プーチン大統領のパートナーモスクワで最も古い修道院牧師がベーシックインカムにこだわる理由

Hegumen Petr (Pigol)

ハグメン・ピーター牧師

ThD., Confessor of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (High Monastery of St Peter) in Moscow. Russian Orthodox Church.

- Each person living on earth by the will of God must fulfill the divine purpose. To live in accordance with God's providence, striving precisely for that main goal, which is indicated in divine revelation. And a person must come to that initial state in which he was determined by God's plan. After lapse from virtue, certain changes took place and man left his perfection, given by God, and received some distortions of nature, and lost the abilities that he had. And therefore, he must, striving to live according to God's definition, according to his plan, restore those abilities and acquire those qualities and properties that are defined above. This is the way of salvation, which is very well indicated in the Orthodox Church. And in this regard, everything that a person should do is defined in the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Tradition, which states that a person is called to a decent life and his whole life should be regulated precisely by the commandments of God. The main ones are known to everyone: does not do that to others, that you do not want to do to yourself; it is to strive to take care of one's neighbor, to love one's neighbor as oneself. And here it was said by the apostle that, if you want to do this to you, you do that. And thus, taking care of man, we will, as the Gospel says, we will be fulfilling the very word of God. And in this regard, a person is called to work hard and earn his own bread, as was said. And all his labors should be directed to his perfection, not only to live worthily on the earth, but also striving to acquire values that are valuable not only on earth, but also extend into eternal life. Here, too, if a person is idle, has everything necessary, but will not load himself by saving work, correct work, to obey the will of God, the commandments of God, then this will do him harm, not benefit. And so the apostle Paul says rather harshly that he who does not work does not eat. And hardworking is worthy of food. Therefore, the provision of everything necessary for a person is connected with the desire to still work for the glory of God, for salvation, acquiring those values that are necessary not only here, but also to achieve the main goal - spiritual perfection, spiritual growth. And in this context, if a person receives what is necessary for life, he should use it for his spiritual perfection. Man is endowed with certain abilities by God and has a certain spiritual creative potential. And this potential can be realized in different cases. But if the subject of creativity is something external, this is what we are usually used to call creativity, and we create some external objects. Here we see already when humanity is developing and a certain limit is being acquired, when overly technical devices, means that in their development can come to an extent where there will be no longer any benefit, and a person will receive certain suffering from this. And so that this does not happen, a person must follow the path of his development and have an object of creativity not external, but actually himself, and strive for spiritual perfection, and build himself up. And therefore, to direct this creative potential in order to create oneself, striving for God's purpose, and acquiring values that will be eternal in general. This is spiritual perfection. If so, people will be attuned and will be occurred a certain upbringing of them. And for this it is necessary to create these spiritual centers, educational, which would give this genuine education to people for spiritual perfection. And then, any help, it will be beneficial, and if the means and wealth that the Lord gives fairly to all are distributed. And then they will be used precisely for genuine spiritual benefit and this will serve precisely the realization of the main goal of man - this is his spiritual perfection.
- Thank! I had questions about the children, about their education. But I listened to you and you all told it so in general. And the main income was transferred as funds received from the same state, yes, which we should spend primarily on our spiritual development. And this, in principle, is relevant for both adults and children, who are raised by adults.
- Yes, the distribution of funds without spiritual edification, without spiritual enlightenment and education, it may not benefit. Because man, nevertheless, more by virtue of the sinfulness of nature, is inclined to do nothing. And to leave from the works of the righteous, which are necessary for a person in general, for his spiritual development. And thus, just such a distribution of funds without spiritual enlightenment will lead, rather, to a certain degradation of people and exacerbation of all the problems that we have.
- Thank!