ts, they are the best and most important. The heaven is objective, obeying the heaven rules is not important, whether the knowledge are objective is not important. Xun Zi said, "The heaven is able to create things, but it cannot distinguish things. The ground can carry people, but it cannot govern people." The heaven cannot distinguish things, we must use artificial logical constructs to understand things. The ground cannot govern people, we must rely on man-made tools.

Third, stable. It is not difficult for a person to do a good deed, but it is difficult to do good deeds all his life. It would be rash to call John a good man if you found him doing a good deed. We always take permanent things as real. Concrete things are always changing, while logical constructs can remain unchanged for a long time. Everyone will grow old, but the fairy will not grow old, the Monkey King can live forever. The story of Journey to the West can be told generation after generation. The speed of the car changes, the acceleration changes, but the relationship between the force and acceleration never changes. The truth is eternal and invariable, they are correct all the world. Things remain essentially the same despite all apparent changes. So the truth is useful.

Stable things are simple compared with mutable things. Logical constructs are more stable than many objective things, so logical constructs are simple. Human pursuit of eternal truth is the pursuit of simplicity.

Materialists say that motion is absolute and unconditional, while stillness is relative and conditional. That may be true in physical world, but it's not what we want. Do you want Newton's laws to change every day? Philosophers regard the immutable thing as the Principle. So the logical constructs as subjective things are part of the Principle.

The Surangama Sutra treats these immutable things as sacred and explains them in great detail. That's why professor Jicheng Guo of China University of Political Science and Law said that the Surangama Sutra