Hello friends! Do you know? Virtue is hypocritical. At this point, I will continue to talk about the second verse of the second chapter of "Dialectical Nourishing the Heart", talking about nourishing the heart.
In real life, some people are always compassionate, reflecting very good and virtuous, but not necessarily true, may be hypocritical, there is a fable "sheep for cattle" said:
In ancient times, every time people arrived at a certain day, they had to hold a sacrifice ceremony in the temple to show their devotion to the gods and seek the protection of the gods, and this sacrifice ceremony was called "sacrifice bell". Whenever the bell is sacrificed, either a cow or a sheep is to be slaughtered, and then the head of the cow or the head of the sheep is placed on a large wooden plate on the offering table of the god, and the people stand at the offering table and pray.
One day, a man came from the capital of the State of Qi, and he led a cow through the front of the palace hall. At this time, king Qi Xuan saw it at the gate of the main hall, and ordered the man to stop the morning glory, so he asked, "Where are you going to lead this cow?" The man replied, "I will take it and slaughter it for the sake of the bell." After hearing this, King Qi Xuan looked at the cow and said, "This cow was not guilty, but it was going to die in vain, so let it go!" ”
The morning glory man said, "Great King, you are so merciful, so please abolish the ritual of offering the bell, right?" ”
"How can this be abolished?" King Qi Xuan became serious and continued, "In this way, replace this cow with a sheep!" ”
The fable tells the story of the ancient King Of Qi Xuan, a compassionate monarch, who was saddened to see the use of cattle as "sacrifice bells", and was suggested to him that such "sacrifice bells" be abolished, and he replaced the cows with sheep as "sacrifice bells".
The parable enlightens a person who is compassionate, kind, or virtuous, as long as he acts contrary to ethics (killing sheep without killing cattle, and having an act of killing is contrary to the ethics of compassion, kindness, or virtue).
In real life, one also needs to know that it is wrong to show kindness, kindness, or virtue in only form without looking at the actual effect, and a fable "The Sacrifice of the Dove" says:
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin Dynasty established the capital of Handan. The Jin dynasty had a fiery minister, Zhao Jianzi, who liked to let the common people catch spotted doves for him and send them to his house for release during the New Year.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the people of Handan were able to make an exception and rush into Zhao Jianzi's mansion, and they all came to offer a dove to Zhao Jianzi so that Zhao Jianzi could be released. Zhao Jianzi was very happy and gave them very generous rewards one by one. On the first day of the first month, there is an endless stream of people who come in from morning to night to offer the spotted dove.
Zhao Jianzi's protégé stood by for a long time and asked him why he did this, and Zhao Jianzi replied: "Releasing life on the first day of the New Year shows my love for living beings and has a benevolent heart!" The doorman went on to say, "It is rare that you have such kindness to living beings. I don't know if you have ever thought of it: If the people of the whole country know that you want to take the dove to release, so that you chase after the dove, the result must be a lot of doves who are killed and injured! If you really want to release and want to save the life of the dove, do not follow the order of the dao and prohibit the capture. Like now, you reward the common people to catch these many doves and give them to you, and you release them again, then your kindness to the doves really can't compensate for the disasters you have caused to them artificially! ”
Zhao Jianzi listened to the words of the doorkeeper, paced around the palace gate with his hands behind his back, thought carefully for a while, silently nodded his head, and said, "Yes." ”
The fable reflects the kindness of Zhao Jianzi, the minister of the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period, who had a benevolent heart and accumulated virtue, and gave him a "release" of the dove caught by the common people, but his protégé questioned his "release" behavior, and Zhao Jianzi admitted that his "release" behavior was wrong.
The fable is enlightening: it is wrong for a person to act only in a formal way to express kindness, kindness, or virtue without looking at the actual effect; if a person wants to cultivate virtue and make himself have a benevolent heart, a good deed of virtue, or a virtue for others, he must pay attention to practical effects, not formal expressions.
Friends, on the contradiction of "nourishing the heart and cultivating morality", I will talk about it here today, and then I will continue to talk about it!