When it comes to Wang Yangming, the hottest sentence in recent years is: "There have been two semi-saints in Chinese history, one is Confucius, and the other is Wang Yangming." Zeng Guofan is considered half. ”
Regardless of whether the source of this statement is verifiable or not, it is enough to show Wang Yangming's supreme position in the hearts of the Chinese.
Why do Chinese have such a strong "Wang Yangming complex"? Why do we love Wang Yangming? I think there are at least three reasons: First, he proved to the world that it is possible to realize the ideal "higher than reality." When Wang Yangming was 12 years old, he met a strange person, who judged that he would be able to achieve great things in the future. So Yang Ming went to ask his teacher: What is the first-class person and what is the first-class thing? The teacher said: Studying, being the first, and being an official are the first-class people. Yang Ming was very disdainful when he heard this answer, and felt that it was too low, he thought that the first class of people was to become a "sage". 12-year-old Wang Yangming does not have a very clear concept of "what is a sage", but subconsciously feels that the worldly success of "being an official" in the general sense is not enough to become an ideal. He wants to pursue something more transcendent in this life.
When Wang Yangming was 17 years old, he met Wu Youbi's disciple Lou Liang, and Lou Liang gave him a sentence, which later became the most critical thing to create Wang Yangming, that is, "the saint must be able to learn", and the realm of the saint can be reached through learning. As Marx said, "Great men are great because you are kneeling at him". If you think that you can't be a saint, only others can do it, it's because you don't have the desire and the courage to take it on. Historian Huang Zongxi talked about Wang Yangming, the most important sentence: Wang Yangming opened a "road to sainthood" for later generations. Wang Yangming's life and choices made many people with ideals in later generations realize that people's spiritual strength can be very strong. If you also have an ideal that is "higher than reality", do not give up on it, but fully mobilize your own strength to achieve it. Second, Yang Ming Mind is the study of "self-realization of the meaning and value of life". Wang Yangming has a poem: "Everyone has their own fixing needle, and the root of Wanhua is always in the heart." But he laughed at the past and saw it upside down, and looked for it outside the branches and leaves. "Many people have a misunderstanding of Yang Ming Mind and think that he advocates subjective idealism. In fact, what Wang Yangming wants to emphasize is that by establishing a positive spiritual order, people can have continuous motivation from the heart and live a life with a great sense of value. Zhang Zhiqiang, director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that Yangmingxue is "the study of life." It teaches you to find the meaning of life from within your life and break through the limitations of life.
Detail of "Lanting Yajitu" (Courtesy of Visual China) Of course, this breakthrough is not easy. As Wang Yangming said, "It is easy to break the mountain and the thief is difficult to break the heart", he himself has also experienced the "five drowning and three changes" ("five drowning" refers to the fact that he has indulged in Ren Xia, riding and shooting, dictionaries, immortals, and Buddhas, and the "three changes" are the three changes in life), after a lot of practical operations, detours, and inner suffering, he has established a set of methods that can be closely connected with his own life, and truly have guiding significance. Just like Dong Ping, a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Zhejiang University, said, "The core essence of Yangming Psychology is only to let people take the initiative and consciously establish a complete self-psychosomatic order, and require that this psychosomatic order be embodied and implemented in all aspects of their real life, and use this complete psychosomatic order to support our daily life and realize the independence, soundness, completeness and unity of personality." Generally speaking, Yang Ming Mind is about our realization of survival, and it is about the self-realization of the meaning and value of existence. ”
In the third documentary of "Wang Yangming", he explored a set of practical "work methodology" to teach people to "do things with the heart of being born into the world." "Wang Yangming is not a scholar in the study, but it is difficult to put theories into practice. Virtue, speech, meritorious service, he applied his ideas to do things, led troops to quell many rebellions in his life, cleared up bandits, and made outstanding military achievements. Its use of troops is "weird" and arbitrary, and it has always been known as a "cunning special soldier". In the "Biography" that records his quotations, there are often enlightening sentences that wake us up all at once: The disciple asked: When you are meditating, you feel that your thoughts are very clear, but once you encounter specific things, you can no longer follow your own ideas, why? Wang Yangming replied: "People must grind on things in order to stand still, and only then can they be 'still and fixed, and movement is also fixed.'" The disciple asked: What should I do if I don't make progress in my studies? Wang Yangming replied: "Determination to work hard is like planting a tree." Fang's roots and buds have not yet dried up, and they have stems, but there are no branches, branches and leaves, and leaves and then flowers and fruits. When planting roots for the first time, just cultivate and irrigate, don't think about branches, don't think about leaves, don't think about flowers, don't think about things. "Don't do things with a sense of gain or loss, otherwise you will suffer from gains and losses, and you will be happy when you achieve your goals, and you will be frustrated if you don't achieve them." With such a mindset, you can't get sustainable inner motivation, and it's not a sustainable way to do things. Before dying, the disciple asked him what his last words were, and Wang Yangming only left eight words: "This heart is bright, and what can I say." ”
Wang Yangming's calligraphy at the Shanghai Museum (Photo courtesy of Visual China) In the nearly 500 years since Wang Yangming's death, countless followers have practiced his ideas and drawn spiritual strength from them. He inspired a large number of cattle at home and abroad, including Zeng Guofan, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen, Qian Mu, Liang Shuming, Xiong Shili, and Takehiko Okada. Historian Qian Mu said that Wang Yangming's "Biography" is "a book that all Chinese must read"; Japanese Confucian scholar Takehiko Okada believes that "Yangmingxue has the most characteristics of oriental culture; it is simple and simple, and it is not only easy to learn and master, but also easy to practice and implement." Harvard University professor Tu Weiming lamented: "The 21 st century will be Wang Yangming's century." This time, Sanlian Middle School Reading, which is deeply involved in traditional culture, has found "the person who understands him best" for you, and we have joined hands with three famous scholars who teach in top universities in China, have a good reputation in the academic community, and have systematic research on Yangming psychology: Dong Ping, professor of the Department of Philosophy of Zhejiang University
Deng Zhifeng, professor of the Department of History, Fudan University
Zhang Zhiqiang, director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from the threefold realm of "the present world", "the historical environment" and the "philosophical environment".
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Chicken Soup, Successology, Thick Black Learning?
When it comes to Wang Yangming, how many misunderstandings do we have? One of the "two and a half saints" in Chinese history, a generation of grandmasters, and anti-anxiety masters...... He praised the king of chicken soup, success studies, and thick black studies...... There are also many vulgar interpretations of him, and there is also a view that he is regarded as the greatest representative of ancient Chinese idealism, which is a great misunderstanding.
Dong Ping, a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Zhejiang University, said that the pace of modern social work is too fast, which makes people tired, and we seem to dimly feel that Mr. Yangming's thoughts are giving us a kind of spiritual strength, which can make our tired minds settle down in a certain sense. It should be noted that Yang Ming Xinxue is not chicken soup. What is chicken soup? It is roughly the kind of placebo that feels comfortable after listening to it, but it cannot be landed at all and cannot produce practical effects. Yangming Psychology has a set of underlying logic, which has a strong practicality, and can completely form a methodology and be directly practiced in daily life. This course is to explain this set of underlying logic to you.
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To restore the first part of a real Wang Yangming course, Dong Ping, a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Zhejiang University, will take you into the "present world" of Yangming Psychology, to see how modern people should understand and use Yangming Psychology to truly reshape their inner world. Why is there a "sunshine fever" in modern times?
What is the role of Yang Ming Mind today?
What are the true implications of Yang Ming Mind for today?
...... The second part of the course, Deng Zhifeng, a professor of history at Fudan University, will take you back to Wang Yangming's "historical context". What contributed to the change in his thinking? What were the basic problems of Wang Yangming's time?
How did Wang Yangming's family background and experience shape him?
Why do people today want to learn the "road of sainthood" from Wang Yangming?
...... The third part of the course, Zhang Zhiqiang, director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, will take you into the "philosophical realm" from a bird's-eye perspective, put Yangming Xinxue into the entire history of Chinese thought, and take you to understand the causes and consequences of Yangmingxue's emergence through the beginning-inheritance-transformation-combination, and analyze the inextricable relationship between Yangming's Xinxue and Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism. Reveal the reasons for this change in the entire ancient ideological and philosophical context. Why was Wang Yangming able to create the Confucian "being" from the "nothingness" of Buddhism and Taoism?
How did Wang Yangming overcome the common "boredom" of modern people?
How to fight against "nothingness" by aspiring?
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This is a science that teaches people to be human beings and do things
The biggest problem for modern people is that they don't know how to settle down. We often feel anxious, impetuous, and full of desires, and what we lack is the patience and ability to achieve our goals step by step. Zhang Zhiqiang, director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that Yangmingxue is to solve the problem of a person's "inner motivation" and to inspire people to find their own inner "deeper" motivation.
Yangmingxue aims to solve the problems of individual life: Wang Yangming said to people who "suffer from gains and losses": "All patients who have good and bad things, and who have difficulties and lose their inferiority, are all involved in the loss of reputation." Wang Yangming said to those who are "in a hurry": "If a tree has these sprouts, only irrigate with these waters, and when the sprouts grow, they will add water again, and the work of irrigation will be within its limit." Wang Yangming said to people who are "prone to emotional fluctuations": "Now Yu Fan is angry and angry, etc., just a thing to conform, don't have a meaning, then the heart and body are outstanding, and the body is right." Wang Yangming said to the "impetuous heart" people: "If the master is timely, it is as endless as the fortune of heaven, although the reward is ever-changing, he is always at ease, the so-called 'heavenly monarch is calm, and all bodies obey orders'." "Do the things of entering the world with the heart of birth, and let life move towards the true purpose of life. It can be said that Yang Ming Xinxue has resolved the crisis of meaning for modern people. Help people to obtain sustainable and quiet inner strength in uncertain times.
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A panoramic view of Wang Yangming's life
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Wang Yangming's "Biography" is detailed one by one
Zhou Yueyue, a famous expert in "Mind Studies" and Dean of Yangming College of Communication University of China, went deep into the core of Yangming Mind Studies, and took care of real cases, with a volume of nearly 600 pages, to explain the "Biography" completely.
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It is based on Mr. Chen Rongjie's "Commentary on Wang <传习录>Yangming's Detailed Annotations" and Ye Shengtao's school edition of "Biography".
Referring to the original text of the "Biography of Xi Lu" in the "Complete Works of Wang Yangming" published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House and the research on the content of the "Biography of the Record" in Mr. Shu Jingnan's "Wang Yang's Complete Compilation of the Next Year's Spectrum", we strive to be accurate in the content.
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"On Several Key Issues of Yangming Psychology", Dong PingAuthor: Jun Ru Editor: Ju Ou