Great good is the ambition, and the benefit of the people is the aspiration

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Mr. Zhu Xi, a great Confucian of the Song Dynasty, said: "To learn a hundred things, we must first make up our minds. Mr. Wang Yangming, a great Confucian of the Ming Dynasty, said in the "Dogma Shows the Dragon Field Of Life": "If the will is not established, there is nothing that can be achieved in the world, although there is no one who is not based on the will." Today's scholars are lazy and lazy, and when they play with the years, they have achieved nothing, all because of their unfulfilled ambitions. Therefore, determination and holiness are holy, determination and wisdom are virtuous, and ambition is like a boat without a rudder, a horse without a title, drifting and running, and in the end, what is the bottom. ”

Education pays special attention to children's aspirations, and children with aspirations and children without ambitions have different growth efficiency. The most obvious characteristic of children without ambition is that they are always drawing curves and can never stick to one field.

What is Chi?

What is Chi? To be famous, to earn money, to be an official, is it a ambition? It doesn't seem like it is. Look at the people with lofty ideals in history, such as the Zhou Gong, Tang Taizong, and Sun Simiao that we admire, they are all people with lofty ideals, how are their aspirations reflected?

Zhi, literally, is the upper is the soldier, and the lower is the heart. In ancient times, scholars were a class of society, higher than the common people, lower than the Qing doctors, with professional ability, knowledge, and doing things for society, that is, what is called today's readers, intellectuals.

What was the heart of the ancient reader? Looking back at history, especially Confucianism, has always been aimed at contributing to society and becoming famous in history. The Book of Learning says: "The husband is then enough to transform the people into customs, and the near one says (yue) serves and the far away cherishes it, and this university way is also." Mencius said, "Whoever wants to rule the country and the world, give up whoever I am." This was the pursuit of ancient readers.

Interpreted in modern Chinese, a person is committed to making a major contribution to a certain field for the sake of a better life in human society, and such a wish is called Zhi. We can understand it in three ways.

First, for the good life of human society. Some children grow up and want to be doctors, is this not Zhi? Not necessarily, but also continue to look down, what is the purpose of being a doctor? Is it to make a lot of money, or to cure the sick and save the suffering?

Second, dedicate yourself to a certain territorial city. It is impossible for a person to cross many disciplines, and he can only drill through one field with his whole life, so there is a professional division, politics, economics, medicine, education, physics, chemistry, etc.

Third, make a significant contribution. Condense this kind of aspiration, and the great good is the aspiration, and the benefit of the people is the aspiration. Zhi is not an ordinary good, it is a great good, benefiting the people of the world, manifested as a certain profession, and the connotation is to benefit the people. Determination is not desire, and there is a difference between aspiration and desire. Aspiration must be for the benefit of society, and desire is only self-interest, even extreme self-interest. Some people think that this kind of extreme self-interest is also ambition, very famous, make a lot of money, parents sometimes will be so instigated, the result is to point the child in the wrong direction.

Why is there such an error? The big philanthropists did have a lot of money, and the great people were very famous. But ask again, is making money famous their first goal? Definitely not. This is only the external part, not the essence of chi.

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