Confucius said, "A heartless person can't keep an appointment for a long time and can't enjoy his strengths. Those who are benevolent are benevolent, and those who know are benevolent. "
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Confucius said: "People who have no benevolence can't be content with poverty for a long time, nor can they be happy for a long time. People with benevolence have long carried forward the spirit of benevolence with confidence, while smart people realize that benevolence has long-term interests for them and practice it. "
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In this chapter, Confucius emphasized the idea of being a human being based on benevolence, and believed that people without benevolence would be more degraded if they were in poverty or happiness for a long time. Only the benevolent can be content with the benevolent, and only the wise can be benevolent. With benevolence, you can persevere and keep moral integrity in any environment.
The ups and downs of the rich and the poor may be experienced by most people all their lives, but everyone has different attitudes towards being in such a situation. A heartless person cannot be poor for a long time, and it is wrong to be trapped for a long time. You can't grow rich, and growing rich is easy to breed arrogance and extravagance. Benevolent people are benevolent, not seeking benevolence, but seeking peace of mind. They will not be worried and sad because of poverty, nor will they be arrogant because of wealth. They have a peaceful mind, difficult sentiments and ambitions, which is for peace of mind. A wise man has insight, realizes that benevolence has long-term interests for him, and implements benevolence.
Benevolence is a higher realm, with pure goodness in the heart and nothing lacking, so the behavior is completely from the heart and will not be influenced by the outside world at all, just like Confucius' performance at the age of 70, doing what he wants from the heart. There is no pure goodness in a wise man's heart, but he has understood the true meaning of benevolence and is determined to change from goodness to true benevolence, so his goal is clear and his mind is fixed, and he will not be influenced by the outside world. And we ordinary people, in the materialistic world, want to achieve something, we must have a heart to live, so that we will not go with the flow.