Knowing good and knowing evil is conscience, and removing evil for good is a special thing, and Wang Yangming's mental learning is still respected and studied by modern people. Most people think that Wang Yangming is the founder of Mind Science. But in fact, the founding father of mind science was Lu Jiuyuan of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the era of storms and rains, he was the founding father of the study of the heart, and he had the opportunity to save the Southern Song Dynasty from danger, but he ran into walls everywhere.
Since the ancient saints came out, they will always be accompanied by strange things. When Lu Jiuyuan was born, because his father had too many children, he was unable to raise them. When Lu Jiuyuan was about to be sent, the wife of the eldest brother Lu Jiusi just gave birth to a child and had milk to feed, which saved Lu Jiuyuan the fate of being sent. Therefore, Lu Jiuyuan regarded his eldest brother and sister-in-law as his parents.
When he reached the age of three, Lu Jiuyuan showed extraordinary wisdom, not only reading and hyphenating, but also often raising his doubts to his father. How to exhaust the heavens and the earth was a problem that plagued Lu Jiuyuan's childhood. It was not until Lu Jiuyuan grew up and understood the concept of "universe" that he solved the doubts of his childhood and devoted himself to the study of Confucianism.
At the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, the wind and rain were drifting, and it had successively experienced the change of Jing Kang and the enmity of the two saints, while the imperial court was immersed in a field of literary and martial arts. Lu Jiuyuan wanted to change the entire Southern Song Dynasty with a passion and stimulate the patriotic feelings of the Chinese people. Therefore, the thirty-three-year-old Lu Jiuyuan participated in the imperial examination. Another year, Lu Jiuyuan became a jinshi. Lü Zuqian, one of the Three Sages of the Southeast, was once the chief examiner and threatened that the best volume must come from Lu Jiuyuan's hand.
After Lu Jiuyuan was admitted to the jinshi, he returned to his hometown and changed his former residence into a lecture hall. During this period, the imperial court successively appointed him as the master of the two places, but in order to preach and teach, Lu Jiuyuan did not take office. Until the re-recommendation of the attendant officer, Lu Jiuyuan could not refuse, and could only take up the post of Lin'an and began his teaching and political career.
Lu Jiuyuan was disdainful of politics, and he put his mind on the lectures, using his political situation and passion for the Southern Song Dynasty to encourage students to devote themselves to patriotism and stimulate the passion of the Chinese people to recover the lost land. Not long after taking office, Lu Jiuyuan was transferred to the Imperial Decree Office as a designated official, which was an official position that could face the emperor's correctness.
During his term of office, Lu Jiuyuan had the opportunity to meet with Song Xiaozong and put forward the political idea of "Four Gentlemen's Soup", which was discussed from the four conveniences of Ren Xian, empowerment, reward for merit, and punishment, which gave Song Xiaozong great inspiration. Therefore, Song Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei and used the main war minister to recover the lost land. However, Lu Jiuyuan only cared about propagating his own ideological ideas, and the accumulation of his political career was not much. During his tenure as a prisoner, Wang Xin learned that Lu Jiuyuan wanted to expose him. As a result, Lu Jiuyuan was sent to the Chongdao Temple as a manager, thus ruining his political career.
Lu Jiuyuan was an open-minded person, and he did not give up on himself because he was unhappy with the officialdom. After resolutely resigning from his idle post in taoist management, Lu Jiuyuan returned to his hometown again to give lectures. Therefore, Lu Jiuyuan and his mortal enemy Zhu Xi launched a collision of psychology and science.
At the Meeting of Goose Lake, Lu Jiuyuan advocated the dignity of mind learning, and Zhu Xi advocated reading a group of books to enlighten inner knowledge with Taoist inquiry. At this meeting at Goose Lake, Lu Jiuyuan put forward for the first time the moral value of the heart is the reason, and the human heart is the essence. It is also the meeting of Goose Lake that opens the door to mind learning for future generations.
Following the Meeting of Goose Lake, Lu Jiuyuan participated in the Meeting of Nankang. Taking the imperial examination as an example, Lu Jiuyuan told the importance of determination. Lu Jiuyuan ruled by the sages and took charge of zhiping, ending a dispute with Zhu Xi over the study of mind and the science of science. Wang Yangming's inheritance of learning for the saints and the opening of peace for all the worlds are also here.
After that, Lu Jiuyuan and Zhu Xi ushered in a peak battle, using Wuji and Taiji as the main body of the debate, expounding the advantages and disadvantages of mind and science. Zhu Xi pays attention to the cognition and explanation of "reason", while Lu Jiuyuan emphasizes the true experience of "reason". Wang Yangming's gewu zhizhi and the mental philosophy of practicing it also originate from this.
Hindered by the limitations of the era at that time of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu Jiuyuan's mental learning was eventually suppressed by Zhu Xi's theory, and Zhu Xi was also called one of the four saints of Confucianism. It was not until the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later that Wang Yangming gathered the great achievements of the study of the heart and suppressed the Zhu Xi school of science, and the study of the heart was carried forward.
As the founder of the study of the heart, Lu Jiuyuan originally did not want to participate in the politics of the dynasty, but only wanted to preach and teach. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu Jiuyuan could only engage in politics and awaken the patriotic feelings of the Chinese people. The political defeat, Lu Jiuyuan hit a wall everywhere, which was a major loss for the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Lu Jiuyuan did not complain about himself because of this, and still spread the heart through other means.
It is rumored that On the day of his death, Lu Jiuyuan had already sensed it in advance and informed others. On the same day, heavy snow fell in the sky, and after Lu Jiuyuan bathed and changed his clothes, he sat down and passed away safely. On the day of the burial, thousands of people were buried, all of whom wept bitterly to pay tribute. The originator of a generation of mind studies has passed away from the world, but he has also laid a deep foundation for the later development of mind studies.