general idea
Don't be too conceited about your own affairs, but tolerate all humiliation, injustice, slander and slander; You can't be too clear about good and evil when you get along with others, and you should be tolerant of good people, bad people, wise men and fools.
1, "Caigen Tan" is a collection of quotations on self-cultivation, social life, socialization and fertility compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is a rare and precious practice. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation. Its text is concise and clear, and it adopts both refined and popular tastes. I like quotations, but I have fun that quotations don't have; Arrange in order, whoever seems to be an essay will have an essay that is not easy to achieve; It seems to be exhortation, but there is an awakening that exhortation lacks; And there is rain and mountains, the night is quiet and the bell rings, the words are clear and delicious, and the wind and moon are boundless.
2. "Caigen Tan" is a collection of aphorisms and essays focusing on the thoughts of life. It adopts a quoted style, combining the Confucian doctrine of the mean, Taoist inaction and Buddhist philosophy of life.
From the structural point of view, Caigen Tan has beautiful words, neat antithesis, far-reaching implications and food for thought. It is a popular reading that is beneficial for people to cultivate their sentiments, temper their will and strive for progress. The author named this book "Caigen", which means that "people's intelligence and self-cultivation can only be obtained through hard training". As the saying goes, "Bite off the roots of vegetables and do whatever it takes."
There are roughly two versions of Caigen Tan-Qing edition and Ming edition. The Ming edition comes from the inscription of the owner of Sanfeng, and is collected by Hirasakamoto, the head of the cabinet library of Japan. According to legend, it was first seen in Eight Stories of Respecting the Saints in Yashangzhai edited by Gao Lian in Ming Dynasty.
The book is divided into two parts, the first part is 225 articles, the second part is 135 articles, and the third part is * * 360 articles (there are 362 articles in the collection of Shanghai Library, and several articles were merged in the middle and finally added). The photo of this entry is a clear edition, mainly based on the woodcut edition of Yangzhou Tibetan Classics Institute during the reign of Emperor Guangxu Dinghai and the typesetting of Buddhist Bookstore in the twenty-third year.
The content of Caigen Tan is a popular reading of Confucianism, absorbing the essence of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. It is centered on the theory of mind and Zen, and it has the avenue of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. At the same time, because it combines the characteristics of philosophy, art of life and aesthetic taste, it is also a China literary work that people strive for.