No matter ancient or modern, as long as there is money and comparison, people with weak wills will be lost and easy to lose themselves. Don't think that you will only go to hell after death, people may be entangled by money, love, desire, and comparison, and they will be more distressed than going up and down the knife mountain and going down to the oil pot. Taoism believes that there are five kinds of suffering in the world, which are called "five sufferings and five gates":
The first door: the door of color and painstaking pain
It is the unspoken rules of today's world, extramarital affairs, promiscuity, one-night stands, etc., which often make people's minds turbid and distracted, so they are impetuous. Lust is like Mount Tai pressing on people, making people physically and mentally haggard, this is the purgatory of the world, called "Mount Tai's hell bitterness".
The second gate: the gate of love, tiredness and suffering
The so-called "love river is a thousand feet of waves, and the sea of bitterness is deep". Love is the warmest thing in the world, but love here refers to the attachment born of excessive love, and the pursuit beyond one's ability. The so-called "persistent person is not called morality", against a mind that is too persistent, because everything has its own laws of movement, and if you want to achieve your desired goal by clinging to it, but you can't achieve it, there is usually a big gap.
Drops can also be painful. We see that many people choose to jump off buildings and cut their wrists because of these attachments and gaps. They are like blades like a wind, cutting our spirits. This kind of attachment that afflicts our own spirit. This is what Taoism calls "Wind Knife Bitter Dao".
The third gate: the greedy and bitter door
Greed is one of the great vices of human beings. People often can't resist the temptation, greedy for money, lust, greedy for fame, ordinary life and work become a pure pursuit of wealth, sex, and fame, and people have a chase of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, possession and non-possession.
If you are satisfied, you will be happy, if you are not satisfied, you will be miserable, you will suffer from gains and losses, you can't let go when you are alive, and you can't be reluctant when you are dying, like a horse walking with a heavy stone on its back.
The fourth door: not worthy of the real Hua competition hard gate
This means the distress of comparison. We can often see around us that people with a monthly salary of only 3,000 have to chase a 30,000 bag, parents are not to be outdone to compare their children's achievements with each other, and the competition and comparison are only for the first place The sense of victory, a sense of victory that tramples others under their feet. And the comparison will make people exhausted, just like drifting in a river, a wave can drown people, so Taoism is called "river bitterness".
The fifth gate: the door of the soul of the tired body
The meaning of this door is that people care too much about themselves and take themselves too seriously. People's self-esteem and self-love are necessary in order for self-esteem to be respected, but overconfidence, arrogance, and narcissism have crossed the thunder pool. Some people always feel that they are leaders, and others have to bow their heads to him and take the initiative to greet him.
And in a new environment, no one treats him as a leader, and his heart jumps like thunder, which is like a person who eats coals, and wants to breathe fire at all times to vent his anger, so Taoism will name this "swallowing fire and eating charcoal woks soup bitter way".
"Shangqing Yuan Shi Genji Record Taizhen Jade Jue" says:
"The door of the five hardships and five paths often resides in the human body, is the root of human life, curbs the road to recruit truth, and cuts off the door of cultivating immortals. For the foundation of learning, and not to dissolve the form above the five paths, disappear under the five sufferings, the people are constantly tired, sinking into the door of sin, how can you get rid of it? Kede is transformed, and feasts the heavens. ”
The above five kinds of suffering make people's mind, spirit, form, essence, and body suffer, and suffer the punishment of purgatory on earth, while Taoism is to save people from hell and let people get out of the suffering of this world, and then teach the method of health preservation to ensure the quality of life. Think about it, if people don't get rid of these hellish paths, and seeking immortality is equivalent to increasing punishment, why do you bother to practice?!
Many of our daily hobbies cannot be changed all at once, most of them have become habits and become a part of life, and it takes time, will and courage to change. What the saints do is unspoken, may all sentient beings be vigilant!