Analects 15.27 Zi Yue: "Clever words are chaotic. If you can't bear it, you will plot a lot. ”
"Clever words and chaotic morality" and "small intolerable, then chaotic conspiracy" are placed in the same article, what is their internal connection?
This passage deals with the trade-off between immediate and long-term interests. Although it is easy to obtain immediate benefits, opportunistic profits, corrupt virtue, and destroy one's own image. If you want to do something big, you have to get the support of others. In the absence of absolute strength, without a good image endorsement, it is difficult to get support. Therefore, if you can't tolerate small profits, you won't be able to achieve big things. Confucius was given the opportunity to "study abroad" in Luoyang by the officials when he was young, and the opportunity to carry out political reforms in the country of Lu in middle age, probably inseparable from his lifelong adherence to the straight path and the establishment of a good image, right? In order to be promoted, the children of the cold door are diligent and earnest, and they have the reputation of working hard and working hard, which is not the use of the method of seeking great profits with virtue.
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