[Original]: The knower begins to do something, and the yogi can achieve it. It takes only one effort to learn from a saint, and knowledge and action cannot be divided into two.
Knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge. There is only one effort for a saint to learn Tao, and knowledge and action cannot be regarded as two things separately.
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Quotations and letters of Wang Shouren (known as Mr. Yangming in the world), a philosopher of Ming Dynasty in China and a representative of Taoist school in Song and Ming Dynasties, about learning.
Wang Shouren (1472- 1529) was born in Yuyao, Zhejiang. The word Boan, nicknamed Yangming Zi, is called Mr. Yangming, so it is also called Wang Yangming. China was the most famous thinker, philosopher, calligrapher and strategist in Ming Dynasty. As a master of Wang Lu's psychology, he is not only proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but also can command an army to fight. He is a rare all-round Confucian in the history of China.
Because he once built a house in Yangming Cave in Yuyao, he was named Yangming Zi, so scholars called him Mr. Yangming. Now he is generally called Wang Yangming, and his theory is called "Yangming Studies" internationally. It has an important and far-reaching influence in China, Japanese, Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asian countries.