I'm not writing this to mislead everyone. If you are a student in school, or a person who has studied for further study, it is not too suitable for you, because our education is proud of "never forgetting", and those who have memories will win the world.
Five thousand years in China, all kinds of books are as vast as the sea, you spend several lifetimes can not finish remembering, that kind of rote learning style, not you are reading, but books are reading you, you have been trained into nerds in ignorance.
When teaching his students, Wang Yangming opposed blindly remembering the content of the text, advocating the use of "heart" to understand, and after enlightenment, it could be discarded to avoid the meaning of the words affecting the mind and thus obscuring the conscience.
The classic is a classic because it is an eternal truth that can withstand all tests. More and more admiration for the wisdom of the ancients, as long as you can open the boundary between "heart" and "things", then you can break through the shell of self-consciousness and penetrate the ancient and modern.
This wonderful realm I have deeply experienced in recent days.
When you create a set of experience patterns in your heart, as long as you apply this set of patterns to the classic content, then you will find that everything is beyond your imagination, so that you are no longer reading the classics, but you are experiencing life itself in the classics.
How to open the partition between "heart" and "things" is to transform the written language into your own experience, and the words in the book are not writing about others, but about yourself. It is you yourself who are rehearsing the text content as the first protagonist in your heart.
For example, when you read a biography of a successful person, the person in the book is not a successful person, but yourself. Convert the minds of others into your own experiences, so that your state of existence in the real world will change, your behavior and thinking habits will slowly change, and you will think like a successful person.