感性是我們與生俱來的生存能力，包括直覺和感受，它讓我們產生各種情緒，驅動我們去行動。理性是我們透過學習和實踐發展出來的。它讓我們思考和分析事物，並更好地生存。感性的出現先於理性，意味著我們從小就習慣以情感應對世界。然而，情感卻是不穩定和不可靠的。對情感的倚賴不僅會讓我們面臨更多新的危險，也會阻礙我們繼續發展理性，以及發現事物的真相。
習慣所致，情感往往在關鍵時刻打敗理智，使我們做出不理性的決定。或者，我們的理智刻意壓抑或隱藏情感，與其發生衝突。這些情況加劇內心的動蕩，不僅造成生命力的損耗，也使我們無法做出明智的決定。我們很可能在這種混亂中度過青少年，甚至中年，經常受情緒影響而違背自己的真正利益。只有真正意識到這種情況，我們才會主動尋求解決辦法，否則它可能困擾一生。
實際上，理智已經滲透到我們生活的各方面。除了工作，在面對親情、友情或愛情的時候，缺乏理智會讓我們無法建立和諧的關係。同時，我們也發現，無論情感帶來多麼豐富的體驗，它都不如理智重要，因為理智能為生命提供最大的保障。而且，即使質疑這個觀點，我們仍然必須運用理智。因此，我們應該基於理智來行動，並尊重情感。這意味著我們的所有決定都應該考慮生命的需要。有了這種意識，我們就能明白發展智慧的方向，學會將情感與理智相結合，從而達到最佳的生活狀態。
在生活中，我們需要讓感性自然和自由地運作。尤其是親密關係的互動，我們應該將自己的感受，通過文字、語言或肢體動作毫無顧慮地傳達給對方，讓理智將其轉化為感悟。我們還需積極調動情感，感受別人的存在和需求，並理智地為彼此的幸福作出努力。以豐富而柔和的情感陪伴別人，並以穩定而可靠的理智輔助別人，我們才能建立相愛的關係。
另一方面，在解決問題的時候，我們需要從感受出發，充份發揮理性的功能。例如解決利益衝突，我們應該思考衝突的根源、分析其後果，並推斷其發生的原因。這樣，我們的情感就能將思考結果牢牢地印在大腦中，讓以後能夠快速檢索。除了理性地行事，我們也應該在失敗時不氣餒，成功時不驕傲，保持平穩正向的心態。而在團隊合作中，以情感建立良好的關係，以合理的制度建立秩序，才能體現我們的理性力量。安排好情感和理智的出現次序，是我們理性的任務。當情感順利運作，與理智配合得天衣無縫，就是我們理性的傑作。
從理性的角度去想像，情感之水承載著理智之舟，讓我們從個人生活的小溪，穿過人際關係的江河，進入世界大事的海洋中，去探索大自然的奧祕。我們也可以從情感的角度去想像。如果缺乏情感的潤滑劑，我們的理性機器也會很快磨損，讓理智變得薄弱和遲鈍。
情感帶來的訊息，能啟發我們的理智。我們最深刻的感受，來自對生命價值的發現，而這種發現只能從最親密的情感關係中得到。我們發現生命的價值在於連結，將事物變得更有秩序，從而讓生命生生不息。這反映情感滋養著理智，讓我們感受永恆而內心充滿喜悅。可見，唯有情感與理智相結合，我們才能擁有一顆真誠的心，為真正的自己而活，從而看到世間的真善美。
情感與理智相結合，意味著我們始終讓理智帶領著情感，不壓抑也不放縱，不依賴也不疏離。因此，我們身心一致，情緒平靜，形成一個獨立而健康的個體。優先啟動理性，是智慧生命的最佳行動方式。讓感性跟隨理性，我們就能從觀察中為長遠利益做決定。讓感性支持理性，我們就可以自由地體驗並保護生命，同時創造一個新世界。
也只有在情感與理智相結合的狀態中，我們的創造力才能充份發揮。美好的世界，來自我們對真相的感受，而豐富的世界，則來自我們無邊的智慧。因此，當情感與理智和諧融合，我們不僅擁有一個完美的自己，同時也擁有一個完美的世界。
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Combination of emotion and reason
Sensibility is our innate ability to survive, including intuition and feelings. It causes us to have various emotions and drives us to act. Reason is what we develop through study and practice. It makes us think and analyze things and survive better. The emergence of sensibility precedes rationality, which means that we have been accustomed to responding to the world with emotion since childhood. However, emotion is unstable and unreliable. Reliance on emotion not only exposes us to more new dangers, but also prevents us from continuing to develop rationality and discover the truth of things.
Due to habit, emotion often defeats reason at critical moments, causing us to make irrational decisions. Or our reason deliberately suppresses or hides our emotion and conflicts with it. These situations exacerbate our inner turmoil, which not only causes a drain on our vitality, but also hinders the ability to make wise decisions. We are likely to spend our teenage years and even middle age in this kind of chaos, often being swayed by our emotions against our true interests. Only when we are truly aware of this situation can we proactively seek solutions, otherwise it may plague us throughout our lives.
In fact, reason has penetrated into every aspect of our lives. In addition to work, when facing family, friendship or love, lack of reason will prevent us from establishing harmonious relationships. At the same time, we also find that no matter how rich the experience emotion brings, it is not as important as reason, because reason can provide the greatest protection for life. And, even if we question this view, we must still use reason. Therefore, we should act based on reason and respect emotions. This means that all of our decisions should take into account the needs of life. With this awareness, we can understand the direction of developing wisdom and learn to combine emotion with reason to achieve the best life state.
In life we need to allow our sensibility to operate naturally and freely. Especially in the interaction of intimate relationships, we should convey our feelings to the other party without any worries through words, language or body movements, let reason transform them into insights. We also need to actively mobilize our emotion, to feel the existence and needs of others, and make rational efforts for each other's happiness. By accompanying others with rich and gentle emotion, and assisting others with stable and reliable reason, we can establish the relationships that loving each other.
On the other hand, when solving problems, we need to start from feelings and give full play to the role of rationality. For example, to resolve a conflict of interest, we should think about the root cause of the conflict, analyze its consequences, and deduce the reasons for its occurrence. In this way, our emotion can firmly imprint the results of our thinking in the brain so that they can be quickly retrieved later. In addition to acting rationally, we should also not be discouraged when we fail, not be proud when we succeed, and maintain a stable and positive attitude. In teamwork, establishing good relationships with emotion and establishing order with reasonable systems can reflect our rational power. It is our rational task to arrange the order in which emotion and reason appear. When emotion operates smoothly and cooperates seamlessly with reason, it is the masterpiece of our rationality.
On the stage of life, arranging the order of appearance of emotion and reason so that the two work together seamlessly is the masterpiece of our rationality. If we lack rationality, we worry about losing control of ourselves. If we are afraid of our own sensibility, we will try to suppress it and be afraid to reveal our true feelings. But in this way we will not only become rigid, but also generate more negative emotions, which will endanger the body and mind. Therefore, it is also the task of our rational power to let emotion play their best role.
Imagine from a rational perspective that the emotional water carries the boat of reason, allowing us to explore the mysteries of nature from the stream of personal life, through the river of interpersonal relationships, and into the ocean of world events. We can also imagine it from an emotional perspective. Without the lubricant of emotion, our rational machinery will also quickly wear out, leaving reason weak and dull.
The messages brought by emotions can enlighten our reason. Our deepest feelings come from the discovery of the value of life, and this discovery can only come from the most intimate emotional relationships. We find that the value of life lies in connection, making things more orderly, so that life can continue. This reflects that emotion nourishes reason, allowing us to experience eternity and fill our hearts with joy. It can be seen that only by combining emotion and reason can we have a genuine heart, live for our true self, and thus see the truth, goodness and beauty in the world.
The combination of emotion and reason means that we always let reason lead our emotions, neither suppressing nor overindulging, neither relying on nor alienating. Therefore, our body and mind are unified, our emotions are calm, and we form an independent and healthy individual. Prioritizing rationality is the best way for intelligent life to act. Let emotion follow reason, and we can make decisions for the long-term benefit from observation. By allowing emotion to support reason, we can freely experience and protect life while creating a new world.
Only in a state where emotion and reason are combined can our creativity be fully unleashed. A beautiful world comes from our feelings about the truth, and a rich world comes from our boundless wisdom. Therefore, when emotion and reason are harmoniously integrated, we not only have a perfect ourselves, but also a perfect world.
On August 7, 2023
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