If I ask the kings, "Why did you go to school?" ”
I think everyone replied in unison, "For the sake of learning."
Then ask, "Why do you ask for knowledge?" "What do you want to learn?" I am afraid that everyone's answer is very different, or they can't answer it themselves.
O lords! I'll answer for you: "To learn to be human." ”
What mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, history, geography, Chinese language, English, and even philosophy, literature, science, politics, law, economics, education, agriculture, industry, commerce, etc., that you learn in school are just a means of being a human being.
Confucius said, "Those who know are not confused, those who are benevolent are not worried, and those who are brave are not afraid." "Therefore, education should be divided into three aspects: intellectual education, emotional education, and intentional education--the intellectual education, moral education, and physical education that are now talked about are not correct, the scope of moral education is too general, and the scope of sports is too narrow---knowledge education should be taught until people are not confused, emotional education should be taught until people are not worried, and intentional education should be taught that people are not afraid. Educators should educate students with these three things as the end, and we should automatically educate ourselves, and we should also take these three things as the end.
NO.1
How can we not be confused? The most important thing is to develop our judgment. If you want to develop judgment, the first step is at least to have considerable common sense, further, you must have a special intellect for what you have to do, and then you must have the wisdom to judge things.
If a person does not even have common sense, hears thunder, says that it is thunder and threatens, sees the lunar eclipse, and says that it is a toad greedy mouth. Then, if you have no idea about anything, and when you encounter a little difficult problem, you will rely on asking God to ask God to see the fortune telling to solve it, and the so-called "great confusion" has become the most pitiful person. What is taught in primary and secondary schools in schools is to have a lot of basic knowledge, so as not to be secretly groped for everything.
But just a little common sense is not enough, we are human beings, we always have to have a special profession. This profession is not something I have done alone, many people have done it before, they have accumulated countless experiences, and discovered a number of principles and principles, which is specialized knowledge.
I plan to do this profession, I should have this special knowledge. For example, if I want to be a farmer, how to improve the soil, how to improve the seeds, how to defend against water, drought, diseases, and insects, and so on, all of them have become knowledgeable by the experience of our predecessors; when we have this knowledge, we will naturally not be confused when we apply him to deal with these things, but on the contrary, we will be confused.
Workmanship, businessmaking, etc. all have their own specialized knowledge, and so does the same. Do I want to be a financier, what kind of taxes can produce what kind of results, what kind of public debt can produce what kind of results, and so on, all of which have been learned by the experience of our predecessors; when we have this knowledge, we will apply him to deal with these things, and we will naturally not be confused, but on the contrary, we will be confused. The same is true of the educator, the military, and so on, each with his own special doctrine.
The knowledge we seek in higher schools and above is this category. But is this kind of common sense and knowledge enough? Not yet. The universe and life are alive and not staying, the things we encounter every day are complex and changeable, not simply rigid, if we only learn this one, only to understand this one, then, when we come to the front with something that we have not learned, we are in a hurry.
Therefore, it is also necessary to cultivate overall wisdom in order to have fundamental judgment.
How can this total wisdom be cultivated? The first is to temper him with our always rough brains, so that he can become delicate and down-to-earth. Then, no matter how difficult it is, I can think clearly about his organization, and naturally I will not be confused.
The second thing is to raise our always cloudy brains and make him clear. Then, when a thing is right in front of me, I can judge him very calmly and clearly, and naturally I will not be confused. The common sense and overall wisdom mentioned above are the elements of knowledge education, and the purpose is to teach people to achieve "the knowledge is not confused".
NO.2
How can we not worry?
Why should benevolent people not worry? To understand this truth, we must first know what the Chinese philosophers' outlook on life is.
The word "benevolence" is wrapped up in the entire use of the Confucian concept of life. What exactly is "Ren"? It is difficult to explain in words, and the next explanation can be said to be: "the realization of the universal personality." Confucius said, "The benevolent man also." This means that the completion of personality is called "benevolence."
But we must know that personality is not something that can be expressed by a single person, but from the perspective of the relationship between people and people. So the word "Ren" comes from the two, and Zheng Kangcheng interprets him as a "phase doll". All in all, to empathize with each other, to become one, and then my personality can be realized. So if we don't talk about personalism, then we have nothing to say; when we talk about this doctrine, of course, we end up with universal personality.
In other words, the universe is life, life is the universe, our personality is no different from the universe, and experiencing this truth is called "benevolent.". But why would such a benevolent person not be worried? Where there is great worry, there are no two ends, one is worried about success or failure, and the other is worried about gains and losses.
If we have a "benevolent" outlook on life, we will not worry about success or failure. Why? Because we know that the universe and life will never be complete, the sixty-four trigrams of the I Ching begin with "dryness" and end with "unfinished business." It is precisely in this universe that will never be complete that we will always be allowed to create and evolve.
What we have done, but in the long distance of tens of thousands of miles of cosmic evolution, move forward an inch, two inches, where is it worth saying success? But what if you don't do it? If you don't even move this inch forward without doing it, it is a real failure.
The "benevolent one" sees through this truth and believes that only by not doing things can it be considered a failure, and if you are willing to do things, you will not fail. Therefore, the I Ching says, "A gentleman never ceases to improve himself." "On the other hand, they can trust that tens of thousands of miles that will not succeed in everything have moved an inch or two, is it a success?" Therefore, the Analects: "Knowing it cannot be done." "You think, people with this outlook on life, what success or failure can they worry about?"
Moreover, if we have a "benevolent" outlook on life, we will not worry about gains and losses. Why? Because I believe that this thing is mine, there is something to gain or lose. Even the personality does not exist alone, and it cannot be clearly drawn that this part is mine, that part belongs to others, but where is there something that can be obtained for us? There is nothing for me to gain, and certainly nothing to lose.
I am only learning for the sake of learning, working for the sake of labor, not using learned labor and other means to achieve some kind of end -- it can be "obtained" for us. So Lao Tzu said, "To be born without being, but not to be ashamed." "Since we think that there are more people, we think that there are more and more people." You think, people with this outlook on life, what gains and losses do they have to worry about? All in all, with this outlook on life, it is natural to feel that "the heavens and the earth are born with me, and all things are one with me", and naturally "no one is not self-satisfied". His life is purely fun and artistic. This is the highest emotional education, the purpose of teaching people to achieve "benevolent people do not worry".
NO.3
How can we not be afraid?
With the effort of not being confused or worrying, of course, fear will be much less. But this is a matter of will. If a person's willpower is weak, he will have a wealth of intellect, and he will not need it temporarily, so he will have beautiful sentiments, and he will change his mind temporarily.
However, how can the will be strong? The first thing that needs to be bright in the heart, Mencius said, "The mighty qi is the greatest and the most rigid." If you are not ashamed of your deeds, you are discouraged. He also said, "I do not shrink instead of shrinking, although I am brown and broad, I am not worried; I shrink instead, although there are tens of millions of people, I am going to die." ”
As the saying goes: "Don't do bad things in life, and don't be alarmed when you knock on the door in the middle of the night." "To maintain courage, one must start with all actions that can be done in public, and this is the first thing. The second is not to be held back by inferior desires.
The Analects of the Analects: Zi Yue: "I have not seen the one who is strong." "Or to the Takumi. Zi Yue: "Feng also wants, Yan Gang." "Once you are materially bored and lustful, then the hundred refinements will also become soft around the fingers." In short, it is extremely easy for a person's will to change from strong to weak, and it is extremely difficult to return from weak to strong. If a person has a weak will, this person is finished.
If you can't be your own Master, what else can you do? Being suppressed by others and being a slave to others, as long as you are willing to struggle, you will eventually be able to restore your freedom. If one's own will becomes a slave to one's own lusts, then, it is really a disaster that will sink, there is no room for freedom, and one will be afraid of one's life and become a poor man.
Confucius said: "Harmony without flow, strong correction; neutrality without leaning, strong correction." The state has a way, unchanged congestion, strong correction; the country has no way, until death does not change, strong correction. "I honestly tell you all that if you don't do this, you will never become a person.
But it is really not easy to do so, it is not necessary to do the kung fu of tempering the will all the time, the will tempered to get home, naturally look at what you should do, do not hesitate at all, carry it up and do it, "Although thousands of people are looking forward to it." "In this way, we can be considered to be a person in the sky, and there will never be an ugly state of hiding our heads and tails." This is the purpose of yi education, to teach people to achieve "the brave are not afraid".
NO.4
We take these three things as the standard of human conduct, and ask you to think about which one I am doing now—which one is a little bit sure. If you can't do even one thing, if you don't have even a little certainty, belch! That's really dangerous, and I'm afraid you won't be able to do it in the future. Speaking of education in schools, the second layer of emotional education, the third layer of intentional education, it can be said that there is no education at all, and the only thing left is the first layer of education. Even if there is only so-called common sense and knowledge, as for the overall wisdom I am talking about, it is not at all the same as the cultivation of fundamental judgment.
This kind of education in the "knowledge grocery store" is really chilling to think about his future! At present, this kind of education cannot be reformed for a while, and our lovely young man has no place to be educated except him. O lords! Do you still want to be a person? You must know the danger, not your own spiritual method to save yourself, no one to save you!
O lords! Don't think you've got some fragmented intellect, even if you're learned. I'm honestly telling you; if you become a person, the more knowledge you have, the better: if you can't be a person, the more knowledge you have, the worse it is.
Don't you believe it? Imagine whether the traitor who is scolded by the whole country is intellectual or unintelligent? Consider the bureaucratic politicians that the whole country hates, the people who specialize in helping warlords to do evil and good people, are intellectual, or are they unintelligent? The kings must know that when these people were in school more than ten years ago, they were full of spirit and innocence, so why not be the same as the kings? Why did you fall into such a field?
Qu Yuan said, "He used to be a herbaceous grass, and now xiao Aiye is still for this!" If he has his own reasons, he will not be able to repair the harm. "The saddest thing in the world is to watch a group of good young people, step by step, going down the bad road." The kings woke up! Now the people you hate are the lessons of your past.
O lords! Are you suspicious now? Dull? Sad and painful? Feel like you can't resist the oppression on the outside? I tell you: You are suspicious and dull because you are confused because you do not know; you are sad and miserable, it is because you are not kind that you are worried; you feel that you cannot resist the oppression of the outside world, it is because you are not brave that you are afraid. These are all your knowledge, feelings, and intentions that have not been tempered by cultivation, so you have not yet become a person. I hope you have a painful realization! With self-awareness, it is natural to succeed. Then, outside of school, of course, there are many learnings, read a book of scriptures, turn a page without history, and you can find the good teachers of the kings everywhere!
Wake up, O gentlemen! Nourish your fundamental wisdom, experience your personal outlook on life, and protect your free will. You are not an adult, just look at these years!
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