The Plague of Reason

The idea that the ethical logic of our existence causes us to suffer is enough to dazzle all of humanity, and it is completely unbelievable. How does the fundamental logic of existence cause us to suffer? This is beyond our knowledge. How can life be suffering? It is God's and God's plan, and it is not for us to ask about it, is it? We don't need religious ideas to explain why the human world is plagued with disasters. We only know that it is an objective fact, an existential necessity. We do not associate the suffering of life with the reason for survival, the reason for survival leads to the suffering of life, a connection we have never thought of.

How did the reason for survival become our disaster? People are inevitably puzzled by the fact that these survival principles come from objective facts, they are just the summary and explanation of objective laws and laws, they only facilitate our survival activities, how can they cause harm to us? What people want to know is how they hurt us. This harm is not external physical damage, but comes from ourselves, from our spiritual ideas, our thoughts and consciousness, and our behavioral activities. This harm is not inflicted by ourselves, so it is invisible, and that is what makes it so terrible. All human suffering comes from this, but we never realize that it is fatal and irreversible harm. Life and death, for example, is an ethical model, a purely subjective fact. When we adopt this ethic of life and death, we have to operate within the rules of life and death, our existence is aimed at seeking life and avoiding death, our existence becomes a rejection and escapes from death, and we have to be alert and fearful of death.

The tension, anxiety, pain, and fear of our life are thus generated, and the series of chain reactions arising from our fear not only last throughout our life, but also have a great impact on others and social life. How much do we pay to avoid death at all costs? The despairing thing is that all our efforts to survive are ineffective, and each of us is bound to die, so what is the point of a life lived for the sake of certain death? Is there any carefree happiness to be found in a life predicated on certain death? This is the paradoxical logic that the more sensitive, the smarter, and the harder people try to survive, the more miserable they become. A single theory of survival makes one's life meaningless, makes the purpose of one's life absurd and leaves one's life in the anxiety, fear, and pain of certain death. This damage far exceeds all physical injuries, making life a sad journey to death.

The independent existence of an individual life is not only a worry of death but also a danger of existence. How does an individual life exist independently? This becomes a big problem that each person must face. Independent individuals must have their interests, and the formation and division of such interests will divide the earthly society into countless private pieces, and when these pieces of interests are crowded together, they constitute hell on earth. Individuality and privateness become sharp tools that not only cut others but also cut ourselves. We can imagine the difficulties and hardships of living in such an earthly society, which is ethically based on the existence of competing individual lives. Each of us is not only alone but also has to fight for ourselves. The more self-conscious a person is, the more selfish he or she is, the more aggressive and dangerous he or she is, and therefore the more likely he or she is to come to a tragic end. The reason for survival is so vicious that you are not allowed to fight for yourself, and the more you fight, the more dangerous it becomes, and the more you fight, the more harm you form to others. And who of us is not harmed by others? The independent existence of individual life is so vicious that it hurts oneself and others.

In this way, the earthly society built on the ethics of survival is both blind and confused, and there is no greater problem than the contradiction of reasoning, any behavior running in the same direction will encounter the impact of the opposite direction, one side to carry out justice, the other side is bound to exercise evil; the process of love is bound to have the emergence of hate; the identification of true is bound to have the participation of false; the existence of beauty is bound to have the contrast of ugly... ...The most complicated thing on earth is the reason, the biggest disaster on earth must come from some kind of reason, the most unresolved conflict on earth is that each has its reason. We are all driven by reason, but we are all deceived by reason; we all use reason, but we find that we use the wrong reason; we all benefit from the operation of reason, and we all suffer from the error of reason.

The dilemma of mankind is that we have to act according to reason, but who can guarantee the correctness of reason? Therefore, the greatest danger for human beings is that, unknowingly, we are victimized by reason, we become murderers who use reason to kill ourselves. Isn't this a great oops? It seems that what we do and how we do it are not the key, but what reason we act according to, which is the crucial premise. Lao Tzu had already discovered the Tao, but he did not discover that the reasoning of man was born from the Tao, but was wrong. Tao has always been there, but the reason has never been the reason. We did not expect that the fragmented existence of Tao and Reason would lead to the misuse of Reason for thousands of years. The tragic fate of mankind is that we have used the wrong reason.