Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person?
Practical psychology
Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? These three ultimate philosophical problems seem ridiculous to some people-there are enough troubles in life, so where can we think about these abstract big problems?
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? There is a joke: Tang Seng introduced himself every time: Tang Sanzang, a poor monk, came from the Eastern Tang Dynasty and went to the Western Heaven to worship Buddha and learn from it. These words contain three questions that everyone should ask themselves: Know who you are, where you come from, where you want to go and what you want to do. Some people say that when you understand The Journey to the West one day, you will know the true meaning of all the sufferings in the world and the whole life. Some people think that The Journey to the West ranks first in Four Great Classical Novels, and it is also the greatest philosophy in the world. What seems to be a story of playing monsters is telling people how to know their knowledge.
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? We often hear such a saying: “This person doesn’t know himself, but I know him”. People often don’t want to know themselves. For most Westerners, the man was created by God. In China, there is a legend that Nuwa made man. These myths probably exist because we can’t know exactly who people were originally and where they came from. Descartes said, “I think, so I am.” Here, I mean the self-related to self-awareness. My existence is determined by my ability to think. We think we are the spirit of all things, and we call ourselves the spirit of all things.
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? We call ourselves “people”, so how can we prove it? When it comes to people, there are emotions, worldly desires, worries, and self-awareness. There is a word in psychology called “always my attribute”. It means that people always live by themselves and have nothing to do with others. What’s interesting about us is that people who don’t even understand themselves want to understand others, which is a thankless and extremely boring thing.
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? You may have a good degree in the world. If you don’t know yourself, you are the stupidest person. Knowing yourself is the real purpose of all education. Without self-knowledge, there is also a lack of self-love. If asked, what do you think is the biggest difference between humans and animals? What would you say? A famous philosopher once said that human life is as meaningless as the life of cattle or insects. We eat, sleep, live for a while, reproduce, and so do other animals. Life has no final purpose. How would you answer him? Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? What purpose does human life have that can’t be found in cattle or insects? What is your goal in life? There are many layers of skin in a person’s heart, covering the deepest part of his heart. People know many different things, but they don’t know themselves. Why is this happening? Because there are thirty or forty skins, just like cowhide or bearskin, which are thick and hard and cover the soul. One of the most deceptive things in the world is its hollow reputation.
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? Our life, in this change. “I don’t know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I only live in this mountain”, which comes from two poems written by Su Dongpo, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, which not only contains a discussion of life, but also a beautiful annotation of self-knowledge. Throughout the ages, it’s hard for people to recognize themselves, just like living in a mountain, and it’s hard to see the true face of the mountain. This phenomenon is called the “Su Dongpo effect” in psychology. We need a beautiful marriage, a good family, a harmonious parent-child relationship, an external economic foundation, and a good social status. These parts are to satisfy one’s own needs, and more parts are to satisfy false reputation.
Psychology: You say you are a person. How can you prove that you are a person? Why do people know themselves? From a social point of view, material civilization and spiritual civilization are equally important. If a social subject has only material civilization but no spiritual civilization, what will society be like? Similarly, from the individual point of view, spiritual civilization is very important. If there is no spiritual civilization to lead the physical behavior, it is like a runaway wild horse, disobeying the master’s command.
The world is simple, but we are complicated.
