There are six Taoist sayings in Indian culture, which have spread to China through ignorance, and China people have been saying them every day for thousands of years. However, how to understand it? Many people have different understandings.
Professor Chen Bing of Sichuan University understands this from the perspective of western psychology and Chinese studies:
At present, western psychologists often interpret the six knives theory as different personalities or different psychological qualities and states. Six ways are people's current psychological activities.
This character is characterized by being particularly stingy. If you have a dark heart, you often want to ask others, just the society. Sorry, you may be hungry now.
What is a hungry ghost? The definition of a hungry ghost is "full of hope", eager to eat, drink and dress well, but he can't generate wealth himself and has to rely on charity from others.
If you are dominated by this mental state all your life, there is a high probability that you will fall into hunger after death.
This kind of person is characterized by very dark psychology and falling into the hell of his own mind: doing something wrong is painful, or hurting others is very guilty; Or involuntarily fall into psychological difficulties and can't get out.
For example, if you are seriously ill, lying in a hospital bed and crying in pain, what is it if it is not hell?
If you are miserable every day and have no rest, then you are in hell now. If you have been in this state for most of your life, well, there is a great chance that you will walk into the rain.
If you only know four things: eating, sleeping, making love and playing, congratulations, you are an animal now.
This is really not swearing. Because all animals read every day, the actual actions are eating, sleeping, making love and playing.
If you have this mentality for most of your life, you are likely to be a beast after death.
If you are always bitter, jealous, arrogant, fierce and aggressive in the next moment and take pleasure in torturing and hurting others, big brother, you are a Taoist shura now.
Because shura is characterized by fierceness, mutual jealousy and arrogance.
If you have this mentality for most of your life, then Shura Road will last forever.
If you think of sadness, happiness, jealousy, greed, compassion and nobility, but you always give priority to altruism, even if you occasionally have evil thoughts, you will always repent. Congratulations, you have finally become a normal person.
People are such a comprehensive and complicated personality. Don't look complicated, but it's not easy to keep, if you keep focusing on good ideas and keep them. If you can read most of your life as good thoughts, it is still possible to continue to enter human nature.
If you are indifferent to purity (yes, nobility must be purity), have no desire, be altruistic and admire you wholeheartedly, you are the immortal of the moment.
If you keep this mental state for most of your life, Master, you will always be a fairy. Where are you? I want to follow you.
In fact, ancient sages and virtues have long explained this point. What is life and death? Round teaching understanding, the rise and fall of thought is life and death.
According to this understanding, people will not only die by then, but also live and die. Zhuangzi believes that once an idea dies, it is a period of life and death. If you don't learn to speak, everyone has more than 20,000 thoughts every day, and these more than 20,000 thoughts are inseparable from the six divisions in the wheel of karma.
From the moment I thought about it, I knew where I was.
For example, what I want now is to purify society and help others. At this time, there is no difference between your heart and park silly, then you are park silly.
If my heart is not very quiet, without desire, very calm and without self-awareness, then you are Lohan.
The wisdom of China's sinology is that everything is in the present, and practice is more in the present.
In your next thought, think about where you are now.
From a psychological point of view, this is a very practical thing, and there is no mystery at all. It is nothing more than a kind of self-cultivation, a process of conscious evolution of life.
Sadly, our Chinese studies have to accept western psychology. It is easy to understand why there are pornographic contents in primary school textbooks.
What is more sad is that the contents of Chinese studies cannot be published, while western philosophy can be published at will.
(Note: This article refers to Professor Chen Bing's on-the-spot answers to questioners, and some of the contents have been adapted. )