无私爱国或民主自由。我并不认同这两边的口号。
(我现在很讨厌口号。真那么对的话,是不用反复喊的。一定要选一个口号,我选“求真务实”
例如无私怎么做得到?无产,没有所有物,还是有个我的,有所有者的。爱国,谁是郭嘉?大领导?我不恨他就不错了,他哪里可爱了?
民主,到底谁在主,大多数,群众的眼睛是雪亮的?在如今,个个依赖社会,自立都难,谈何自由?所以都是些听着或许顺耳,其实做不到的。)
我感觉这里要讨论的其实是另一个问题。
没有好报的话还要不要做好事。或者有好报的话是不是就无所谓了,无论什么原则都可以随时丢弃。
(下文转贴在别处)
一定要所谓的好报才做所谓的好人好事的,未必真好到哪里去了。大抵都是些表面功夫而已。
天在不在看,不用管他。我们自己不在看吗?(我们至今没把美学教育搞好是非常糟糕的一件事。)
写过类似的。善恶是否有报应(业力是否存在)
In China, when people talk about karma, what they usually emphasise is reward or punishment.
It seems that the goal is always more important than the straight arrow.
If karma had a universally accepted symbol or sign, it would mean that we could assure ourselves that our good deeds would certainly be rewarded and our bad deeds punished.
Although I wonder how the universe can tell which actions are good or bad and how good or bad they are.
Let us assume that this is possible, then it is reasonable to assume that we would have a new, perfect world with little need for any police.
In reality, because it is obvious that the police are busy all over the world, it is also reasonable to assume that there must not be an obvious symbol or sign to indicate karma.
If there is a little, it must be too subtle or known only to a few, otherwise it would be universally accepted.
In fact the above assumption is a shallow thought.
Can such a sign or symbol really bring us a heaven?
Is a person really a good person if he does good deeds just to be rewarded or if he would certainly do bad deeds if there were no punishment?
If he is a really bad person, do you really believe that he will give up doing bad things for fear of punishment?
When you treat a person the way you treat a thief, for example by labelling him with a concept like original sin, he will act like a thief because he becomes more and more convinced that thievery is his true nature.
In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is not punished for stealing silverware, and that changes him. Perhaps that was the first time he was not treated as a thief.
If we can remove ourselves from all labels, concepts, images, phenomena ...... including the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the winners, the losers, ..... , from all kinds of id-s including body, mind and spiritual experience, we may find that our true nature is beyond all these things and always present.
As a result, you no longer care about whether there is causality or reward or punishment.
Although it seems to me that each of us has a response at every moment of our lives and does not need to wait for the afterlife or the next life.
When you do good things, the beautiful images you see, such as the smiles of your loved ones, are the reward.
When you do bad things and the sight before you makes you frown or feel disgusted deep inside you, that is the punishment.
Are there very sick people who can suppress the feeling of disgust so deeply that they convince themselves that they are enjoying it?
I don't know. Maybe they're just in fiction.
Since I'm definitely not one of those people, I doubt that there are any such people among others.
If you think otherwise, allow me to introduce you to a Chinese poem, 'A thousand rivers have a thousand moons', but there is only one moon, the moon.
This means that all of us may be played by the same actor, the only one, and when you hurt someone else, you are hurting another you, and yourself.
Because it always takes a certain amount of time to do, to act, including watching and listening.
What you feel is not the present, but a history.
There is no such thing as "at the same time" or "in the same place".
So when you hurt yourself, you are actually hurting another you at a different time.
Because everything, including yourself and the earth, is in constant motion.
This you at a different time is also another you in a different place.
So why don't you help those who could be or should be another you or yourself.