Chapter 22 life and perception

life and perception The most real thing in life is the perception of each person's own heart.The beginning of consciousness is the beginning of life.The existence of consciousness is the existence of life.The end of consciousness is the end of life.It should be a very reasonable thing for us to judge the various meanings and values ​​of impulsive life based on the inner perception of each person. Please start with the material life first. The so-called material life refers to food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. These are only the lowest level of life at the grassroots level. They have negative and negative values ​​in all life.But life continues from the past, there are still big things to do, and this cannot be regarded as a positive aspect of life.Only when the life of the body is maintained can there be human life, but it cannot be said that life is only for the survival of the body.Let’s talk about diet first. Diet is especially the lowest kind of physical life. Although it is the most basic, it is not the most meaningful.Without food, we cannot have all life, but food does not include all of life, and it cannot reach the height of life.Why?Because the sense of taste is the lowest kind of human perception.The taste has no depth, and there is no big difference between drinking vegetable soup and chicken soup.Everyone drinks chicken soup, and the feeling they get is roughly the same.It cannot be said that your taste for chicken soup is better, more beautiful, more meaningful, or more valuable than others.Moreover, the sense of taste is not only lacking in depth, but also progressively decreasing.One sip is the same taste, two or three sips are still the same taste, and on the contrary, one sip is not as good as one sip, the more you drink, the more bland it will feel, and it will gradually decrease until you get bored and have no taste.Moreover, the sense of taste cannot be preserved. After drinking and eating, it is over. When you are full, you are full, hungry and greedy. At that time, you don’t want to drink, but after a while, you want to drink again. Keep you dissatisfied, and always keep you bored.If life is really about food, everyone can die without regret as long as they choose the most exquisite food and have a full meal.Why?Because taste is always just that.And if others have tasted it, you and I don't have to taste it anymore.Why?Still the same taste.The ancients said that the sexuality of food and sex, if only the sense of touch in the sexual life of men and women is concerned, what they perceive in their hearts is similar to the sense of taste mentioned above.Therefore, although food and sex are the most basic items in life, they are not noble and meaningful items.Now let's talk about clothes. The function of clothes in material life is only to maintain body temperature. Add some lightness and softness to it.After that, nothing more.If life is devoted to clothing, then you should try to pick a comfortable garment and put it on your upper body. It is enough to feel its softness and warmth for a while, and nothing can make you pursue it further.All clothes, the most extraordinary, will always be like that in the touch of your skin.As for you wearing fancy dress to go out to socialize or go to a banquet, what you feel in your heart at that time is not only about keeping warm, which is beyond the physical life and material life, so it is naturally another matter.Live and walk, infer from this, no more talk.

Life is above the negative and negative material life, but there is still a positive and positive spiritual life.Try to preface the life of art, which can also be said to be the life of loving beauty.When human culture develops, a little satisfaction in the negative aspect of physical life will break into the beauty-loving life.We found that there were often exquisite and beautiful paintings on the cave walls of the early people, and they would dance and sing outside the cave when they encountered a beautiful scene in the past.Needless to say, these are the beginnings of a beautiful life.Even for a baby, when he is full of milk and sleeps peacefully in the cradle, when a bright line shines into his eyelids, or a gentle sound drums his eardrums, there will be a kind of life in him. joy.Gradually grow up, grow up, all games, singing, dancing, lively, isn't this an artistic life?Therefore, an artistic life is also inherent.But this kind of life can lead you into the depths.A famous chef cooks a dish so that you can't taste it.A famous painting, a famous piece of music, sometimes makes people unable to appreciate its benefits inexplicably.He can have another day, another realm, inspire your spirit, guide your heart, go deeper and deeper, rise and excel, your mind cannot understand this, this is a defect in your life.Human beings should have a life of love of beauty in addition to earning a living, otherwise it will be regarded as the death of his life.

Secondly, when it comes to scientific life, it can also be said to be a life of seeking knowledge, which is also innate.The early civil society did not know how to use fire, but gradually invented the use of fire.He didn't know how to use tools, but gradually invented various tools.From stone implements, bronze implements and iron implements, it gradually reached the use of electricity and atomic energy.This series of progress, could it be the progress of seeking knowledge in life, that is, the progress of science.As far as a newborn baby is concerned, he only encounters novel things outside, and he already knows to open his eyes and reach out, to observe, to play with, to deal with him repeatedly, and even destructively. These are the first appearances of a scientific life seeking knowledge.You have a mood of loving beauty, and you will go anywhere without seeing beauty.You have a mood of seeking knowledge, and you will go anywhere without encountering knowledge.Even if you don't know something, you can know what you don't know, which is already a kind of knowing.Therefore, everyone can love beauty and seek knowledge.But the depth of beauty and knowledge is as deep as it is bottomless, and you will never reach its ultimate point.Only on this basis can life progress tirelessly and endlessly for tens of thousands of years.

However, one thing must be made clear, art and science are excavated and created by human beings who love beauty and seek knowledge, but after some excavations and creations, they have to be materialized, but they still have to fall on the material.Reflected in the shallow mind, it is still shallow, and it still becomes a matter of material life.Stone statue carving is just to carve a human figure with stone blocks.A painting is just painting some colors on paper to form some images.A song is just a piece of sound, with continuous ups and downs, that's all.Today everyone is shocked and boasting about the achievements of science. In fact, electric lights can only be seen at night, so what's the big deal.Sometimes sitting under the lamp is better than sitting under the moonlight.Sometimes it is better to sit in the dark than to sit in the moonlight.Those who work under electric light are no better than those who work under oil lamps.Just like those who grew up eating chicken soup are no better than those who grew up eating vegetable soup.Precisely because these are only things on the side of material life, all material life does not have much depth, so what affects the whole life is not profound.Flying in the air, it is just a little faster, but it is not necessarily true that the people who fly in the air will change much in their hearts.In terms of generating deep and subtle stimuli in the heart, sometimes flying is not as good as sailing or mule carts, and sometimes walking is even worse.To put it bluntly, the invention of the airplane and the electric light, the progress of the mind that seeks knowledge is amazing and can be boasted. As for flying an airplane and using electric lights, it is still a kind of material life, still shallow, without much depth, just like Your rich meals and fine attire do not add to the value of your life either.In other words, scientists only make great contributions to the progress of human beings seeking knowledge, and their contributions to the enjoyment of material life are not considered as great.Because all the enjoyment of material life is always shallow, and it cannot make a deeper and higher contribution to it.In other words, if a person does not fly a plane or use electric lights all his life, it cannot be regarded as a defect in life.If people are confined to material life for the rest of their lives, there will be no enlightenment to reveal their love of beauty and the depths of their knowledge-seeking hearts.A bottomless forward pursuit is indeed the biggest flaw in life and cannot be compensated.Life can only develop in the mind, not just in the material.

Speaking of literary life again.Artistic life is for beauty, scientific life is for knowledge, and literary life is for truth.Although art and science are not a kind of material life, they are ultimately a kind of pursuit and breakthrough of the human mind to the material aspect, because they all have foreign objects as their objects.The object of literary life is human beings themselves.It can be said that human beings did not first have individuals before there were crowds and societies. In fact, there were first crowds and societies before there were individuals.Individuals must be in the crowd to have the meaning and value of their existence.Man will live among men, will find himself in others, and will deposit himself in others.Without others, if a person is alone in this world, not only will all life be impossible, but all his life will be meaningless and worthless.Life among men is, in short, primarily an emotional life.Human beings have to find sympathy from human beings, and only emotional life is a real life.Joy, anger, sorrow, love, evil, and desire are most clearly discovered only between people.Its most real application is also between people.Life can lack beauty and knowledge, but it cannot lack sympathy and mutual affection.Without these two, how can there be life?Only between people can there be sympathy and mutual feeling, so emotion is life.To find emotion in others is to find life in others.When people want to place their emotions on others, they are putting their lives on others.If there is no emotion in life, just like a grass in a desert without water, a fish in a heap of dead rocks and rubble, it will not exist at all.All the beauty and knowledge in life need to take root in emotion, without emotion, there will be no beauty and knowledge.People's pursuit of beauty and knowledge of external things is indirect, only emotional life is direct at first.No matter in the primitive society or even in infancy, the beginning of life is the beginning of emotion.To deprive emotion is to deprive life.Emotional requirements are also bottomless.Tens of thousands of years of life, the reason why we can move forward tirelessly, endlessly, and ceaselessly, is all due to the tireless, endless, ceaseless support and radical changes required by that kind of emotion.However, a life of love of beauty and seeking knowledge can be without failure, while a life of empathy is bound to have failure.Therefore, a life that loves beauty and seeks knowledge does not necessarily have pain, but a life that emphasizes emotion must have pain.As long as you really think that thing is beautiful, that thing will really be beautiful to you.As long as you seek knowledge about that thing, that thing can become your knowledge.Because not knowing is also knowing, you know that you don't know about him, it means that this thing has been given to you.Therefore, it is said that there is no failure to love beauty and seek knowledge, and there is no pain because of it.As long as sympathy and mutual feeling are required, it cannot be without failure.A mother who loves her child must demand a sympathetic response from the child.Children who are filial to their mother must also ask for a sympathetic response from their mother.But sometimes the other party can't do what I want. This is the most failure and the most painful part of life.The more you ask, the more failure and pain you feel.The mother loves the child, the son sympathizes with the mother, and the son filies the mother, and the mother loves the child with sympathy. This is the most successful place in life, that is, the happiest place.The deeper you ask, the deeper the success and happiness you feel.All the joys and sorrows in life are epic and full of emotion.Couples, families, friends, clubs, forgetting to sleep and eat, life and death, all love and love, intertwined into all life, wrote a wonderful article between heaven and earth.Life is literature, and literature cannot be separated from life.Only because there are failures and pains in life, there are literary works to vent and compensate.

But literature is fictitious in the end, and people still have to turn back from literary imagination to face real life, which is still suffering and failure, so there is religion because of the escape of emotion.Man entrusts his life to God.Man cannot seek sympathy from another, so he seeks sympathy from God.Man cannot live in another man's mind, so imagine living in God's mind.I can't fathom other people's hearts, but God's heart seems to be caught by me, and this has become my belief.When I believed in God, I grasped the heart of God.I love Jesus, and Jesus must love me too.I love God, and God must love me too.For all the failures and pains in life, I can vent to God and ask God to give me compensation.Therefore, religious life is actually only emotional and imaginary.All the joys and sorrows in life are full of songs and tears, and they are silently told to God.Having God in me turns into having me in God's heart.God has become a crystallization of literary life.Religion is also just a poem.

However, the elusiveness of God is even more elusive than all descriptions in literature.The nothingness of God is more nothingness than anything imagined in literature.People only seek some comfort from God, muster up some courage, and still have to return to the real life.You don't love me, I still want to love you.If you don't believe me, I will still believe you.If you don't give me sympathy, I still have to give you sympathy.From a life of faith to a life of will.The religious life also turns into a moral life.Prayer becomes practice, avoidance becomes struggle.In a blink of an eye, as long as you think he is cute, he is still cute in the end.As long as you think he is credible, he will eventually be credible.As long as you are willing to let him live in your heart, he will really live in your heart, and finally he will live in his heart like you, and in this way, the oriental theory of good nature will be completed.The theory of good nature is only a kind of religion, and it is only a kind of belief.The progress of sexual goodness is still bottomless.After all, The Theory of Xingshan is still a great article between heaven and earth, and it is still a poem, which is extremely touching and profound. All the songs and tears in life, the joys and sorrows, all melt and calm in the concept of Xingshan.So life is always literary, and it can be religious, but it should be moral.In fact, morality is still religious and literary, and it can also be said to be a very sincere religious and romantic literature.Moral life, as well as religious life, literary life, where the sincere and romantic feelings are poured out, is also like the artistic life and scientific life. You will see its success and joy everywhere.

Human beings only have the most emotional, which is the most life.Only the most vivid, broadest and strongest of emotions, joy, anger, sorrow, love, and desire are the most moral, that is, the most literary.In other words, it is the most artistic and scientific, and it can also be said to be the most religious.If you taste this kind of taste, compared with drinking a cup of chicken soup and wearing a silk dress, you will really be as far away as heaven and earth. Please use your inner perception to judge all the value and meaning of life, is it not like my way of thinking?