Engaging in manual labor to feel the unity of "force" and "energy" and accumulating corresponding "lively" experiences is crucial for the enlightenment and growth of human nature that is still in the stage of fragmented thought and thinking. The experience of grasping the "harmony" of the application and application of "laws" must be supplemented by them. Moreover, since it can enhance the "penetrating" of our psyche, it will promote the communion and communion of our minds with the hearts of others.
However, it is not enough for us to "penetrate" each other in reaching "one heart" with others – perhaps we and others will hurt each other more intently. Therefore, manual labor can also establish and strengthen our "sense of equality". This is the psychological premise and basis for us to be able to "share the same heart" with others.
Manual labor begins and elevates the "value of the human person". In the face of "human value", everyone is equal. This characteristic is reflected in the human origin and personal starting point of manual labor, and the whole process of its passage and result. Although mental labor and its "intellectual" achievements can create greater social value, on the one hand, it is meaningless if it cannot be finally implemented into manual labor to produce artificial products and meet people's multi-level needs. On the other hand, if it bypasses manual labor and applies it directly to individual enlightenment, growth, and community and society, it will paranoid all three to extremes, distort them to deformity, and the consequences will be extremely tragic—a long history, as evidenced by the fact that is common today.
From ancient times to the present, the stage or region where the level of productivity of human society is low has the custom of "abandoning the old" popular. The Indian Buddhist scriptures record the "abandonment of the old country"; Darwin went to Africa to investigate and met the tribes that exiled the elderly; the Japanese movie "The Examination of the Mountain Festival" tells the story of a mountain village abandoned by an old man until he is sixty years old... Even the elderly who have lost the ability to work manually are treated in this way, not to mention young people who cannot and cannot engage in manual labor.
In the long historical period after the origin of mankind, the level of productivity in human society was very low, and all human groups could not feed idle people. The behavior and customs of "abandoning the old" are cruel and barbaric, but it confirms a long-term and widespread fact from the side, that is, manual labor gives birth to human beings; from the source, if you can work manually, you are human; if you can't, you are abandoned by the group, eliminated to death or returned to ordinary animals. This law of nature plus society applies to all.
From the perspective of personal enlightenment and growth, even simple manual labor skills such as "chopping wood" cannot be inherited. The learning and improvement of all manual labor skills begins with the same running line.
Of course, we do not deny that each person has different talents. In the process of human evolution over millions of years, the personalized psychological and behavioral "paradigm" formed by individuals engaged in specific physical labor for a long time will synthesize corresponding genetic information and pass it on from generation to generation. If interrupted, it may also be passed on from generation to generation. So that some people are born with clever minds, and some people are born with rough hands and clumsy feet. Talent is not skill, though. Anyone who engages in any manual labor, from complete unfamiliarity to skill, to handy, must make a similar effort.
From the perspective of improving physical labor skills, feeling the changes and transformations of the "force" and "energy" of the same form of manual labor, and recognizing the application and application of the laws therein, it is inevitable to experience a step-by-step, calm and orderly, from shallow to deep, from the surface to the inside, more and more refined and comprehensive process. In this feeling, all people are basically the same.
Different physical labor, the "force" and "energy" and "law" contained in it are very different in form, and the quantification is very different, even different, but the essence is the same or similar - there is no shortcut, only gradual accumulation and precipitation. Therefore, the entry, the ascension, the voyeurism, but any kind of manual labor skill, we can learn from one another, three lifetimes of all things, deeply understand and understand the gradual twists and turns of other people's and other forms of manual labor, the amount of file grinding, qualitative change and wonder, etc. - and the deeper, the more penetrating; the more refined, the more comprehensive.
The result of manual labor is the production of artificial products, the transformation of objective things and the environment, to meet the needs of us and others. Specific artificial products, and their performance to meet demand, are objective reality. The level is high and low, how effective, we have our own standards and judgments, others also judge according to personality or public standards, and there are rod "scales" between heaven and earth and judge. Deception can be deceived for a while, but it cannot be concealed from the first, the other, and the next.
Such "human value" is poured out with "original heart" and forged by "original self". By virtue of this, we participate in social cooperation and competition, and we will not lament the injustice of God and not let us be born with a golden spoon; nor will we be in the mood to complain that fate has put us behind others and started together. Do not fight family lineage, fight father, fight identity, fight wealth, unspoken rules, only steadfastly improve themselves with things, unified with things, and produce value by their skills. In this way, even if others are ahead and get it, we can recognize, admire, and even bless from the bottom of our hearts.
Mental labor and its "intellectual" achievements, are not nor can they be inherited, nor are they gifted differently, but they also accumulate less into more, gather sand into towers, change qualitatively, spiral upwards, and start from scratch? yes. However, its equal talent, which has its own written record of human civilization, has gradually been artificially snuffed out. The intellectual elite put on a robe, put on a crown, tied a large belt, fell on a jade waist, dressed up as a "laborer" who "governed people", moved to the table of "Shangzhi", and held it in the temple and ancestral hall.
This is to split the "original heart" and "original self" that initiate and enhance physical labor in half! We have discussed in the previous chapters of this book: First, mental labor has always been contained in manual labor, just as the principle of leverage used by the wheel axe to split wood, the law of mass energy and energy conversion, and the law of wood grain. The second is the "lively" experience of our "human power", "physical and mental energy" interacting with the "material power" and "material energy" of a specific object, which constitutes a contradiction compared with the "harmonious" experience of the application and application of the "law" in which we perceive it, and promotes us to actively learn and transform the specific object and produce artificial products. The third is to produce artificial products to meet the needs of us and others, reflect our value as "human beings", cultivate the "original heart", and support the "original self" of our humanity.
What will happen if the "original mind" and "original self" are divided into two, and the crowd is divided into "superior wisdom", "laborers" and "inferior fools" and "laborers"? Those who chop wood will only chop wood, do not understand the principle of leverage, the law of wood grain, and can not summarize the law of quality and energy conversion; those who nibble on books will only chew books, throw away books useless, and it is difficult to survive on their own. Moreover, the former is enslaved, exhausted every day, and the more he lives, the more depressed he becomes; the latter is provided, but he feels bored and bored, and can only live on perseverance and illusion. Both sides have basically lost the subjective initiative of productive labor, and are wrapped up in materialism, sexual desire, and greed on the inside, and are imprisoned by the system, system, and rule of man on the outside, and they are spurred on by different levels and live in a hurry.
Isn't this a person who is complete in the day after tomorrow to be cut down to a congenital disability first, and then divided and cured? After everyone is born, they are still ignorant and confused about their fragile bodies and incomplete minds, so they put on shackles or put them in cages to feed. Personal enlightenment and growth are only paranoid "forbidden to cultivate desire" half of the body and mind, and are bound to become more and more distorted and deformed. The laborers are developed on all fours and have simple minds, reduced to cattle; the reading people are top-heavy, illusory inside and out, and resemble pieces of paper—both of which are just "humanoid instruments" that come and go, are damaged when used, and are uselessly discarded.
In contrast, the human nature of laborers is relatively sound and strong, after all, they are rooted in the soil and matter. Readers can't go up to the sky and down to the ground, the "original heart" is faint, and the "original self" is empty. They present a "harmonious" and "lively" dignity and dignity, which is provided for by the laborers. No one to serve, they can be dirty, messy, and bad as a pigsty. As they grow older, their "intellect" will be more and more confused by the aura on the "food chain" and the "social" comparison psychology, always wanting to pull the skin a little smoother, hyaluronic acid a little smoother; hanging a little higher on the chain, glory is more shiny.
Human civilization is precisely supported by workers who are relatively sound and strong in human nature, and the processes, technologies, and science and technology derived from their labor practices to the present. The "intellectual" part of the "governing people" that enslaves and exploits them has played a negative role in promoting them, and the "intellect" of "governing people" in order to make meritorious contributions, make speeches, and establish morality has played a role in adding icing on the cake.