Are saints divided into realms? What other realms are there above the saints?

The early Taoist classic Taiping Jing divided immortals into six categories:

One is a god, one is a real person, the third is a fairy, the fourth is a Taoist, the fifth is a saint, and the sixth is a saint. He also said: "God is God, real people are landlords, immortals are the masters of storms, Taoist bishops are good or bad, saints manage the people, and sages help saints manage the people's records and help Liuhe."

Jin's Inner Chapter of Bao Puzi. On Immortals, which is quoted from the Classic of Immortals, divides immortals into three categories: celestial immortals, earthly immortals and corpse immortals. He said: "The staff sergeant raises his shape and raises his emptiness, which is called the fairy; The middle reaches of the famous mountains are called immortals; The corporal dies first and dies, which is called the corpse to solve the fairy. "

Liang Tao Hongjing's Bitmap of True Spirit divides immortals into seven levels: Jade Qing, Shangqing, Taiji, Taiqing, Jiugong, Dong Tian and Taiyin.

The top secret of the Northern Zhou Dynasty divided the immortals into three categories: Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao. Among them, "taking ghosts as officials is the way" is the arrangement of immortals and ghosts after death, which shows that there are hopes and opportunities for immortality after death, thus indicating that there was a saying of "ghosts and immortals" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In Yin Tian Zi in Tang Dynasty, immortals are divided into five categories, namely, immortals in people, immortals in the earth, immortals in the sky, immortals in water and immortals who can change their magical powers.

The "Sanqing" entry in Zhang Junfang's "Seven Signs of Taoist Priests at Three Points" in Song Dynasty divides immortals into nine categories, saying: "Nine immortals in Taiqing, nine immortals in Shangqing, nine saints in Qing Yu, three nine twenty-seven." The nine immortals are: Shangxian, Gaoxian, Taixian, Xuanxian, Tianxian, Xian Zhen, Xianxian, Lingxian and Zhixian.

The names of truth and holiness are also above, above, too, mysterious, heaven, truth, god, spirit and even second. This is roughly the same as the classification method of Tezhenke. In a word, there are many kinds of immortals, and then the Secret Library of Immortals summarizes it, saying that "Buddhism is three times, and immortals are divided into five grades". The five grades of immortals are: fairy, fairy, fairy, ghost fairy. Basically laid the taste of the gods.

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What kind of people are "saints"?

In pre-Qin hundred schools of thought, the word saint can be found everywhere in their works, such as Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius and Mencius.

For example, I'm afraid I haven't said "sage" dozens of times in the Tao Te Ching. From the second chapter "The Sage's Inaction" to the last chapter "The Sage's Way, Defeating the Enemy without Fighting", we can see the sage's figure everywhere, and we can also see Lao Zi's admiration for these ancient perfect people.

Although a hundred schools of thought contend to respect ancient saints, no one can say clearly what a saint is. Our descendants can only appreciate the remnants of the saints from the classic descriptions of the ancients and imagine the elegance of the ancient saints.

Judging from the current information, there are two kinds of saints. One is the legendary ancient sage. Because of the lack of information, they can only imagine their perfect elegance in the long river of history. For example, Mencius said that "saints are the best human relations".

On the other hand, it is because people who have made outstanding achievements in a certain aspect through "establishing morality, making meritorious deeds and making statements", such as the Tao Te Ching written by Laozi for understanding the road, have become well-deserved "saints" of Taoism, and Confucius has become a "saint" of Confucianism because of the achievements of Confucian culture, and so on.

These people who became saints because of their words and opinions, and those who were later honored as "saints" through some professional expertise, gradually formed the "saint family" in China's spectacular traditional culture, such as Du Kang, Jiusheng, Zhang Zhongjing, Medical Saint, Guiguzi and so on.

According to statistics, there are more than 30 well-known and well-documented people. It can be seen that China people are pursuing the way of sanctification-as long as they reach a height that others can't reach, their professional knowledge is beyond people's reach, and they have made unique contributions to the world, they may be called sanctification.

Through the introduction of the ancients, saints were originally used to refer to people with perfect virtue, and "those who are full of talents and virtues are called saints." In other words, they are honorifics for those who have achieved the road. The way of heaven and earth, the opportunity of yin and yang, and the nature are indispensable, and it is the nation with the highest human wisdom.

It is not enough to have wisdom, but also to make contributions to people, so that people can get tangible benefits. This requires them to have a new height of moral character and achieve everything with selfless heart, just like heaven and earth created everything, just like Dayu in ancient times could achieve "three invulnerability" in order to control water.

In ancient times, sage was a kind of honorific title for people with wisdom, knowledge and virtue, and reached the most perfect ideal personality realm of human society. However, such a perfect saint, after all, is like a dragon without a tail, which only exists in historical legends and disappears in the long river of history. For us, whether such people exist may really be the only way to stop at the top of the mountain.

Therefore, a saint is a person with complete virtue, extensive knowledge and perfect ability, a person who has made a unique and significant contribution in the professional field, and a kind of honorific title arising from his identity. Except for one or two who can praise him, all others are blowing in the wind.

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