Today, Have You Undressed?
2006/4/6 19:06:56
The original meaning of "undress" (tuo) is bones stripped of flesh. Therefore, from the very start, "undressing" has been about strength. Just as bones prop up a person, "undressing" has propped up history. "Undressing" is the sole driving force of historical progress. Without undressing, everything is nonsense.
From the perspective of life's history, life is inherently naked. You come into this world naked, and you leave it naked. Everything returns to undressing. In the existential sense, everything that is not undressing can only be life's hypocrisy.
From the perspective of social history, "undressing" represents inheritance and development. "Undressing" extends to the meaning of tracing and copying, and it further implies breaking away. Continuously tracing yet continuously breaking away — that is true undressing. And society achieves its development through this continuous undressing. Without undressing, society would be dead silence.
From the perspective of spiritual history, "undressing" is the direct revelation of one's original face. Vividly alive — who is there to bind you? What truly needs undressing is not clothes in the vulgar sense. From birth, every person wears dozens to over a hundred kilograms of rotting flesh as clothing. Until this clothing is undressed, the spirit is merely various forms of neurosis.
People who don't undress are merely walking corpses. A society that doesn't undress will sink in an epidemic of hypocrisy. And a spirit that doesn't undress — everything becomes meaningless. Historical progress is ultimately about undressing. Without undressing, history is no history, society is no society, spirit is no spirit, life is no life, and people are of course no longer people.
Today, have you undressed?
Replies
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/4/7 17:19:27
The one above is an impostor.
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/4/7 15:37:01
I'll undress first.