Chapter 25 substance and image

substance and image I try to divide life into material and spiritual.In spiritual life, they are divided into art, science, literature, religion and morality.Life is always a progress, breaking into something outside to discover, obtain, and innovate.Since life is a kind of forward rush, it cannot but be accompanied by a kind of force.If there is no strength, all kinds of obstacles outside will be blocked, you will not be able to break through, so you will get nothing, and the fire of life will be extinguished.But although strength follows life itself, strength is not life in the end.Life has no power and cannot move forward, and it does not mean that having power means having life.The reality of life lies in the object of its forward rush.Break into art, art is the truth of life.Break into science, science is the reality of life.If you only have to break in, you will miss nothing.Without objects, there is no reality of life.It is reasonable to break into oneself, there should be a target.The first way to break into life is to seek the continuation of life.Secondly, the deeper one penetrates, the more objects one begins to seek beauty, truth and goodness.Every intrusion must be accompanied by force.Life goes astray, so it regards strength as life, and defeats empty space as gain.For example, when you act, there must be a force attached to it, but the action is by no means just force.For example, when you speak, there must be a kind of force attached to it, but speaking is by no means just force.Without force, one cannot act, one cannot speak, but force is not the essence of action and speech.Without power, there is no life, but power is by no means the essence of life.Life is like a body, strength is like a shadow, and a shadow cannot leave the body, but the body is not a shadow.Looking for shadows away from the body will lose the existence of shadows instead.

When human beings develop culture, when they seek survival in material life, they have already taken into account the shadow of his life.As he advances step by step and obtains satisfaction step by step, he has gradually discovered the strength of his own life and felt a kind of joy of life.But the joy of life does not mean the satisfaction of life.Satisfaction is substance, joy is image.To be fulfilled is to be joyful at the same time.But seeking joy does not necessarily seek satisfaction.Unfortunately, human beings mistake images for substance, so there is a life that pursues strength. The pursuit of a powerful life, to put it mildly, has already entered the scope of a spiritual life.Strength itself also has a sense of beauty.Human beings went up to high mountains and into deep forests to fight against poisonous insects and ferocious beasts when their culture was shallow.As for the big hunting, the blazing torch, the vast enclosure, the galloping of life and death, the intense flame of life, burning to white heat, is it just for survival!There is a kind of intoxication of beauty and joy of power here.The power of life is transferred from the situation of people to things to the situation of people to people.Especially in the fight for love between a man and a woman, the man's pursuit, plunder, and occupation of the woman, the strength of the man is reflected in the heart of the woman, and timidity, trembling, and submission are reflected from the heart of the woman to the heart of the man. On the one hand, it is also a kind of intoxication of beauty, mixed with emotional turmoil, and what is more important is the joy of power.If there are two males competing for one female, they will be more passionate, more nervous, and even brutally killed, and they will do everything they can.Here is not only the requirement and satisfaction of sex, but also the beauty and sentient beings, and more importantly, it is an expression of strength and joy.As for the great struggle between the two nations and the two countries, massacres, and thousands of people fighting each other with their lives, there are loyalty, courage, wit, and more importantly, strength, and tens of thousands of people The loyalty, courage, wit, and strength of these two heroes were condensed into one or two heroes, which were reflected in the hearts of millions of people at that time and even in later generations, inspiring worship and indescribable yearning. Naturally, there are also beauty intoxication and emotional turmoil here, but more importantly. What is still the joy of power.

Heroes and beauties are often characters in human legends.The hero is the strong positive side, and the beauty becomes the strong negative side.The strength of a hero is best felt and reflected in the heart of a beauty, and it has a strange brilliance.Here it is revealed that strength itself is not real life, and must be active with the intoxication of beauty and the turmoil of emotion.Then there is the worship of money, the plunder of power, all the so-called secular life, there is no content and substance of life here, only the shelf and image of life, they just want to show off in strength.

Wisdom is the calmest, but it is often easy to go astray, so there is an imagination of so-called knowledge as power.The period of real life in which human beings yearn for the truth is also tainted with the shadow of the joy of power.Scientific inventions are used by those who worship money and power. Capitalism and imperialism permeate the whole world and surpass all human beings. These are all just the shelf and image of life, without the essence and content of life.Material life is flat and without depth, while capitalism and imperialism have surpassed the material world and invested in the spiritual world.However, this so-called spiritual world is only a kind of joy of power.Just the joy of force, still without object, without content.The inner requirement of human beings is to seek objects and content.If you must seek the object and the content, capitalism can only be built in the hearts of money worshipers, and imperialism can only be built in the hearts of power-seekers.This is not only building a pagoda on quicksand, but actually burning charcoal in heavy snow.Wealth and power, after all, are empty shelves without content, a false image without itself, and it is difficult to develop a real life in the end.Naturally, he is not as good as the hero in the eyes of beauties. He is beautiful and affectionate, and has a lot of life.

A strong life has one of the most seductive charms, that is, it makes people feel a sense of infinite progress.But it is only forward, without object and content, so it is easy to feel infinite.Infinity itself is a kind of beauty, but in the end it inevitably has a sense of boundlessness.There is a kind of sadness of fate to the heaven, earth and nature. It is empty and reckless, and it is still necessary to find a home.In the cold and desolate area of ​​the prairie and desert, the Mongols were forced to go forward infinitely, expanding, conquering, and advancing in a daze, but finally found their religious belief and got their destination. .In the middle ages, the barbarians in the northern part of Europe, in the cold alpine air, in the bleak future along the coast, also because of the internal shortage of the embarrassment, also spurred them to move forward infinitely.The fall of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity finally gave them a temporary home.However, due to various complicated circumstances, the Renaissance and even the discovery of modern science spurred them on the road of infinite progress again.Expansion, conquest, the manifestations of a powerful life that followed for centuries.Science and religion should have objects and content.Now formalized and purified, only the intention to move forward infinitely leads them.How beautiful is it to be a maidservant as a wife?Really?kind?God?life?Strong?Conquer?Wealth?power?If modern Westerners can look back and reflect, apart from the superficial enjoyment of material life, what is the object and content of the so-called powerful life?The feeling of bewilderment, the ultimate fate of the world and nature, may one day invade their hearts again.

The Chinese nation grew up in the agricultural life irrigated by rivers in the Great Plains.Because of their self-sufficiency in living things, they gradually reduce the stimulation of strong needs. In the end, they only recognize the beauty of stillness and ignore the beauty of movement.We only know the beauty of completeness, but ignore the beauty of infinite progress.They only know softness, not grandeur.Super-empirical science and religion failed to inspire their interest and courage, and they finally gave up, obsessed with the path of literary life, and entered the moral life very early.Despising wealth and rejecting power, cultural ideals are self-contained.The legendary longing of the hero and the beauty also makes the beauty's tenderness like water surpass the hero's ambition like fire.A hero in Liangshanbo cannot enter the Grand View Garden.Accompanying Lin Daiyu, she yearned for a Jia Baoyu, and the protagonist who sang Farewell My Concubine became Concubine Yu instead of King Xiang.Such a life, how can it resist the ravages of the Mongols' iron cavalry, how can it resist the powerful cultural tide of the Westerners who are riding the long wind and breaking thousands of miles of waves today.Such a general comparison, in contrast, the material life of modern Westerners is regarded as a kind of spiritual life, while the spiritual life of Chinese people is regarded as a kind of material life.The purely formal culture of the modern West is seen as full of content, while the literary and moral life of the Chinese is seen as empty, without object, and without content.

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