Source. ("Mencius wholeheartedly")
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Mencius said: "It is better to believe in books than to have no books. I am in Wu Cheng (2), and I just adopt two or three strategies (3). The benevolent is invincible in the world, so that the benevolent is cut to the point where there is no blood flow.
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Mencius said: "I totally believe in Shangshu. It is better not to have a history book. I only trust two or three volumes of Wu Cheng. The benevolent is invincible in the world. How can blood flow when the most merciful person (Zhou Wuwang) is used to crusade against the most unkind person (Shang Zhouwang)? "
Interpretation: when reading, you should analyze, not blindly believe in books, but look at problems dialectically.
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"It is better to believe in books than to have no books." This is a penetrating reading method, which requires readers to be good at independent thinking. Throughout the ages, people have paid little attention to books. Indeed, this book is the patented gospel of our mankind, and for many people, it is also a sacred object they worship. However, if you completely believe in books and just follow them, you will become a bookworm, and you will form so-called "bookishness", "dogmatism" and "bookishness", misleading children and causing endless harm. Today, when we emphasize that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth", it seems to be a simple truth that "it is better to believe in books than to have no books". But in the era of Mencius, I am afraid this is still an empty valley. In fact, there is no need to push it that far. Just think about those times when Mencius' words could not be quoted casually. Finally, someone said, "Not only books, but also books." So we can all say, "A letter is better than no book".
2. Die in sorrow and happiness.
It is from Mencius, a famous Confucian classic in China.
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Born in hardship: people will be motivated to survive and develop in hardship. Die of happiness: in comfort and enjoyment, people will die of depression.
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Concerned about national affairs
Righteousness, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. Governing the country first; If you want to govern your country, you should first get your family together; If you want to reunite with your family, you should first repair your body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; ..... The mind is right and then the body is repaired, and the body is repaired and then the family is neat, and the family is neat and then the country is ruled, and the country is flat. "Book of Rites University values the people, followed by the country, and the gentleman is light. If you are rich, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be immune. " "Mencius with all my heart": "If you are happy with the people, the people will be happy; People have their worries, and people have their worries. Joy in the world, worry in the world, but not the king, nothing. "Mencius Hui Liang Wang Xia was born in sorrow and died in happiness. Mencius' summer, the embankment of a thousand miles, collapsed in the ant nest. Everything is wrong, Yu Lao.
3. As good as water. "
Laozi: "goodness is like water, and water is the goodness of all things." In other words, the highest realm of good deeds, like the nature of water, does not dispute fame and fortune and is favored by all things.
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Learn the philosophy of "being good as water"
It literally means: the best is like water. Water is good at helping everything without competing with it. It stays in places that people don't like, so it is close to the Tao. Kindhearted people should live as humble as water, as deep as water, as blind as making friends, as sincere as water, as organizing for politicians, as omnipotent as water, as standby as water. Just because he is as uncontroversial as water, he has no worries. When it comes to the ideological significance involved, it is even more necessary to explain. Laozi said: "goodness is like water, and water is the goodness of all things." This is the virtue of modesty. " Therefore, Jiang Hai can be the king of all the valleys. If he is good at it, he can be the king of all the valleys. The water in the world is not weak, and the strong can't win. This is a gentle virtue; Therefore, softness wins, and weakness wins. Because it has nothing, it can enter nothing, which shows that the teaching without words is also beneficial to inaction. "He thinks that people who do good deeds should be like water. Water benefits and nourishes everything, but it does not compete with everything. This is the most modest virtue. Jianghai can be the destination of all rivers because he is good at being in the downstream position, so he becomes the king of the hundred valleys. The softest thing in the world is water, but it can penetrate the hardest thing, and nothing can surpass it, such as dripping water wears away a stone. This is where Rudd lies. Therefore, the weak can defeat the strong, and the soft can defeat the strong. Invisible things can enter things seamlessly, from which we know the teaching of "quietness" and the benefits of "inaction"