West and East
To U.S.A.and All Other Nations
Professor Chang Shang-Te,
at Dharma Academy,
November 26, 2010.
The West is the world of dichotomy between God and Hell, while the East is the one with an ideal that everyone can become a Saint and even a Buddha.
In the West, Sigmund Freud stressed in his book 'Sexuality and the Psychology' that twenty to thirty percents of human beings are abnormal, so Law and Morality should be applied to a society.
Also, in the West, Charles Darwin proposed his theory: ‘natural selection, survival of the fittest, only the fittest prevails’. On the other hand, the Eastern value is that all help me and I help all the others.
Anyway, what is it? ? ?
West and East, how to communicate with each other?
Since the beginning of human history, you hit and kill me, I hit and kill you. Human beings have fought each other for thousands of years, but now it is even worse. Current nuclear weapons can destroy the whole earth several times, and all will die. All of these are not yet enough.
Oh! So and so! Such and such!
Oh! So and so! Such and such!
東方與西方
致美國與各國
張尚德於達摩書院
二０一０年十一月二十六日
西方是二分法上帝與地獄的世界；東方是人人可成聖成佛的理想。
西方有弗洛依德的《性心理學》，他強調有百分之二十到三十的人，不是東西，所以要法律與道德；
西方有達爾文的物競天擇、優勝劣敗、適者生存；東方講人人為我，我為人人…。
說來說去，那究竟是什麼呢？？？
東西方彼此又如何說下去呢？
自有人類以來，你打我，我打你，打了幾千年，現在更在打。核子武器可毀滅地球好幾次，大家必同歸於盡，還不夠也。
啊！原來如此！