"In this era, why do you want to read Wang Yangming? is because it allows people today to find a spiritual home. On April 21, on the occasion of the 29th "World Book Day", at the 27° Guizhou landmark "Yangming Library" reading sharing meeting, the host, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Yangming Cultural Research Institute of Guizhou Normal University, and Zhang Chunxiang, executive director of the China Zhouyi Society, said when summarizing the practical significance of reading Wang Yangming.
Zhang Chunxiang, professor and doctoral supervisor of Yangming Culture Research Institute of Guizhou Normal University, executive director of China Zhouyi Society
"In 2023, the first batch of new books published by Confucius Xuetang Bookstore, a subsidiary of Guizhou Daily Contemporary Financial Media Group, will be unveiled. With Yangming culture as the core, Yangming Library excavates Yangming cultural resources from multiple angles and at a deep level, and gathers the research results of Yangming studies at home and abroad at a high level and in an all-round way, which is of great value and far-reaching significance in the document preservation, academic research, popularization and promotion of Yangming culture and international exchanges. At the beginning of the reading sharing session, Zhang Chunxiang introduced to the audience the relevant research results that have been emerging in recent years.
"Today, our 27° Guizhou Landmark Reading Sharing Meeting in Guizhou Daily Newspaper takes "Yangming Library" as a guide, from the three aspects of 'saints must learn', 'it is easy to break the mountain, and it is difficult to break the heart', and 'people must grind in things, so that they can stand, and they can be static and stable, and they can also move and be fixed' These three aspects will discuss the possibility of personal growth to achieve higher than realistic ideals, the spiritual inquiry of the meaning and value realization of life, and the enlightenment of practical 'work methodology' to modern people. Zhang Chunxiang introduced.
"Professor Jing explained the transformation process from the religious 'sacred' to the humanistic level to understand the 'sacred', and then to the ordinary people to understand the 'sacred'. In the guest sharing session, Jing Haifeng, professor of the School of Chinese Studies and the Department of Philosophy of Shenzhen University, part-time doctoral supervisor of Wuhan University and Sun Yat-sen University, and vice president of the Chinese Confucius Society, shared the view that everyone can achieve a "saint" through learning, which aroused a strong resonance with Zhang Chunxiang, "This makes each of us hope to become a saint." ”
Zhang Chunxiang introduced that when Mr. Yang Ming visited the great Confucian Lou Liang at the age of eighteen, the two sides reached a deep agreement on the issue of "saints must be able to learn". What does Mr. Yang Ming mean by "learning"? That is, to get rid of selfish desires. What Mr. Yang Ming said about "to" is to achieve the goal, what kind of goal to achieve? In this way, it is not difficult for everyone to become a saint; in this way, it is higher than the realistic ideal for us to become an adult; in this way, even if we are at the bottom of society, we have a saint in our hearts, and if we can use this saint's heart to treat everything in our lives kindly, our life will definitely get better and better. This is the removal of the obstacle of selfish desires, this is the use of conscience, this is the process of honing things. ”
"I was very shocked by what Professor Zeng talked about about filial piety to parents. Zeng Zhenyu, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute for Advanced Study of Confucianism at Shandong University, director of the Zengzi Research Institute of Shandong University, president of the Zengzi Research Association of the Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy, and president of the Zengzi Research Institute, talked about the transfer process of conscience with "filial piety", Zhang Chunxiang was deeply touched.
"Professor Zeng said that the switch to awaken our conscience is one word, 'shame'. That is, if we do something unfilial and we feel uneasy and painful, then this emotional switch in our heart is turned on. Zhang Chunxiang believes that in daily life, filial piety is a "deep love" emotion from the bottom of the heart, not just what should be done in the sense of ethics and morality, let alone responsibility in the legal sense. The body is skinned, and the parents are received, and filial piety is a natural emotional use, and violating filial piety is painful. When the switch of emotions is kept on at any time, this filial piety will naturally appear, and this is also a natural manifestation of conscience. "Today, when we learn conscience and read Yangming, we must unite knowledge and action. ”
Qi Si, executive vice president of the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Socialism and vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Federation of Social Sciences, said that in this era of great changes unseen in a century, we need to return to Yangming and learn to aspire. In this regard, Zhang Chunxiang said that determination, that is, the will to become holy in the heart.
"Throughout Mr. Yangming's life, he aspired to study and learn from sages, and in his middle and later years, he used his life to practice his ideal of becoming a saint, and built a 'conscience' system full of vitality and vitality for us today, and also set up a model of a saint for whom everyone can become a saint. Zhang Chunxiang said that the issue of conscience cannot only be understood in writing, but must be practiced.
"I am glad to see that there is an undercurrent in today's academic circles, where theoretical discussion has begun to be gradually implemented into the practice of body and mind, which is a real philosophy about life, and it is also the key to Yangming thought taking root in life. Zhang Chunxiang said.
"The publication of Confucius Academy's Yangming Library will build an ideological and cultural treasure house that integrates academic and popular and integrates ancient and modern wisdom for our reading. Zhang Chunxiang said expectantly, "The publication of the first batch of books is quite high, let us look forward to the second and third batches of books." ”
Text/Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Huang Ruopei
Photo/Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Wu Wei
Edited by Sibo Liu
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