智慧人生篇章 第30期:靈魂—我們心中的神仙

It's hard enough to describe the synergy betweenthe idea of a soul and the material world. Talk ofeternity is even more difficult. How does a persongain the whole world and lose his soul? And how doesa soul die?Is the soul the phantom me, which floatsoff to heaven or is it inextricably who we always are?These are huge questions. It's so much easier tolimit soul to a category of music.But oddly I'm withDa Vinci in one respect. The soul is indeed anintricate part of God's grand design in ourhumanity. It's what it means to be made in God'simage and likeness. But the soul, which some believe to be stronger than death itself, is neverimmune from the limitations, myths and meanings in our physical world.It can pollutebehaviour or elevate us to better ways of being human.Meshed in a coil of intuitions, instincts,emotions and values by which we live, the soul lives in the material world but should never bedefined by it. When it does it dies.

要具體描述靈魂和物質(zhì)世界的聯(lián)系真的很困難，更別提什么永生來世了。一個(gè)人怎么會(huì)贏得全世界卻喪失了靈魂?靈魂怎么會(huì)消亡?靈魂是我的幻影會(huì)飛升天堂，或者靈魂其實(shí)就是我們本身?這些都是大問題。靈魂的問題要是能像靈魂樂那樣容易歸類就好了。奇怪的是，在某一方面，我同意達(dá)芬奇的說法。靈魂是上帝造人時(shí)在人性中設(shè)計(jì)的一個(gè)很錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的部分。這是參照上帝本身和他的想象產(chǎn)生的。有人相信靈魂比死亡更強(qiáng)大，但靈魂也不能對現(xiàn)實(shí)世界中的各種局限、神話和意圖完全免疫。靈魂能影響行為，或者讓我們成為更好的人。本能、直覺、感情和價(jià)值觀是我們生活的基礎(chǔ)，靈魂存于物質(zhì)世界但不應(yīng)該為物質(zhì)世界所左右，否則必然消亡。