The Doctrine of the Mean is a spirit of opposing extremes and attaching importance to China, which constitutes the core of China culture and is embodied in The Book of Changes, Laozi, Zhuangzi and The Doctrine of the Mean. Even after a long and fruitless asceticism, the Buddha realized in front of the shepherdess that everything should conform to the golden mean, so should practice. Finally, under the bodhi tree, I realized that I had reached the supreme consciousness. The "golden mean" in this article is a summary of China's wisdom. I can't find a word so refined and perfect. It can even be interpreted as "the way of China". A master of Chinese studies once said that China was named China because China people have the spirit of China.
It is almost universally believed that the new theory of modern physics is getting closer to eastern philosophy. Capra, an American high-energy physicist, also published the best-selling book "The Way of Physics", detailing the similarities between modern physics and Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. This paper discusses China and introduces Einstein and Bohr, who are representatives of two dark clouds and have an indissoluble bond with China culture.
During the period of 1943, Yang Sheng, a famous mathematician and Wolff Prize winner in China, did research at Princeton University, during which he met Einstein for the first time. Einstein was then a professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies. Chen Shengshen often met Einstein and was invited to visit his home. According to Chen Lao's own memory: "There are not many books on Einstein's bookshelf, but one book attracts me very much, which is Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching, a German translation. Most thoughtful scientists in the west like Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy and advocate Taoism and nature. "
This is nothing to be surprised about. Einstein once explained to a young man: "sitting on a hot stove, one minute is like an hour;" Sitting next to a beautiful girl, an hour is like a minute. This is the theory of relativity. "Zhuangzi of China also said:" Mount Tai is small and autumn is big; Peng Zu is a martyr, and his son is the birthday girl. "Compared with Qiu Hao, Mount Tai is of course a monster; But compared with the solar system, it is like a grain of sand. There is no absolute right or wrong in the universe, and the so-called right and wrong, good and evil in the secular world are relative. The two great philosophers in the East and the West told the same truth.
1927, Danish physicist Bohr put forward the principle of complementarity: when microscopic particles behave as waves, they are described as waves, and when microscopic particles behave as particles, they are described as particles, and the two are complementary. This is very consistent with the Yin and Yang thoughts in the Book of Changes. Therefore, when the Danish king awarded him the Medal of Honor in 1947, according to the usual practice, the medal awarded by the royal family should be engraved with the family emblem of the recipient. Bohr specially chose China's Taiji diagram of Yin and Yang fish when designing the emblem of the designer, and carved a famous saying "complement each other immediately". At that time, Bohr's clothes were embroidered with Tai Chi pictures to attend the royal ceremony. We also know that Zhuge Liang appeared in tai chi suit in the play. They are representatives of wisdom.
When we understand that the universe itself is "relative", it is easy to apply it to life. A mountain is higher than a mountain, so learn to be content. And everything is "negative and positive", which is complementary to each other, and there is nothing absolutely perfect. Clear water means no fish, so don't be too picky. These are the wisdom in life, the laws of nature and life!