You, God, and religion 你、神、宗教

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	You, God, and religion Author :Chang Kai-Chi You have mentioned that to me: "Since I believe in X religion, I finally found out that my life was arranged by God. I regretted I was so ignorant before that I wasted a lot of precious life. I have known God until now. God is everything to me, and the religion is all about my life." Ok! In the matter you said; there are three main points: you, God, religion. These three points are originally independent and irrelevant. What can be determined is that you and religion do exist separately. As for the God, you believed in this religion and this religion tells you the existence of this God. Then you may believe in the existence of God right now, or you have finally believed the existence of God after careful pondering. This religion says that the existence of the God and that you believe the God does exist. These two things are completely different from "Does this God actually exist?" You are still you! God is the God! Religion is still the religion! So you are not the god, and god is not you. You are not the religion, and Religion is not you. God will not be everything to you, and religion will not be the whole of your life.  God is just a small piece of all the things in your mind, and religion is only a small part of your life. Even if I believe that what you said is honest, there are some parts in your body more honesty than the idea and statement you made about God. Look at your knees, they were congested and reddish, I think you just knelt and prayed a moment ago. If you were kneeling on a clean, icy, hard granite floor, no matter how pious you are, your knees were pressed on the slate by nearly two-thirds of your weight without soft a cushioning. The bones pressed on the thin layers of muscle skin and nerves, and your knees continued to pulse nerves, telling your brain: pain! It hurts! Yes! Your knee is completely honest, it hurts, and it will tell you honestly: it hurts! It will honestly remind you that it is not good for the body to be in such a position on such a hard floor, and the longer it is, the worse it is. Your knee is only a part of your body, but it is also a very important part. Although you think that "God is everything for you, religion is all of your life", so you often pray earnestly, but your knees don’t agree with you that it just has to succumb to your coercive command. What's worse is that your knees are too honest.  Neither does it agree with that God is everything about it, nor does it agree that religion is everything about it. However, your knee (or your body) does not betray you. It is your paranoid thought that betrayed you and betrayed the rationality and wisdom that you should have. You should remember; you are just you! God is God, and religion is religion. God and religion may be related to you. However, you can have nothing to do with them. Even if they are related to you, they will not be everything to you and they are not the whole of your life.

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	你、神、宗教 作者:張開基 翻譯者:某君 你曾經跟我說過： 「自從你信奉了某種宗教，終於發現原來自己的生命是神早就安排好的，你很後悔之前昏昏噩噩的：白白浪費了許多寶貴的生命，直到現在才認識了神，所以，神就是你的一切，宗教就是你生命的全部．」 嗯！在你說的這件事裡；有三個要點：你，神，宗教。 這三個要點原本各自獨立，互不相干，其中可以確定的是你、宗教是確實存在的，至於「神」，是因為你信奉了這個宗教，這個宗教告訴你這個「神」的存在，然後你可能是當下就相信「神」的存在；也或者你認為自己已經經過縝密思索之後終於相信「神」的存在。 這個宗教說這個「神」的存在以及你相信這個「神」確實存在；跟「這個神是否真實存在」是完全不同的。 你是你！ 神是神！ 宗教是宗教！所以！ 你不是神，神也不是你； 你不是宗教，宗教也不是你！也所以； 神不會是你的一切，宗教也不會是你生命的全部，神只是你「以為」那一切中的一點點，宗教也只是你生命中的一小部分而已。 即使我相信你所說的都是誠實的，但是你的身體中就有比你「這個想法，這個說法」更誠實的； 我看到你雙腿膝蓋是充血而泛紅的；或許你不久前才跪地祈禱過？ 我想； 如果你是跪倒在光潔、冰冷、堅硬的花崗石地板上祈禱，不論你有多虔誠，你的膝蓋被將近三分之二的體重緊壓在沒有彈性緩衝，也沒有商量空間的堅硬石板上，骨頭壓迫著那層薄薄的肌肉皮膚和神經，你的膝蓋會持續的發出神經脈衝，告訴你的大腦：痛！很痛！ 是的！你的膝蓋是完全誠實的，它會痛，它也會誠實的告訴你：它會痛！它會誠實的提醒你：在這麼堅硬的地板上以這樣的姿勢跪著對身體是不好的，而且跪的時間越長越不好。 你的膝蓋只是你身體的一部分，卻也是很重要的一部分，雖然你認為「神是你的一切，宗教是你生命的全部」，所以你經常跪地虔誠的祈禱，但是，你的膝蓋卻不同意你的認為，它只是不得不屈從你的強制動作，很糟的是；你的膝蓋太誠實了，你的膝蓋不同意「神是它的一切」，也不同意「宗教是它的全部」。 不過，你的膝蓋（或你的身體）並沒有背判你，是你偏執的想法背叛了你，背叛了你原本應有的理性和智慧。 你該當記得；你只是你！ 神是神，宗教是宗教，神和宗教或許可以和你有關，也可以和你完全無關，但是即使和你有關也不會成為你的一切或成為你生命的全部。