Chapter 23 Outside and in the ring

Outside and in the ring If we say that the difference between life and non-life (matter) lies mainly in sentience and insensitivity, since the lowest proto-colloid life like amoeba, he also seems to have consciousness.The so-called perception is just knowing that there is self and knowing that there is something. This perception forms the world into self and non-self, inside and outside, but the first and lowest level of consciousness is only in a state of fuzziness and drowsiness.Until all plants are still the same.When life evolves to the advanced animal kingdom, his consciousness is gradually awakened, clear and clear.Human beings occupy the highest and final state of life perception, so in human consciousness, there is the clearest and clearest boundary between self and things, self and non-self, internal and external.But once in the human mind, self and things, self and non-self, internal and external, begin to communicate and meet again, reflect each other, and merge into one.In my heart, many others live, but in the hearts of many others, I live.

All life is placed on a specific individual substance, so life is limited in space and time, small and short, and life is death.Only human beings start to radiate their life from their specific individual matter (that is, from my body) due to the awareness of the heart, and put it in the hearts of others outside, so that life can expand infinitely, Infinite stretches.It is precisely because I want to radiate my life and put it in the hearts of others, so I have the dignity of personality and the value of personality.One must work hard to develop and create personality, so that one can have a clear and strong image in others' hearts, one can place oneself in others' hearts, and not be so vague that one forgets and loses one's existence.

If this concept is used to measure the value of life, all material life is still the lowest level, especially the life of diet.Food and drink can only feel full or delicious at the moment, and must not be reflected in the hearts of others to produce a vivid and strong image and store it.This so-called drinking water is cold and warm, and everyone knows it. This is incomparable.Clothes and dwellings are more advanced. On a certain person's clothes and dwellings, it is easy to show his personality and personality and reflect it in other people's hearts. Some images are produced and stored temporarily. This is the essence of your life. Expansion, radiating from one's own heart to other hearts.However, this is very indifferent and slight. What matters is your personality and personality, not your clothes and where you live.Wouldn't it be a despicable joke to say that your individuality and personality can only be expressed in your clothes and where you live?

This is where the value of an artistic life lies.Your personality and personality are completely projected on the works of art you create, and reflected in the hearts of others. When others appreciate your works of art, they will discover your personality and personality.Your artistic creation is the expression of your life.The longevity of art means the survival of life.However, artistic life is the materialization of life. No matter a character, a painting, a sculpture, a piece of music, a palace building, or even a garden design, art must exist by means of matter.You have integrated your life into the matter you rely on, and others can imagine and understand your life from this matter. These are more or less indirect, unkind, and not simple.Therefore, the mood when appreciating art is always to appreciate the artwork itself rather than the author who created the artwork.This is the shortcoming of artistic life.Only by relying on the less external substance, can the personality of the creator be more manifested.Here, only the music and calligraphy unique to the Orientals are quite different.Because it has less external material, it is closer to the literature to be talked about below.

Literature differs from art in this respect.Works of art need to rely on substances, while literary works are expressed in words created by human beings themselves, and no longer need to rely on natural substances.Therefore, those who appreciate art must inevitably appreciate works more than writers.Those who appreciate literature can often appreciate writers more than works.When we comment on literature from this point, it seems that dramas and novels are still not the best literature.Why?Because of dramas and novels, when creating languages, it is unavoidable to place the twists and turns of the writer's mood on other personnel and project them into the hearts of others.As far as appreciation is concerned, it is inevitable that people appreciate dramas and novels themselves, surpassing the true source of all the emotions of the authors of these dramas and novels when they wrote the works.If so, it is still an indirect communication.Like Shakespeare in the West, the author's personality can form all kinds of conjectures without harming the value of the drama of his works.This proves that the work can be independent from the author.In literature, only lyrical poetry and prose can closely integrate the writer and the work, and the author's mood, personality and personality are directly shown in the work, and the author's real life at that time is directly revealed. And let the appreciator directly appreciate it through the work.The most ethereal is the most real.The most direct is the most vivid.The most helpless is the most powerful.Only in this way can it be said that it is the best work of ideal literature.Chinese people always worship Tao Qian and Du Fu more than Shi Naian and Cao Xueqin.Because Shi Naian and Cao Xueqin only melt their lives into his works, while Tao Qian and Du Fu condense their lives into his works, and they are direct and unrestrained.For the same reason, Chinese people worship calligraphers more than painters.It is often better to worship a painter than to worship an architect.Worshiping literati paintings is also better than worshiping palace paintings.

The lives of scientists are placed on purely objective physics, which is farther away from real life.If we look at scientists with the creative mood of artists, scientists should be said to be more artistic.Why?Because it can simply forget the self and sink into the external phenomena, it obtains the storage of the self in the external phenomena.But this kind of self is already pure representation, and there is no original self.So scientists are more artistic artists.Therefore, there is absolutely no trace of so-called individuality and personality in the discovery of scientific truth by scientists.Not only that.After scientific discoveries, it is almost possible to make people forget the existence of human beings.Because science is beyond human life, science cannot be completed without completely forgetting life.Therefore, only in the process of recalling the scientists' search for truth, we can sometimes get a little glimpse of the daily life and inner spirit of scientists.As for the scientific truth discovered by the scientist, there is no trace of the scientist himself.

Next comes religion.The religion of Westerners is actually very close to their science.You cannot enter religion unless you forget your life.They, too, must first forget themselves before they can pray to be submerged in the teachings of religion.The religious teachings they believe in can almost be said to be purely objective and at the same time impersonal.They first grasp the mood of God, and then turn around to live in the world. Deep in their hearts, there should be no family or the world. They should only live in the family and the world with the mood of God that they realize .In the process of his pursuit of religious belief, we can also appreciate some of his daily life and his inner spirit, but in the truth of his belief, the importance and status of the believer's own personality and personality cannot be seen. , shouldn't even exist as a human being!At least in theory it must be so.

Only moral life is always based on each person's individuality and personality.Art, science and religion, their main object and their ultimate state, can be said to be non-human in general.Only the moral object is completely in the realm of life.The above-mentioned saying that others live in my heart and I live in other people's hearts is completely a moral realm.Only in the realm of morality can we directly experience the individuality and character of the person involved.This kind of personality and personality is preserved not only during his lifetime, but also after his death.Not only during his lifetime, his individuality and personality can expand at any time, but after his death, his individuality and personality can still continue to expand.The great personalities in the world are all preserved after death, and all continue to expand after death.If it cannot continue to expand, it cannot be retained at any time.Let us take a rough example, such as Confucius Sakyamuni and Jesus, wouldn't their personalities still remain and continue to expand after death?The personality of Confucius in the age of the Seventies, to the age of Meng Xun, the Han Dynasty, and the Song and Ming dynasties, his personality was preserved at any time, but continued to expand.If the personality of Confucius can be preserved at any time from now on, it will inevitably continue to expand.If it cannot continue to expand, it will gradually sink and lose its existence.Sakyamuni Jesus is a religious master, which seems to be different from Confucius, but the reason why his personality is preserved and continues to expand at any time is because it has penetrated from religious life to moral life.The expansion of all religious personality is the expansion of its moral personality: Chinese people worship moral personality more than religious personality.This is the reason why worshiping a saint is better than worshiping a leader.For the same reason, the worship of a writer by the Chinese must also be based on the worship of his moral personality, and then his works can be regarded as the best.However, although the personality of a literary writer can be preserved at any time, it cannot be expanded at any time. This is the reason why the Chinese regard a writer as less respectful as they regard the personality of a sage.

Here we will mention the difference in attitude towards life between East and West.Easterners take the moral life as the first place, while Westerners take the religious life as the first place.The advantage of Westerners is that they can forget themselves and devote themselves to external phenomena, pursuing a purely objective pursuit.Their art, literature, science, religion and all kinds of victories are all here.The main spirit of the Chinese people lies in being able to grasp the self intimately, that is, to directly integrate the self with external things.Chinese art and literature seek to express themselves directly in the works of art and literature.The same is true of the religious life of the Chinese people, so there is the birth of Chinese Zen in Buddhism.In religious circles, the self is still valued, so there are so-called crazy Zen people.However, the Chinese people's scientific attainments will inevitably fall behind.If it is said that the Chinese are beyond the outside of the image and get within the ring, then the Westerners can be said to be beyond the outside of the ring and get outside the image.The highest hope of Westerners should be to live in the heart of God, while the Chinese can be said to only hope to live in the hearts of others.God is still outside, and others are still in the ring.In terms of philosophical terms, there is still a difference between east and west.In the end, life has to be biased, and there is nothing you can do about it!