Chapter 582: 581 [Monk]

"Brother Taixu, farewell!"

"Brother Zhou, goodbye!"

Zhou Hexuan stayed in Nanputuo Temple for three full days, because he liked chatting with Master Taixu very much. Of course, during the period, he also participated in the Buddha Bathing Festival in the monastery, and gave a patriotic speech to the monks of the Buddhist Academy.

The theories of Great Monk Taixu are very interesting and he has unique insights into Buddhism. He resolutely opposes the "theory of reincarnation and liberation", and believes that everyone can become a Buddha in person as long as he breaks out of the cage.

This is typical "Zen" thinking, but it is more than that. Because he also called on the monks to be active in the world, self-reliant, hardworking, and even combined patriotism with Buddhist practice, calling on the monks to work hard to build a pure land on earth.

Zhou Hexuan was most interested in Monk Taixu's viewpoint on history. He regards the entire history of mankind as a "history of freedom and anti-freedom", and created an atypical Buddhist work "History of Freedom".

It was the first time Zhou Hexuan knew that someone used Buddhist viewpoints to explain historical development.

When leaving Nanputuo Temple, Zhou Hexuan asked Monk Taixu for two copies of "Views on Freedom of History" as a way to relieve boredom during the trip.

on board.

Yu Peichen was so angry that he almost threw the book into the sea, and said angrily, "Monk, that's a monk!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Zhou Hexuan couldn't help laughing: "Master Taixu's point of view is very interesting."

Yu Peichen retorted: "Where is it interesting? It is simply an unwarranted smear of communism!"

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. It might not be an interesting perspective to explain communism from a Buddhist point of view."

Yu Peichen was so angry that she refused to speak anymore, because "Views on Freedom of History" stimulated her too much.

Zhou Hexuan found it particularly interesting to read. He completely read Master Taixu's "Views on Freedom of History" as a historical work, not a serious Buddhist work.

The whole book is divided into five parts. The first part discusses the history of human freedom and anti-freedom. The second part expounds the principles of ancient autocracy. The third part expounds the modern freedom movement. The five parts explore world education, social economy, and international politics under the liberal historical view.

It is hard for you to imagine that this book was written by a monk.

It is normal to mention Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Confucius in the book, but he also mentions Jesus, the Garden of Eden, the Stone Age, primitive civilization, domestication and breeding, early temples, Lydia (the ancient country in the Middle East), Sumada (Mesopotamia) Subplain early peoples), Wales (author of "Compendium of World History"), Marx, Egypt, India, Mongolia...

Regardless of whether his ideas are correct or not, only based on these contents, we can know that Monk Taixu is a great scholar who is proficient in world history.

What made Yu Peichen angry was the discussion of communism in this book. The title of that chapter was "Materialist Communist Imperialism Against Freedom". There are two previous chapters, "The Anti-Liberty of Solipsistic Imperialism" and "The Anti-Freedom of Solips Self-interested Imperialism".

In these three chapters, Master Taixu sprayed all the major powers in the world, and called the Soviet Union's regime also imperialism.

Let’s randomly extract a few passages about communism——

"Socialism, which emerged after the development of modern materialism and science, is roughly three schools: those with a national government, there are Marxist communism and Guilt-trade-socialism; those without a national government, there is anarchy Communism──Anarchism; the slogan of the Anarchist Party is: Our party has no motherland, the earth is the motherland; our party has no God, freedom is God; there is no god, no country, no government, no private property, but freedom in It's just the earth."

"Therefore, Kilt and Anarch are both free and not materialistic. Marxist communism is not the case. It advocates a war between the labor class and the bourgeoisie with a materialist view of history, and the laborer seizes the national government and monopolizes power in order to realize communism. The society of the system is also. So there are other reasons, and the materialist communist imperialism of Red Russia appeared at the right time."

Based on the above content alone, we know that Monk Taixu also has a lot of research on communism theory, at least he can distinguish the many factions of communism.

He also caught the Soviet Union in the dark, believing that the means of production and labor force are material, and the theory of communism is also materialistic. However, when placed in a country, it quickly becomes a spiritual weapon and is dominated by the leaders of the Soviet Union’s political parties. Use, just like the Christian church dominates the beliefs of the congregation. Although the Soviet people overthrew the rule of Tsarist Russia, they took another path of unfreedom.

As a believer in communism, Yu Peichen was certainly angry when he read these contents.

Of course, Monk Taixu not only blackmailed the Soviet Union, he also sprayed all the powers of the world. Perhaps because he was afraid of being banned, Monk Taixu boasted about the Three People's Principles, but he also pointed out that the Three People's Principles are not complete and need to continue to work hard.

After Zhou Hexuan finished reading this "Views on Freedom of History", his biggest impression is that Monk Taixu is a utopian socialist... Well, to be precise, he is a utopian Buddhist. He wants to create a utopian Buddhist kingdom, that is, a pure land on earth!

In this Buddhist country, it is not necessary to force everyone to believe in Buddhism, or even not to believe in Buddhism, but to make everyone free and happy, and everyone can have enough food and clothing without being oppressed.

Well, similar to the ultimate ideal of communism.

If placed in the ancient society hundreds of years ago, Master Taixu might have become a character like Zhang Jiao. He even put forward his own educational, economic and political propositions-although these propositions seem naive, there are some contents that are not lacking highlights.

Seeing Zhou Hexuan laughing, Yu Peichen asked worriedly: "Does Mr. Zhou agree with that demon monk's theory?"

"Of course it is impossible to agree, I just think his ideas are very interesting," Zhou Hexuan said, "From the perspective of religion, to explain the entire history of mankind and the political situation of the world, this is something I have never encountered before, and some views have inspired me a lot .”

Yu Peichen said: "But many of his views are nonsense!"

Zhou Hexuan nodded and said: "It's really nonsense. Your understanding of him is correct. From a certain point of view, he is a 'demon monk'. If he were placed in a feudal society, he might become another Zhang Jiao. But his thinking is very healthy. It is bright from beginning to end, and it is never possible to become a cult leader. How should I put it, this person combines Zen, Pure Land Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, utopian socialism, liberalism, pacifism, materialism, and communism. Together, and to a certain extent, it can be justified, which is very commendable."

"The more this is the more dangerous, it can confuse people's hearts too much," Yu Peichen panicked, "The first few chapters of his book actually made me think so deeply, and I didn't wake up until he slandered communism. "

Zhou Hexuan corrected: "He did not slander communism, he attacked the Soviet regime."

Yu Peichen said, "It's all the same."

Zhou Hexuan shrugged, too lazy to refute.