Face is for the other side to see.
Talk about facelessness, see who the other person you are facing.
In other words, the other person you face determines whether you talk about face or not.
A question that few people ask: Which nation first and most absolutely does not give itself face?
A: Jews.
If you disagree, let's talk about it.
The Jews, who were in a desperate desert and crowded by powerful enemies on all sides, placed their hope of salvation on an absolutely perfect, absolutely authoritative God.
Is this God worth sustenance?
Of course not.
Wasn't this God, could Moses bring the Jews out of Egypt overnight?
Some people laugh and say: It is Moses who is doing things, and God is just a trust.
With that said, it's a big deal.
The power of any one person is absolutely limited. But the power of this man's "fictional story" is unlimited. Do you say Mao Zedong is strong, or is Mao Zedong Thought powerful? Of course, Mao Zedong's "fictitious" Mao Zedong Thought was powerful.
Moses himself was nothing more than that, and Moses used the Jewish collective "fictional" story of God to be "infinitely powerful."
Moreover, the power of one god is greater than that of many gods. Because the polytheism has its own duties and limited power.
No god of many gods can save the most suffering Jews. This is why so many peoples, and the Jews were the first to move from polytheism to monotheism.
Imagine, if it is a polytheistic, you believe in this, I believe in that, and you can't even determine the day of escape, how can you escape for your life overnight?
At this point, some people will ask: God is great, God's chosen people, the Jews, have no country for more than two thousand years?
Something is wrong with the mind.
It should be asked: The Jews, who have had no state for more than two thousand years, still exist?
You know, a nation loses its state for a hundred or two hundred years, and it basically does not exist.
The persistence of the Jewish people is due to their monotheistic faith.
Well, after half a day of going around, it was determined that the other side of the Jews was facing a monotheistic God.
Next.
On their way to Canaan, a place designated by God, some Jews believed in other idol gods, and Jewish prophets pounded their chests and wept for heaven.
The prophet told the Jews, "Our God is going to punish us, we are not godly, and our God is punishing us for losing our homeland."
What nation have you ever seen god treat his chosen people this way?
Don't you say, "What does it mean to believe in this God?"
Can we think the other way around: This is precisely the Jewish capacity for self-criticism?
It is terrible for a nation to always criticize itself.
Why did the Jews criticize themselves so thoroughly?
That's because they're dealing with a god who is absolutely perfect and absolutely authoritative.
Whether a nation can see through itself to see whether it is facing the human eye, or the B-ultrasound of the polytheism, or the CT of the monotheistic.
In the face of saints or gods, who are not perfect themselves, how can they see through your imperfections?
Monotheism was so perfect and absolute that the Jews discovered the "original sin" of mankind.
In scientific language, "original sin" is equivalent to the animality of man.
"Original sin" is not good or evil, but human beings with "original sin" must face the choice of good and evil when they take the first step. "Original sin" is the birth of the womb, good and evil are the choice, and this is the supreme wisdom of the Jews.
They don't say as soon as they open their mouths: At the beginning of man, nature is good (evil).
This is moral kidnapping.
After all, human beings have chosen evil.
Man, driven out of the Garden of Eden, went to the history of evil. The Jews do not give humanity a little face.
The Jews did not give themselves face, and they lost their homeland.
In the face of an absolutely perfect, authoritative God, the Jews never talked about face.
Can't talk about it.
After all, monotheistic belief is a bit foreign, so let's talk about Buddhism.
Buddhas are not gods. Buddhas, like immortals, are cultivated by man. How can a man who cultivates be God?
Buddhism is atheism.
But The Buddhas of Buddhism carry a certain divinity, similar to polytheism.
This Buddha, with only a few divine qualities, can see through many of man's problems.
These questions are called: iniquity. Or the five poisons: greed, anger, delusion, slowness, and doubt. There are other names, whatever.
Therefore, when the Buddhist disciples faced the Buddha, they had to think about it against the wall.
They are very faceless.
Mojia "Shang Ghost".
Ghosts are people, but ghosts are dead people. In the face of the dead, the mo family's face problem is not so important.
What's more, the "ghost" has limited power on its own, always using the night to scare and frighten the wicked. You are not perfect, people do not have to talk about face.
Therefore, the Mo family does not pay attention to food, clothing, shelter, food, drink and fun. "Thin burial" is not said, not even music is played.
Of course, you can also find out a reason: the Mo family is a commoner and has no money to talk about face.
Who is the Taoist facing?
nature.
Nature is not God, much less man. In the face of nature, man can talk about face, but he can also talk about facelessness.
Hear that? His wife died, and Zhuangzi drummed and sang. See? Zhuangzi was hungry and disheveled.
If you prostrate in front of Nguyen's spirit, Nguyen will stare at you. It is better to get in his drunken car and cry drunk halfway through.
A little harder... It is estimated that you can't do it, will you grab pig food with Ruan Xian's nephew Ruan Xian and pigs?
Wear a big pants, play iron with Ji Kang in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang, and you can also make a few strokes.
They're kind of pretending to be crazy and stupid.
Here's the problem: they don't pretend to be faceless, they pretend to be faceless madness.
Tao Yuanming did not pretend. After the fire, Tao Yuanming wore a torn jacket to ask for food... The county magistrate who has retreated to the second line asks for food and writes the process into poetry, you and I can't do it, because what supports our lives is Confucianism.
It's time to click Confucian.
Who are Confucians facing?
It's people.
Two kinds of people. One is the saints. One is someone else.
The worship of saints is a Confucian belief. Saints are also human beings, and they are perfect people who are made up. Few people really believe it.
This is where things go wrong. First, the saint cannot see through the imperfections of the multitude. Second, the saints also do not have the power to elevate people.
When you run the red light, you can't think of Confucius. Remembering it, I also broke through. So: Confucius is with you, there is no way.
The sainthood of the saints is originally made up, that is, pretended. The saint dresses, and the person who follows the saint does not pretend to be strange.
Let's talk about the second kind of person that Confucianism faces: others.
What happens to people in front of people?
Will you expose your shortcomings? Especially sinful?
Of course not.
On the contrary, people are more likely to conceal shortcomings and sins in front of people.
Continue perspective.
The Confucian attitude toward ghosts and gods is: worship ghosts and gods and stay away.
If it is "respectful", why is it "far away"?
Because Confucians respect ghosts and gods, they don't care much about ghosts and gods, but they care about the attitude of respecting ghosts and gods. Attitudes toward ghosts and gods are a matter of morality. The moral problem is the primary problem of Confucianism.
In a word, faith is morality in Confucianism.
Therefore, the "ritual" of worshipping ghosts and gods is more important than that of ghosts and gods. The ghost god became a photo, and "ritual" was the top priority. Emphasizing "etiquette" has gradually become a matter of face.
Therefore, the Confucian burial of a person does not lie in the person who is buried, but on the funeral "ceremony". From the funeral "ceremony", look at the attitude of the worshipper, and look at the moral education of the living person in the funeral "ceremony".
Learn to dress with saints, worship ghosts and gods, and dress more in front of others, Confucianism does not talk about face, who speaks.
As a result, the Chinese nation has become a face nation.
Face became a culture.
Conclusion: If we are facing a single God, man cannot talk about face at all; if he is facing a polytheistic, man does not need to talk about face; if he is facing nature, he can talk about face or not; if he is facing man, he must talk about face.
Let's take a look at Chinese face-to-face performance:
First, conceal shortcomings and sins.
[sic] Confucius said in Ye Gongyu: "Our party has a straight-headed one, whose father carries the sheep, and whose son proves it." Confucius said: "The straight of our party is different: the father is hidden for the son, and the son is hidden by the father." - Straight in the middle. ”
Ye Gong said to Confucius, "There was a frank and frank man in my hometown whose father stole sheep, and he denounced his father. Confucius said: "The frank and frank people in my hometown are different from what you say: the father hides for his son, and the son hides it for the father." Bluntness and frankness are in it. ”
What if the father kills someone?
Confucianism still conceals it.
Give each other face, and don't even want the law.
What if you kill someone yourself?
More concealed.
We have no capacity for repentance. Because we have no place to repent.
Without monotheistic perspective, there can be no sense of guilt; without guilt consciousness, where is the sense of repentance?
2. Bragging (Spiritual Victory Method).
[sic] Ye Gong asked Confucius about the Zilu, and the Zilu was not right. Zi Yue: "Female Xi does not know. He is also a man, angry and forgetful, happy to forget his worries, not knowing that old age will come to Yun'er. ”
[sic] Ye Gong asked Zilu what kind of person Confucius was, but Zilu did not answer. Confucius said, "Why don't you say this: he is a man, so angry that he forgets to eat, so happy that he forgets his sorrows, does not know that old age is coming, and so on." ”
Confucius suspected that Zilu did not advertise him.
At most, Confucius understood humility before man, not humility before one God. Confucius in the Analects is humble everywhere, have you ever seen him humble before God?
[sic] Zi Yue: "What is the meaning of micro-birth and high straightness?" Or beg, beg your neighbor and be with it. ”
Confucius said, "Who said that The person who is slightly born tall is straightforward?" Someone asked him for some vinegar, but he asked his neighbor for some money. ”
Confucius and Weishenggao are heavyweight gentlemen with limited bragging; ordinary people's bragging can scare cows to death, not exceptions.
Third, the opposite of the story (give each other face).
For example: I have no opinion, just a suggestion.
Fourth, talk about face to Hades.
Think of the emperor's mausoleum.
[sic] Yan Yuan died, and Yan Lu asked the car of the son to think that it was a rafter. Zi Yue. "Only those who are not talented, but also their sons." The carp is also dead, with a coffin and no rafters. I don't think it's in vain. After I am from the Doctor, I cannot do it in vain. ”
Yan Yuan died, and his father Yan Lu asked Confucius to sell the car to Yan Yuan as a rafter. Confucius said, "Whether they are talented or not, they are all sons of their own." Kong Carp died, and there was only a coffin, not a rafter. I can't sell my car and walk to buy him a rafter. Because I used to be a doctor, I can't travel on foot. ”
The disciple wanted to get a foreign beam for the dead Yan Yuan and get some face. Confucius was unwilling, because Confucius himself had face problems, and the car was the IDENTITY card issued to Confucius by Jun.
And Yan Yuan died, and Confucius almost cried to death.
Face is more important than anything else.
Face is Chinese complicated.
The loveliest person is Chinese, and the most complicated heart is the Chinese heart.
The relationship between people and people is complex because they are separated by a layer.