How to demonstrate that moral decay is a personal cause?

Almost everyone is complaining that China's social atmosphere is getting worse and worse, people are not old, morality is declining, and the world is getting worse. It seems that people can trample on human laws and existing moral standards for some purpose. Why is this happening? What is the deepest reason that leads to the corruption of our social atmosphere? Judging from the establishment of people's beliefs, there is only one reason, that is, materialism prevails in China society.

Materialism is fatal to the destruction of the whole nation In recent years, some people have begun to reflect, but in fact, in academia and politics, the reflection on this issue is not enough. Recently, I only saw some discussions and studies on Tao Te Ching in Hong Kong, and I reflected on materialism.

Liu (sister of State Councilor Liu Yandong) mentioned the self-restraint of religion and thought in an article. Materialism cannot produce self-discipline and self-restraint. Materialism means that we do a math problem. 1 minus 1 equals 0, 1 plus 1 equals 0. These two zeros are equivalent, so why do we have to choose 1 plus 1 and 1 minus 1? In other words, a lifetime of doing good will leave a blank after death, and a lifetime of doing bad will leave a blank after death. This means that doing bad things for a lifetime is the same as doing good things for a lifetime, and in the end they all go away.

This is a conclusion drawn from the theoretical logic of materialism. What problems will this conclusion cause? He will imply that individuals in society cannot bear the ultimate responsibility for their actions. In other words, your actions cannot bear the ultimate responsibility, and you may eventually escape. Everyone in the whole social group is very lucky to avoid the ultimate responsibility.

Therefore, the group hypnotized by materialism may lead to the whole sinking to the point of collective crime. Materialism is the HIV in the ideological circle. HIV does not directly attack our organs, but destroys our immune system. When the immune system is released, a cold will develop into pneumonia and lead to death.

Materialism destroys our inner moral system, that is, self-restraint. After the self-restraint is destroyed, the society can only maintain stability by "heteronomy", that is, to maintain social order through the punishment means of "public inspection law" system. Individuals in society become: I don't commit crimes when others are watching me, but I want to commit crimes as long as no one is watching me.

Materialism leads the whole society to rely on "heteronomy" to maintain stability and restraint. Strong supervision between people will lead to everyone being a potential policeman and everyone being a potential criminal. How can such a society develop healthily?

Social stability actually needs two rules: self-discipline and heteronomy. The stronger the function of "self-discipline", the weaker the responsibility of "heteronomy"; On the contrary, the less self-discipline, the heavier the burden of heteronomy. The folk customs under the rule of the ancient Three Kings are very good, which shows that individuals in this society are very self-disciplined.

The idiom "draw the ground as a prison" is very telling. What binds him is not the circle on the ground, but the inner morality. The stronger the "self-discipline", the better the folk customs and the more stable the society, because "heteronomy" requires less resources. Instead, more and more resources are invested.

In many foreign countries with strong religious atmosphere, the social order is obviously much better than ours. This is not to say that they have no criminals and no bad guys. But it is much better than China in terms of overall folk customs and integrity. The spirit of contract and trustworthiness originated from religion. The restriction mechanisms established by major religions are different. Both Christianity and Catholicism are supervised by God, so there is a ceremony of repentance after death, which is in response to God's judgment. Buddhism is the cause of cause and effect, and this connection is even closer. Both Confucianism and Taoism in China's traditional society later adopted the mechanism of ghost supervision.

The main line of Buddhism is cause and effect. As trees are, so are fruits. Cause and effect are closely linked.

Zeng Guofan is an orthodox Confucian. However, he often tells his younger brother in his letters home that our thoughts, words and deeds should be tested by ghosts and gods. Sometimes, although he does well on the surface, he is wrong on the inside. He can fool everyone, but he can't fool ghosts.

Therefore, the spirit of self-discipline in ancient China was maintained by the supervision of ghosts and gods. Christianity and Catholicism are supervised by God; Buddhism is cause and effect.

Buddhist causality can also be applied to natural science. Physical and chemical actions are based on causality. For example, when water is heated at one atmospheric pressure, it will boil to 100 degrees, which is the result of heating. So we use causality to use technology, such as gasoline burning to generate electricity, and then push the car forward, so we can use gasoline engines to complete the journey.

In the real society, no one can deny the causality in the physical and chemical world, but in the spiritual world, people often deny it. In fact, the cause and effect of the spiritual world are exactly the same as the cause and effect of the physical and chemical world, and the cause and effect of the spiritual world are faster, finer and bigger, which constructs all the good times and bad times of our whole life state, but few people know this.

In our traditional culture in China, Confucius touched this point by reading the Book of Changes, which is why he said: Fifty people know their destiny by reading the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes elaborates the consequences of causality and the reasons, but less. Confucius worked hard, and Wei made up three miracles, so at the age of fifty, he knew his own destiny, which means he had a deeper understanding of cause and effect.

We read Yi, and everyone attaches great importance to "reading Yi to know destiny". Everyone wants to know their fate, which is a good idea. But I often ignore another particularly important sentence: "I am fifty years old because I read the Book of Changes." That is, at the age of 50, I didn't make any big mistakes in my behavior because I read the Book of Changes. If you are connected, that is, someone who can see the cause and effect clearly, then he will be very cautious about his words and deeds and can not make big mistakes.

Judging Confucius from the perspective of Confucianism or Buddhism, his life-long practice is really good. It's really not easy to practice if you can follow your heart and don't cross the line. To cultivate kindness deeply, it is possible to cut off bad things. Buddhism makes everyone understand cause and effect. When people know this truth, just like Confucius, they will pay great attention to their words and deeds and become saints. Even if no one looks at me, I obey the rules.

Others said that the Germans were too rigid and made a "joke". Once the red light was broken, and one night it was on, so he waited there all night. But from the Buddhist point of view, this shows a very strong spirit of self-discipline and self-restraint, and also fully shows the awesome national spirit of the German nation. Those who abide by the rules will not suffer. A self-disciplined nation will not suffer. Germany has a population of only 80 million, which is equivalent to the population of three Shanghai, but our economy only surpassed them this year. 1.3 billion and 80 million.

In European and American countries, the observance of rules comes from religions-Christianity, Catholicism and Judaism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Party Alliance Party consists of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union. Then the policies of these heads of state have a religious background, and religion is their spiritual pillar. Even economic development is not all about earning huge wealth. According to modern standards, this is GDP.