"Ghost Valley" was called "the forbidden fruit of wisdom, the book of wonders" by later generations.
The ideas and strategic wisdom covered in the book have a profound guiding role in modern politics, diplomacy, management, and management.
This book is also of great benefit to us today, And Confucian Fengjun has selected 8 sentences from it to understand human nature with everyone!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the more desires, the less they get</h1>
Original text: Follow its desires to see its intentions. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: Look at the depth of a person's desires, you can know his wisdom and ambition.
Ru Fengjun said:
Those with deep lust are shallow.
If there is a person who does not know how to restrain his desires, there will be basically nothing in this life.
Being led by desire, it is difficult to calm down all the time, which means that it is difficult to think and difficult to precipitate.
If you don't control it, sooner or later you will let yourself fall into the abyss.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="171" > see yourself before you can see others</h1>
Original text: Knowing oneself, knowing oneself and then knowing oneself. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: Only by knowing yourself can you recognize others.
Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise.
Knowing others is a little wisdom, knowing that you are a great wisdom.
Push yourself and others.
Only by examining yourself every day can you understand yourself, truly understand yourself, and understand others.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="173" > human warmth, it is always very realistic</h1>
Original text: Mutual benefit is close, and loss is neglect. The benefits are also beneficial. Those who lose, they also harm. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: If you are beneficial to each other, you will be closer; if you are harmful to each other, you will be alienated.
Those that are advantageous will go up, and those that are harmful will run tightly.
This is due to human nature, there is no need to be indignant, there is no need to blame.
It is enough to do one's own thing and be worthy of one's conscience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="174" > two years to learn to speak, a lifetime to learn to shut up</h1>
Original text: People speak, move also. He who is silent, jingye, listens to his words because of his words. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: The wise remain silent, the stupid talk endlessly.
Silence is gold, eloquence is silver.
Man opens one mouth and two ears to listen more and talk less.
Evil comes out of the mouth, and understanding silence is the highest level of cultivation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="175" > kindness is expensive, please don't waste it</h1>
Original text: Gentlemen reject evil, and villains reject good. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: Gentlemen do not do evil, and villains do not do good.
The same rice feeds a hundred people.
People are not the same, and kindness is also to make a distinction.
Don't be a good person.
Confucius said: How can we repay virtue if we repay our grievances with virtue?
To the good guys, do the good, do the bad guys, don't be rude.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="176" > a different angle, multiple ways out</h1>
Original text: Want to be high and low, want to take the opposite. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: If a person wants to go up, he must first understand humility. If you want to get it, you must first know how to give.
Lao Tzu often said: Whether there is a symbiosis or not, it is difficult and easy to achieve.
Everything contradicts and transforms into each other.
If the road ahead is not clear, you may wish to go against the road, and there may be surprises.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="177" > people know how to hide themselves</h1>
Original text: The way of the saints, in hiding and hiding. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: Really powerful people know how to hide themselves.
Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind.
If you come out every day and pinch your head, there must be no good end.
The really powerful big people are not obvious.
The world is very complicated, learning to remain calm and indifferent, learning to hide yourself, is the way to be good.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="178" > the sweeter the mouth, the less reliable</h1>
Original text: The speaker, the loyal. - "Ghost Valley"
Translation: If a person does not distinguish between the occasion and the event, unconditionally flatters your words and deeds. Then this person is a villain.
Among friends, you are sincere.
If someone is smearing honey on anyone, be vigilant.
Such a person's mind is not right, there must be other intentions, be careful.