Time goes by, meaning goes by, and then becomes withered, not meeting the world, and staying in a poor house sadly. What will happen?
-This article is selected from Zhuge Liang Collection. (The title was added by later generations)
1. The virtue of a gentleman should be (should be) quiet to cultivate one's morality, and frugal to cultivate one's morality. If you don't look down on worldly fame and fortune, you can't be clear about your ambitions. Without peace, you can't be far-sighted. Learning must be quiet, and knowledge needs to be learned. You can't broaden your knowledge if you don't study, and you can't succeed if you don't make up your mind to study. You can't strive for progress if you are addicted to procrastination, and you can't refine your temperament if you are paranoid and impetuous. As the years fly by, the will fades day by day, so it gradually withers, and most of them can't integrate into society, sadly guarding the poor home. It will be too late (regret)!
2. People with high moral character and both ability and political integrity cultivate their body and mind by inner peace and concentration, and cultivate their moral character by frugal style. Without worldly fame and fortune, you can't define your ambitions, and without physical and mental peace, you can't realize your lofty ideals. You must concentrate on your studies, and you must study hard to increase your talents. If you don't study hard, you can't increase your intelligence. If you don't have a clear ambition, you can't achieve anything in your study. Excessive enjoyment and laziness can't make progress, and frivolous impatience can't cultivate temperament. Over time, the will will wear away with the passage of time, and finally it will be as useless to society as dead leaves. How can you stay in a broken house and sigh sadly? (Poor Lu can also be solved as an empty mind. )
3. People with moral cultivation practice like this: (A gentleman's journey)
They perfect themselves through meditation, reflection and vigilance. (quiet and self-cultivation)
Cultivate your noble character with thrift. (frugality and morality)
There is no other way to make your ambition clear and firm except to be pure and indifferent to fame and fortune. (Not indifferent, not ambitious)
In order to realize their lofty ideals, there is no other way to study hard for a long time except peace and tranquility. (Without peace, it is not too far)
If you want to learn real knowledge, you must live a stable life so that your body and mind can concentrate on research and discussion with peace of mind. My husband must be quiet when he studies.
People's talents must be accumulated from continuous learning. (Only you have to learn)
There is no other way to increase, broaden and develop one's talents except to study hard. (You can't learn without learning)
There is no other way to make progress and success in your study except perseverance. You can't learn without ambition.
If you are hedonistic and lazy, you can't encourage your mind to cheer up and be full of vitality. (If you are slow, you will have no energy.)
You can't cultivate your nature and make your character noble by taking risks lightly and going forward. (You can't be reckless when you are in danger)
If the years go by, let the years go by and the will will fade away day by day.
Will be like aging leaves, withered into ashes, become useless people, (so withered)
Such people are useless to society, and most of them can't integrate into society.
I can only be trapped in my poor home sadly, sighing, (sadly staying poor)
I won't know until the future that I must repent and turn over a new leaf, but it's too late. (What will happen? )
(1) Fu (fú): The first word of the sentence has no practical meaning. Wang Hongxi's calligraphy work "Ten Commandments" (2) Gentleman: a man of noble character.
(3) Line: refers to ethics.
(4) Dan stops: quiet and not greedy for fame and fortune. Willing to live in a quiet and inaction environment.
(5) Zhi Ming: Show your great ambition.
(6) Quiet: This refers to being quiet, concentrating and not distracting.
(7) Zhiyuan: achieve lofty goals.
(8) recruiting talents: increasing talents.
(9) yin slow: excessive enjoyment. Slow: lazy.
(10) Motivation: Cheer up. Encourage: encourage, come on.
(1 1) Impatience: grumpy, as opposed to "tranquility" above.
(12) governance: governing general metallurgy and cultivating temperament.
(13) late: disappear, pass away.
(14) day: time.
(15) Therefore, just.
(16) Falling in English: Falling like a dead leaf, describing people passing away in their youth.
(17) Many people are out of touch with the world: it means they have no contribution to society. Connecting with the world and contacting with society means "using the world".
(18) poor house: broken house.
(19)? How can it be in time?