Classical Chinese essays about the soul

1. Ancient texts about the soul

Ding Gui

Original text of "Ding Gui":

Between heaven and earth, there are ghosts. It is not caused by the spirit of death, but by people's longing and thinking. Why? Due to illness. People are worried when they are sick, and they are worried about seeing ghosts coming out. Mortals are not afraid if they are not sick. Therefore, when sick, he sleeps in bed, fearing the arrival of ghosts. If you are afraid, you will have thoughts, and if you have thoughts, your vision will be empty.

Why does it work? It is said: "Bole learned to read horses, and when Gu Wan saw nothing but horses. The cook Ding of the Song Dynasty learned to read cattle, but he didn't see any live cattle for three years, and all he saw were dead cattle." The two of them used their skills to the extreme! When you think about it, you will see something foreign. When a person is sick, he sees ghosts, just as Bole sees a horse, and a cook sees a cow. If what Bole and Cook Ding saw were not horses and cows, they also knew that what the sick man saw was not ghosts.

If the patient suffers from severe sleepiness and body pain, it is said that the ghost will beat him with a hammering stick. If he sees the ghost, he will bind his vertebrae with a rope and stand guard beside him. There is fear of illness and delusion. The initial illness is fear of seeing a ghost coming; the illness is sleepy and the fear of death is seeing the wrath of a ghost; the body is sick and painful, seeing the attack of a ghost; all are based on false assumptions and may not be true.

The husband’s mental thoughts may leak out to his eyes, mouth, or ears. If it leaks to the eyes, the eyes will see its shape; if it leaks to the ears, the ears will hear its sounds; if it leaks to the mouth, it will speak of its affairs. During the day, you will see ghosts, and when you lie down at night, you will hear them in dreams. If you are alone in an empty room and are afraid, you will dream of seeing your wife crying against her body. Awareness, seeing, lying down and hearing, all use the spirit; fear and thinking are the same reality.

Translation:

The appearance of ghosts in the world is not caused by the spirit of people after death, but is caused by people's imagination. What causes this phenomenon? It's due to disease. When people are sick, they will be worried and afraid. Being sad and afraid is like seeing a ghost appear. When people are not sick, they will not be afraid of this or that. So when I was sick and lying in bed, I was afraid that ghosts would come. When you are scared, you will always think about it. If you think about it for a long time, your vision will be confused and you will see ghosts in a trance.

What to use to verify? An ancient book says: "When Bole was learning to identify horses, he was over-attentive and saw nothing that was not a horse." Cook Ding of the Song Dynasty practiced the skill of dissecting cows. After three years, he never saw a live cow in his eyes. All they saw were decomposed) dead cows." Both men were attentive to the extreme. Because I always think about a certain problem, I naturally have illusions and see things that are different from the original ones. When a sick person sees ghosts, it is like Bole seeing a horse or a cook Ding seeing a cow. What Bole and Cook Ding saw were not real horses and cows, so it can be seen that what the patient saw was not a ghost.

The patient was extremely sleepy and in pain, so he said that the ghosts were beating him with sticks and whips. It seemed that he saw ghosts holding hammers, chains, and ropes, standing guard by his side. (This is because) the patient is in physical pain and is afraid, so he sees these things illusoryly. When you first get sick, you feel panic and fear, (as if) you see a ghost coming; when you get more serious, you feel afraid of death, as if you see a ghost being angry; when you feel pain in your body due to illness, (as if) you see a ghost beating: these are all due to the thought of something. Too much can create an illusory feeling, which is not really the case.

Some of the (results of) thinking about things with concentration are manifested visually, some are manifested in speaking, and some are manifested in the sounds heard. It manifests visually, (as if) seeing the shape of a ghost; manifests auditorily, (as if) hearing the voice of a ghost; manifests itself verbally, (will) speak about ghosts. (Therefore) You will see the appearance of ghosts during the day and hear their voices in your dreams at night. If you sleep alone in an empty room and feel a little scared, you will dream that someone is holding your body and crying! Seeing ghosts when you wake up and hearing ghost sounds when you lie down are all caused by mental effects; fear and imagination are all caused by the same situation.

Author:

Wang Chong (27-about 97), courtesy name Zhongren, was a native of Shangyu in Kuaiji (now part of Zhejiang), a materialist thinker and atheist in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Selected from: "Lunheng". "Lunheng" contains eighty-five chapters, covering astronomy, physics, history and geography, literature and art, and many other aspects.

Order ghosts: Revise people’s understanding of ghosts.

Comments:

Wang Chong was a great atheist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the era when he lived, all kinds of superstitious beliefs about ghosts and gods were rampant and harmful to society. Wang Chong focused on criticizing the theistic thought that "the dead are not ghosts, and those who are knowledgeable can harm people". , cannot harm others" atheistic claim. In this article, Wang Chong explores the origin of the concept of ghosts and gods from an epistemological perspective. He analyzed it from the perspective of human physiology and psychology, and believed that ghosts and gods are "caused by people's thoughts and thoughts." In other words, the concept of ghosts and gods is completely the product of people's subjective imagination in a state of fear, and this situation can be seen in people's fear state. The most prominent disease. 2. What are the poems about "soul"?

Ten years of life and death are blurred, without thinking, they will never be forgotten.

____ Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi·Dreams on the 20th day of the first lunar month of Yimao" Once upon a time, the sea was difficult to overcome, except for Wushan, it was not a cloud. ____Yuan Zhen's "Five Poems on Li Si·Four" is taken from Huacong Lazy Review, half of which is to practice Taoism and half to be a king.

____Yuan Zhen's "Five Poems on Lisi·Part 4" You buried your bones in the mud under the spring, but I sent them to the world with a head full of snow.

____Bai Juyi's "Meng Wei Zhi" Night comes with a deep dream and suddenly returns home.

Small Xuan window. Dressing up.

We looked at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears. ____Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi·Dreams on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month of Yimao" I was not frightened by the wine and fell into a deep sleep in spring. I was gambling on books and the fragrance of the tea was gone. At that time, I just thought it was ordinary.

____ Nalan Xingde's "Huanxisha·Who misses the westerly wind and cools alone" The spring waves under the sad bridge are green, and it was once the shadow of a startled grand. ____Lu You's "Two Poems on Shen Yuan" If it's like the moon that shines brightly at the end of the day, it will keep you warm despite the ice and snow.

____Yuan Zhen's "Three Poems for Sorrowing and Feelings·Part 2" Wei Jiang always keeps his eyes open all night long, repaying the fact that he has never raised his eyebrows in his life.

____Yuan Zhen's "Three Poems of Sorrow and Feeling·Part 3" The dream has faded and the fragrance has faded for forty years, and the willow tree in the garden has stopped blowing. ____Lu You's "Two Poems of Shen Yuan" Sitting idle and grieving for the king, he also grieves for himself. How many years is it?

____Yuan Zhen's "Three Poems of Sorrow and Feelings·Part 3" If you look at the same acupoint, it will be even more difficult to predict his fate. ____Yuan Zhen's "Three Poems for Sorrow and Feelings·Part 3" has been widely read, making people miss you and feel sad.

____Li Chen's "Diao Bai Juyi" looked at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears. ____Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi·Dreams on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month of Yimao" Poor bones are gathered in solitary graves, all for the generals looking for military exploits.

____Zhang Wei's "Hanging Mass Tombs" is green and silky, and is ruled by women. I think of the ancients, so I can’t help but admire them! ____Anonymous "Green Clothes" small Xuan window.

Dressing up. They looked at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears.

____Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi·Dreams on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month of Yimao" Respect the old friend as if he were here, miss me, and care about me the most. ____Zhou Bangyan's "Qi Liao Yuan·The man on horseback helps the disabled to get drunk" Nostalgic and empty, he recited the flute poems, and when he went to the countryside to read it, he felt like a dead man.

____Pan An's "Three Mourning Poems" still misses the old love and pities the maidservant, and also gave money to her in a dream.

____Yuan Zhen's "Three Poems of Sorrow and Feelings·Part 2" has been decorated with jade beads for sixty years. Who taught Minglu to become a poetry immortal. ____Li Chen's "Diao Bai Juyi" Lying on an empty bed and listening to the rain outside the south window, who will stay up late at night to mend clothes?

____ Nalan Xingde's "Golden Thread Song: Thoughts on the Anniversary of the Death of My Wife" When I sleep, my eyes are still in shape, and the remaining sounds are still in my ears.

____Pan An's "Three Poems for the Death" The old friend is beneath it, and the dust is crawling. ____Su Shi's "Send Dun Qi" The year before last, when the Yuezhi was attacked, the whole army was not on the city.

____Zhang Ji's "Old Friend of No Fan" I want to offer sacrifices to you, but I am crying at the end of the world. ____Zhang Ji's "Old Friend Without Fan" Returned to the hospital at night with his child in hand. The cold moon was in the empty room and no one was there.

____Bai Juyi's "Mourning for Xuetai" The bed is empty and the dust is clear, and the room is empty and a sad wind comes. ____Pan An's "Three Poems on Death". 3. The ancient poems about the soul

are as follows, hope to adopt them:

"Taichang Yin·Huan Chen disturbs the dream soul to fly" Yuan·Ji Yi

Huan Chen The dream soul flies away. Walking through the crisis. After the province, I was surprised and doubtful. Jump out fiercely, and be surrounded by the cage. Straw sandals, quinoa staff, plain crown and unkempt temples, weak hat and coir raincoat. The clouds and water let things go. Don't even care about the rights and wrongs of the world.

"Plum Soul" by Huang Geng of the Song Dynasty

The traces of Mengjueluo's paintings have faded away, but my imagination is as new as ever.

The moon in front of the window is like lovesickness, and it seems like spring is rising from the stone.

The Gu Fang Bing's spirit is the spirit of Shu Shu Leng Ruixue.

The information should be more difficult to recruit, so you can spend all your time for ***.

"Pink Butterflies Join the Broken Souls" by Zhao Shishao of the Song Dynasty

When Yingtai became a soul, she was born and grew up in Yingying Fangfei.

Sadness only owes Hanzhangmeng, not snow flying on the branches.

4. Idioms about the soul

There are many idioms about the soul, as follows:

Ice soul plain soul, soul tranquility, soul flying soul,

To shake one's soul, to lose one's soul, to lose one's soul,

To lose one's soul, to lose one's soul, to seize one's soul,

To seduc one's soul, to seize one's soul. , the soul is lost,

the soul is in shock, the soul is flying, the soul is in ecstasy,

the soul is exhausted, the soul is in ecstasy, the soul is in ecstasy,

The soul disperses and the soul disappears, the ice soul and the snow soul disappear, the soul disperses and the soul flies away,

The soul flies away, the soul is stunned, the soul flies away,

The soul flies away, Lost souls, raining souls, cloud souls,

Soul-catching hooks, relaxing souls, frightening souls,

Lost souls, frightened souls, chasing souls and capturing souls,

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The dead soul loses its soul, the soul disappears, the three souls and seven souls,

The soul seizes the soul, the soul is frightened, the soul is shaken,

The soul is lost. The soul is gone, the soul is gone, the soul is scattered, the soul is floating,

The soul is flying away, the soul is dying, the soul is ecstatic,

The soul is shaken, the soul is frightened, the soul is shaking. ,

Soul-shattering, soul-lost, soul-stricken,

Soul-stirring, soul-crushing, soul-stirring,

Soul-lost Soul