Confucius said to stay away from ghosts and gods. what do you think?

China's history of thousands of years, especially China's ancient theory of ghosts and gods, regards ghosts and gods as a spiritual sustenance. Judging from China's traditional Taoist thought, everything comes from Brother Feng Dao, who gave birth to three, ten and ten in his life. From the perspective of pure ghosts and gods, the traditional people in China believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, but more belong to people, which is composed of a skin and a spirit. The so-called ghosts and gods are an ideology, which is also a spirit. In Confucius' Confucianism, the theory of ghosts and gods is not clearly pointed out in red paper. Judging from the doctrine of the mean advocated by him, on the one hand, it may refer to ghosts and gods in pure superstition, on the other hand, it also refers to villains.

Superstition, so Confucius advocated benevolent governance, that is, governing by doing nothing. It is an ideal to unify the rule of the country and the people into people's minds and thoughts. Most of Confucius' Confucianism refers to getting along with people and being a political country.

It can be seen from this aspect that the ghosts and gods mentioned by Confucius refer to villains, that is, traitors. When Confucius lobbied Zhou Guo, he also talked with his disciples Xia Zi and Zi You about the methods and ideas of governing the country, and when he traveled around six countries, he also made great efforts to lobby monarchs who recognized his ideas and concepts. Take a different approach and let your thoughts be widely spread. For monarchs and countries that are very different from their own ideas, they often choose to avoid them. This aspect also reflects the idea of staying away from ghosts and gods. In other words, the unorthodox ideological system that interferes with the spread of my own thoughts, as well as all the behaviors and characters that hinder the spread of Confucius' thoughts, are ghosts and gods in the process of Confucius' cultural spread. Because of this, even though Confucius hit a wall everywhere and traveled to six countries in a week, he succeeded in conveying his thoughts to many monarchs and people in that country.

This idea is also reflected in the teaching and management of disciples. Earlier, he taught students in accordance with their aptitude through the differences of each disciple, and he had a good grasp of each disciple's personality, but at the same time he restrained it in a better range with the help of the golden mean. Just like he once mentioned the character of another apprentice to his apprentice and said, "It's reckless to rely on the tiger to rely on the snake." However, he still treated his disciples equally when imparting knowledge, but made an appropriate summary and prospect of his disciples' fate.

You stay away from ghosts and gods can also well reflect his golden mean thought. Everything that hinders the spread of ideas is regarded as a kind of ghost. Confucius himself is constantly spreading his thoughts through his own practice, but he did not criticize or refute another kind of thought.