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The Spirituality of Life

Introduction: When you open the window in the morning, the sun shines brightly, the sky is transparent blue, and the earth is vigorous green. Life should have been so fresh and energetic, our spirituality can be freely waved in the world. But nowadays, people are physically and mentally exhausted as if they have lost their souls, so where can they find the spirit of life?

Modern people are living a very tiring life, work pressure, the society's pace is getting faster and faster, every day you have to learn a lot of things, or else you will be eliminated in the economic era, every day you have to fill out a lot of forms to cope with a variety of rules, exams and evaluations, and come home to a whole lot of trivia, and a day to be able to let yourself alone for a moment of quiet time is very little. I have to be quiet and imagine, is there really so much to do? There is nothing in the world but mediocrity. This ancient saying is some of the best words of the enlightened wise men who looked back at the red dust beings. The same thing, in the perspective of a spiritual wise man, all do not need to take great pains, the spirit can be dealt with, but the brain is not enlightened people to deal with it is very laborious. Now all the people talk about innovation and independent research and development, do we really need so much innovation?

The years are not ancient and modern, and the people are true and false. In fact, the world was not so much fancy, chaotic flowers, human beings confused themselves, every college and university emphasizes the scientific research, published in the journal of the paper has little significance, are copied from each other, basically the eight-legged essay, neither with the reality of the interface and can not be a new discovery in the research perspective. This involves a problem, the commercial society makes everyone live in a colorful world, better means more material and services, must have more money, must learn more things to keep up with the pace of society, and constantly push the boundaries of innovation, so overcapacity is inevitable, which is the inevitable result of the development of capitalist market economy. Now the elimination rate of cell phones is very high, every day there are a lot of colorful varieties launched. From the business point of view is to win the market, and consumers because of spiritual emptiness, need to stimulate, because of low self-esteem, to buy a most trendy cell phone to show off. So we are in a predicament - we must learn more, earn more money, bear more pressure, live more and more numb, numb need more new ideas. These commodities seem like a lot of new tricks, but they are really just that. Why can't you see through it, why are you tired? It is because the human aura is getting less and less. Take a small ball with a little new tricks to play a puppy or kitten, they think it's very new, in the human view of so, but they seem to change quite a lot.

Why talk about learning every day? Zhuangzi said, "My life is also the end of the world, and knowledge is also endless, with the end of the world with the end of the world, it is not even close." Life is limited, knowledge is infinite, with a limited life chasing infinite knowledge, very dangerous, the more you chase the more confused. We all remember the story of feeding the monkeys three times in the morning, don't we? The keeper originally fed the monkeys three fruits in the morning and four in the afternoon, and the monkeys were not happy; then the monkeys were satisfied. People are sometimes like these monkeys, more and more trapped by the surrounding material, the material is also a psychological projection of the mind to leave the material mind becomes dry, pale and powerless.

How to restore the spirituality of life? Aura, spirituality, soul, mind, spirituality, all these words are related to "spirit". "Spirit" directly distills the essence of all things in heaven and earth. Landscapes have feelings, and all things have spirits. Living in such a world, in fact, we ourselves are very rich, do not need so many fancy things to fill the boring spiritual world, so our topic today, is from the modern people's busy, tired and sleepy, full of manic modern life, can we come out of such a predicament, to restore the natural ease of the spirit of life, this is what we want to discuss tonight.

Let's first look at the Chinese comment on a child, really spiritual, a little bit of understanding. A stupid child, no aura, the brain does not open, repeat many times, many contents, make many analogies still can not understand. This spirit is the key pivot to discovering the inner relationship of a thousand different things, it is so important. Flexibility, we see the living spirit, the spirit to live, live people certainly have the spirit, but too live, too much spirit, easy to cynicism, do not abide by the moral rules of human society and the legal order, this person may be wild, smart to the wrong direction of the wrong place, harmful to others began to harm their own end. Therefore, there are two sides to the spirit. Big criminals are generally very spiritual, but stupid people who want to harm society do not have so much power and do not have so many tricks to do harm to others. So spirituality is enough, but also have virtue, spirituality and virtue, that is, each other as the balance of yin and yang relationship, this talent is considered perfect. Spirituality and virtue, exactly the Taoist Lingbao Tianzun, Dao De Tianzun, the three Qing is a perfect balanced combination. The incarnation of Taoist Heavenly Father was Laozi, who wrote the Tao Te Ching, and Lingbao Heavenly Father was incarnated as a scientist and inventor, with all kinds of creations and scientific discoveries. They are both two disciples of the First Heavenly Father, with roots from the First Heavenly Father. A person is busy half a day, if you can not find the origin of their life, can not find the meaning of life, where the root cause, the person will be confused and tired, like a headless fly, jumping everywhere, too much aura, desire to expand, blind arrogance, only the other, will kill and maim other living beings, we need to understand the meaning of this "Spirit" for the life of the people, and it has two sides. The first one is the "I'm not a man of the world," and the second one is a man of the world.

First, what is spirit. How does Spirit play a specific role in life.

In fact, from the Chinese Taoist wisdom, everything in the universe originates from the movement of Tai Chi, which is divided into yin and yang, and the clear and light ones are uplifted as heaven, and the heavy and turbid ones are downlifted as earth. This is something that you can revisit in the Journey to Heaven.

From the point of view of modern science, the world is divided into inorganic and organic matter, inorganic matter is mainly stone, soil, ore; organic matter is plants and animals. These concepts of organic and inorganic matter are defined from the perspective of Western materialistic science. In the view of the Eastern culture, these substances are the same energy under the action of continuous change in different states of the product, is the original energy of heaven and earth in the continuous evolution of different levels of different stages of the product. Heaven and earth are the three talents. There are people between heaven and earth, and the character for "people" is yin and yang; heaven is round, earth is square, and the head is round and the feet are square. Heaven and earth are interdependent, inseparable from each other, the reality of the earth is also a planet in the vast universe, is a microcosm of the universe, and people are the microcosm of heaven and earth and the earth, so people are the spirit of heaven and earth, the spirit of all things, human life contains the potential to understand the origin of life in heaven and earth, who can develop this potential, the person will be completely free.

Generally people are afraid of death, because death means the separation of the living world and the world of the unknown, if the death is to enter a happier world, then people will not be afraid of death. If alive this time of sweet and sour has been experienced, but also see through, put down, on the death there is no fear, because there is no cut off things. Why do people still have so many worries? Because spirituality is shielded by acquired desires, and only one point is still in use, that is, to play smart, most of the aura is dissipated, and the more one grows up, the more one stays, and desires direct the life information energy in a very narrow world. A child who has just begun to talk, to whom everything seems new, seems to be pondering over something, the child's mind is not bound by any constraints. Different children have different auras. Whether the aura is sufficient or insufficient, high or low, depends on the child's face, especially the eyes. I will not expand on this here for the time being. Using the principles of the I Ching, you can tell from a child's face when he is young what personality traits he will have when he grows up, and these are profound studies. A child often asks questions that are difficult for adults to answer. Why can't the sun rise in the west, what is east and what is west? This involves the problem of time and space orientation. Usually when a child asks his mother where I come from, the traditional parents will just use the excuse that he was picked up from the garbage, given by someone else, or fished out of the sea, and the answer is never clear; or like the modern parents, they will tell the child frankly about sex, and that the child born from the fertilized ovum is a piece of flesh on the body of the parents. Where was I before my mom gave birth to me? Many adults cannot answer this question and are blind to the question of the origin of life. Materialistic scientists say that man came from monkeys, but that's just Darwin's opinion. Man is just not the same as a monkey. How did a monkey become a man? Man and monkey are different classes because there is a hierarchical difference in auras. In animals, closer to human aura are monkeys, hominids, and then lower down are dogs, cows. Dogs have the aura of a three-year-old child. This involves Spirit and Wisdom. Spirit is more innate, and Wisdom is acquired, the transformation of the innate into the acquired. When a child is young, his aura is sufficient, he learns things quickly and remembers well, but when he grows up, he becomes stupid, because when his innate consciousness opens up, he is tempted by the innate material world, and his original curiosity to ask questions about all kinds of problems, and his aura, which is not bound by the box of good and evil, right and wrong, is slowly constrained in a narrow space. Many of my friends around me, when I was a child, my body was good and learned quickly, grew up to play smart, by the culture of indulgence, fell into lust, in addition to lust, beauty, wine and meat life is nothing else. The rationality and ambition of the child to forget all, when I was young, like fairy stories, Jigong, Journey to the West, think it is very magical and interesting, the world has a lot of questions. This is often the driving force behind one's understanding of the vast universe and life, and it is also the manifestation of a child's aura. We can see the transition between innate and acquired, in addition to the innate aura, then it is very crucial to the acquired education. If you can meet a wise teacher, you will be able to see clearly the child's root and aura, and give appropriate education and moral education.

To teach is to teach knowledge, to transform is to sensitize, and to enlighten, to nudge, to stimulate his innate aura. Many of the psychological tangles in a person's later life stem from a psychological imbalance, which leads to greed and distortion of desires, and to venting of desires in alcohol and sex. Standing from the point of view of the sages, the troubles of every layman are pitiful, not recognizing the truth of life, and the spirituality is covered over by the acquired greed and desire. We have spoken before of the animal nature, the human nature, the divine nature, and the heavenly nature. Between these natures are the different levels of spirituality. The first level is the material nature; eating meat is bad for the human body, and some people ask, "Don't plants also have life? The spirit of plants is indeed lower than that of animals, from the spiritual point of view, the big trees in the sky can not just cut, especially the thousand-year-old trees, cut down will encounter some trouble, unknowingly killing and maiming nature's aura of very full of things, there will be some inexplicable things happen, science can not explain these things, because people's head grout, by the "material" nature of the The West believes in materialism. The West believes in materialism. In China, there is no distinction between materialism and materialism, but only under Western influence. Traditional culture emphasizes the oneness of mind and matter, and that the mind and the material world of the physical environment of the body, including the organic and inorganic worlds, are all of one origin, which relates to metaphysics, that is, what is the relationship between the world before the formation of all things and the world of the present? The different levels of derivation of the spiritual world. Green vegetables within a month was cut and will grow, spirituality is relatively low, the ability to reproduce, green vegetables and grains of these plants are given to people at this level of spirituality to eat, cultivation is good to reduce the eating of Nei Zou, more high-level is to avoid the grain, cultivation and alchemy, meals and drinks, these are not unbelievable, the plant is very wonderful ability to convert the sunlight and the ground minerals into the leaves and fruits, the people found these mysteries, and now scientists have found the The laws discovered by scientists nowadays are not on the same level as the I Ching Taoist knowledge of plants and animals. Research is the "qi" level, qi and light to see the materialistic liquid world is completely different. If you are able to plants and minerals, animals, characters, gods and these various levels of different energy levels of spiritual life clearly, this person can become a god for the saint, I Ching understanding of man is that people can participate in the fertilization of heaven and earth. Participate in heaven and earth to give birth to all things to feed the ability of all things, the traditional culture of the quality of life is relatively high, buy a car to buy a house even if it is a successful person, which in the view of the ancients is very retarded, with the happy puppy is no different. Downgrading man to an animal, modern people's lives are getting thinner and thinner, from the dress code and photo comparisons, the further into the modern era, the thinner the life is expressed in hobbies and interests.

Now is the age of the end of the law, heaven and earth and human beings are facing a great change, but also a period of transition, the earth's natural and man-made disasters for the whole universe is nothing. Man's understanding of himself is limited by modern materialism, which is actually very superficial. The Taoist Collection and the Great Collection of Sutras, have long since made clear the laws of evolution of all things in heaven and earth. Sages have a higher aura than ordinary people and are able to stand in a higher dimension of space-time to see the world; their spirituality is activated. The spirituality of human beings is one level higher than that of animals, and there is a difference in spirituality between human beings. Some people are born with a strong aura but it is worn away later in life. Why are some people born smarter? This involves more esoteric learning. Each person is just a small section of the cosmic river, a different starting point of life, with a different energy level of aura. People are in a different time and space before they are born and have different energy levels. Some people are born more timid, some are bold, some can move and be quiet and courageous and resourceful, and some are born with violent tempers and viciousness. People's aura is higher than animals, can see the difference between each person's aura, you can use some of the characteristics of animals to describe these temperament traits, this person is as sinister as a snake, this person is as delicious and lazy as a cat, and stupid and stupid like a pig, this person is really amazing, like the gods and goddesses down to earth, from childhood, smart and clever, like the fairies down to earth, a collection of wisdom and beauty in one... ...different words to describe, the language inherited from Chinese culture contains wisdom, the ins and outs are clearly told. The human body, not just the physical body, is not the same as the human body, and the essential difference between human beings lies in the different auras. Weak willpower some people strong willpower, lies in the past life accumulation is not the same, if not accumulated in this life, the next life can not be high. From the viewpoint of the long river of history, there is no past and no future, every day is the past of this life, tomorrow is today's afterlife, this is the past life, this life afterlife in the concentration of every day, there is no esoteric thing. Some people have sufficient innate aura, but they are shielded from it later in life, and they do not meet the education of a wise teacher, so they become stupid and foolish. In ancient times, parents chose teachers for their small children based on the teacher's virtue and wisdom. In TV dramas, we can see that some celebrities were very smart at an early age, and could not be controlled by ordinary teachers until they met a worldly master or an old monk who could teach them well. A child is a blank sheet of paper, between the Tao and the Devil, naturally needs to be tempered by a high-level person. The sages, gods, immortals and Buddhas are themselves teachers of man. To worship the gods and Buddhas, we need to be humble and respectful, because their virtues are good and their spirituality is higher than ours, and we need to learn from them to activate our potential. Man is the product of the universe, the universe's energy information in each person, just by the acquired desire to shield, just modern people all believe in Darwin's, whether they are willing to be an animal or a human being? Most of the animal's life is governed by physiological desires, eat, drink, sleep, reproduce and mate, and the same kind of mutual molestation on the completion of life, even the king of beasts, tigers and lions, but also eat and sleep and wake up to play a little bit, the world is so big. How incredible it seems in the world of man.

Now there are rockets to the moon, in fact, China's ancient culture has long been Chang'e to the moon, the human potential to stimulate after the day can fly, physical energy purification, coupled with the activation of the innate aura, with the vast universe of primitive energy connection, you can get rid of the constraints of the physical body. Throughout history, the experience of exploring this great wisdom of life has been immersed in traditional culture, but those who blindly believe in materialistic science do not know their own treasure. Western materialistic science is just a small commentary on the culture of our ancestors. Today, a student read a book of feelings, talking about Chinese feng shui geography city planning, human structural features, people and people are not the same, Chinese and foreigners are not the same. Born in the East Land is the blessing of ten lifetimes of cultivation, the previous life to accumulate a little ingenuity to have the opportunity to be reincarnated in China as a human being, China is the closest place with the sky, where the people have the most aura. With the Western management to manage the Chinese people often does not work, the Chinese people have a policy on the next policy, Yang FengYinYin, very flexible, why changeable? Why are they so flexible? The West is gold, more rigid, more rules, and these rules are not good at change. The Chinese are as fickle as the sky, and as heavy and quiet as the earth. "Tian Xing Jian, the gentleman to self-improvement; ground potential Kun, the gentleman to the virtue of carrying things", this sentence on the Chinese national character described to the fullest, this is the Chinese people's excellent endowment. Contrary to these nature of people become dull. "The adults: with the heaven and earth with its virtue; with the sun and the moon with its brightness; with the four seasons with its order; with the ghosts and gods with its good and bad luck. The first heaven and heaven are not violated; the second heaven and heaven's time." In the Meanwhile, there is a saying: "Praise the transformation and nurturing of heaven and earth. This is the greatest of all! This is the highest state in the way of life. It can be seen that the ancients' understanding of human beings and life is able to be with heaven and earth and nature, and bring human spirituality into full play. As Chinese people should be doubly proud of the past life, the opportunity to be Chinese, Buddha, Taoism and Confucianism is the ancient sages of the concentration of high wisdom. Not being Chinese, the probability of being exposed to these things is very low. Not knowing Chinese, learning is mostly difficult. For example, spirituality, aura, soul, cultivation of Buddhism, this knowledge is already difficult to understand, to be translated into a foreign language is much more difficult, which is unique to the connotation of the Chinese language. China understands, needless to say, children a zha, and do not know what to play Mingtang. Mingtang, is a specialized term in Feng Shui. Engage out, can engage in Mingtang is what? A person's spirituality.

When we are busy and tired, muddle-headed time, may wish to drink a cup of tea, listen to a guqin, open the "Laozi" "Zhuangzi", "University", "Diamond Sutra", look at read, some people say, "Teacher, I read do not understand," that you still do not strive to be strong?

Why is it that in ancient times some people outside the central plains were called barbarians? It's because they have a relatively low aura, don't know the etiquette and shame, like to eat meat, like violence to conquer others. The most obvious example is Babylon, which was destroyed because of sexual abuse. Many people envy the sexual freedom of the West, but in fact, this is a self-murder of life, an active downgrading of the aura of life. Discussing these issues, if people look at them from different platforms, they get different conclusions. Some people say, "What is wrong with these hedonistic lives? I'm having a lot of fun. There is nothing wrong with that, but these pleasures pass quickly, and life is like a mayfly that lives and dies. Sometimes when we chat in a group and we are not on the same platform of discussion, some users will throw out a lot of very logical evidence to refute you. The so-called reasons don't stand up to scrutiny at first glance, and they contradict themselves after a couple of pushes. One netizen said that he was physically and mentally exhausted and dreamed of committing suicide. I asked him if he dreamed of committing suicide because he was usually dissatisfied with himself. He said yes, he was too greedy, he liked to compare himself with others, he was eager for quick success, and he wanted to gain fruits quickly. I just want to be a successful person, but what are the criteria for success? This involves the worldview of life. People nowadays define success as having a car, a house and a wife. It's hard to say who's right and who's wrong, each makes their own choices. People nowadays have downgraded their tastes a lot compared to the ancient Chinese, they are extravagant and animalistic, their aura has been downgraded, their yin and yang are upside down, and there are a lot of demons. What are demons? Intelligence is not used in the right way, there is positive there is evil, live so tired so bitter, is the inner depths of the demon all put out, but also advocate these whimsical and original innovation. The other day there was a report on the Internet, a college in Wuhan, female college students wearing academic gowns, collectively exposed thighs to take graduation photos, standing in front of a boy, this is the performance of the wind, there is nothing to criticize, young people love to show themselves. Why would a college student want to show her thighs to express herself? What's the difference between that and a naked animal? Wearing a bachelor's degree shows that one is an intellectual with certain connotations and should know propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame. Confucianism is the bottom line of being a human being, and people have a sense of shame and compassion. We say that this person is really something, not a human being, without shame and integrity, worse than an animal. So there is a boundary between man and animal, the difference is in man's knowledge of his life self.