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Earlier we talked about the story of Jung and Lü Dongbin.
We say that Lü Dongbin's theory of pure yang ("The Essence of Taiyi") allowed Jung to get rid of his dreams and find his way.
Jung then relied on Eastern philosophy to eventually establish his own theories of psychology, including the collective subconscious, synchronicity, and so on.
In the process of Jung's establishment of these theories, in addition to The Taoist doctrine, there was an Oriental classic that had a great influence on him.
The book is called Bar-do thos-grol .
Jung called it "the truth of great psychology" and said that the book had been his constant companion for many years, that he had gained a lot of knowledge and points from it, and that even many fundamental insights had come from it.
Today, we're going to talk about this book.
The story begins with a Tibetan fable.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > after death</h1>
When a person dies, you will wake up in a bright light.
At this point, you don't realize you're dead.
Then, who turned off the lights.
You fall into darkness.
Then a very terrible devil will appear before you.
At this time, you have two options:
1. Face
2. Escape
If you choose to escape, you'll experience a thrilling battle royale. But in the end, you will get rid of the devil and be free.
But in a few minutes, you will fall into another darkness and a second devil will appear.
This devil does not have the first devil horror.
At this time, you still have two choices:
If you still choose to run away, you can still succeed in getting rid of the devil, but you will soon encounter the next devil.
Every time you run away, the devil becomes a little less terrifying.
So, in this process, there are three situations.
In the first case, if you run away every time, then you will become the lowest level of life after reincarnation.
In the second case, if you choose to face the devil after a certain escape, then the devil that appears later will become more and more terrifying, and you will become a higher life after reincarnation.
In the third case, if you don't run away when the first and most terrible devil appears, then two things happen.
The first thing you will find is that this devil turned out to be your illusion, no matter how terrible it is, it can't hurt you at all, and you are not a dimensional being. All the horrors are what you imagine.
The second thing is that when you see through the devil's tricks, you can stop going through the six reincarnations and enter the world of Elysium.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Tibetan Sutra of the Dead</h1>
This fable is actually the core content of the book "The Book of the Dead in Tibet".
The original title of the book was བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ (Bar-do thos-grol, Badodzo), and Bado is a state of posthumous death in Tibetan, with a maximum of 49 days. In Old Chinese, the word is called bardo.
Detachment is the meaning of the philosophical method.
Therefore, the ancient Chinese translation of this book is also called "Bardo Attainment", which is to tell you how to get liberated in the bardo state of the 49 days after death.
Sounds a bit mysterious.
But in fact, if you understand "bardo" as "looking back at your life at the end of your life", you will gradually understand the meaning of Jung, which is really the truth of psychology.
In real life, all hardships and tribulations are not devils? Aren't all emotions and feelings hallucinations? Aren't "self" and "reality" two things in the next dimension?
Many Western psychologists focus on experimental methods to study how "reality" affects the "self", and we have shared a lot of these experiments before.
But Jung told Westerners that psychology is not biology, not physiology, nor any other science, but knowledge of the spirit.
You should not always be ether, or ( either/or ), but learn to be like the Orientals , both.
For example, if someone in reality is good to you or is fierce to you, you will definitely feel angry, which further triggers love and hatred for this person. But if you think about it, these moods, loves, and hates will also affect your perception and understanding of the person in reality.
"Reality" and "self" are not, either, or, but both, and.
Reading this level, can we understand why Jung respected the I Ching and the idea of yin and yang tai chi?
Let's go on with the story about how the Tibetan Book of death reached Jung.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > more than 1300 years ago</h1>
Time back to more than 1300 years ago, when the Arabs invaded India.
The current generation of Pakistan originally belonged to India, and as a result, it became the Islamic world.
At that time, many Buddhist monks in Pakistan fled to Tibet, Nepal and southern India.
Among them, there is a prince named Lotus Flower.
Legend has it that when Shakyamuni Buddha attained Nirvana, he prophesied that a saint would be born from a lotus flower in the future.
It just so happens that this prince was really born from the lotus flower.
When Lotus was born as a prince, the ideological realm was very high, and he was able to teach the people and govern the country in peace.
After the collapse of the country and the death of the family, in that area, the only person who could fight against the Arabs at that time was Tibet, which is today's Tibet.
The king invited Lotus to come to Tibet to help him teach the people and govern the country.
As a result, Lotus Came to Tibet with Indian Buddhist thought and became the grandfather of Tibetan Buddhism.
When Lotus was born in Tibet, Buddhist thought flourished.
During this period, Lotus Peanut dictated many Buddhist ideas, including this Tibetan Sutra of Death.
Later, one day, Lotus Peanut suddenly told his disciples that soon there would be a campaign to destroy Buddhism on the snowy plateau, at which time the monks would be slaughtered, the temples would be burned, the scriptures and magic tools would be lost, and the gods and demons of Bon would rule the plateau again.
This calamity cannot be escaped, but can only be faced.
Therefore, you will hide the important scriptures, and when the time comes, there will naturally be some of you who will sense the "ambush", rediscover these scriptures, and then resurrect these thoughts on the plateau.
After saying this, the disciples had not yet reacted, and the next day, Lotus Flower Sheng disappeared.
Historians say he left Tibet and had his disciples hide these important scriptures in a cave.
But the legend says that he became a blob of consciousness, and the scrolls were hidden in the world of consciousness by him.
Then, more than 600 years later, Buddhist thought flourished again on the plateau.
Suddenly, one day, a Red Monk (Karma Lingpa, ཀརྨ་གླིང་་ ་, Karma Lingpa) sensed "Fuzang", and the Nth reincarnation of The Lotus Disciple came to his world of consciousness.
He was taught the scriptures that had been hidden.
This red monk rewrote the Sanskrit version of the Tibetan Sutra in the real world, translated it into Tibetan, and circulated it to the world.
Then, after more than 600 years, the Tibetan Sutra became a far-reaching classic, even going down the plateau, spreading to the Central Plains, to Mongolia, and became part of traditional Chinese philosophy.
By this time, the time came to 1919. Let's keep looking.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > 1919</h1>
This year, an anthropologist came to the snowy plateau.
His name was Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz, and he was once a teenage genius.
He was admitted to Stanford University at the age of 18 to study religion, philosophy, and history.
After graduating at the age of 24, he became a professor at Jesus College in Oxford.
In the eyes of the world, he is a rare philosophical genius and a great thinker of the future.
But he became more and more confused, and he read all the philosophical books he could read, and he could not find the answer.
In his 20s, he spent his days in a daze by the river, soaking his body in the river, sometimes without clothes.
One afternoon he suddenly said that a pattern of ecstasy appeared before his eyes, and then a thought swept through his consciousness. This thought tells him that this is not the first time you have a physical body.
The experience amazed him.
Soon after, an archaeologist (TE lawrence) suggested that he go to the East. There may be an answer there that he wants.
Then, Wentz went from country to country, he went to Northern Europe, Egypt, Mexico, India, Sikkim, Japan, China...
For nearly 20 years, he has traveled almost the world.
By 1919, a 41-year-old middle-aged man, he had traveled to Vajrayogini (Darjeeling) and met a Kazi Dawa Samdup named Samdup.
Sangju Geshe is fluent in English, Tibetan and Sanskrit.
He looked at Wen Zi and spoke a passage of the Tibetan Scriptures.
Then, Wen Zi did not leave, he thought that he had found what he was looking for, and it was this "Tibetan Death Sutra".
In the years that followed, Wenz sat in class at 6 a.m. every morning, waiting for Sanju Geshe to come and explain the Manuscripts in Sanskrit and Tibetan.
Wentz is like a sponge that has been dry for 40 years, a mad absorber of the ideas of Eastern philosophy.
However, only 3 years later, Sangju Geshe died, and Wenz decided to let all Westerners know about these mysterious Eastern philosophies.
So, in 1927, Wentz borrowed the name of a popular book in Europe at that time, "The Book of the Dead in Egypt", which was officially published by Oxford University.
Before it was published, Jung, 52, saw the book and wrote the preface without hesitation.
The book then became Jung's lifelong companion, and it is said that Jung occasionally took it out to give to god-level scientists such as Freud, Einstein, and Pauli.
Later, in 1995, Chinese scholars translated the book back.
About the specific content of the book, it goes something like this.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > bardo</h1>
The book says that at the moment of death, people enter the first state of the bardo, and the first state is called the dying bardo, at this time, you do not realize that you are dead.
There is an unparalleled light and a beautiful fantasy in front of you, in fact, if you see through this fantasy, you will be able to live a blissful life.
However, 99.9999% of people will be confused by this state and enter a second state, called the reality of the bardo. This phase is divided into the first seven days and the last seven days, during which the immediate illusions slowly weaken and are replaced by increasingly worldly and painful feelings.
Then enter the third state, called the bardo, which usually lasts for another 14 days, at which point you will go through some torture, similar to the fable at the beginning, and finally accept the judgment of the underworld and be reincarnated.
When the story is shared here, everyone must ask, since we now know the world after death, if we do it according to this method, won't everyone be born with bliss?
In fact, according to the book, when people are in the bardo state, reason is completely disappeared, the world you see, there is no reason, only the torrent of consciousness, the world does not rely on the laws of physics, but on the law of cause and effect to drive.
The Tibetan Sutras are tantric texts, and if you don't get the empowerment, the tantric guru won't explain these mysteries to you.
Therefore, we can only read this book from the perspective of Jungian psychology.
Regarding the psychological implications, let's share a tibetan story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1985</h1>
In 1985, a Han Chinese teacher and author of this story drove with his Tibetan buddies on the border between China and Sikkim.
Tibetan buddies say that there is a beautiful woman on the border called Kangchen Renmu, and as long as you are a man, you will have a heart for her.
But she was a nun.
What a shame. Tibetans believe in Buddhism and must not think anything other than nuns.
She was in her 10s living in a temple and becoming a nun, when she was sick like a little grass. But after 10 years, she grew into a beautiful woman.
Three years ago (1982), she went home to visit her family and made a difference along the way. In the Himalayas, she walked for three or five days without seeing a single family.
One day, she came across a tent with only one guy in it, and the guy offered her a lot of food.
Then she stood by reverently, and the boy watched her kneading and drinking butter tea, her eyes not moving.
At this time, the nun felt the desire in the eyes of the young man.
This flame also burned the nun's cheeks red.
Surrounded by snow-capped mountains, in that tent there was no third man, no precepts, and the devil began to stir.
The devil stirred the nun's blood.
As a result, she should never, should not, she should not smile at the young man next to her.
This laugh made the young man also enchanted, so he pounced, and the nun struggled a little, but the two devils immediately went crazy...
The Tibetan brothers went on to say that last year (1983), they met a woman who sold silver Buddha statues.
Buddy is curious, because Tibetans will never sell their Buddha statues. Unless it's really a dead end.
The buddy asked the woman, why did she sell the Buddha statue?
The woman said that she wanted to pay for the journey and go to her husband, Tsering Cho wang.
The buddy immediately scolded the man.
But the woman said, no, I abandoned him.
Later, the brothers bought the Buddha statue and talked with the woman for a long time. It turned out that this woman was the nun, Kangchen Renm.
Rem said she and the tough boy had been living in the tent for more than two months and had long forgotten about the temple.
However, one day she felt the call of Brahma in a dream, causing her to wake up from greed, so she secretly left the tent and returned to the temple.
However, after returning to the temple, she found that she was pregnant.
The old master said to her, Brahma has no place for you, you are a person in the adulterous heavens. There you go.
In this way, Renmu was thrown out of the temple gate.
Rem could only go looking for the tent.
But the whole plateau was a young man's pasture, full of his home, and Renmu naturally could not find it.
Slowly, Rem became a beggar and wandered the streets.
Towards the end of October, Rem was married back home by a businessman.
Now (1985), Renmu is a famous wife in the county.
The businessman is very good to Renmu, dresses her up gracefully and luxuriously, there are servants in the family, there is a treasurer in the business, and Renmu usually plays with the little baby.
The locals also respect Renmu.
A few days later, the author and his Tibetan buddies came to a hot spring.
According to Tibetan tradition, this hot spring is shared by men and women, and the author was stripped naked by his Tibetan brothers and pushed down the hot spring. The author was ashamed to death, but hid in the corner and couldn't help but sneak a look.
A few beautiful women found that the author did not dare to look at them squarely, so they walked over naked and looked at the author's laughter.
At this moment, the Tibetan brothers suddenly cried out, Kang Chin Renmu.
It turned out that on the other side of the hot spring, a man and a woman were carrying a small child ashore, and the woman was Renmu.
Renmu was wearing loose hair, and behind him stood a mighty young man, a lamb's hide robe, and a Tibetan knife hanging from his waist.
Ask again, this young man is Tsering ChoiWang, Renmu has been looking for him for more than two years, and recently they finally met.
Renmu is now preparing to go back, return what does not belong to him, and then follow ChoiWang to the desert, where the tent is his home.
Later, the author drove the Renmu family back to the county seat, and Renmu walked into the luxurious color building for the last time and handed over the keys, ledgers, clothes, and jewelry to the housekeeper.
The next day, Choi Wang carried the child on his back, took Renmu's hand, and walked to the north side of the mountain.
Back to reality, this story and the original fable are actually saying that the psychology that can really make you stronger is to face everything, don't dare to love because you are afraid of being hurt; don't live your own way because of other people's opinions; don't avoid responsibility because you are afraid of losing.
To put it paradoxically, when you carve the courage to face it into your soul, you can naturally face the first devil.
People who dare to face everything must be very happy, is this also a kind of "bliss"?
Well, today's story is shared here, thank you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">The End</h1>
Finally Madame said that a teenager named "Love" listened to your story and finally killed the Six-Eyed Flying Fish (love really takes courage to face the Six-Eyed Flying Fish).