聊聊信仰和文化

最近在哲学思辨讨论组里比较活跃:

说易经,有点难避开信仰这类话题。很容易自然地和其他的经对比分析。


是的,易经是中华先祖的生活经,从伏羲氏一画开天到她”建立”第一个人类”二进制”代码为特点的”天气预报站’(这个有点想像类比成分),创造”水”字…开始,咱祖先在漫长的时间里沉淀提炼出来的高级智慧逐渐从一横,两短横(有的是一撇,一撇一折…),携带着口头表述的发展,汇聚成书面的文字,并发展演化进步,成为我们现在在这里交流的汉语语言和文化,并和医学、天文学、哲学、社会学、农业学、文学….相互联系渗透影响和促进,成为一个易经文化系统。这个过程,是中国文化的发展史,社会进步史,也是世界一份极其珍贵的智慧发展科技史。说易经是中国文化的源头,与中国文字的这般多方位多角度齐头并进演化是一个问题的两个方面。而易经文化,重点是要通过生活提炼出我们生活的这个地球环境是如何决定和影响着人类的生存和发展。所以,围绕太阳,月亮,地球和人的研究是易经的主线,是人类生活生存能量的基本密码。


文化是什么?文化是天天渗透于我们的生活细节但没法用语言简单描述的东西。有文化的社会,人们的信仰就是这个文化。我们的文化既然是围绕日月人地球展开,怎么体现在我们的点滴生活里?


“天啊!我忘了”
“老天爷,快下点雨吧”
“上天作证,我…”
… 这些不需要人教,每个说中文的中国人都会说!!!!都会说!我们口里的老天爷,来自祖先心里的天地人合一,这恰恰是所有中国人的文化,所有中国人的信仰。试问每个中国人:你有信仰吗?


在没有文化沉淀或自身文化沉淀过程中因为社会结构和分配方式的走向而受影响的社会里,信仰可能沦为控制人们思想的工具,比如基督教,伊斯兰教,佛教。为什么这么说?他们不是都提倡忏悔自省关爱互助吗?佛家修身心语:心如莲花,不再恨人;基督教认为上帝是监察人心的神。古印度瑜珈(Yoga)、中国的气功、西藏密宗、或是印地安人的信仰里都提到心轮的打开— 这些对爱和心的认知为什么说其实是控制思想的武器?得看背后的目的。为了某个目的,基督教宣扬人去世后可以升入天堂,佛教说人归西后能进入西方极乐世界,伊斯兰教宣扬阿拉会在人去世后赋予人新的生命。


中国人骨子里是寄希望于来生呢?还是这一生能向天再借500年??

The Hollowness Space

Have you ever noticed?
 
✅The force-bearing structure of a bicycle is a hollow tube.
✅The weight-bearing tire of a car is a hollow structure.
✅Although the ocean liners are made of metal heavier than water, they can carry weight and sail on the water because of their hollowness.
✅The load-bearing steel structure of buildings is also hollow.
 
We can find the answer in nature.
 
Wheat, barley, bamboo, etc. are all hollow structures. Because they are hollow, they do not shrink, and they are extremely elastic and tough. We learned from nature that hollow cores can carry pressure, perseverance, and even grit better than solid cores.
 
We can also find the answer in the human body.
 
The bones of the body that support the weight are basically hollow. For example, the femur, tibia, fibula, humerus, and radius of the limbs, and back spine are all hollow. And these important hollow bones are not only the supporting force for the human to stand straight and walk upright but also the container and best protector of bone marrow and spinal cord, which are the very important components for life.
 
Hollowness holds great energy.

Clean up what filled in our head and mind from time to time, leave some space for new positive things to fill in, is pursuing a refreshing mindset of mental journey.

#emotionalintelligence#mentalheath#wisdom#chineseculture#unity#love#peace#authenticity

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_emotionalintelligence-mentalheath-wisdom-activity-6827705951576039424–Ibi

Our Boats On this Busy River

“A boat traveling across the river and suddenly hit by a boat, a grumpy man on the ark immediately shouted to the hitting boat, a call didn’t listen to, then didn’t listen to, when about to bristle, he found that the hit ship was empty. The scolding stopped, he burst into laughers!” (《庄子·山木》)

With others, we are always in a social state; only in solitude, we are close to the natural state.

But, society is like a busy river.

We drive our boats traveling across this busy river all the time, not only hitting or being hit by a boat but also drown in loud noises.

Do we need a natural state and laughter here? How?

#emotionalintelligence#peace#unity#authenticity#love#ancientwisdom

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_emotionalintelligence-peace-unity-activity-6825435566805528577-i1lh

The Empty Basket

There were a grandpa and his grandson who woke up early to study every morning.

One day, the grandson asked: “Grandpa, I read like you every day, but I don’t understand it, and I forget everything when I close the book. Is it useful to read this way?”

Grandpa didn’t say a word. He turned around and took a bamboo basket that usually holds black coal and handed it to his grandson: “Go and bring me a basket of water.”

The boy tried many times, but every time the water leaked before he ran home.

Seeing the exhausted grandson, grandpa smiled and pointed to the bamboo basket. Only then did the grandson realize that the bamboo basket was different from before, that it has become clean from the inside out.

Reading more, even if you don’t understand or remember, will change you subtly, in your appearance or in your heart.

As the old saying goes, there is no useless work in the world, nor is it empty to draw water from a bamboo basket.

#ancientwisdom#authenticity#chineseculture#stillness#timeholdseverything#love#peace#unity

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_ancientwisdom-authenticity-chineseculture-activity-6822564955074781185-8z9c

When the Moon Belongs To the White Rabbit

There was a white rabbit who loved the beauty of nature. She especially liked the moon. In her eyes, the moon’s dimness and brightness, waxing, and waning were full of charm.

So the king of the universe summoned her and said that she had a unique talent for admiring the moon and decided to give her the moon.

From then on, the moon was no longer everyone’s moon but belonged to this white rabbit alone.

The white rabbit still went to the grassland in the forest to watch the moon every night.

However, it was strange to say that the former leisure mood was wiped out, and there was only one thought in her mind: “This is my moon!” She stared at the moon firmly, just like a rich man stared at his cellar of gold.

Dark clouds covered the moon, and she became nervous, lest the treasure be lost;

When the full moon was turning into a waning moon, her heart ached, as if she had been robbed.

In her eyes, the moon’s dimness and brightness, waxing, and waning were no longer of charm and joy, but dangers were repeated, which evokes endless troubles and illusions of gains and losses.

#perspectives#authenticity#emotionalintelligence#chineseculture#wisdom#nature#love#peace#wealth#kindness#unity#universe

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_perspectives-authenticity-emotionalintelligence-activity-6817084964044189696-a-hs

The Best Relationships Between People

以金相交,金耗则忘;
以利相交,利尽则散;
以势相交,势去则倾;
以权相交,权失则弃;
以情相交,情逝人伤;
唯心相交,静行致远。

Relationships based on money are forgotten when money is consumed.
Relationships based on interests are dispersed when the interests disappear.
Relationships based on positions fall apart when positions change among/beyond parties.
Relationships based on power are abandoned when power expires.
Relationships based on emotions go hurt when emotions fade away.
Only the relationship based on mutual understanding from hearts can walk far together in stillness and harmoniousness.

#love#hearts#wisdom#authenticity#unity#emotionalintelligence

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_love-hearts-wisdom-activity-6809146483095453696-GIMk

Change From the Inside❤️

Everything outside of life is a projection of your frequency, a manifestation of your feelings.

If you always stare at reality and say: my child doesn’t do homework seriously; I don’t have enough money; things are expensive; the society is not safe; your her looks down on you; he cheats me; and that he bullies you…

When you are paying attention to these, can you feel better?

Once you learn to modulate your internal frequency and change your mind, the external situation will change.

You just need to feel good to your child, to nature, to your friends, to your body, or whatever.

When your ability to perceive and accept improves, you will perceive the expansion of your mind and the emergence of a more complete self.

While your mood changes, the energy and magnetic field around you and the entire space including your family will change instantly.

While your mood changes, your destiny will change simultaneously.

In the process of life experience, you will become more and more powerful. You will be awakened, liberated, and enlightened.

Life is full of love, happiness, joy, health, hope and success from then on.

Good morning, my friends!🌈💧☕

#authenticity#humanity#kindness#love#dailycreativity#hope#readers#authors#motivation#changemaker

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_authenticity-humanity-kindness-activity-6706159977951830016-ML1Q

Wealth and Intimacy💰

Money itself is a kind of energy, a symbol, a projection, and a reflection of your life state.

When your life state is very rich and abundant, it will appear in your life mirror image as if you have a lot of wealth, as if you can make a lot of money, and as if your wealth will never be used up.

The same law applies to intimate relationships.

When your life state is joyful and peaceful, you may meet a person who loves you especially, and then you will have a wonderfully emotional and spiritual experience, and you will have many stories…

You have to understand:

This person is a reflection and projection in your life mirror, a manifestation of your current life state.

Because your state is joy and peace, it reflects that this person treats you very well, takes good care of you, cares for you, and brings you a lot of romance and a lot of happiness.

These happy and romantic feelings are what your inner state makes you perceive.

Take care of your inner world, it creates your happiness.

Good morning, my friends!❤️💧☕

#authenticity#humanity#kindness#love#dailycreativity#readers#authors#emotionalintelligence#motivation

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_authenticity-humanity-kindness-activity-6706924548786409473-0ZGQ

Mutual Exchanges of Life💞

Don’t be curious about how others perceive or judge you, think about how you perceive and judge others.

People to people are mutual.

Those who you have a good impression of are often those who have a good impression of you, and the person you don’t like is often the person who does not like you.

If you care too much about how others evaluate you, you can easily lose yourself.

Everyone has different views of life values, so there is no need to force difference together or separate them apart.

Instead of caring about the evaluation of you and others, it is better to be a better yourself first.

People gather in kind, while things are divided into groups.

When you are good enough, you will naturally meet the same good people in your life.

Morning, my friends. 📖💡💧☕

#uplifting#authenticity#perspective#dailycreativity#inspirtion#mindfulness#authors#readers

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_uplifting-authenticity-perspective-activity-6704345318709858304-kgEB

A Strong-Hearted Person✨

On the way to become a strong person with an open mind: listen to different voices, analyze & think rationally, stay vigilant about belief, and constantly check the truth in practice.

What exactly is belief?
How to observe the world?
How to interpret life?
What is happiness?

These problems are perfectly compatible and self-consistent, to a strong-hearted person.

A peaceful, confident, and happy person is a person with a perfect personality & a strong heart, even in adversity.

Because his world is no longer just the secular world, he also has his own unique & abundant inner world.

– He is a spiritual noble.
– He is aware of the finiteness of physical life & the infiniteness of spiritual life.
– He aligns the relationship well between his physical life & the spiritual world.
– He can recognize the material standards of the secular world & the alternative coordinates of his spiritual world.
– His standard of action is internal.
– He is not anxious or impatient.
– He plans for the worst in life anytime, anywhere, but pursues the best.
– He doesn’t wait anxiously but acts firmly.
– He has his own standards of happiness.
– He enjoys the happiness that no one else can realize.

Morning, friends!✨🌈💧☕

#authenticity#dailycreativity#love#motivation

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helenqiuhong_authenticity-dailycreativity-love-activity-6704008291565096960-pyd8