1. Reprinted from Teacher Xin Yiyun, Lao Tzu Xin Shuo, Volume 78, talking about "the man of courtesy is the weakest of loyalty and trust, but also the head of chaos":
"The man of rites is the weakest of loyalty, and the head of chaos." The "husband" of the man of rites is the utterance, which can be used as a referent, and can be used as a referent. The rites, the rites, or any society that is mainly based on rites, then the "weakness of loyalty" is manifested in that people have lost their loyalty. "Loyalty" in "Loyalty and Faithfulness" refers to the most authentic and simple life essence and life nature inherited from the Tao. What does this say? Loyalty, the traditional interpretation is to do your best—to do your best is called loyalty, that is, according to your own nature, according to your original disposition, to live out yourself to the fullest, this is called doing your best, this is called loyalty. As for what is a letter? Generally speaking, keep promises. What is keeping promises? Basically, it's about allowing yourself to show consistency inside and out. Why do we want to demonstrate internal and external consistency? It is to show the truth of self. Then, faith is true and not false, which includes the ability of people to face themselves sincerely, and the ability to truly reveal or express themselves. Of course, to be loyal and trustworthy, you must first have the self-awareness of life, be able to realize yourself, recognize yourself, and show your true self.
Faithfulness is the self-awareness of life, and then the true self is fully revealed; here, it is the real realization of what one is. This kind of recognizing what one is, that is, the so-called can be slightly detached, or detached from the biological part of the instinctive impulse, can show a kind of development of life from one's own, in which we see the most real Oneself, then live out oneself, and show oneself -- there is self-confidence, no fear, and complete acceptance of oneself; , do not feel that they are not good enough.
There is a German film called The Work of No Master (Werk ohne Autor, 2018) - the "No" of "There is No", the "Master" of "Master", the "Zhi" of "The Other", the "Work" of "Work". ". The film tells the story of a talented painter who experienced and saw the rise of the Nazis from a young age, from the age of four or five, through World War II, and at the same time through the Soviet-occupied East Germany era and then became a communist East Germany.
He was a talent for painting, which showed from an early age. As a result, he was selected to serve the people during the communist period of East Germany, to paint large-scale murals, and to advertise East German socialism in various new buildings and the most important halls - the ideal of serving the people. He later fled to West Germany with his wife. At that time, everything in West Germany entered modernization. They advertised radical Conceptualism in the world of art. The era; the art world, including art universities, is proclaiming that all classical art, even painting, has passed away and is dead, and now it is the expression of individual action art, the artistic expression of multi-media large-scale landscapes, and a new type of art. The performance of plastic art in various composite media, even if it is the East Berlin Wall, is it not a landscape art? Anything is possible! Nothing is a representation of an old artistic confines anymore!
He went to West Germany, he went to Berlin, and his classmates told him that no one paints anymore, everything has to be created out of nothing. The talented painter was at a loss for a while, but with his extremely intelligent intelligence, he began to explore, try, and produce various creations with such conceptual and creative properties using composite media. Affirmation and recognition from school peers. One day in the classroom, one of their most respected professors came to the class to give guidance on artistic creation. The great professor asked a question in class, hoping that the whole class could come up with a profound concept, a brand-new concept, an unexpected concept, as the beginning of art. This genius painter, the painter from East Germany, that is the hero, he put forward a very small example in his life, he said: "The symbols formed by all numbers, we think that he is objective and absolute. However, when the jackpot is drawn, that set of numbers that could have nothing to do with life and are purely objective, but because of the jackpot, it immediately becomes the concern of society and people, and even becomes the most valuable, The most beautiful thing." The college professor listened, stared at him, and then offered, "I'm going to see your work."
When he arrived at the student's research room, the professor looked around at all his works, and then looked directly into the eyes of this talented painter. There was no confirmation, but he said coldly, "These are not the works you want at all." The great professor quoted the words of Descartes, a great French philosopher in the seventeenth century, "I think, therefore I am" - because of me, I think, I realize the certainty of my own existence, and knowledge can be developed from this. . The great professor asked the student, "Where is the real you? Where is your most authentic life experience?" Then he said, "Only in this real you can you really develop real art, with your own Style, concept and creation." Then he turned around and walked away.
After the great professor said that, he turned around and left. This young painter, a talented painter, he pondered for a long, long time, and then he took all his creations, all those works that arrived in Berlin, West Germany, and burned them, and then he put the blank canvas upright again. It's just that he faces those blank canvases in pain every day, but he still keeps thinking, trying to face himself, trying to find himself within himself. Just when he was bored, he suddenly remembered that when he was four or five years old, his little aunt took some crazy and romantic moves to see all the worlds, landscapes, and took him to see all the galleries and all the works of art. Let him also follow the instructions of his little aunt and some of the neurotic actions, into the light and shadow of nature.
When his memory emerged, he suddenly felt that human life was in an uncertain flow process, so he followed this flow process into a series of his own experiences, he immediately picked up the brush and drew these Feelings, I drew the little aunt in that turbulent era-because his little aunt was in that crazy behavior, although it was full of romance, but at that time, the Nazis judged him to have bipolar disorder in adolescence, and then put her Imprisoned in a sanatorium, and finally sent him to a gas room - because the Nazis at the time were doing something with a crazy idealist, to eliminate all Germans with bad genes, and to make Germany one of the best. superior nation. At this time, the young man drew his little aunt, and drew himself snuggling on the body of the little aunt, and then superimposed the portraits of the generals who advocated this kind of purge movement on the little aunt and him, and even he also took his father-in-law. The avatar was also superimposed, because his father-in-law was the doctor who performed at that time. At the same time, he used such a time and fluidity to brush up the flow of time with the brush of a brush and his brushstrokes - this is an incredible and important element of painting and art in the West. ! Because in their past paintings, the West wanted to remove the process in the flowing world, to grasp the eternal stillness, as the theme of the work. So when we look at all Western paintings, Western art subjects, and Western things, they are expressions of the most static state, including statues and even houses, and time is cut off! But in him, the factor of time was put into it, so that the Western painting had a strong sense of time, and at the same time, it also showed the uncertainty of life in the flow of time - even in the process of human history, Everything is inescapable of the so-called accident and the kind of suddenness. In the rigid and inevitable logical laws of the West (Logos), he added the kind of accidental factors that came out of nowhere - the human world is actually this accidental, inevitable, inevitable, and accidental constant contact, and nothing is the main thing. , there is no so-called unshakable subject and essence, this is a series of real life feelings and experiences that he lived from the Nazis to the occupation of the Soviet Union, to the rise of the communist state in East Germany, and then to the West.
When he returned to his true self, his true self-feelings were fully and naturally expressed! He returned to creation, he returned to life, he returned to life force. And this self, this true self, is what Lao Tzu calls "faithfulness." Lao Tzu used the word "loyalty and trustworthiness" to point out that "a man of rites is the weakest of loyalty and trustworthiness, and the head of chaos". All those hard and unshakable theories, such as the theories put forward by the Nazis, the ideals and norms of East German socialism, are unreal in relation to man's truest life and truest self. The thinness of loyalty is actually only the outer surface of man; the thinness of the so-called "thinness of loyalty" is the surface; the thinness of loyalty is the surface of the truest self, the surface of the Tao.
The thinness of loyalty can also be interpreted as ritual is that people gradually lose their inner self, inner true self-confidence, and inner true life essence, and seek external norms to cover up their loss. When people's psychology and behavior go down such a path, they can't face their own truth, or even the truth, then this kind of behavior is the beginning of society's turmoil, because people have lost their "faithfulness" and lost their own The essence and nature, all actions will be driven by the impulse of desire, and people can only do it for themselves; then everyone is for themselves, and people are in the conflict of their own interests - social turmoil, people's war, all It comes from such a heart. Therefore, it is said that "the man of propriety is the weakest of loyalty, and the head of chaos" - the head is the beginning, that is, the beginning of the whole human turmoil.
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