The perception of our flesh

It is our physical body that allows us to perceive everything. It can be said that our physical body is an extremely sophisticated perception machine, and we use it to perceive the color, shape, sound, smell, and sense of things, and it is not only a tool for us to perceive things, but also the essence of our interaction with the object of perception. Therefore, our physical body is neither ordinary matter nor pure spiritual consciousness, and the ethical meaning of its existence is unspecified; we do not even know what the existence of the physical body means.

It is precise because of the special nature of the physical body that the ambiguity and confusion of human existence arise. We are both confused and ambivalent about what to do with our physical bodies, which directly leads to a major divergence in the meaning of life and human activity. This great confusion is the confusion about the physical body, which we have spent thousands of years and endless wisdom inquiring about, and yet, we remain ignorant and unresolved. We do not know what we are. "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?" What blocks our eyes is undoubtedly this physical body. Our controversy over the existence of the flesh has been protracted and never concluded.

What is the role of the flesh? Or what is the flesh to us? Why do such ethical questions continue to haunt us to this day? On the one hand, we have conducted extremely careful and detailed scientific research on the flesh, dissecting or dismantling the human body to its very core, but no avail. Science has not helped us in any way to understand what the human body is, because what we need to understand is not the physical structure and functioning of the body, but what we urgently need to understand is the ethical meaning of the body, that is, what is our ethical relationship with it. This determines what we should do with our flesh, this determines what kind of life we should use the flesh to run. The ethical meaning of the flesh must be clear, otherwise, we will not know what is the purpose of existence. What is the purpose and meaning of existence?

What is the flesh? This age-old dilemma is always pressing us to answer. Materialism sees the existence of the flesh as the purpose of existence, and the existence of the flesh as our ultimate existence. It is this notion that leads people to an ethical dilemma, where all our behavioral activities, including spiritual activities, are for the sake of physical existence. However, it is too far-fetched to accept physical existence as the end of man and survival as the purpose and meaning of human existence. It is a denial of human existence, a low and illogical understanding that we have spent thousands of years without accepting. We never thought that the flesh was our true and ultimate existence, that the form of the flesh and its changes did not describe us at all, so how could we pay the price of a lifetime of suffering for a stinking skin that would be discarded? So, people looked for another explanation, and religion completed another explanation of the human flesh.

The flesh was given another meaning in each religion: the flesh was a borrowed "phase", a skin of the soul, and not only was the flesh not the final existence, but the flesh became the existence to be discarded. Both the doctrine of reincarnation and the doctrine of cultivation and emergence are opposed to the existence of the physical body, and all of them invariably try to change the meaning of the existence of the physical body, placing the real existence outside the physical body, or after the death and abandonment of the physical body. These two opposed conceptions of the flesh in human beings add to the confusion, making our ethical relationship with the flesh more ambiguous and people more unsure of what to do with their corporeal selves.

What is the flesh to us? It took thousands of years for perceptual to solve this age-old riddle in one fell swoop. The flesh is not our ultimate being, not our purpose, and not our tool to achieve other purposes. The flesh is our perception, the terminal display of our perception. The flesh is the existence of perception, or rather, the flesh is for the existence of perception. The flesh is the special device of perception proper; the flesh is the fusion of matter and consciousness that cannot be separated; the flesh is the existence of matter embodied as consciousness, and the existence of consciousness is embodied as matter. The flesh is the substance with a consciousness direction, and this consciousness direction is the perceptual movement, and the flesh is the intersection of the perceptual movement, the beginning and the end of the perception. The flesh is the place where perception occurs and the destination of perception. We cannot perceive without the flesh, and we certainly cannot perceive without the flesh. The flesh is the place of perception, the container of perception, the boundary of perception, and the center of the movement of perception.

It is wrong to explain the existence of the flesh in any sense; material logic cannot explain the ethical existence of the flesh, and the religious method of renouncing the flesh is even more absurd. We suffer from the flesh and are trapped in it precisely because we misunderstand its existence, that is, we misuse our flesh. It is absurd to consider the flesh as the purpose of existence and to give up the existence of the flesh. The flesh is the perception of our being and our perceiving being; the flesh cannot be divorced from the perception; the purpose of the existence of the flesh is the perception. We need the existence of the flesh to gain perception, the existence of the flesh serves perception and treating the flesh as a perceiving body solves this ethical dilemma once and for all.

Without explaining the existence of the flesh by the movement of perception, the materialistic and teleological meanings of the flesh will never be solved, and the irrational existence of the flesh will be our eternal sorrow.