What are Zeng Guofan's ways of being a man?

Twelve Articles of Zeng Guofan's Self-cultivation

First, the main aspects: neat and serious, never afraid. When there is nothing, the heart is in the cavity, and when there is a need, it is single-minded and not mixed. Qingming is in the bow, like the rising sun.

Respect the spirit: keep your clothes clean and tidy, keep your mind straight and serious, always be vigilant and check whether you have idleness or bad thoughts. When you have nothing to do on weekdays, be quiet and peaceful, and don't think about things outside your body. Once you get into work, you must concentrate and not be distracted. I have to maintain a clear mental state to maintain vigorous vitality, just like the sun in the morning.

Second, sit still: sit still for four hours at any time every day, and experience the kindness of going back and forth, just like Dingzhen.

Meditation practice: sit still for more than an hour at any time every day, experience the benevolence taught by saints, make your thinking out of the standard, make your life condense, and be as calm and unshakable as Baoding.

Third, get up early: get up at dawn, don't be obsessed with love after waking up.

Get up early Get up at dawn, and after waking up, you must not have nostalgia, comfort or even lewd thoughts.

Fourth, reading is the only way: if you haven't finished reading a book, don't read his book. Read east and west, be an outsider, at the rate of ten pages a day.

Be single-minded in reading: if you haven't finished reading one book, you must not read other books. Indiscriminate reading is not good for a person's moral knowledge, and he is a person who only seeks knowledge without morality. Ten pages must be circled every day.

5. Reading History: Bing Shen bought Twenty-three History in 2006, and the adults said, "I borrowed money to buy books, and I am not afraid to try my best to sew them for you. If you can circle it, you don't have to be responsible for me. " After that, I circled ten pages every day, which was unfilial.

Learning history books: I bought a set of Twenty-three History in Shen Bing, and my father admonished me: "If you lend money to others to buy books, I will spare no effort to make it up for you. If you can read it carefully, it will be worthy of my painstaking efforts. " Since then, I have read ten pages carefully every day. A slight mistake is unfilial to parents.

Sixth, caution: pay attention to the present and make the first effort.

Watch your mouth: always pay attention to this point, which is the first-class skill in dealing with people.

Seven, nourishing qi: gas field list, everything can not be said to people.

Cultivation of true qi: I can be integrated inside and outside, act aboveboard, say whatever comes to mind, and have no treacherous schemes and lucky thoughts. Only in this way can the true qi be stored in the abdomen.

Eight, protect yourself: In December, I was instructed by adults: "Save labor, abstain from sex and eat." Always treat it as a disease.

Stay healthy. /kloc-I received my father's calligraphy in October and February, which read: "(It is necessary) to control labor, desire and diet." Therefore, we should always take good care of our health as we did when we recovered from illness.

Nine, knowing the death of the day: reading and recording your own thoughts every day, seeking deep meaning is selfish.

You can know what you don't know every day: when you read every day, you should record your own experience and don't deliberately seek profound meaning from the book, otherwise you will follow in the footsteps of others.

Ten, the moon does not die: do a few poems every month to test the amount of accumulation and the prosperity of qi. Don't indulge blindly, it's the easiest way to lose heart.

Every month, you can have the opportunity to review the knowledge and skills you have learned: you must write a few poems or essays every month to test whether you have learned more or less theories and whether the true spirit of cultivation is full. You can't just be lazy and procrastinate, which is the easiest way to lose your great ambition.

XI. Writing: Write for half an hour after breakfast. Any pen and ink entertainment is regarded as your own course. Never wait until tomorrow, the more you accumulate, the harder it is to clean up.

Writing: You must practice writing for one hour after breakfast. Moreover, all the entertainment in writing can be used as an opportunity to practice writing. Whatever you do today, you can't leave it till tomorrow. The more things accumulate, the more difficult it is to clean up.

Twelve, don't go out at night: exhausted, cut the ring!

Don't leave home at night: going out for entertainment and play will make people waste their cultivation skills, lose their essence and look tired. Therefore, this bad habit must be completely quit!

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