Guoxue Night Talk • Careful Tasting (84) Ordinary people often say, "Happy or unhappy", "the width of the ground is not as wide as the heart"; in the classic culture of Sinology, it is often said that "the heart is wide and the body is fat" and "the heart is wide" and "the heart is wide"

Guoxue Night Talk, Savoring (84)

Ordinary people often say, "Happy or unhappy", "the width of the ground is not as wide as the width of the heart"; in the classic culture of Traditional Chinese Studies, it is often said that "the heart is wide and fat" and "the heart is the source of all things". So how to solve the "heart" width? In other words, what exactly is the "heart"?

In the Yellow Emperor's Neijing Su Qing, it is said that "the lord of the heart is the god, and he is the official of the monarch". The ancients believed that in addition to being the organ of the five halves in the body, the mind also took into account the function of the "mind". Contains five meanings:

The first is the God of the Heart. That is, human consciousness and thinking function; second, the mind is the "whole body mind" that dominates. The body's eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and limbs are governed by the "heart"; the third is the heart refers to the human brain's reflection of the perception and feeling of objective things; the fourth is that the heart is the origin of all things. "The mind is equal to the mind body, the human being, the heart of all things in heaven and earth, and the heart, the Lord of all things in heaven and earth." Fifth, the heart refers to the selfless desire and the heart of conscience and virtue in the middle way. The ability of the heart is not only at the perceptual level of pain and pain, but also in the moral height of being able to perceive good and evil. The good intentions of the ancients witnessed the profundity of Chinese culture.