Confucius said what is the heavens great

Zi said: "Great, Yaozhi is the king." Majestic! Only the sky is great, and only Yao is the rule. Swing! The people are incompetent. Towering is also a success. There is an article. (Analects of Tabor, No. 19).

1] "What is great and transformed is holy, and what is holy and unknowable is God." "Yao was the number one sage in the eyes of Confucius. Through his description of Yao, he painted a "standard portrait" of the saint.

2. Great, majestic, swaying, and radiant are all correct ways to describe the greatness and glory of the saints, and Confucius used such a tone to guide people to admire and worship the saints as if they were gods. However, the saint is not a god after all, but the highest state of human life. We might as well first take off those great and righteous halos, scoop up the "dry goods" in this passage, and see what necessary conditions are needed to become a saint.

3] First of all, the saint should have a lofty "political status", even if he cannot be "a king" like Yao Shunyu, he must be like the Duke of Zhou to take charge of the state government; Secondly, the saint walks in the sky, and his virtue, ability, and wisdom have reached an indescribable and incredible height. Thirdly, the saint should have established great deeds, and also left a splendid system of cultural etiquette and regulations. Virtue, meritorious service, and speech are all necessary.

The sentence "Only the sky is great, and only Yao is the greatest" is the most important. Confucius showed that the sage is the only intermediary between heaven and man. Ordinary people don't know what the heavens are all about, but the saints do; Ordinary people want to express their feelings to the heavens, just gesture to the saints.

Ah, since saints are so important, let's put those great and righteous halos on saints again. In short, an important feature of Chinese culture is "sanctification", not "deification". "Sanctification" obscures the main deity, but does not weaken the ...... faithRegarding "sanctification", we have to find another opportunity to talk about it.

Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher, the object of Chinese Confucian sacrifice, arrange the order of the column to know that the sky is the head, and set up an extra day of the Emperor Prince's tablet or banner to be enshrined in the middle hall. Sacrifice to heaven and earth originated from nature worship, ancient China to heaven as the supreme god, dominate everything, with the earth with the sky, the cultivation of all things, sacrifice heaven and earth have the will of heaven, thanks to the meaning of creation. The sacrificial king originated from the concept of divine authority of kings.

Since the king is the symbol of the country in feudal society, the worship of the king also has the meaning of praying for the peace of the country and the people. Ancestor worship is also ancestor worship, which developed from primitive ancestor worship.

But Confucius. The "heaven" that we know also seems to have a mysterious side. He said: "A gentleman has three hypocrisies: fear of the destiny of heaven, fear of adults, and fear of the words of sages" (Analects.

Regard "life" as a kind of force that is opposed to others and alien to oneself.

Although Confucius believed that the fate of life, death, wealth, and success and failure were determined by the mandate of heaven, man could still do what he should do to his own strength.

1. The Son of Heaven is the king of a country, the leader of the country, and the actual leader of the country's politics, economy, military, culture, etc.

2. A saint is the spiritual leader of the people and even the whole country, and is the mentor and guide of the country and even human civilization. In this sense, the saint is more important than the Son of Heaven.

3. Therefore, the power of the Son of Heaven is greater than that of the sage, and the spiritual orientation of the sage is more important than that of the Son of Heaven.

FYI.

Depending on the circumstances, what kind of dynasty you are in, your religious beliefs, whether you are poor or not, there are individual dynasties that believe in the way of Confucius and Mencius greater than heaven, if you believe in God, whether Confucius is a saint or not has a relationship with you, if I am poor, I will only recognize money.