Chapter 24 history and god

history and god As far as the phenomenon of evolution in nature is concerned, it seems that there should be human life first, and then history.But from the standpoint of life evolution, there should be history first, and then a personal life.It is very clear that Confucius could not have been born in India, and Sakyamuni could not have been born in China. The history of the two countries is different, so the personal lives of the two parties are also different.For the same reason, it can be said that philosophy does not come first, but the history of philosophy begins.In fact, there was a history of philosophy first, and then philosophy began to be produced.The philosophy of any philosopher is not produced by the history of philosophy.If you don't first understand his philosophy history, you will not be able to understand the source of his philosophy, and even all the meanings of his philosophy.

I often say that the difference between the concepts of soul and heart is actually the starting point of all the differences between East and West on cosmology and even life theory.The mind is produced by the body, and it cannot exist independently of the body.The soul is another thing other than the body, which can be put into the body and can leave the body.The history of Western philosophy can generally be said to be a history of spirituality, at least from the beginning of spirituality.The history of Eastern philosophy is generally a history of psychology, at least starting from psychology.Western philosophy, beyond the Middle Ages, is no longer discussed.Even if a modern great philosopher such as Hegel of Germany advocated an absolute spirit, we can also say that it is still a disguised form of the soul.The Frenchman Bergson insisted that life was created in matter, but he refused to say that life was created from matter.Since the characteristic of life is creation, life starts from creation, evolves, and completes.Why do we have to say that there is creation when another life is put into matter?Isn't this a metamorphosis of soul thought?

Bergson gave a lecture on the subject of soul and body.When he speaks clearly of soul and body, he means matter and spirit.He believes that the soul is attached to the body, just like clothes are hung on nails.In the modern West, some people say that life is manifested in matter, just like a radio receiving the music drifting in the sky.The music floating in the sky and the clothes on the nails are actually a disguised form of the soul, which insists that what is currently expressed is the original existence.This is not the habit of Eastern thought.The Orientals say that ghosts return, and gods ascend.Ghosts are just some memories left by the dead in the hearts of the surviving.Those memories gradually fade away.For example, a pedestrian walks farther and farther away, hears and hears it across a wide distance, and finally does not know where he is going.As for those memories, which can still be vividly presented in the hearts of future generations, instead of fading or disappearing, they have intensified and become more vivid and active, so they are called gods instead of ghosts.Ghosts are the temporary preservation of personality after death. This kind of preservation is not permanent and will gradually disappear.God is the continued expansion of the personality after death, and he will always be on his side, as if on his side, and will always be prominent in the minds of future generations.If so, ghosts and gods are still just two phenomena in the minds of people today, not another thing that actually existed before.

Some people die when they die, and these should all be called ghosts.There was no such person before, but suddenly this person was born, and later this person died and returned to nothing, so it is said that the ghost returns.But for some people, even though his body is dead, what he did during his lifetime will still leave an effect on future generations, as if he is still alive.Some of them became more active and powerful after his death than during his lifetime, and these became gods.God speaks only of the stretching and expansion of His personality.How can a person's personality stretch and expand after death?It is because even though the other person dies, everything about him during his lifetime still remains in the heart of the other person.Since it is in the hearts of others, it is inevitable that it will change and work in the hearts of others.Those changes and functions are the reason why he is a god, which is the concrete manifestation of the continuous stretching and expansion of his personality after death.There are also some people who died, but they did some bad deeds during their lifetime and left a bad influence. Although future generations hate him in their hearts and want to cancel his deeds, but it is impossible for a while, his personality will not be good. Do they still exist, and some of them still stretch and expand?It's just that its expansion is only on the evil side, on the unpleasant side.Those can't be called gods, but just an evil ghost.God can continue to exist and continue to expand, but an evil spirit will finally be eliminated.But ghosts and gods do not exist outside the human mind.Ghosts and gods only exist in people's hearts, they are destroyed and created because of people's hearts.What gradually disappears in the hearts of future generations is ghosts, and what continues to be reborn in the hearts of future generations is gods.Therefore, the Chinese view of the universe is natural and material, while the Chinese view of history is humanistic and spiritual.In other words, there are no ghosts and gods in the natural material universe, only in the spiritual world of human history.

History is only human memory.Memory is not antecedent, memory is only the survival of some experiences.People's experiences are all retained in memory, but some memories are useful and some are not.Useful memories will come back to my mind from time to time, and will be constantly recalled from time to time.I recall yesterday's experience and bring him back to his mind, and that is the resurrection of yesterday's me.If there is nothing worth recalling in the memory of my life, then I can’t remember yesterday today, I can’t remember today tomorrow, living every day is tantamount to dying every day, living every moment is tantamount to dying every moment, This person has neither personality nor life to speak of. Although he lives like death and is called a human, he has already become a ghost.If the experience of his life is always worthy of reawakening, today he wants to evoke yesterday's me, and tomorrow he wants to evoke today's me, then his life is like a piece of pure steel, tenaciously fused together, and it will never be cut. It should be an ideal personality.Even though he is human, he is already divine.He died, and his life was constantly evoked in the hearts of others in future generations.People in later generations remember him from time to time, then he will become a god.

If so, the experience of God can be re-experienced by others, and the memory of God can be re-remembered by others.Yet history will never repeat itself.Life is renewed all the time, so any memory must be changed to some extent, and any kind of experience will inevitably become a new experience when it is experienced again, so it is said that "what has passed is transformed, and what remains is god".Today, when we remember Confucius and experience what Confucius experienced that day, the content has actually changed, and it is by no means the original image of what Confucius remembered and experienced that day. However, it may be regarded as a re-memory and re-experience of Confucius. It is the transformation of Confucius, that is, the god of Confucius.Eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty, work when the sun rises, and rest when the sun sets, everyone is like this, and it has been like this throughout the ages. This is also a kind of re-memory and re-experience.However, it has no personality, no personality, it is just a ghost appearance, it can only go around in circles, return to the original state, and start again, so it is only a ghost.These are just nature, just material life.Only when there is creation and rebirth in the natural material life can it become history and have divinity.

Those who misunderstand history are ignorant of the divinity in history, mistakenly recognize ghosts as history, and think that everything that belongs to the past is history.This is like an ordinary person who misunderstands life and thinks that everything that belongs to the past is me.In fact, I am endlessly alive. It is only ghosts who have passed away and are not endlessly alive. It is just the dead self.The dead self is no longer me, but a materialization.In the fate of nature, only what remains in the past, is still present, can have an effect, and will invade the future, that is me, history, and God.History, me, and God are not pre-existing, and they all need to be continuously created and reborn today and beyond.

To create history, people must first understand history.In order to pursue God, one must first know God.For example, if a person wants to build a house, he must first know the house; if a person wants to sew clothes, he must first know the clothes.Before there were houses and clothes, there were houses and clothes before them.Before there was history and God, there was also the predecessor of history and God.Today's history and gods are also the predecessors of tomorrow's history and gods.Therefore, there is continuous memory and there is continuous creation.With experience, there is new life; without experience, there is no new life.The soul exists through experience first, and God is born after experience.After experiencing the presence of God, it is easy to reproduce God.Confucius re-experiencing for future generations is the resurrection of Confucius and the rebirth of Confucius.The re-experience of Jesus is the resurrection of Jesus and the new birth of Jesus.When we re-experience history, we revive history and regenerate history.If you often fall into the experience of ghosts, you cannot have the new birth of God.