No one wants to live a life of doing nothing, and they don't want to go to the world in vain.
When you reach a certain age, all kinds of social realities will force you to grow, because this is life.
Therefore, whether it is to prove themselves or to provide a better life for their families, everyone hopes that they can do something in their lifetime.
But many people always habitually think that if you want to achieve a career, you must keep yourself busy, and people who have achieved nothing are just lazy!
But is that really the case? As early as hundreds of years ago, a saint on the mainland put forward a different view, and this person was Wang Yangming.
Wang Yangming said in the "Records of Transmission and Practice": There is a kind of person who looks very busy every day, makes himself very tired, and actually can't do anything.
That is to say, there are too many people in life who seem to be very busy every day, but in fact, they are all busy, and such people are not as good as "lazy people".
Why would Wang Yangming say that?
As we all know, Wang Yangming's life experience can be described by the word "twists", when he was a child, Wang Yangming developed an introverted personality because of the early death of his mother.
From a young age, he understood that to do a thing should be undistracted, he went all out to study and obtain a meritorious name according to his father's wishes, and successfully entered the DPRK as an official.
During Wang Yangming's tenure as an official, he gave full play to his own skills, put forward many suggestions and adopted them, and personally led troops to fight and quell rebellions.
Whether he was an official in the DPRK or leading soldiers to fight, he did a very good job and was methodical.
Later, after being degraded to the dragon field, Wang Yangming sank his heart, single-mindedly felt the study of the heart, and became the master of the study of the heart, which had a profound impact on future generations.
Presumably, after reading this, many people will understand what Wang Yangming said at the beginning: Many people have been busy all their lives, but they can't do anything.
Wang Yangming told us with his life's experience that if people want to achieve things, the most terrible thing is not "laziness", but "blind busyness".
Too many "blind" people in real life will always make too many plans for themselves, always want to do everything well, but they can't sink their hearts to do a good job seriously.
This state is also what Wang Yangming said in the study of mind: If the mind is often in a state of "agitation", there will be many chaotic thoughts in the brain, and it is difficult to achieve things.
Another ancient "half-saint" Zeng Guofan also said: When mortals do a thing, they must pay full attention to this matter, and if they do this, if they think like that, they will not achieve anything in the end.
It can be said that Mr. Wang Yangming's simple words expounded the fundamental reasons why many people have achieved nothing.
And this is just a simple sentence in Wang Yangming's quotations, from which we can see why Wang Yangming can be called "the first person in the ages".
Wang Yangming was not only a philosopher and thinker, but also an educator, politician, and military man.
The theory of painstaking effort he summed up in his lifetime has influenced countless people.
How bullish is Wang Yangming, as evidenced by historical evaluations: Ming Muzong Zhu Zai?? Evaluate him: two shoulders of righteousness, a generation of wizards, with the ability to quell the rebellion, to show the strategy of saving the world and the people.
As a thinker, Wang Yangming created a new world of Confucianism and became a generation of spiritual masters, known as saints along with Confucius and Mencius;
As a military expert, Wang Yangming made an immortal contribution and was recorded in the annals of history. Quelling local civil unrest and quelling the rebellion of king Ning was revered by his subordinates.
Wang Yangming's original thoughts on psychology have been passed down to this day and have become a spiritual model for the world, with important and far-reaching influences in China, Japan, Southeast Asia and even the world.
It can be said that everyone should study Wang Yangming's thoughts, look at Wang Yangming's quotations, even if you have more troubles that you can't figure out, you can solve it, especially Wang Yangming's mind, which has a very far-reaching significance.
It is both a metaphysical philosophy and a philosophy of life, a worldview and a methodology, an epistemology and a practical theory, a self-cultivation theory and a kung fu theory, but the core is a philosophy of life, teaching people how to behave.
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