Working in a temple, I met many rich believers. Rich people's inner psychological wit of believing in Buddhism and geomantic omen is often the same. In fact, the most superstitious people in society are the working people at the bottom and the rich at the top. Everyone at the bottom of the working class knows that religious belief is easy to happen because of its low level of knowledge, ignorance, backwardness, difficulties and insecurity. There are many reasons why the rich have religious beliefs. Analyze one by one.
First of all, the most important thing is the need for human security. Once people are rich to a certain extent, they often wonder why they have today's status, in which the element of luck certainly plays an important role, and they are not sure where they will go in the future. Today's status may come suddenly or go without warning, which makes people feel insecure and awe of their fate. Small wealth comes from people, and great wealth comes from heaven. The middle class is the least likely group to have religious beliefs. Because the middle class depends on their hard-working hands to eat, but also on their own efforts to live such a well-off life today. He will feel that all this is under his control, and naturally he will not believe in fate. But rich people don't. They said goodbye to eating with their hands. Many of them will come from all directions when they sit all day, and most of the time they are in unknown so, which is easy to produce a mystical world view.
Second, food and clothing, lust, wealth and God. If people succeed in this world, it is easy to have fear of life and death, so it is natural to find a spiritual sustenance for themselves. You know, faith can't stand rational scrutiny, and rational thinking is not faith. So many times, you will find that they are actually confused religious believers, and they choose to accept religious teachings indiscriminately. This is because they need such a spiritual sustenance to ease their inner insecurity and enjoy the cool with their backs against the trees. With God as their patron, they naturally don't have to worry about whether there is heaven or hell.
Third, when people are rich to a certain extent, they must find a leisure hobby for themselves to set off their identity. Leisure hobbies are suitable for those who have a lot of leisure time to spend, but obviously not for the bottom people and the middle class. Nowadays, those rich people in society, especially those engaged in traditional industries, are older, perhaps because of the times, their education level is not high enough, and there are not a few local entrepreneurs. Many of these people's leisure hobbies are to convert to the traditional culture of China. It is no accident that there are so many traditional cultural trainings for entrepreneurs and the prosperity of the president class in society. In the traditional culture of China, the Yijing, geomantic omen, traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist practice are often inevitable courses. In addition, there are many psychological and scientific factors in geomantic omen and fortune telling, which can easily arouse people's interest in pondering. Some people can really see a person's personality characteristics from a person's face and infer his fate accordingly, which is caused by countless reasons that readers have been pondering.
Fourth, meeting people in the divine world is a symbol of the status of the rich. Rich people have a wide network of contacts, and many people eat both black and white. But after all, he is an ordinary mortal and does not have the ability to connect with God. Therefore, meeting some celestial experts has become a psychological desire. In addition, these experts often have a lot of contacts, and they cover all the political and business circles. Getting to know masters will often bring them wider network resources. Many people don't trust the master that much. What they need is, first, to get to know the rich status symbolized by the master of the divine world, and second, to connect with the resources around the master. Some rich people often pretend to be believers and go to various monasteries to dig resources for cooperation, or cooperate with monasteries or cooperate with the network resources owned by monasteries. There shouldn't be too many such things.
One of my colleagues said that superstition is an eternal market demand. In fact, it is. The "superstition" of the rich is often the result of the comprehensive effect of spiritual needs and material needs.