Chapter 134 3 Under what circumstances can we honor the past

Monasticism, as it exists in Spain and Tibet, is a consumption of culture.It simply kills life.Simply put, it cuts the population.Going to a training school is equivalent to being castrated.That has become a disaster in Europe.To this must be added the brutality which is often applied to the faith, the insincere aspirations, the feudal power which rests on the monastery, the patriarchal system which enshrines the children of overpopulated families, the brutality we have just spoken of—” The basement", shut mouths, locked minds, how many lifetimes of wisdom tormented in dungeons, changing of costumes, burial of souls alive.To national depravity must be added personal suffering, and whoever you are, you will always shudder before the frock and the veil, two human-invented garments for the dead.

Yet in some corners and in certain places the monasticism, in defiance of philosophy and in defiance of progress, continued to prevail in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century; The world was shocked.Some outdated groups still want to exist forever. That kind of stubborn idea is like the stubbornness of asking people to put sloppy hair oil on their hair, and the kind of delusion of eating stinky fish into their stomachs. , the kind of brutality that requires adults to wear children's clothes, the kind of kindness that is like a zombie returning home and wanting to hug a living person.

Clothes said, "You ungrateful man! I protected you from the storm. Why don't you want me now?" Fish said, "I was born in the sea." Hair oil said, "I came from the rose Yes." The zombie said: "I loved you." The monastery said: "I raised you." To all that we have but one answer: that was the past. That which dreams of death persists indefinitely, governs crowds with spices to keep corpses from rotting, fixes rotten dogmas, repaints talismans with gold paint, rehabilitates abbeys, repurifies sacristies , repairing the flaws in superstition, arousing the enthusiasm of religious fanatics, re-handling the holy water bottle and saber, re-establishing the priesthood and military system, firmly believing that the happiness of society depends on the reproduction of parasites, imposing the past on the present, all that, This seems very strange.But there are theorists who support those theories.Those theorists, and all of them are intelligent people, they have a very simple method, they paint a layer of color on the past, this is what they call social order, theocracy, morality, family, respect for the elderly, ancient laws, Holy Tradition, Legal Status, Religion, and everyone shouting, "Look! Accept these things, honest people." That logic was known to the ancients.The Roman priests were able to use that logic.They put gypsum powder on a black calf and said, "You are already white."

As for us, we respect everything and avoid contact with the past whenever and wherever it admits it is dead.If it wants to show that it is still alive, we beat it and kill it. Superstition, over-religion, unbelief, prejudice, those ghosts and ghosts, although they are all ghosts, have tenacious vitality. Their ghosts have claws and teeth, and we must fight them hand-to-hand, fight them, and fight them non-stop , because the eternal struggle with ghosts is one of the inevitable resignation ideas of human beings.It is not easy to strangle the ghost by its throat and subdue it on the ground. French monasteries, in the nineteenth century when the sun was at its peak, were the nests of owls in the sun.It was an anachronistic phenomenon for the monastery to preach monasticism in the heart of the birthplace of the revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848, and to let the specter of Rome haunt Paris.In normal times, if we want to stop an obsolete thing from dying out, we only need to let it read the number of the AD era.But we are by no means living in normal times.

We must fight. We must fight and we must differentiate.The gist of truth is never to go too far.Does truth still need to be overcorrected?Some things must be destroyed, but some things just need to be seen clearly in the sun.Serious and kind inspection, what a power it is!There is no need for us to light a torch in a sunny place. Therefore, since it is the nineteenth century, whether in Asia or Europe, whether in India or Turkey, generally speaking, we are opposed to the system of monkhood.A monastery is like a filthy pool.In those places the putrefaction is evident, stagnation is injurious, and fermentation causes fevers and promotes decay in the organisms within.Their growth is the bane of Egypt, and we think with horror of the dervishes, monks, ascetics, Basilians, hermits, monks, and monks in those countries, squirming like ants and maggots.

Having said all that, the religious issue still exists.This question is in some respects mysterious, almost horrific, and it is hoped that it will bring us to a closer look.