These four years have passed, and in a blink of an eye, ten years have passed. Ten years have passed, and this girl and boy met again at their reunion. When they met, the boy took advantage of his ten years of experience and told this girl. He said that from the moment I entered university, I laughed and liked you silently for four years. After hearing this, the girl burst into tears and said, 'Why didn't you tell me back then that if you told me, I would definitely marry you.'. Then, the boy was also very regretful. Why didn't I say anything at that time.
In the end, the girl also tells you that she loves you, but this is an inner love, and you cannot directly deduce a process of love. The girl you love from the bottom of your heart, without any expression, has no idea that you love her. Therefore, your love is just an inner emotion that has not been expressed, and it has not been able to be displayed. Therefore, it can only remain at the level of unrequited love.
The Inner Saint also means the same thing. If you only have the Inner Saint, you cannot have democracy and science. Or what should our boys do to form a passionate love?
He should be like this, after having love within him, he needs to have structure. Architecture is about expression, so you have to show your love for this girl. You can't just say that you are in your heart and she doesn't know. You have to express that you want to use methods, tools, and means. There are many methods, and you have many ways. In this way, your inner love becomes an external way, from this inner love to an external way. This is a "self trap", which means that you express it as something. Why is it called a self trap?
Because of this manifestation, he is actually at a lower level, because what he portrays is only a part, just a part of love. As we often said earlier, our girl likes flowers and roses. If you don't love her in your heart at this time, then you have to send her flowers. The structure and expression of sending roses are actually low-level.
Because after a while, this girl didn't like flowers anymore. Why didn't she like flowers? Because she was emotionally hurt. She took this flower and gave it to another beloved boy, but the boy rejected him. Since then, she hated flowers. When she saw this flower, she was emotionally hurt. At this time, you even gave him roses. So, didn't you sprinkle salt on her wound?
Because the impression this rose gives now is hurt. Her favorite thing was given to a boy, but the boy looked down upon it and threw it in the trash can. She was injured, and you even gave several roses. At this point, you may not be able to give roses anymore. You will choose another way. Look at the girl you love, she pursued her beloved boy and got hurt. Nevertheless, you can still understand him very well and comfort him. You say it's okay, where is the grass in the world?
Do you think my grass is pretty good? After finishing, this girl felt that during her most painful, helpless, and humiliating moments, you gave me strength. At this time, your way of expressing love was different. It was to give her a kind of spiritual comfort, and before that, it was to send flowers. Both of these ways are ways for you to express love, but they have limitations.
That is to say, 'love' is at a higher level, while the way of expressing love is at a lower level. Because of this inner love, this emotion can be expressed in various ways. For example, there is another way to express it. He said you like this girl until the end, and before leaving, you can say to him, 'I feel like I have done my love for you.' Because I have accompanied you for a lifetime, from childhood sweethearts to youthful romance, and even to old age with white hair, I have been with you to witness your life. This is my love for you. You can also say this, this is also a way of love.
These different ways of love are all expressions of 'love', which is a higher-level thing. The way of expressing love is a tool and means.
So Mou Zongsan believed that the essence of China's moral character is at a higher level, but if it only stays at the level of moral character, it will not have democracy and science. It's like, if a boy has been secretly in love with a girl for four years without saying a word, then you must show it out. Show it out. This is a kind of trap, which is to turn your noble love emotion into an ordinary love behavior in real life. This self trap, but through this self trap, makes that noble love concretely displayed.
The virtue of conscience is also derived from democracy and science in this way. He believes that democracy and science are actually low-level things. Virtue is something at a higher level, and how to develop something at a lower level requires it to sink from high to low, and to sink itself down.
It's like asking you, 'What is love? I can't explain it clearly, but you can say,' Love is a cool little umbrella under the scorching sun in summer. '' Love is a night with a full moon, sitting under the willows by the lake, and then having a warm and sturdy shoulder. 'This is just a way of expressing love, a' hurdle 'of love, not love itself.
Love itself is a moral subject, and when it falls, it becomes something like a windbreak. If the wind blows, it becomes your windbreak. If it rains, it becomes your umbrella. If it's cold, it becomes your down jacket, for example. These things are all obstacles. Therefore, Mou Zongsan believes that Chinese culture used to be very sophisticated, but its brilliance lies in the moral aspect of conscience. Its decentralization and obstacles are insufficient, and democracy and science belong to obstacles. So, modernization now requires democracy and science. Can Chinese culture develop democracy and science on its own? Mou Zongsan believes that it is possible.
How can we turn democracy and science into reality through the self pitfall of conscience? So, what is the significance of his academic work?
The significance lies in the fact that we used to view our traditional culture as a museum. Museums are full of antiques, we can go and have a look, but they are useful for now. And Mou Zongsan's job is to make a creative transformation, turning decay into magic. He said that those traditional things that people regarded as decay and wanted to throw away were eventually transformed into gold by his skillful hands, which means that traditional things can move towards modernization on their own.
That is to say, in the process of modernization in the future, traditional Chinese culture not only has its place, but also serves as a basis for modernization, because it is conscience, it is literary style, and as long as it falls through, it will have democracy and science. This solves the problem of the relationship between our tradition and modernity. As we move towards modernization, how do we understand tradition?
People usually say to abandon it. But what he meant was that it had to emerge from tradition.
So, he said that virtue has no structure in its manifestation, but according to its essence, it must require a scientific representation of knowledge and a democratic politics that embodies justice and fairness.
That is to say, virtue itself can be a metaphysical existence of conscience and morality, but once it is to be manifested and manifested in contemporary times, it must rely on democracy and science. If it is not manifested, then it is already necessary. Once it is manifested, it must rely on democracy and science. Therefore, democracy and science are contradictory to virtue, which means that virtue is a metaphysical existence, while democratic science is a structural existence, one is metaphysical and the other is metaphysical, therefore it is a violation.
But this violation is precisely necessary, because metaphysics must rely on form to learn. Without form, metaphysics would not exist. Therefore, it requires something that is contrary to its nature, requires a reverse, and you cannot stay at the metaphysical level, but must implement it in a tangible way in order to demonstrate metaphysics. This is his philosophy.
So, this is a contradiction. What he demands must have its own negation and be transformed into a rational and intellectual opposition in order for it to be established. Why does he demand that an opposite thing must negate itself and be transformed into an intellectual opposition in order for it to be established?
In fact, the nature of metaphysics and metaphysics is different from that of metaphysics. Although metaphysics and metaphysics have different natures, metaphysics must express itself through the behavior of metaphysics. Once expressed, it is no longer a metaphysical form, but has a special form?
Just like love, in terms of this metaphysical love, it can exist in your heart without any expression in life. For example, our boy is very shy, very autistic, and very lonely. Although he likes this girl, he dare not express himself, so he always exists in his heart. However, this existence is only a superficial existence. Once he wants to show it, he must be tangible. Once you want to show your love, you must have various ways to make this girl feel you, such as writing love letters, chatting online, etc. However, whether you chat online or not, he is also a kind of obstacle and expression, and this emotion and nature are different.
