Once you enter the religion, it is as deep as the sea, which stems from the in-depth study of Buddhism and Taoism.
Laozi once said that "people are often ignorant and have no desire", "they don't worry about learning", "it is a loss of virtue, and they lose both, and even inaction" Laozi's wisdom! ? Many people understand it as "for learning, the more knowledge and ambition, the better;" For practice, the less you get, the better, so that your mind can remain quiet. " ..... "I feel that I can use the principle of monasticism to explain Lao Tzu's words well. Taoism and Zen Buddhism, the most enlightened Buddhism, practice differently and pursue the same thing, thus achieving a "quiet" mind. Zhuangzi, who loves to understand truth from life, may have said in a more popular way that the main practice of Taoism or Zen is forgetting. Forget everything, and you will be quiet ... often [forgetting] or advocating [forgetting] will lose the most basic human relationship: becoming ungrateful? The first time I wrote the above words, I asked questions online [Is Buddhism and Taoism "ungrateful"? ] Describe the problem. Everyone knows that meditation is similar, and it should aim at enlightenment or wisdom enlightenment. To achieve this ultimate goal, enlightenment is a means, and logic and knowledge are neither formal nor dialectical. Modern people find it unimaginable and incredible. To truly learn Buddhism and Taoism is to "forget", or to say that the spiritual world does not need to acquire logical thinking and knowledge if it wants to enter the highest realm mentioned by Mr. Feng Youlan. Some people say that knowledge, thoughts and feelings will be emptied when moving towards "silent nirvana", but the fact is a bit complicated. Some people tell us "empirically" that we can always understand the answers to the questions that have been bothering us in the past, and criticize modern people for using the "anti-intelligence" hat to buckle their practice methods. We can't judge success with common sense, nor can we judge success with the logic of learning knowledge, even the most normal and basic logical emotion. Buddhists (including meditation practitioners) who often meet in life are modest but honest, with lower thinking ability and knowledge level than ordinary people, and "resist" the progress of learning and thinking ... Sincerity, love and sense of responsibility have been weakened. Later, I really woke up, but I didn't wake up like Buddha and Buddhism said.
At present, Buddhism is more complicated, which may include Taoism. Even Buddhists are not as kind as their family members. If you pay too much attention to health care, you will lose an earth-shattering sense of justice. Without the responsibility of a gentleman, your life and death will be more important than justice?
Buddhism is really a "department store" (in the south). Some practitioners in many dharma circles have not yet "realized", but they have a profound understanding of life and death. "I" is more specific. As the saying goes, "Christians pray for others, Buddhists seek for themselves", realizing that the purpose of "I" getting rid of selfish desires has not been achieved. Fame and fortune may be tried to look down upon, but life and death are valued.
Later I focused on awakening from Buddhism in theory. When I first entered the door of believing in Buddhism, I often felt that "good and evil are rewarded" and Buddhists pursued goodness. After practicing in Buddhism, just like the Pure Land Sect known to most people, Pure Land Sect is regarded as an achievement by Buddhism, but at the end of life in the West, it still needs to practice in order to achieve nirvana. In short, as soon as it went deep into Buddhist practice, it turned from focusing on the distinction between good and evil to (or promoted to) no distinction between good and evil, and threw itself into "emptiness". Feeling lost is actually lost. Those who don't believe in Buddhism and learn from Buddhism honestly see honesty, love and integrity, and no one can really work hard. Indeed, can mortals do it? People who don't believe in Buddhism are working hard, but real practitioners of Buddhism (only chanting Buddhism is just a matter before practicing Buddhism, and only chanting Buddhism without seeking ignorance and desire is not liberation, and even real learning Buddhism is really not evaluated, and the ultimate goal of Buddhism liberation is nirvana) say that the qualities of honesty, love and integrity that are difficult to possess are low-level and should be surpassed by indifference. Buddha, sleep is actually a mystery. Ask Buddhists, can you get an A in math and physics in high school? They replied: logic and knowledge are the most taboo when we pursue the spiritual realm of indifference ... In fact, the main process of Buddhist practice is to avoid logical wisdom. Some people say that logical ability is an obstacle and a vulgar thing, just as they also regard honesty, love and integrity as vulgar. There are also many non-believers with poor mathematical skills and little knowledge, but they honestly admit that their intelligence is not as good as others, their knowledge level is not as good as others, and they never think that logic and knowledge are inferior things to throw away, even though they don't.
There must be no distinction between good and evil.
The soul calls for moral efforts, and also believes that moral efforts need a background, world outlook and outlook on life with a comprehensive macro understanding of the world. Since Buddhism and Taoism all contain sophistry and hypocrisy, the spirit of honesty turns to the west to seek answers. Some people say that learning eastern religions in West Renye Fang, or even for example, will interest many foreigners. Let's take a deep look at several famous people: Kant, Spinoza, Einstein, Nietzsche and Leibniz. Nirvana is a kind of "reincarnation" philosophy. It is clear that you don't like Christianity and state the reasons, and it also forms your own things. He is only inclined to Buddhism, and Einstein is somewhat similar to Christian theology (including basic ethical theology), but only expresses some thoughts that he is willing to think more about Buddhism. None of them have Buddhist beliefs. After that, they couldn't accept western religious beliefs. Leibniz wrote a letter to Newton, a great scientist who believed in Christianity, clarifying the unreliable basis of his belief in Christian theology. Leibniz became interested in China's Zhouyi, which has been translated and spread to the west, and exclaimed with some westerners that he had discovered "natural religion", which was different from theistic religion and piety (the pillar of his spiritual home). Westerners have been exposed to some contents of the Bible since childhood, and many people reject most shallow and untested beliefs in the western Christian world as adults (their later situation is a bit complicated, for example, after accumulating knowledge, they see God's rules from complicated advanced mathematics learning, such as some famous mathematicians, Euler, etc. And biology professors agree with God's creation from biological research. ) Buddhism and Taoism are anti-intellectual. As we all know, it is difficult for westerners to approach the "quiet" belief with enthusiasm and desire for learning. Finally, Kant and Spinoza, who have made outstanding contributions to the study of religions, especially western religions, are extremely knowledgeable. Kant believes in morality, but he is not a Christian, but he has never talked about many eastern religions in his life (at that time, there were many classic works of eastern religions translated and published in the West, so Kant could not have studied them). The moral pursuit in eastern religions is not pure enough, and Kant's moral law in his heart does not allow him to face it more. The goal of Buddhism and Taoism is to seek an undifferentiated state of mind, including the realm of good and evil. Kant, on the other hand, feels warm and frank to some people in the west, while some people in the East feel a little opposite. In terms of honesty, the east has developed greatly. The ancient science in the East was underdeveloped, just look at the list of scientists in the history of the world. Scientific research needs to be rigorous, which is inseparable from the integrity of practitioners. Modern science is rigorous, which brings people the improvement of quality, honesty and seeking truth from facts.
Both Buddhism and Taoism regard honesty as a very important position? No, you can be flexible or skillful before things happen. There is a good philosophy of life in Confucianism, but it is not religious and not binding enough. Constantly striving towards true honesty (this point, basically) enables people to discover or approach various truths. This may be one of the reasons why Kant can't "see" eastern religions more. Spinoza, whose moral quality is recognized by the world, has never been questioned by anyone until now. He walked out of the church at that time, but he never set foot in it and opposed the Christian belief at that time. Some people say that he is a pantheist ... Most of his life's energy is related to proving that "God exists". He taught us to pursue rational love and reject "women's goodness" (some compassion of Buddhism).
Later, my heart gradually turned to the East, and I felt that China's faith was similar to Christianity.
Confucius in The Analects believed in Heaven, but he lost the personality of Heaven that people trusted before. He didn't believe in Christianity for thousands of years, but he "believed in heaven" because everyone has judges and moral prosecutors in his heart.
... I'm not so stupid now. I love reading Buddhist scriptures and believe in Buddhism. I think everything is true and right.