Chapter 12: The place that shouldn't be shown to others — even God cannot let him see it

The place that shouldn't be shown to others — even God cannot let him see it.

88 chapters,

The place that shouldn't be shown to others — even God cannot let him see it.

Liu Guozong

The Bible records: humanity's ancestor Xiawa was tempted by the snake, secretly ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, and came to know beauty and ugliness, good and evil, shame. Xiawa woke and said, "How can I go naked before a man, swaying and twisting? It's so shameful and conspicuous!" What's the difference between being naked and a sow? Xiawa's husband Yadang also thought, "Look, I'm a big man wearing nothing but a single rag — what's the difference from a beast?" If everyone saw me, how would they point at me? From now on, if we have children and grandchildren, even they'd be ashamed to have such an ancestor. So they used fig leaves from the Garden of Eden to make aprons for themselves, to cover the parts that shouldn't be seen by others.

Having the "skirt" to cover that "secret spring light", they ought to have gone out openly to work. But Xiawa and Yadang were still uneasy, still afraid that "that place" wasn't covered tightly enough, wasn't solid. When they knew God was coming, "they hid among the trees in the garden, avoiding the face of Yahweh God."

"I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid." Even Yadang knows being naked is bad, fears meeting God, even "I hear your voice and I am afraid." As for Xiawa, there's no need to say more.

This is humanity's first knowledge of shame. Knowing shame is what makes a person. Those who lack shame cannot be considered truly human. Recently, some merchants, in order to attract "God (customers)", gather "popularity", spend money to have pretty girls and guys use cloths smaller than a fig leaf to cover "that place", and artificially call it "beauty". Such so-called "beauty" only draws bored customers tiptoeing like ducks stretching their necks to act silly; the true "God" would "see nothing, hear nothing, feel disgust". Because God knows those who strip everything, not even wearing a fig leaf, lacking shame, are not human. Not human, there is no beauty to speak of.

Because beauty is true for humans. Recall an aesthetician said: "For dogs, dogs seem handsome; for cows, cows are so; for donkeys, donkeys are so; even for pigs, pigs are likewise." God likes to create beauty; that vulgar, lowly thing — stripping clothes, wiggling**, stretching legs, shaking head, swaying waist — is what "dogs, cows, donkeys, even pigs" do. It's something humans find shameful and contemptible.

Although humans are God's "masterpiece", God knows every part of His own "masterpiece" better than anyone — "even the hairs on your head are counted". Yet this life contains human dignity. If we expose everything under the bright sky, can we still be called human?

Marx once made such a limitation on human extension: able to labor, able to manufacture production tools. We say "able to labor, able to manufacture production tools", yet that does not count as a true human; that is an incomplete person, a flawed one; Old Marx, old man, is his view of human extension too narrow? We say only "able to labor, able to manufacture production tools, know good and evil, distinguish beauty and ugliness" can one be considered human. Whether you are Western or Eastern, Eastern, ancient or modern.

Those who expose everything before people, God does not like. Know this: some places are such that even God cannot let him see them.

89 chapters,

Are you a "good person" or an "evil ghost"?

Liu Guozong

Kongzi once told his disciples: "God and ghosts are opposites; God advises people to do good; ghosts lure people to do evil." Although in the real world people cannot see the forms of gods and ghosts, nor hear their voices, yet "gods" and "ghosts" truly exist, and are beside you, sometimes even burrowing into your heart, influencing your words and deeds. Therefore, you are either a child of God or a descendant of ghosts. As long as you live, you cannot be "neither human nor ghost".

How then can we tell who is a child of God and who is a descendant of ghosts? The standard is: "good" and "evil". Those who do good to people are God's children; those who do evil everywhere are ghosts' descendants.

Recently media reported: in a certain place, a university student manager, walking down the street, saw the city management team beating people. This manager, seeing injustice, used his phone to film the city management's bullying and oppression of the streets; as a result, the city management officers discovered him, this lawless bunch of city management officers beat to death the manager who had filmed their wrongdoing.

City management refers to those who manage towns and cities. Naturally, only "good people" can bear this heavy responsibility of managing a city; how could such a "good person" beat good people to death? Only an "evil ghost" could do something contrary to law, reason, and emotion.

The reasons a person becomes a ghost are many: for money, for fame, also for power and profit (or said "fame and profit"); also due to being tempted by devils (meaning bad people), some turn into ghosts. City management is a good thing: "manage the city well", this is everyone's shared wish. But to manage a city well, you must first manage yourself. "If you are not upright, how can you correct others?" In the city you manage, let people see you "love you, respect you, miss you; city management is people, a group of good people"; you cannot let people in the city you manage see you "avoid you, fear you, hate you, scold you; city management is ghosts, aiding evil ghosts".

9o chapters,

Because "money can make everything go smoothly"

Liu Guozong

Winter is approaching, the west wind is tight. Now is the time when all trees are withered; the former red splendor has long turned to mud; the former green lushness has withered to white paper. Moreover, the west wind is still dancing. Flowers have grown weary of blooming, leaves weary of being green. The red has rotted, the green is rotting. Where has the spring's splendor gone? Where has summer's sweetness gone? Gone, gone — everything has gone, everything is passing. Everything is being renewed, everything is preparing to be renewed. West wind —

You this "unrestrained spirit",

heartless angel,

You hey, you run everywhere;

Seeking devourable decay.

Those wildly flying clouds,

Those cold rains,

Those ice and snow,

Are you shooting arrows,

Swords drawn from sheath!

Look, before you,

Those withered branches, those fallen leaves,

Some turn pale with fright, trembling with fear;

Some sink into ditches, never daring to turn over again.

The west wind keeps blowing nonstop —

Blowing south, then turning north,

Constantly spinning, moreover returning to its original place.

West wind, what do you want to bring me?

Is it something that exists, or something already done?

Is it something the ears haven't heard? Or something the eyes haven't seen?

This world needs neither what already exists nor what has already been done.

What is already popular, although it can evoke nostalgia,

but those who constantly indulge in nostalgia are like the withered branches and fallen leaves beneath the west wind.

This world needs "renew daily, renew again, renew anew."

God said: "Setting up banquets is for joy and laughter."

Wine can make people happy, money can make all things satisfy the heart.

Yes, no matter how you say it, for the banquet and joy of relatives and friends,

to have wine on the table; to have all things satisfy the heart.

We still ought to be good people and do things well.

Earn money honestly with one's own sweat,

Because money can make everything go smoothly!