Nine Commentaries

Part 4b

In Part 4a, we heard that Chinese people value greatly the “Tao” or the Way. In ancient China people believed in complying with, harmonizing and co-existing with heaven. The Dao de Jing states, “Man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven follows what is natural.” By respecting heaven and earth mankind enjoys a harmonious life. According to Chinese thought astronomy, geography, medicine, literature and social structures all follow this understanding.

But the Chinese Communist Party promotes “humans over Nature” and a “philosophy of struggle” in defiance of Heaven, the Earth and Nature. Mao Zedong said, “battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy.”

Part 4b: Turning moral values on it’s head, the CCP aims to demolish the concepts of good and evil. Instead of reward coming from ones labor and efforts, the CCP rule of law encouraged idlers to rob private property. Instead of valuing knowledge and respecting teachers, students would humiliate and beat their teachers. Instead of respecting elders and family members, it has been common under the CCP rule for parents and children to report on one another husbands and wives to expose each other and familial relations renounced.