Before we talk about this question, let's clarify a swearing remark. Since Mr. Lu Xun said, "People often hate monks, nuns, Muslims and Christians, but not Taoists. If you know this, you will know more than half of China. " I believe many Taoists have read this sentence, but there are many problems that can be solved after this sentence. Later, when I looked in the mirror occasionally, I realized that China people still eat people, so I wrote this article. This discovery has a lot to do with it, but few people know it. "It is estimated that few people have seen it. He said this because he wanted to demonstrate the evil of Taoism to China, not to praise Taoism. Although Lu Xun wrote a eulogy in the imperial examination era, he has been criticizing Taoism.
There are two kinds of people who advocate this. One is to use Lu Xun's fame to cultivate Taoism and beautify himself. One is that Lu Xun has never been seen at all, and people follow suit. The first one can be called bad, few and far between, and the second one is only human nature! Everyone likes to listen to nice words, and they don't want to think about whether it is true. If you abandon the symbol of Taoism, you will find that there are basically two kinds of people around you, so some people will say that China people are really bad! If you look around the world, you can see that most people are of these two kinds, and they are by no means the bad roots of China people.
Taoism inherited the pre-Qin philosophers' thoughts dominated by Taoism. The brilliance of various philosophers has shone so far, and many propaganda achievements are still out of date! These are the essence of Taoism. From the perspective of Taoist thought, everything in the world is a grass dog, and man is just a naked bug between heaven and earth (called naked bug in impotence), which is born naturally from heaven and earth, not created by gods! Although there is no creator's constraint, there are natural constraints, that is, environmental (Feng Shui) genes (Yin De) and other things, but many people don't understand that they have been controlled by these things all their lives. Taoism exhorts people to look for strength inward, just to let people feel these constraints and then find out their own laws. After understanding this Tao, Taoism said that my life depended on me.
It is also true that harmony is immortal, but many people have a wrong understanding of this statement. Whether it is harmonious or not, the essence of this statement is that there is no creator! Those who don't stipulate everything, your destiny is in your own hands! Not that you want to be what you want to be, you will become what you want to be; Not to mention that you have to be who you believe, which is too subjective and idealistic. From the perspective of modern philosophy, Taoism has two world views: simple materialism and objective idealism, not subjective idealism.
On this basis, Taoism advocates that people should understand human feelings! In ancient times, there were novels such as Baojuan, Daoqing and The Journey to the West, instead of rebelling against human feelings. The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en after the New Culture Movement. Many predecessors thought it was written by a Taoist priest. ) and many other works that are close to people's lives, their main purpose is not to be detached from human feelings, but to help people understand human feelings, and then understand themselves, so as to find strength from themselves.