Original: Only when the world is sincere can we understand the great classics of the world, establish the foundation of the world and know the cultivation of heaven and earth. How can my husband depend on it? ! Lick its kernel! Deep, deep! The sky is vast! If you don't know wisdom and saints, who can know virtue?
Only by being sincere to everyone in the world can we become a lofty model of governing the country and leveling the world, establish the fundamental laws of the world, and master the profound truth of the cultivation of everything in the world. What do you need to rely on? His kindness is so sincere, his thoughts are as deep as a pool of water, and his virtue is as wide as the sky. If you are not really smart, who can know the complete sincerity in the world?
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The Doctrine of the Mean is a monograph on moral philosophy in the field of life cultivation in ancient China, and it is one of the Confucian classics. Originally the thirty-first chapter of the Book of Rites, it was said that it was written by Zi Si during the Warring States Period.
Its content affirms that "the golden mean" is the highest standard of moral behavior, regards "sincerity" as the noumenon of the world, thinks that "sincerity" reaches the highest realm of life, and puts forward the learning process and cognitive methods of "erudition, questioning, deliberation, discernment and perseverance".
Before the Song Dynasty, scholars called The Doctrine of the Mean written by Zi Si during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Sima Qian's Historical Records Confucius Family: "Zi Si writes the doctrine of the mean." Li Ao's "Li Wengong's Collection and Renaming Book": "Zi Si wrote forty-seven articles of the Doctrine of the Mean and spread them to Monk." Zhu's preface to The Doctrine of the Mean: "What does the Doctrine of the Mean do? Zi Zisi was worried about the loss of Taoism. "