolutely independent, then you have done the most labor-intensive and basic experiment in the scientificization of life.The life of science and the life of art meet and merge here.

Humanities are performed from nature, but the more humanities develop, the more alienated they are from nature.The more alienated we are from nature, the more humanistic diseases will be exposed.There is only one mentality mentioned above, which is the intersection of humanities and nature.From this point on, human beings departed from nature and embarked on the road of culture.We want our culture to be healthy and healthy, less sick and sick, and to make our personal life always feel comfortable and less bound. Only by returning to this state of mind from time to time can we absorb the elites of nature outside.This is a convenient method.People in the cultural circle understand this convenient method, and they can travel to the ancient times and return to nature at any time.In the environment of highly developed scientific civilization, western society also has their religious life fortunately, which often unintentionally leads them back to this road.China's society and religion are underdeveloped, but there has always been a lot of experience and cultivation for the above-mentioned point where the artistic life and the scientific life meet, that is, the intersection of nature and humanity.In the past in China, there were many extremely profound theories and extremely subtle methods to guide in this regard.In the bondage of the world's net, if we feel a little sleepy or suffering from the material life of the current scientific world, why not try to read a few articles, according to the Zen Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty and even the Neo-Confucians of the Song and Ming Dynasties, and they will explain this to you. A convenient way, they will bring you in touch with this intersection point, they will make you add infinite energy and produce infinite brilliance in your daily life.