警惕各种口号（成了战争机器宣传工具而不自知）
如果我们面临一劫。
那么这不是天外来劫，就来自“自我意识陷阱”与“现代化陷阱”/“标准化（战争机器）极端发展陷阱”。
所谓自我意识陷阱，简单来讲，就是有了个“我”反而遮蔽了真正的自己，迷失自我，必然焦虑紧张烦恼痛苦以至于疯狂，常常攀援概念名词。
所谓“现代化陷阱”，就是由于数学在标准化零件化的应用，自古以来就有的战争机器得到了莫大的加持，由于各自统一思想的宣传战、意识形态战，所谓名词之争，越演越烈，已近“奇点”。
（现代金融以信用为基础，所以这些理念的战争是极其重要的。
钱能生钱，不用是精英。权能被钻营，也不用是人精。
1% 未必有能力搞阴谋，但很容易达成默契）
If we are facing an ending of the world.
Then it is not a catastrophe from outside, but from the "self-consciousness trap" and the "modernisation trap" / "standardisation (war machine) trap of extreme development".
The self-consciousness trap, in simple terms, means that having an "I" would hide the true self (lost oneself), one is inevitably anxious, stressed, and distressed to the point of insanity, often resorting to conceptual nomenclature.
The so-called "modernisation trap" is that due to the application of mathematics in the standardisation of parts, the war machine, which has existed since ancient times, has been given a extreme boost, and due to the propaganda and ideological warfare of the respective unified ideas, the so-called nomenclature dispute or war has become more and more intense and is nearing the "singularity".
Modern finance is based on credit (trust in their own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important.
Money can generate money, and it doesn't have to be the elite. The ones born with power don't have to be the human elite either.
The 1% may not necessarily be capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement.
Be aware to all kinds of slogans, including “freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx (whatever) first" "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end".
Why must we follow any of them or any other so-called prophecy?
All we need to do is having a faith in ourselves (the unknown true oneself), no matter what it is, it is always there.
However inside of each yang there always is yin, every faith/hope is based on doubt/fear.
If you've already 100% certain about something, there is no need of a belief.
So, the real ultimate war between light and darkness is inside of us, not outside.
上文机器翻译： 为什么我们必须遵循他们中的任何一个或其他所谓的预言？
我们需要做的就是对自己（未知的真实的自己）有信心，无论它是什么，它总是存在的。
然而，在每一个阳的内部总是有阴的，在每一个信仰/希望是基于怀疑/恐惧的。
如果你已经对某件事情有了100%的把握，就没有必要再去相信。
所以，光明与黑暗之间真正的终极战争是在我们内部，而不是外部。
有一点很有必要说明一下。
光明与黑暗，（甚至于其他高大上的名词，例如：空/emptiness, 无/nothingness, 觉醒/awakening），都是些比喻。
我个人认为，都是指向知背后的”不知“的。unknown 这个字眼在西方文化里隐含着对未知的恐惧。
面对不知未知无知，人们总是有无限的想象。
(庄子说：吾生也有涯，而知也无涯。其实我们不知道有涯无涯，可知还是不可知，
只是人的想象力无限，总是猜想其为“无限心”之类。）
黑暗（未来或死亡）常常带来无边的恐惧。光线（逻辑）的无限延申给我们带来希望。
看了《我们诞生在中国》，我曾有点感想：
不知，未知，未来，死亡，黑暗并不一定意味着恐惧，
同样可以意味着希望。
当一个人陷入绝境，仰望黑夜，或许会想冥冥之中会有什么呢？会不会救我呢？
而自以为是的全知与不可能只会带来绝望。
如果有什么光明与黑暗的战争，那不会是地域民族宗教主义之争，也不会是什么是非善恶正邪佛魔之争，就是希望与恐惧乃至绝望之战。
Water doesn't know she is water, Darkness doesn't know he is darkness.
When someone is seeking brightness, he or she would be blinded by all kinds of dreams of lights.
Most of people who is serious or nervous and busy are dreaming, the awaken ones are in peace because they are comfortable with the darkness of not knowing the ultimate truth.
生命（及意识）的本质或许是能量（及被能量点亮的光）。
楞严：性觉必明，妄为明觉。(稍微解释一下：能量必然点亮意识，如灯必有光，更好比镜必然显像，
而有的意识误以为自己是被心镜中的物像点亮的。）
我们不知道自己就是黑暗，不知道自己就是“不知”，被知，被光明遮瞎了眼。
（不知为不知，知之为知之，是知也。知建立在不知之上）
人，之所以为人，不同于动物或野兽等其他动物，
或许就在于人有明确的自我意识。明上加明，头上安头。
认为此明必为某明所明。此觉必然是被某个能觉所觉的。
从此（自我意识的建立是有个过程的，没有人是突然知道有个我的，婴儿抢奶喝，并不自私，只是本能而已）
（于是），能所对立，镜像对立，我与非我对立，是谓对象化思维。
自我意识不太可能有所谓的"绝对的有"或"绝对地无自我意识”，至少我个人的经验不是如此。
我不记得我是在某一天突然就从没有自我意识变得知道有个我了。
假设我记错了。那么我是在哪一天“无中生有”的呢？学会说”我”的那一天？觉得痛的那一天？
还是开始焦虑的那一天？（当人学会了我这个概念，但在潜意识里发觉找不到自己时，就会开始不自觉地焦虑紧张乃至燥郁。）
我不知道为什么有人对痛感之类的触觉或者五感那么重视。
对我来说孤独感才是伴随自我意识越来越强烈的。
我（没做过调查）主观地认为，一个人个性越强，个体意识、自由意志、自我意识越明显，就越感到自己的孤立与独立。（反之亦然，有可能孤独与个性互相促进越演越烈。）
人多多少少都有点孤独。而喜欢热闹的，未尝不是因为害怕孤独。（会害怕，正说明其感受到了孤独）
这主要是因为我们（法身）看到的听到的乃至要表达的自己（报身）与别人看到的听到的我们（化身）是不一样的。（例如照片与镜像的不同，自己声音的录音听起来很陌生，等等）
而法身究竟如何，我们自己的真相到底是什么，（生命的本质究竟是什么），是连我们自己都看不到找不到的，看到的听到的摸到的自己都是报身，看到的听到的摸到的别人都是化身（别人的法身真身真相也是看不到的。）
需要说明的是：孤独感每个人多少都会有。而孤独这件事是没有的。至少也有清风明月相伴。
慧思（和他的行为艺术）所谓“独居孤峰顶，一口吞尽十方众生”，是句反话。他之所以有把握度尽众生，就是因为他已看破孤独感，
知道这是镜像对立（对象化思维）带来的错觉。
镜像对立，是个比喻，比较重要。可以这么说：人人（乃至所有的知觉众生）都是一面同样圆满的明镜。
（维度是推想出来的。我们眼前是个二维的平面。不是立体的。三维来自我们笔直的逻辑。我们看到的是幻象。实际的空间我们看不到的。按物理学来说不是平直的是弯曲的。）
包括身体，都只是镜中像。
这个知觉镜到底从哪里来的，没人知道。
至少我不知道，只能猜。目前我比较推荐的猜想是：能量守恒，能量第一性。
有能量必然点亮知觉，连所谓的非生物也是一样。只是肯定没有自我意识，或即便有，也是极其模糊极其不稳定的。
反讽的是，做为比动物更有自我意识的人，注定迷失自己，从而紧张忙碌，如在梦中。（人在梦中时，常常是焦虑的紧张的忙碌的甚至疯狂的，醒来才发觉完全没必要。但是我们很难完全觉醒，因为诸如三体或灭霸之类的故事已经深入人心，到处都在贩卖焦虑或训练狼性。为了反抗被拉入梦中，我最近反复地说：能量第一性，能量守恒，不生不灭，不增不减，不存在会消耗需争抢的问题，而且我们的本质就是能量，不存在生命（即能量）会无限繁殖的问题。）
相续相（寿者相，记忆相，时间相）、对象化思维（镜像对立、能所对立、心物对立、我与非我的对立）、自我意识，是个陷阱。（无论是谁设的陷阱。无论与热力学第二定律有没有关系。）更是一个劫。
生命之多样复杂，以至于敏感到“像变镜不变，相变体不变。从而串起一条念珠。“我，我，我,.......”. 是不是演化的必然，算不算进步或进化，也没有讨论的必要。（连科学也是有粉丝的。各路粉丝都得罪不起）
有了个我，反而失去了本我（所谓本我，我的自我定义：本就有的，没必要念的我。）
自在常在，无须寻找。
骑驴找驴，迷头觅头，焦虑紧张烦恼痛苦（以至于疯狂），这应该是人只常情，也无法避免。即便不去学校接受灌输（古今中外灌输的都是浆糊，大巫小巫，五十步与百步，一样的），被父母指着“娘生褂”起个名字，就已经是迷失的开始了。
我（以及非我）这个概念，已经根深蒂固。不容怀疑。
但是其所指究竟是什么？是身体吗？是思维吗？是某种境界吗？或者只是个超然的概念？
有了个我，反而迷失了自己。骑驴找驴，头外觅头。是谓“自我意识陷阱”。
这是最根本最潜在的迷失，比什么童年阴影或性压抑重要得多。
（成年人更多心理障碍，不在于性，而在于自我意识、孤独感之类的，更明确更明显）
人学会了照镜子，就再难自在逍遥了，（被逐出了伊甸园，逐出了无忧无虑的动物世界）
为了应付“我在哪里”，有两条歧路。
一曰：我执或人我执，即攀缘身体或其他外物（皆镜中像），这条路上人很多，尤其是在古希腊传统影响全球的现代。
二曰：法执或法我执，即寄托于各自对先天第一因（即镜）的想象。这里分出了许多宗教或学派。每一个都不承认自己信奉的只是想象猜想妄想。其中认为自己有证据支撑的，其实严格说来不是法执而是我执了，（不是执着于对电视机原理的猜测，而是执着于自己与众不同的新奇的电视剧剧情）
（同行是冤家，一对对死对头，其实往往是差不多的，甚至只是在争招牌而已。）
谁能如朴树所唱，悬崖撒手，不惜坠入黑暗，（承认无知），获得新生，
或许会感叹，原来天人本一，道不外人，常在具足，
于是，自在从容，笃定潇洒，方是中华文化的真继承者。
一即一切，或能平衡噩梦。
但愿如此。
这也许是所谓文明进步（或所谓繁荣发展）必须付出的代价。
概念名词，据《人类简史》，是智人胜出的有力武器。
现在看来，这是柄双刃剑。
人类快要（或已经）疯到要不惜毁去这个世界（这个监狱，这个角斗场、斗兽场）
反正各有各的归属（各有各的应许之地。包括虚无，甚至荒诞，也各有各的粉丝。）
去见马克思，去见祖宗.......
所谓文明的冲突，不止于理念之争宗教之争，混杂了地域肤色甚至习惯之争等等等等
有统一思想、标准化、简单化、零件化、系统化、现代化、全球化的加持，这些战争机器是停不下来的。
这或许是生命演化出自我意识后，就必将迎来的一劫。
我很多年以前就从某位大能处得到暗示。没想到如今已如此明显。（至少对我来说已经很明显了）
试图和稀泥的努力早就失败，如今不过再次验证这基本上是螳臂当车。
还是实修吧。也只有实修了。
心斋无为，悬崖撒手，不惜坠入黑暗，承认无知。(出自朴树的一首歌）
或能获得新生。天人本一，道不外人，常在具足。从而自在从容，潇洒面对人生乃至宇宙的ending。
（但是要注意：心不平等易入魔。)
（挑重点通过修改解释一下）
相续相：连续感。主要受夏娃被蛇诱惑吃了知识果（善恶分别果）的故事的启发。
有人说亚当的原罪源于夏娃的撒谎。其实没有蛇，是夏娃自己要诱惑亚当。
我曾写了篇短文反驳这种荒唐的解读。（易中天认为这蛇与生殖崇拜有关。也比这强了不止一点。）
参见《亚当的原罪（夏娃没有撒谎）》
《金刚经》：“无我相，无人相，无众生相，无寿者相。”
一般解释为要平等对待。大抵不差。但何谓“寿者”？
有人说是“受”的通假字，无受者，就是说要看穿身体这个表相。也说得通，但与上下文不太连贯。
我认为：所谓寿者，不分长寿短寿，有寿命可计的都是寿者。（不仅是众生，非生命，也是寿者。）
而实际飞矢不动，方生方死，方死方生（庄子），有寿命可算，是记忆带给我们的错觉或幻象（好比视觉暂留）
关于记忆相与时间相，请看《先天第一因（背景与源头）》
维特根斯坦说过：因果关系是世界上最大的迷信。
休谟认为：因果关系，只是一种“幻觉” 。
或许如此。
但是，如果没有前因后果的记叙，没有历史，没有时间，没有记忆，
好比把一卷胶片打开，一眼看到全部，还没开始就已经知道结尾了。
固然相当上帝视角，但（还有意思吗？）还是个人吗？还算生命吗？
古今中外，许多人追求永生。
近年来，盛传奇点将至，有些西方人为此每天吃很多药，怕死得太早，没赶上。
可以试想，如果真发明了长生不老（或不死）药，这些人非得天天躲在家里，怕出门被车撞死，被花盆砸死。太不划算。
西方从古希腊开始，就有迷恋肉体的传统。
（据说希特勒就因为不会画人体才没考上美术学院。）
但是生命的本质并非大体老师，并非“娘生褂”，并非“步行骑的水牛，空手把的锄头，或空手开的汽车”。
还不如归结到“记忆”。所谓的奇点，或许应是意识（及记忆）上传至因特网的实现。
其中记忆比意识更重要。
如果在各种高科技的运用中（例如星际迷航 Star Trek中的Teleport 瞬间传送）出了偏差，
失去记忆，或记忆被过度篡改，那实际上原来那人就已经死了。（参见电影total recall ＜全面回忆 ＞）
单纯追求意识（即能量）的上传意义不大。能量本就守恒，本就循环轮回。
生命（及意识）的本质或许是能量（及被能量点亮的光）。
人（及自我意识）的本质或许是记忆（必须是有前因后果记叙性的记忆，一团乱码无法支撑自我意识，算不得是个人。）
总之，无论因果是不是迷信或幻觉，是个人，就缺不了它。（这里所说的因果，与karma业力报应是两个概念）
只要是能思考的人类（包括外星人，如果有的话），就会探究事物的前因后果，
于是，总会归结到同一个问题：第一推动力、第一因（先天）是什么？（后天）能认识吗？等等。
这涉及“生从何来，死何所去”，是个根本大问。（因特网乃至宇宙也是要死的、会灭亡的。从哪里来的，就回哪里去。是顺理成章的，最能被理性所接受的。）
然而，（本人主观上认为）这是个无解的问题，永远的谜（死后都未必解开这个谜）
因为电视剧的剧情永远不等同于电视机的原理，无论你炼出了什么神功，有什么样的奇遇（神离于体，外星绑架，吃了个药，灌了个汤，死了一回，等等等等）换了多少频道，换了多少剧情，也是一样。
背景还是在那里，还是无法肯定找到了源头。（matrix的背后是什么？梦醒了，是不是还在另一个更大的梦中？）
慧能曾问：我有一物，无头无尾，无背无面，无名无字，你们知道是什么吗？（有弟子说是佛性自性，被其否定。）
在这个语境中“我”“有”“一”“物”，可以是同一所指。就是每个生命的觉知（好比电视机的屏幕）。
禅宗提倡活在当下，否定一切对“觉知背后是什么”这个问题的猜想。也否定一切对镜中像的攀缘。
悬崖撒手，两只手都要放开（即不贪恋身体或身外之物，也不妄想掌握真理，或妄想沟通上帝或真主）
乃至不分能觉之镜（屏幕）与所觉之像（各种电视节目）
只一觉，不分明暗，（明暗是像，觉是镜），乃至不分知与被知，觉与被觉。
这个“吾有之一物”生前就应该在了，其实无所谓生死。（身体死后会怎么样？无所谓。怎么样都行。如能超越我们的记忆乃至推想与幻想或妄想，岂不更妙。）
这个常在的自在，容易观想，不容易坚信。
因为没有证据。《红楼》：无立足境，方是真立。
（一切实证，不可立足，不立是善境界，立则入魔（参见《楞严》））
有个电影说得好：一切都会过去，唯有真理永存。
其实（飞矢不动，瞬间即永恒）什么都没过去，只是不在眼前而已。
其实也无所谓前后，只是我们只能见前不能见后而已。
楞严：见非是明，非是暗，非是见。见不能及。
我们的眼后不是明，也不是暗或黑暗或darkness，连所谓的见性、性镜、（诸如此类）也没有，更不要说镜中明暗或五彩了。
这个”不知“才是一切的背景、舞台、根本，才是真正的自己，
镜中像和电视里的一样，都好比是有个虚拟世界（有意或无意地）放映出来骗我们的。
（不要太入戏，太认真。学会欣赏永恒的美，包括悲剧或闹剧之美，甚至恐怖片）
从庄子的心斋到阳明的龙场顿悟，关于先天第一因，在中国始终是只有少数人才有真实的心得体会。
太难继承，几乎已绝。
如今，很难找到一点从容的风度。
全世界都在紧张的重重梦中，甚至都已爆发战争，居然还有许多人热切关注，．．．．．
一串念珠这个比喻，和蛇一样，都是引诱人自私自利修来世的。
有一次，某位网友问我：为什么他觉得自己有很多前世，都是死于同一场南京大屠杀的。
我打了个比方。庄子：方生方死，方死方生。好比叠在一起的麻将牌。
区别只是叠得整齐不整齐。来世下面还有来世，还是要清空了重来，不值得追求。
关于热力学第二定律，由于缺乏专业知识，无法准确判断。目前倾向于认为：均匀分布是一种有序。生命的复杂多样，（每个基因都不同，包括双胞胎，包括克隆，都多少有抄错作业的地方，没有变异就没有演化或进化），是一种无序。
因而，热力学定律与物种演化论并无矛盾。不能因为有人写了本书或做了个预言，就被误导，认为世人活该如此，毁灭了更好。参见《热力学第二定律与进化论矛盾吗？》
(如果均匀分布是一种无序，生命的复杂是有序。那么进化论就似乎与热力学定律矛盾了。于是有人提出，我忘了是谁了：宇宙之所以允许进化出复杂的人体，就是因为人类会为了维持自己的生命破坏环境。破坏生态圈，矫正宇宙趋向混沌的总方向。但是如果均匀分布是一种有序，生命每个都不同才是无序，那么生命的演化就与热力学第二定律并无矛盾，我们并不是活该去死的反动派。真正的反动，是过分追求效率好打胜仗的标准化零件化统一化等等等等。各种疯狂地自毁或互相毁灭并不是天经地义必须发生的。也就是说，人体的复杂乃至个个不同是应该的。冷静地相处才符合天道。疯狂地打群架要统一思想搞所谓文明的冲突，太热闹了，不仅没必要，也不符合宇宙的大趋势，不可能持续很久的。自己不肯停可能就止于核冬天）
如果我们面临一劫，不从天外来，来自我们自己的疯狂，究其因，就是自我意识产生后必然造成的自我迷失。
找不到真正的自己，必然要攀援（执着于镜中像，例如身体或金钱，笔杆子，刀把子，等等等等）或妄想（执着于对于镜的猜想，各种名词之争，以至于所谓文明的冲突，不惜毁了这个世界，也要维护自己的信念）
这未必不能避免。
从集体来说，主要坏在标准化工业化现代化全球化，
所谓的文明，所谓的文化圈，已经各自成为统一了思想的战争机器。
（西方崇尚个性、个人言论自由......是个幻象，实际是家庭无法规范成一个个螺丝钉，不利于工业化。参见《墙上的另一块砖》）
这种简单有序的重复灌输才是违反天道的反动派，不是多样复杂的生命体。
能量守恒，生命不会断绝，大不了换个形态，标准化零件化体系化的热战或冷战机器必然覆灭。
自己不停就止于核冬天。
（成吉思汗的战争机器也很“现代化”，百夫长千夫长万夫长的连排制度，从各部落独立出人质建立近卫军，
以职能设立军官等等等等。而且全民皆兵，可以配给配额，没有三饷从哪里来之类的烦恼。
胜利者一定比较先进吗？）
（没有虽亿万人吾往矣的决心，没有独居孤峰顶一口吞尽十方的气魄，奢谈真正的觉醒。
哪怕是螳臂挡车，反正风吹不动光，再试试吧。）
从个人来说，可以修习心斋无为，悬崖撒手。
达摩：外息诸缘（放开我执，像执），内心无喘（放下法执，镜执）
这是心法，不在于外在的行为，打坐还是站桩，跑步还是睡觉，更不要去修什么无谓的苦行。
坛经：正邪俱不用。长伸两脚卧。
一脚邪，即迷恋外相，一脚正，即想象无限大的觉性本体（过分了容易发狂入魔，因为本无大小善恶之分）
悬崖撒手，两手（一手恶，即执着物相，即过分经验主义，一手善，即妄想心体，即太偏教条主义）都要放开或放下。
所谓好事都不要做，更不要说做坏事了（不是中国文化太酱缸，是有的人自己愚钝）
无为心法，是杠杆原理，阴极而阳的另类使用（参见《杠杆原理的另类应用》）
（气功有所谓的气感（一种触感），与内家拳是两回事。因为迷恋各种幻象，气功界相当乱。道家学派也很多。心斋无为，用心若镜。所谓炁，虚而待物，是不能把气感触感等幻觉当实证的。）
要小心一切所谓的证明，特别是突然过于敏感，例如突获清净感、清醒清晰干净......
人生历练不一定要行万里路。本不成为考验，主要看内心平等不平等（参见《心不平等易入魔》）
本就平等。
好比同样的电视机，不会因为有的在放《蜀山》就卖得贵一些。
但人心不平。
例如楞严经里佛已经说的很清楚了，哪怕佛的电视机里在放映周游三千，也没有比弟子的屏幕的大一点。
结果，那些弟子还是要问怎么修炼神通。
佛只好说了。然后不等弟子问，就主动告知，无论修出了什么，都没比别人更神圣。自居圣贤，必然入魔而不自知。
小毛也一样，自居不会错的导师。的确是个魔头了。所谓的本事，是有的。但真有什么用吗？真值得骄傲吗？
所谓自欺，其实是不可能的。骗不了自己的。
《大学》所谓诚其意者，毋自欺也。如恶恶臭，如好好色，此之谓自谦。故君子必慎其独也。
所谓慎独，不能像李敖那样，简单地表面地理解为不欺暗室，不要自慰。
关键在于人总要独自面对自己的，例如独自面对死亡时，
到时，一切欺骗他人，引以为傲的东西都用不上，
（诸如金钱权力，也包括神通能力，甚至知识经历，神奇神异，境界幻梦，奇遇天授……所有的光环，
包括所谓的道德智慧，可以拿出来秀的道德智慧……）
因为无法欺骗自己。
我们很清楚自己脱去皇帝的新装后是个什么。
如果我们是个冷酷残忍，或无耻的人，那么很容易接受自己。
常有人问：为什么好人不长命，祸害遗千年？
因为好人不珍惜自己，甚至恨自己，有自虐的倾向。 他们恨自己为什么会被污染，为什么会有本能与欲望。
他们有羞耻心。
人，动物，生物，（有情）生命的本质有阴阳两面，
我执，无明，理智，大脑，物质，身体，苦与恶……内阴外阳，比较明显，常常迷惑我们
本真，本明，情感，心血，能量，心灵，乐与善.....内阳外阴，是个隐藏的秘密，常常被我们遗忘遗漏
人性，有善恶两面。本来无善无恶，不分你我，浪漫天真，就是善。分了我与非我，分了善恶是非，纷争不断，就是恶。
但是如果全无自觉，如同畜生，不知羞耻，不知美丑，也不是什么好事。
小说家不能没有读者，尤其是侦探小说家。
如果真有造物主，他的意义是要靠我们这些能赞美他的人来完成的。光靠动物远远不够，所以上帝必须造人。
《我们为什么被创造（人生意义？）》
Why were we created (Buddhist perspective)?
I don't think a Buddhist would consider that he was created. (By the way I am not a Buddhist.)
He may think that he is a castle built on Lego bricks, or some forest based on woods.
And he may call the Lego factory or seed of woods a kind of emptiness or nothingness.
If so, it means they (Buddhists) are assuming a closed chamber, a sealed space. All detective should search for the murderer within its scope.
By the way, some scientists (if not all of them) are doing the same thing. Otherwise all their logic could be a void effort anytime since it may be undermined by some outer factor anywhere.
People love Sherlock Holmes, admiring his logical ability.
And It is reasonable that we don't like chaos. Without a stable environment such as a sealed room, as a better weapon than our arms and hands, our logic seems weak . It would be like a small boat on a raging ocean. Although this boat is so stable as the logic such as 1+1 always =2, How could we expect it can handle the chaos ocean?
But there is always a different voice.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
(It is possible that 1=1 is an illusion, 1+1 causes 2 is also an illusion which we believe it as a fact or truth, same as we do in other superstition.)
To me, it means that the creator (the author) could be a monkey who is typing randomly. We just happen to be living in a readable novel where logic appears working but not really, the actually working one is the monkey who creates all the illusion. And there are other unreadable books which could be infinite, including some novels where there are different logic from ours, which must appears ridiculous to us. If we happen to stumble into one of them, we probably would deny all the strange things we meet in order to defend our own logic.
Anyway it doesn't matter who is the author. (This is a everlasting ultimate question and secret not only hidden behind all the things we are sensing but also concealed by all the concepts we're imagining including Tao, God, emptiness。）Let it be, a monkey，some kind of chaos, nothingness, or some even more ridiculous thing, anyone is the same to us.(Unless we have to find and pay him for the copyright.)
People may think the creator (the author) is so important, that all the meanings depend on him. But if an author has no reader, especial a writer of detective novel, is his meaning complete? You can even ask: is there really any meaning for him, no matter how huge or how long living or how great in any way he is?
One day I asked my son who was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?".
"No, at night it is black." He is smart.
"If there is a superman whose eyes are able to and always see the infrared ray or ultraviolet light，to him is the sky blue or black?"
Without the eyes of a life, colors means nothing to the sky.
Why we're wondering the meaning of life, why we don't suspect the meaning of universe, and even the meaning of creator.
No matter how small we are, no matter how brief our lives are.
Laozi: sky/heaven and earth ( which represent the mother nature who create everything) has no mercy.
In order to complete the meaning of the author, the readers have to be ignorant.
A truth teller (an always right fortune teller) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.
The ignorance of the true nature of ourselves are the source of our stress, anxieties, sufferings, pains.
(refer to my another answer Min John Zhou's answer to What is causing Dhukka? )
Is it worthy? depend on how much beauty, joy, love (Sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you) you can find in your life.
If very little, you may deeply wonder why were you created.
机翻一下（略作修改）
我们为什么被创造（佛教的观点）？
我不认为一个佛教徒会认为他是被创造的。(顺便说一下，我不是一个佛教徒）。
他可能认为自己是一座建立在乐高积木上的城堡，或一些基于树木的森林。
而他可能把乐高工厂或树林的种子称为一种空虚或虚无。
如果是这样的话，这意味着他们（佛教徒）是在假设一个封闭的房间，一个密封的空间。所有侦探都应该在其范围内寻找凶手。
顺便说一下，一些科学家（如果不是全部）也在做同样的事情。否则，他们所有的逻辑可能随时都是无效的努力，因为它可能被任何地方的一些外部因素所破坏。
人们喜欢夏洛克-福尔摩斯，钦佩他的逻辑能力。
而我们不喜欢混乱是合理的。如果没有一个稳定的环境，如一个密封的房间，我们的逻辑（作为一个比我们的手臂和手更好的武器）似乎很弱。这就像在汹涌的大海上的一艘小船。虽然这艘船是如此的稳定，如1+1总是=2的逻辑，我们怎么能指望它能处理混乱的海洋呢？
但总有一种不同的声音。
路德维希-维特根斯坦：相信因果关系是迷信。
(有可能1=1是一种幻觉，1+1导致2也是一种幻觉，我们把它当作事实或真理来相信，就像我们对其他迷信一样)。
对我来说，这意味着创造者（作者）可能是一只随机打字的猴子。我们只是碰巧生活在一本可读的小说中，其中的逻辑似乎在起作用，但不是真的，真正起作用的是那只创造所有幻觉的猴子。还有其他不可读的书，可能是无限的，包括一些小说，其中有与我们不同的逻辑，这对我们来说一定很荒谬。如果我们碰巧进入其中，我们可能会否认我们遇到的所有奇怪的事情，以捍卫我们自己的逻辑。
总之，谁是作者并不重要。(这是一个永恒的终极问题和秘密，不仅隐藏在我们所感觉到的所有事物的背后，而且也被我们所想象的所有概念所掩盖，包括道、上帝、虚无。）无论它是一只猴子，某种混沌、虚无，还是一些更可笑的东西，任何人对我们都是一样的。
人们可能认为创造者（作者）是如此重要，所有的意义都取决于他。但是，如果一个作者没有读者，特别是侦探小说的作者，他的意义就完整吗？你甚至可以问：他真的有任何意义吗，不管他有多大，活得多长，或者在任何方面有多伟大？
有一天我问我的儿子，他还是个小男孩，"天空是蓝色的吗？"。
"不，在晚上是黑色的"。他很聪明。
"如果有一个超人，他的眼睛能够而且总是看到红外线或紫外线，对他来说，天空是蓝色还是黑色？"
没有生命的眼睛，颜色对天空来说毫无意义。
为什么我们要怀疑生命的意义，为什么我们不怀疑宇宙的意义，甚至怀疑创造者的意义。
无论我们多么渺小，无论我们的生命多么短暂。
老子：天/天和地（代表创造万物的母体）是没有怜悯的。
为了完成作者的意义，读者必须是无知的。
宣讲真相的人（永远正确的算命先生）将是一个破坏者，他破坏了一切。
对自己的真实本性的无知是我们的压力、焦虑、苦难、痛苦的来源。
(参考我的另一个答案 Min John Zhou's answer to What is causing Dhukka? )
值得吗？取决于你能在你的生活中找到多少美丽、快乐、爱（有时只是一个简单的蓝天就能打动你）。
如果非常少，你可能会深深地想，为什么要创造你。
《楞严》：两种根本。
第一因逻辑上只能有一个，好比造物主不可能被造，能就是假的主。
所以不是二个根本，而是两种。
第一种，我称之为“先天第一因”。之前已经说过不少了。
第二种，可以叫“后天第一因”，我可能没说清楚。
先天第一因，是个假名，主要基于逻辑，但是实际究竟如何，是不是甚至是荒诞的，没人知道。（至少我不知道）。
或许根本就是不可知的。
虽不可知，但是可以猜。
各种猜想，赋予了这个先天根本各种名号，例如：本体，自体，自性，觉性，存在，等等，包括佛道上帝真主等许多宗教概念及符号。
这种猜想，如果成了坚定的信念，就会成为后天第一因，后天根本。
楞严对此基本持否定的态度，认为是头上安头，明上生明，知觉立知，即无明本。（烦恼的由来，痛苦的第一因）
的确，不仅如此，各种名词之争，甚至可以外化为所谓文明的冲突，实际也就是打群架。
但是，以我个人来看，所谓信愿行，各家各派各自的修行求证，也是基于这些后天第一因，未必全无意义。
（包括科学，也是基于能量守恒之类的信念。许多信念都很隐蔽。以至于人们已经认定为就是事实，不存在猜想的因素）
人们常看到我否定一切（可能以为我只认为自己最正确），不知道阴极而阳，我其实同时也肯定了一切，尤其是肯定那些虔诚或真心实意的信仰。（一般人都以为只有自己信奉的是对的。我这种肯定没有人会满意的）
我曾经，过于热心，以为能调和矛盾。
近年来，我越来越相信可能热力学第二定律是对的。不可能有happy ending的。
我们能做的，可能就是像庄子那样，快乐地举行葬礼。
上面这一段有问题，写得太随便。严格来说，法执不算后天第一因。法执与我执，并不是毫无道理，没有来由的。只要是有自我意识的生命，知道有个我，就要骑驴找驴，都难免要攀缘的，不是执着就是妄想。所以后天第一因，还是要归结在“我上立我”。自我，如镜，来自“像变镜不变，相动体不动”，镜像对立来自复杂生命体，例如人体，必然过于敏感，进化的必然，热力学第二定律的暗中操纵。（后天只是表相，其实还是先天就决定了的）所以还是无解。好在即便全灭，先天第一因，先天根本，是无所谓生灭的。从头再来？循环？也不错。过程比结果重要，质量比数量重要。
补充一点：为什么要设两种根本，两种第二因。
例如在基督教来说，有个难题：至善而又全能的上帝为什么会容许恶的存在？
《楞严经》里也有个课题：如同纯金的觉性为什么会蒙尘？
佛的回答简单而言，就是自作自受。有个某人照镜过度，迷头不见，狂奔寻找的比喻，经文说是自己疯了，怪不得别人。
在我看来，是可以怪在热力学第二定律暗中操纵进化方向之上的。（这与我写的很多观点一样，只是猜想）
求同存异，沦为口号，统战的手段。（教育孩子时，何曾存异或存疑）。
所谓多样性，也是对珍稀动物而言，不是对中国人这么大数量的。
或许，悬崖撒手，心斋无为，能多少平衡一下人们的焦虑紧张与疯狂吧。
我现在也摇身一变，越来越偏向所谓的实修了
（待续）
There is a fable in Śūraṅgama Sūtra.
A crazy man was walking and passing by a mirror.
For some reason he thought the image in the mirror is another man.
He was so admiring that man's pretty face and head.
And suddenly he panicked, because if that head belongs to other man,
where is his own head? Why he can't see his own head?
So from then on this crazy man run all over the places looking for his own head but how can he find it.
Is this just a mad person who have no reason?
Is what we see in the mirror definitely ourselves?
You know the reflection of light need time.
So we can never see the present us in a mirror, all we see is the history.
You've changed. If the changing is so quick and you're so sensitive,
you suddenly find the the face in mirror seems a stranger whose facial expression doesn't fit your current emotion, you may also go crazy.
In one way, we all lose ourselves.
Clinging to any attachments, e.g. body, thoughts, state of no thoughts, spiritual experiences, concepts such as Tao, God, Śūnyatā, ........
can never satisfy our desire of finding the true self or the real us.
Because they are all like images in a mirror, or TV set, or other stage or platform. What we really desire is "the mirror", not "any images", so how can we be satisfied?
This unsatisfactoriness cause more effort to cling or attach.
and this unsatisfactoriness or this desire himself means anxiety or stress which could be called "Dukkha".
The "images" are changing, and the fact we've gained them sometime means we can lose them anytime.
We can never see"the mirror or stage", or sense it in some way so that we can be sure that we've found it. (It is always a ultimate secret hidden behind all the things we sense and all the concepts we're imagining)
Let's assume that madman in that fable has no hands, he can never touch his head to be sure that his head is always there.
If so how can he stop his madness?
Śūraṅgama Sūtra tell us once we can stop this madness, we will get the desired peace, which is called Bodhi.
It seems easy because you don't need to do any anything, just realizing the real you or the true self is always there.
It is like you're searching for a horse on a horseback. Once you realize you are riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning), you will stop the searching immediately.
（According to Dajian Huineng, this kind of sudden realizing is the final way and only way to awakening or enlightenment or ultimate liberation nirvana)
But If this kind of realizing is really so easy, all of you would've already known it, why I need make the effort to type so much words.
《楞严经》中有一则寓言。
一个疯子走路时路过一面镜子。
由于某种原因，他认为镜子里的形象是另一个人。
他非常欣赏那个人的漂亮脸蛋和脑袋。
突然，他惊慌失措，因为如果这个头是属于另一个人的，那么他自己的头在哪里？
他自己的头在哪里呢？为什么他看不到自己的头呢？
于是，从那时起，这个疯子就到处跑，寻找自己的头，但他怎么也找不到。
这只是一个没有理由的疯子吗？
我们在镜子里看到的一定是自己吗？
你知道光的反射需要时间。
所以我们永远无法在镜子里看到现在的我们，我们所看到的只是历史。
你已经改变了。如果变化如此之快，你又如此敏感。
你突然发现镜子里的脸似乎是一个陌生人，他的面部表情不符合你现在的情绪，你也可能会发疯。
在某种程度上，我们都会失去自己。
执着于任何执着，如身体、思想、无念状态、精神体验、道、上帝、Śūnyatā等概念，........
永远不能满足我们找到真正的自我的愿望。
因为它们都像镜子、电视机或其他舞台或平台中的图像。我们真正渴望的是 "镜子"，而不是 "任何图像"，所以我们怎么能得到满足呢？
这种不满足感会导致我们更加努力地去依附或附着。
而这种不满足或这种欲望本身意味着焦虑或压力，可称为 "Dukkha"。
形象 "是不断变化的，我们在某个时候获得了它们，这意味着我们随时都可能失去它们。
我们永远无法看到 "镜子或舞台"，或以某种方式感觉到它，以便我们可以确定我们已经找到它。(它始终是隐藏在我们所感觉到的所有事物和我们所想象的所有概念背后的一个终极秘密）。
让我们假设那个寓言中的疯子没有手，他永远无法触摸到他的头，以确定他的头一直在那里。
如果是这样，他怎么能停止他的疯狂呢？
Śūraṅgama Sūtra告诉我们，一旦我们能够停止这种疯狂，我们就会得到想要的和平，这就是所谓的Bodhi。
这看起来很容易，因为你不需要做任何事情，只要意识到真正的你或真正的自我一直在那里。这就像你在马背上寻找一匹马。一旦你意识到你从一开始就在骑它（或在一开始之前），你会立即停止寻找。
（根据慧能的说法，这种突然的领悟是通往觉醒或开悟而达到最终解脱涅槃的最终途径和唯一途径。）
但是，如果这种觉悟真的那么容易，你们应该都已经知道了，我还用得着费劲打这么多字吗？
通过www.DeepL.com/Translator（免费版）翻译
Most people look forward to world world war 3 unconsciously.
This is because they have been educated in a different (but practically identical) system of war preparation, where fighting for resources is unquestionable.
For example, hardly anyone questions the logic in "The Avengers' Infinite War" or "The Three Bodies", even though they have been taught the law of conservation of energy separately in school.
One would think they could use a war to settle the ultimate choice between faiths. (At first it seemed like other issues, such as "who deserve all sorts of resources")
If the law of conservation of energy is correct. No energy gets consumed, it just keeps shifting or transferring between different forms. So, much science fiction is wrong. The speed (kinetic energy) of anything (such as a spacecraft) cannot be escalated infinitely. That's why the speed of light seems to be the same for all. In a way, we can say that life is also a form of energy. Therefore, there is a limit to the number of any species. There is no need for any war to reduce the population for fearing that there will not be enough energy to consume.
War is not that great at all.
In order to adapt to the various war machines and try to be part of them, people are losing the ability to remain independent (especially to think independently) and their talents are diminishing generation after generation. War does not make us better.
People often imagine the environment as a colosseum. The environment chooses those who suit them, not the strong. It is the weak (the simple-minded) who suit their environment (and become part of the war machine).
The Western push for individuality was an illusion and the reality was that the family could not be regulated into a screw or a brick to the detriment of industrialisation.
In the film Shawshank, there is a word called "institutionalisation". People are divided into different prisons of the mind. Not only are they used to these walls, but they are born into them, a brick in the wall, and they even enjoy it so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything for words like "glory" (or, ironically, "freedom").
If people keep ignoring their inner loss of themselves and unconsciously clinging to various images (e.g. the body) or concepts (e.g. the Holy Name), World War III and the end of the world is inevitable, and it may have already begun in Europe in the conflict near the borders of Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
Any world will eventually be ended. This does not matter. For, life is an energy which will be recycled, which means that after the death of a life or an entire world there will be a new world.
But it is a shame that a beautiful world like Earth is being ended in a war of names/concepts. What can we do to prepare for it? We should do our best to stop it.
Be aware of all kinds of slogans. If we are facing the end of the world. Then it is not a catastrophe from outside, but from the "trap of self-knowledge" and the "trap of modernisation"/"trap of standardisation of extreme development (war machine)".
The trap of self-consciousness is, simply put, that having an "I" obscures the true self (losing oneself) and that one inevitably becomes anxious, nervous and distressed to the point of insanity, often resorting to conceptualised nomenclature.
The so-called "modernisation trap" is that the war machine, which has existed since ancient times, has been given an extreme boost by the application of mathematics in the standardisation of parts and components, and that the so-called nomenclature wars or battles have become increasingly intense and have approached the "singularity" due to the propaganda and ideological struggles of the respective unifying ideas.
Modern finance is based on credit (trust in one's own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important. Money can generate money and it is not necessarily the elite. The one who born with power is not the smartest either. The 1% is not necessarily capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement. 10% often mistake themselves as 1%.
Be aware of the various slogans, including "freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx(whatever it is ) first" "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end". Why do we have to follow any of them or any other supposed prophecy?
Sorry for disturbing. (Neither side is free, they both blocked my statement. (We are just bricks on different walls, when in fact the walls are the same).
Eve did not lie, there was a serpent, which is an allegory that talks about a sense of continuity such as time or memory. Without such feelings, there are no conditions for the formation of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
Humans are the most complex animals on the planet. If your body is too simple to perceive your environment clearly, you will find it difficult to perceive the movement and change of everything in front of you.
Without sensing moving or changing images, it is difficult to form the concept or idea of a mirror/screen/stage/platform (self-awareness or self-knowledge), which is often referred to as the ego.
The opposition of what can feel and what is felt, the opposition of mirror image, the opposition of I and non-I, is called objectified thinking，which is growing up with self-knowledge, both of which end up trapping us into a dilemma. Either be a miserable sensitive person or a happy ignorant beast. This is why drugs are everywhere(including digital ones and “spiritual” ones) .
Every pair of eyes is different, and we see ourselves differently from how others see us. This is why we feel alone.
The reflection of light takes time. So we can never see us in the mirror as we are now, all we see is history. You have changed. If the change is so rapid and you are so sensitive that you suddenly find a face in the mirror that seems to be a stranger whose facial expression does not match your current emotions, you too may go crazy. Somehow we all lose ourselves.
Clinging to any attachment (including concepts) such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā, etc., ........ that can never satisfy our desire to find the true Self or the real us. For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. What we really desire is the 'mirror' and not 'any image', so how can we be satisfied?
You don't have to do anything but realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time. It's like you're looking for a horse on the back of a horse. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning) you will immediately stop looking.
Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear. If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.
So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.
The creator (author) could be a monkey who is typing at random. We just happen to be living in a readable novel in which logic seems to be at work, but not really, and it is the monkey who creates all the illusions that is really at work.
It doesn't matter who the author is. (It is the eternal ultimate question and secret, hidden not only behind all that we sense, but also by all the concepts we imagine, including the Tao, God and emptiness.
One might think that the creator (the author) is so important that all meaning depends on him. But is the meaning of an author complete if he has no readers, especially the author of a detective novel? You might even ask: does he really have any meaning, no matter how big he is, how long he lives, or how great he is in any way?
I asked my son the other day, when he was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?" ." No, at night it's black." He's clever." If there was a superman whose eyes could and always did see infrared or ultraviolet light, would the sky be blue or black for him?" Without the eyes of life, colour means nothing to the sky.
Why should we doubt the meaning of life, why should we not doubt the meaning of the universe, or even the meaning of the creator. No matter how small we may be, no matter how short our lives may be.
Lao Tzu: The sky/heaven and the earth (representing the Mother who created all things) are without mercy. In order to fulfill the author's meaning, the reader must be ignorant. A truth-teller (the fortune-teller who is always right) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.
Ignorance of our true nature is the source of our stress, anxiety, misery and suffering. Is it worth it? Depends on how much beauty, joy, love you can find in your life (sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you). If very little, you may deeply question why you were created.
We, Homo sapiens, have used ideas/concepts to organise various war machines and exterminate many species. Maybe we deserve to use it killing each other. (Cf. Homo sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind). But it is a shame to leave a marvellous universe without anyone to appreciate it. (Allow me to assume that aliens would make the same mistake as we do).
Water does not know that she is water, and darkness does not know that he is darkness. When a man is seeking the light, he is blinded by dreams of various lights. Most serious or intense busy people are dreaming, while the awakened are at peace because they are comfortable with the darkness that does not know the ultimate truth.
What we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true selves), whatever it is, it is always there.
Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear. If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.
So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside. Mind yourself first, talk, even argue, don’t curse ,fight, even war.
See you. When there is no war in the news, I stop. CHINESE WISDOMS (minjohnz.blogspot.com)
What was Adam's original sin?
It is good to see some of you using the Bible as a kind of allegory. However, I don't think this sin is about honesty or lies.
Self-consciousness, self-knowledge, is itself the source of sin, which is why it is called original sin.
Eve did not lie, there was a serpent, which is an allegory that talks about a sense of continuity such as time or memory. Without such feelings, there are no conditions for the formation of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
Humans are the most complex animals on the planet. If your body is too simple to perceive your environment clearly, you will find it difficult to perceive the movement and change of everything in front of you.
Without sensing moving or changing images, it is difficult to form the concept or idea of a mirror/screen/stage/platform (self-awareness or self-knowledge), which is often referred to as the ego.
I hope I have made this clear enough for you to understand.
If not, please refer to my other answers.
By the way, there is no need to confess to anyone other than yourself. If you can't forgive yourself, how can you forgive others.
And that despite everyone who is self-conscious or self-aware is selfish and has sinned, without us, there is no meaning of God, or at least any meaning of God must be done by us.
Please refer to my other reply. Min John Zhou's answer to "Why we were created (a Buddhist perspective)". Why were we created (the Buddhist view)?
I don't think a Buddhist would think he was created. (I am not a Buddhist, by the way).
He might think he is a castle built on Lego bricks, or some forest based on woods.
And he may refer to the Lego factory or the seeds of the woods as a kind of emptiness or nothingness.
If so, this means that they (the Buddhists) are assuming a closed room, a hermetically sealed space. All detectives should be looking for the murderer within its confines.
By the way, some scientists (if not all) are doing the same thing. Otherwise, all their logic could be an ineffective effort at any time, because it could be undermined by some external factor anywhere.
People love Sherlock Holmes and admire his ability to be logical.
And we are justified in not liking chaos. Without a stable environment, such as a sealed room, which serves as a better weapon than our arms and hands, our logic seems weak. It is like a small boat in a rough sea. Although this boat is so stable, as in the logic that 1+1 always = 2, how can we expect it to be able to handle the chaos of the ocean?
But there is always a different voice.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: It is superstition to believe in causality.
(It is possible that 1=1 is an illusion and that 1+1 leads to 2 is also an illusion that we believe in as fact or truth, just as we do with other superstitions.)
To me, this means that the creator (author) could be a randomly typing monkey. We just happen to live in a readable novel in which logic seems to be at work but not really, and it is the monkey who creates all the illusions that is really at work. There are other unreadable books, possibly infinite, including some novels in which there is a different logic to ours, which must be absurd to us. If we happen to get into them, we might deny all the strange things we encounter in order to defend our own logic.
It doesn't matter who the author is. (It is the eternal ultimate puzzle and secret, hidden not only behind everything we sense, but also by all the concepts we imagine, including "Tao", God, nothingness.) Let it be. Whether it is a monkey, some kind of chaos, nothingness, or something more ridiculous, anyone is the same to us.
One might think that the creator (the author) is so important that all meaning depends on him. But is the meaning of an author complete if he has no readers, especially the author of a detective novel? You might even ask: does he really have any meaning, no matter how big he is, how long he lives, or how great he is in any way?
I asked my son the other day, when he was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?" .
"No, at night it is black". He was clever.
"If there was a superman whose eyes could and always did see infrared or ultraviolet light, would the sky be blue or black to him?"
Without the eyes of life, colour means nothing to the sky.
Why should we doubt the meaning of life, why should we not doubt the meaning of the universe, or even the meaning of the creator.
No matter how small we may be, no matter how short our lives may be.
Lao Tzu: Heaven/Heaven and Earth (representing the Mother Nature that created all things) have no mercy.
In order to fulfill the author's meaning, the reader must be ignorant.
A truth-teller (the fortune-teller who is always right) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.
Ignorance of our true nature is the source of our stress, anxiety, suffering and pain.
(Refer to my other answer Min John Zhou's answer to What is causing Dhukka?)
Is it worth it? Depends on how much beauty, joy, love you can find in your life (sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you).
If very little, you may wonder deeply why you were created.
What led to Dhukka?
As far as I know, many Buddhists (I am not a Buddhist, by the way.) believe that what causes Dukkha (pain, suffering, stress, anxiety ......) is our desire to cling to various attachments.
This seems better than blaming the world or life.
As Lao Tzu once said, our real enemy is ourselves.
We should not blame what we are attached or attached to; we should scrutinise the suspects who may be committing such attachments , namely ourselves.
But as Mao Tse-tung once said, there must be some reason behind all hatred or love. Is it possible that we are blaming ourselves too much?
Although according to Ludwig Wittgenstein it's superstition to believe in causality.
But if you have this belief that there must be a reason behind everything.
Then why do we have this obsessive desire to do so.
There is a parable in the Bible.
A madman passed a mirror as he walked.
For some reason he thought that the image in the mirror was of another person.
He admired the person's beautiful face and head very much.
Suddenly he panics, for if this head belongs to another person, where is his own head?
Where was his own head? Why could he not see his own head?
So, from then on, this madman ran around looking for his own head, but he could not find it.
Is this just a crazy person without a reason?
Is it absolutely ourselves that we see in the mirror?
You know it takes time for light to reflect.
That's why we can never see us in the mirror as we are now; all we see is history.
You have changed. If changes are so fast and you are so sensitive.
You suddenly realise that the face in the mirror seems to be that of a stranger whose facial expression doesn't match your current mood, and you too may go crazy.
Somehow (probably because of the self-knowledge), we all lose ourselves.
Clinging to any obsessions such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā and other concepts, ........
can never satisfy our desire to find our true self or the real us.
For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. How can we be satisfied when what we really desire is 'the mirror' and not 'any image'?
This dissatisfaction leads us to try even harder to cling or attach.
And this dissatisfaction or this desire itself implies anxiety or stress and can be called 'Dukkha'.
"Images" are constantly changing and the fact that we have gained them at one time means that we can lose them at any time.
We can never see the 'mirror or the stage' or feel it in some way so that we can be sure we have found it. (It is always the one ultimate secret hidden behind all that we feel and all the concepts we imagine).
Let us suppose that the madman in the parable had no hands and that he could never touch his head to be sure that it was there all along.
If that were the case, how could he stop his madness?
Śūraṅgama Sūtra tells us that once we can stop this madness, we will get the peace we want, which is called Bodhi.
It seems easy because you don't have to do anything, just realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time.
It is like when you are looking for a horse on horseback. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning), you will immediately stop looking.
(According to Da Jian Huineng, this sudden realisation is the ultimate path and the only path to awakening or enlightenment or eventual liberation called Nirvana.)
But if this enlightenment was really that easy, you would all know it already, so why should I bother typing so much.
All we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true self), whatever it is, it is always there.
However, within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.
If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need to believe.
So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.
