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Religious consciousness of Chinese

Basis of the material world, its very existence since ancient times was considered a dualism (ambivalence), ie, the existence in the universe began to opposite (yin and yang). According kosmogonicheskim submissions before that there was a non-raschlenennoe state of being (in daosov called «Taiji»), from which emerged through the initial vibration opposites (yin and yang), in turn, created the entire material world.
In addition, it is interesting to note, as the religious consciousness of the Chinese perceived bogoborchestvo. In the ideological system of the Chinese bogoborchestva the act itself is not remarkable, and not condemned as such for one simple reason: no one was ordered to become the path of God. At the forefront is not the intention of «equal to God», and the adequacy of translating that intent. If «challenger» been able to show their divine nature, he became a god on the right, deservedly credited in the pantheon, he built kumirni he worshiped, he requested assistance and protection (such as for example, all the gods – patrons crafts). But if it does not match their actual claims act, he, accordingly, declared impostors be exposed. Characteristically, the motive samozvanstva – one of the core of Chinese mythology (for example, Chiyu, sham deity and posing for Yan Di, foxes, before the people then in the guise of immortals daosov, the various deities and so on.). More broadly, the motive samozvanstva translates into subjects related to oborotnichestvom. Of course, back myths negotiable go archaic beliefs totemisticheskogo nature. However, the transformation of the meaning of these myths that have taken place under the influence of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, went in that direction: people should see the external manifestations of the essence of things, and, accordingly, to distinguish between the divine (true) of forgery under the divine (ie, false, of which lies samozvanstvo). It is no coincidence in this kind of stories are denouncer oborotney «men, penetrated deeply into the substance of things», ie the people, far enough advanced on the path of spiritual self-improvement.
In the western version bogoborchestva (it is more true in conjunction monotheistic Judaism, Christianity, Islam) is a very different picture. Monotheism requires the original usurpation of divine status, and thus monopolize the religious items. In such circumstances, any bogoborcheskaya idea can not be evaluated in terms of its truth or falsity, as initially fell under the definition of «heresy» as something, infringing upon the divine monopoly. Thus, the crime is very intent «become god» (for example, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel). The history of monotheistic religions is a continuous series of religious wars (the so-called infidels). In a similar situation in China obrazovyvalas just another school of a religious direction.

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