Bayou 3rd 2022.1.233.3 Zi Yue: "People are not kind, such as etiquette? If people are not kind, why be happy? Confucius said, "An unkind person is also emotionally insensitive."

Bayou 3 2022.1.23

3.3 Zi Yue: "If a man is not kind, how can he be polite?" If people are not kind, why be happy? ”

Confucius said, "An unkind person is also emotionally insensitive, so what is the use of asking for courtesy?" What's the use of music? ”

A person who has no perception of the spiritual level, when the cultural symbol becomes an external symbol, he cannot perceive the beauty and pleasure in it. It's like some people hang up some precious calligraphy and paintings in order to show their identity, and they can't appreciate the beauty of them at all, but just become status symbols. There are a lot of things like this now, and the same goes, like going on a trip, some people really want to experience the local flair, some people just want to visit here.

3.4 Lin Fang asked the basis of the ceremony, the son said: "DaZai asks, liturgy, instead of luxury, Ning Jian; funeral, and its Yi ye, Ning Qi." ”

Lin Fang asked Confucius what the root of the ceremony was, and Confucius said: "This is a big problem, the etiquette, rather than too solemn, it is better to be frugal; funerals, rather than too extravagant, it is better to express inner sorrow." ”

All etiquette is for the inner service, the form is not immutable, you can also be frugal, the most important thing is the inner sense of ceremony, now a lot of things are done in a big way, extravagant and wasteful, the form is very full, but the heart is very empty, it has become a ritual service, labor and hurt the people, rather than the ritual for the people's hearts to serve, hypocrisy.