On Practice not only comprehensively expounds Wang Yangming's thoughts, but also embodies his dialectical teaching methods and lively language art. He is good at using metaphors and often takes the lead. Therefore, once published, the book was highly praised by scholars.
In the 13th year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (15 18), Xue Kan, a disciple of Wang Yangming, published and engraved a Biography containing Wang Yangming's main philosophical thoughts in Ganzhou.
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In fact, the theory of mind was not initiated by Wang Yangming, but carried forward by Wang Yangming. Mind is an important school of Confucianism. After Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi in the pre-Qin period, Confucianism in the Song Dynasty extended into two schools: Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. Neo-Confucianism, represented by Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Zhu, was very popular in the Song Dynasty, but Lu Jiuyuan, a famous thinker in the Southern Song Dynasty, put forward that "the universe is my heart, and the heart is the universe", believing that the heart is rational and eternal.
Lu Jiuyuan, the founder of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, is as famous as Zhu and a good friend of Zhu. In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming inherited and promoted Lu Jiuyuan's thought of mind, which was called "Wang Lu's mind". Moreover, Wang Yangming made a systematic and theoretical explanation of the nature of mind, put forward the concept of nature of mind for the first time, and became a master of nature of mind.