For this problem, atheists believe that people die like lights, and there is no afterlife; Believers in theism believe that there is an afterlife after death. So what did Confucius think?

Confucius said, "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

Note: Advanced Analects of Confucius: Lu Ji asked ghosts and gods. Confucius said, "If you can't serve people, how can you serve ghosts?" Yue: "Dare to ask death." Yue: "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

Because of this sentence, many people either classify Confucius as an atheist and say that he does not believe in an afterlife; Either classify Confucius as a mortal and say that he doesn't understand the afterlife at all.

Life and death is really a big problem. Confucius gave a clever answer here. He said that ghosts and gods are from heaven. "Humanity is expensive, and heaven is far away." People's own problems have not been solved, how can we talk about such a distant problem of heaven? In other words, what he said was "the people below, not verbally." He thinks that Luz and his students are not good enough, so life and death are hard to say. As long as you live, live well, do your duty of living, and be a good person first. The failure of Confucius' learning to evolve into a religion in the western sense is directly related to Confucius' proposition of "staying away from ghosts and gods". But now reading this sentence, it seems that we can say that it is also related to Confucius' thought of attaching importance to this life and ignoring the afterlife. "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

The failure of Confucius' learning to evolve into a religion in the western sense is directly related to Confucius' proposition of "staying away from ghosts and gods". But now reading this sentence, it seems that we can say that it is also related to Confucius' thought of attaching importance to this life and ignoring the afterlife. "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

In Confucius' view, although death is the upper limit of life boundary, we must know it and pay attention to it, but we only need to admit the existence of death, and we must never devote our main energy to paying attention to it. Since death is uncontrollable and independent of human will, paying too much attention to death means not falling into nothingness.

But living and how to live are all under our actual control and grasp. Therefore, understanding death through life has become the only way for Confucius to learn. This thought directly led to the development of Confucius' study to Confucianism, which has always been known for its positive attitude towards life. Compared with Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity, Confucianism seems to pay more attention to life and death than death.

Because in Confucius' view, the purpose of life is to know the destiny, understand the heaven, and approach the heaven infinitely through the practice of heart and soul. And when all this is done, you will have completed a self, and the purpose of life will be achieved. So when, where and how to die, what is there to be afraid of? So Confucius said that earth-shattering sentence-Confucius said: "I died in the evening when I heard the Tao."

Therefore, if you want to know the true answer of Confucius about the afterlife and ghosts and gods, you can study Yi Li deeply, and know this life from the root, that is, know the afterlife.

If we don't have Lutz's ability, then we can follow the teachings of Confucius, pay attention to real life, fear the unknown, but not be superstitious.

Let the public know that doing two things well is enough. You don't have to understand where life comes from and the ultimate meaning of life. These can be reserved for people who specialize in learning and monks to study in detail. First of all, we should try our best to fulfill our responsibilities and live a full and happy life. Second, we should take good care of our bodies and live a long and healthy life. That's enough. I can do the above two points, but I live more clearly and meaningfully than many people.