Some people may ask, what's the use of a high spiritual level? Let's look at a short story first, which takes place in a supermarket chain. The protagonist is a scale in the vegetable area. This scale is notoriously stingy. For example, Aunt Zhang bought two apples, four oranges, three bananas, two sweet potatoes, two shallots, and some ginger and garlic. Aunt Zhang said that she was close to the supermarket, so she bought everything while eating, and nothing was so nutritious. Aunt selected fruits and vegetables and came to the weighing table with a shopping basket. Look how stingy the scale is. She weighed the fruits and vegetables that Aunt Zhang bought evenly and put them in the empty basket she prepared instead of the bag with the price tag. When all the fruits and vegetables were weighed, she found a bag of suitable size, put all the fruits and vegetables together, sealed them and put a row of price labels on them. ...
Everyone has never seen such a package, right? How can there be such a stingy scale? In fact, more than one person has the idea of Aunt Zhang. But when we hear the weigher explain to customers who don't understand, we will find that she is not stingy: "Now everyone is complaining about the bad environment and serious pollution, but why is it serious?" We made it ourselves. If a small amount of fruits and vegetables are packaged separately according to their types, then these bags are usually torn up and thrown away after customers take them home, which is equivalent to creating a lot of garbage. The supermarket is not mine. Using more or less bags won't affect my salary, but if each of us makes something better, the world we live in will be better. "
Before, some customers "cursed" her because of the packaging of this scale, but in fact, more and more people understand and actively support her. When the manager of the supermarket knew what she had done, he not only didn't blame her for "provoking" customers' dissatisfaction, but also encouraged others to do the same.
Now, more people go shopping in that supermarket. Everyone thinks it is a supermarket with a conscience, because even its weighers will advise customers to use less plastic bags. Customers who go shopping in this supermarket are usually residents nearby. Most people have quietly formed a kind of * * * knowledge, that is, the use of self-contained shopping bags, free plastic bags in the commodity area and plastic bags charged at the checkout counter has been greatly reduced. It all started with the "super stingy" scale.
After knowing this, you will ask, what is the use of a high spiritual level? Mr. Yangming added the word "knowledge" before "conscience", telling us that conscience should not stay at the stage of knowing, but should do it.
When a person has a conscience, his selfish desires will become smaller and smaller, and the "conscience" in his heart will naturally emerge. There is a concept of pushing oneself and others, that is, gradually pushing outward from the subject of the individual until the universe is regarded as a whole, and the individual becomes a person who is "integrated with the universe". If we can open this concept, we will turn more "conscience" into "conscience".
It can be said that Mr. Yang Ming is both a thinker and an activist. The distance between "conscience" and "conscience" is to do it. This kind of enlightenment is not only to accept the present world, but also to change the world and live together in a better future.