The narrator said: Ye Yu, I have always been curious, is it easy to combine the three major religions "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism" in ancient times?
Ye Yudao: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism can coexist in the world for thousands of years. There are natural reasons for their existence and reasons why they cannot be integrated. Due to human greed, people want to unite the three religions into one generation of "big people". This has happened throughout the ages, and there are quite a lot of them. However, there are only a few people who can form their own family. Those who appear after that are just disciples and disciples who are parroting, and there are few innovative and pioneering people.
The principles explained by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are contradictory in many aspects, even tit for tat, but they are all reasonable and can be justified. This is the simple explanation why the three families can coexist in the world for thousands of years. At the same time, this also illustrates one thing. There is rarely a universal conclusion about things in this world. Everything is good or bad, good or bad, inclusive, and occurs in our lives under specific environmental conditions. Therefore, this also tells us that we should not generalize or draw conclusions blindly when dealing with things.
Coming back to your question, although Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are mostly in conflict with each other, they are not without similarities. As long as you can find a common point and use that point as a starting point, you can combine the three teachings by choosing and choosing according to a certain standard. In one place, they form their own way. Among them, the most famous among the three religions is Wang Yangming, a master of mind science.
However, in fact, from the perspective of the world view of "The Rebellion of Mortal Immortals", Wang Yangming can be regarded as a "heterodox", just like Ye Feng, except that among the different sects, they are always loners. Ye Feng's different way and Wang Yangming's different way, It's different, with different emphasis. Wang Yangming's alternative philosophy emphasizes "Confucianism", while Ye Feng's alternative philosophy emphasizes "Tao".
The narrator said: So what is that similarity?
Ye Yu said: They are people, and when it comes to people, we must not bypass the "human heart". Do you remember Ye Feng's words? "Anyone with a human heart can be a human being." For this reason, Wang Yangming is a master of mind science, not a master of other "studies".
The specific expression of the common point "people" is: Confucianism talks about the relationship between people; Buddhism talks about the relationship between people and themselves; Taoism talks about the relationship between people and nature and the universe.
Therefore, learn from Confucianism in life, Buddhism in cultivating the mind, and Taoism in doing things.
Of course, this is a simple expression. Let me emphasize again that the three major schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism cannot be explained clearly in millions, millions, or hundreds of millions of words on the Internet. Even if it is just to explain one of them, it is difficult to explain clearly. . Because it is the crystallization of the thoughts of countless sages over thousands of years. How can we just sit back and talk nonsense? All I can write is to scratch the surface. Otherwise, they are just a frog in the well that makes people laugh.
The narrator asked: What is the criterion for that choice?
Ye Yu said: It's a kind heart. Wang Yangming’s explanation is called “conscience”.
Therefore, the core of Wang Yangming's mind theory can be summarized as follows: the mind is the principle, the unity of knowledge and action leads to conscience.
By the way, we just mentioned conscience and kindness, so let’s talk about something else here.
Narrator: Wait! Ye Yu, you’re not just saying useless things just for the sake of word count.
Ye Yu said: No, what I want to say is something related to the case handled by the Ministry of Defense.
Some modern legal scholars have a strange and ridiculous idea. They think that by amending the law to be perfect, everyone will be forced to do good and not dare to do evil.
As everyone knows, that method is not as effective and realistic as Confucius's approach of persuading people to do good.
First of all, laws are made by humans, and there can be no perfect things in the world, so laws cannot be perfect. Even if you can be watertight at the moment, it is only perfect for a moment. Once time passes, loopholes will still be exposed. Therefore, the law is destined to only keep pace with the times and always be on the path of constant adjustment and improvement, and it can never be perfect once and for all.
Secondly, from the moment the law was enacted, it has laid huge benefits for those who violate the rules. And people are greedy and profit-seeking. In a sense, the law is also one of the incentives for illegal behavior. At least the law points out the direction of interests.
It is somewhat exaggerated to say that for kind-hearted people, today's laws are mostly nonsense about taking off their pants and farting, but for those violators who really need to be regulated by the law, the punishment is weak and weak. This is a very troublesome situation, and what is even more troublesome is that there are different opinions on the degree of social harm of certain illegal acts, so that there is no unified understanding of the intensity of punishment. And this is the most critical aspect of the case Ye Feng handled this time.
I would like to ask, can a world in which everyone is kind really be realized? Even if it is realized, is it really good?
The Taoist Tai Chi Yin and Yang approach tells us that the harmony of Yin and Yang is the way to eternal existence. Neither lonely yang nor lonely yin can last long, it is the path to destruction. And isn’t it just Guyang that everyone in the world is doing good? Of course, this does not mean that we deliberately persist in evil in order to survive forever or ensure the coordination of yin and yang. That's stupid
The principle of eternal existence of yin and yang tells us at least the following two points: 1. Evil cannot be eradicated, because evil comes from good, and there is a causal relationship between good and evil. Extreme good will only give birth to extreme evil. And only those who understand evil can truly understand good. Don't go to extremes in anything. But we still have to fight against evil when it is time to fight against it. 2. When you need to assume a premise when considering a problem, you must not assume that everyone is good. Because that is impossible. If something requires everyone to be kind to achieve it, then this thing is basically as impossible as a sow flying into the sky.
The narrator said: Ye Yu, I want to ask you why you said this?
Ye Yu said: Guess.
. . .
Shen Xinlan, captain and chief of the first column, and captain of the fifth column stood outside the interrogation room with gloomy expressions.
Because it had been more than an hour since Ye Feng entered. Because they knew very well that with Minister Ye Feng's ability, it didn't take that long at all, but this time they stayed for such a long time. They were worried about something happening, not to Ye Feng, but to those criminals who abducted and trafficked children.
In fact, the illegal act of child abduction and trafficking is the kind of illegal act that is difficult to uniformly identify as illegal in terms of the degree of social harm. Because the parents of the abducted families are worse off than alive, they naturally hope that the traffickers will be punished with the harshest punishment, even the death penalty, but after all, they are a minority, and most people still indifferently advocate a lower punishment in the spirit of human rights and humanitarianism. After all, Being kidnapped cannot reach his own head. After all, it doesn’t hurt to stand and talk. Moreover, this group of people is the majority, and people with high social status are also among this majority. The targets of these human traffickers are children from poor families.
Even if you don’t admit it, it’s useless. This social law is made by the majority of people, and it is made by the so-called social elite. After all, the people at the bottom have no say.
