Yuanhui Practice: Should self-cultivation be a deep refinement of Confucianism and Taoism, or three simultaneous practices? It belongs to the culture of Sinology
Practice is like eating, eating one food alone will definitely lead to malnutrition.
Do we usually eat only one kind of food when we eat? Definitely not, the food we usually eat has staple foods, but also other fruits and vegetables. And the richer the variety, the more adequate the nutrition. The so-called self-cultivation, cultivation, in fact, has a strong commonality with eating.
One way to solve a problem. A set of theories, complete a project. A key, also a lock. The three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism belong to our traditional culture of Sinology, and their emphases are different, and the problems they solve are not the same.
For example, Confucian culture focuses more on the home, focuses on daily life, and advocates that everyone loves things, is positive, and strives to be enterprising. It's like the staple food we eat every day, steamed buns in the north and rice in the south, which we have to eat every day.
Although Buddhist culture emphasizes birth more, their ultimate goal and destination are to benefit all sentient beings. In addition, although Buddhist culture was introduced to China from the outside in ancient times. But after thousands of years of development and integration, it has completely become an inseparable part of our traditional culture.
Buddhist culture is more complex, more extensive, more extensive. It is like the vegetables and fruits in our daily diet, there are many kinds, which can greatly improve the quality of our daily diet.
Taoist culture also emphasizes birth and also pays attention to joining the world. If in the taiping, they hid in the mountains. In the midst of chaos, they would go down the mountain to save themselves. This is a characteristic of Taoist culture. It's in the diet, kind of like the kind of food we have medicinal uses. If the body is uncomfortable, it needs to be corrected by food, and Taoist culture plays this role, such as having a bad appetite and eating hawthorn. Qi deficiency, you can try millet yam.
In general, the traditional cultures of the three schools of Confucianism and Taoism actually influence and integrate with each other, and they have long been inseparable. The metaphor of eating and eating food made by Yuanhui above only helps everyone to make a superficial understanding of complementary. Perhaps Teacher Nan Huaijin's analogy of the three stores is more appropriate. This is a matter of benevolence, and the wise see the wise!
In any case, these three are our excellent traditional cultures, why not learn and use them all?
Yuanhui's suggestion, everyone can choose a subject according to their own interests, determined to do in-depth understanding. One door, one hundred doors.
However, while one is deep, it is also necessary to take into account the study and understanding of the other two. Because these things are intrinsically linked, perhaps in Taoist culture, when problems that cannot be solved, the answers may be found in Confucianism or Buddhism. The problems encountered in Confucianism may also be solved very quickly in the other two. The same is true of Buddhism, which is all complementary.
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