Wang Yangming, the first cattle man of daming, is a sage I admire, and his spiritual essence is still nourishing the hearts of our modern people, and I have benefited a lot, so today we will get to know this Mr. Wang Shouren.
He was roughly born in a family of officials and eunuchs, his father Wang Hua was once a member of the imperial examination, he received a good family education from an early age, and he showed some signs of being different from ordinary people when he was a teenager, and he was very curious about everything. He had never been sure what he wanted to do before the age of 30, and he had dabbled in martial arts, poetry, Buddhism, and Taoism, but he felt that these were not what he was pursuing in his heart, not a kind of ultimate truth, he was going to seek an ultimate truth, to be a sage, and from then on he embarked on the path of seeking the Tao. His birth was destined to make him a sage...
He was not satisfied with the popular Cheng Zhu Li Theory at that time, and wanted to use practice to verify the knowledge of the grid, and checked the bamboo in his father's official office for three days and three nights, only one illness, which was not only a story, behind the story was a person's persistent exploration of the unknown.
At the age of 25, Wang Yangming was admitted to the shi to fall into the first place, his father Wang Hua felt sorry for this, privately enlightened him, this time did not win the next effort, but Wang Yangming made a surprising speech, he smiled and replied to his father: You are ashamed of not being the first, but I am ashamed of not being annoyed by the first.
At the age of 28, he finally passed the entrance examination and stepped into his career.
At the age of 34, Wang Yangming spoke out in righteousness, and Shangshu requested the release of the upright official, which angered the grand eunuch Liu Jin, and as a result, he was sent to prison by the court staff 40, and he belittled Guizhou Longchang as a post,a humble official in a distant and uncivilized land, during which he experienced various hardships, such as JinyiWei tracking and assassinating him, he pretended to commit suicide in the river to escape, he wanted to live in seclusion away from the officialdom, and he was worried about his father, so he heeded the call of his inner conscience and went to Guizhou Longchang to take up his post, the geographical environment of Guizhou at that time and its harsh climate, Belonging to the land of dysentery, sparsely populated, his servants were all sick, and instead he took up the work of servants to take care of them until they were healed...
Life can not choose good times or bad times, but you can choose to deal with good times or bad times, the following two paragraphs we come to experience the tribulations he faced at that time
Before being relegated to Guizhou Longchang, he learned that he was blacklisted by the powerful minister Liu Jin, and secretly waited for an opportunity to assassinate him on the way, and he was shocked: the strength of the past 30 years has been used in the wrong place, even his life is not guaranteed, he still holds such and such fantasy hopes for the imperial court, this is fate to make a joke for himself, if before this he was not very clear about his future, then now he has to stand up to accept the fate of the disaster, he came to the Qiantang River overnight, took off his shoes and placed them on the riverbank, Floating a bucket hat on the water, he made another jedi, pretended to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, deceived the two trailing Assassins, and secretly boarded a merchant ship and headed for Zhoushan.
At sea, we encountered a shipwreck again, the ship did not arrive in Zhoushan, but floated to the central coastal area of Fujian, and one of his poems "Pan-Sea" we can glimpse the hardships and dangers of that time: the danger is not stuck in the chest, he is different from floating clouds through space, the night is quiet and the sea is thirty thousand miles, the moon is flying under the tin, the sky is windy, and the danger is like floating clouds through space, how tranquil, the spirit of detachment, and how courageous!
Then he went out of wuyi mountain, into Jiangxi, Hunan to Guizhou... Wind and rain dangerous road, deep mud stuck in the horse, this is a hard journey to sharpen the body, but also to clean the soul of the heart of the journey, Hunan Dongting RuanShui is a thousand years ago the Chu State of Chu's vassal Qu Zi yin resting place, but Wang Yangming did not imitate him to embark on a road of no return, it is because he has decided to return to the root of nothingness to ask the true meaning of life, and this is his highest expectation of the self, and the desert may promote the emergence of the Tao he has been looking for.
After walking for a year and three months, the wind and food camped out, and finally arrived at the Dragon Farm, in order to survive, he set up a hermitage with the help of the local natives, and also reclaimed the barren mountains to plant himself, if an intellectual cannot survive independently, his scholarship and thought cannot be sent to the residence, Wang Yangming not only understands this, but also practices it in practice, and he pours out his sincerity and love from the heart...
Although the world is huge, although it is thousands of miles away from home, where can not live, what can not be done, Wang Yangming's revolutionary romantic feelings are worthy of admiration, there is no subordinates in Longchang, there is no official uniform, no organization, not even an office space, this reality, no romanticism, no enlightenment of the great music, how to survive? Only those who face all difficulties and pains, who still move forward firmly and calmly, are qualified to be called sages, and Wang Shouren already has this qualification.
After suffering, the reward will be incomparably rich, one night Wang Yangming suddenly realized that Cheng Zhu Lixue was wrong, the way of the saint should not be asked for from the outside, but from the inside, the heart is also reasonable, this stone-shattering discovery is called the Dragon Field Enlightenment, it is better to seek people than to seek oneself, it is better to ask for help from the outside, it is better to ask for help from the outside, the happiness after enlightenment, what a difficult and harsh environment, can he still be killed?
The way of the sages of heaven and earth does not exist in all things, nor does it need to exist in all things, heaven and man are one, when can they be divided, why can they be divided, move with the heart, do as they please, do as they please, and the ten thousand laws are naturally the way of the sages. Heavenly Reason, Human Desire, Heavenly Reason is Human Desire, Knowing the Tao, He Has Endless Strength and Wisdom, My Self-Sufficiency is the sound of the apocalypse he emitted in the spiritual wilderness, in that era of right and wrong, he rediscovered human dignity, to conscience, unity of knowledge and action, moving Heavenly Principle into people's hearts, highlighting the meaning of individual life, and letting each individual life awaken, this is the greatest place of mind science!
At this time, Wang Yangming's life has passed most of the time, and his life can be officially debuted.
He said that there are two kinds of people in the world, one is to do whatever they want, one is to refuse to act in the air, he strives to be a person who knows and acts, he himself concluded, I did things before I was 43 years old and considered what personal gains and losses, and now I only follow the call of my inner conscience, according to the truth and wrong, there is no hidden protection, even if the people of the world say that I am crazy, I still act with conscience.
He allowed the practice of the mind he created to establish three major feats in the military.
The first was to quell the rebellion of the bandits in Gannan Province, the second was to quell the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ningning, and the third was to quell the rebellion of Tusi in Guangxi, all of which were great victories.
Wang Yangming's three major achievements lie in his good at managing the army and making good use of strange tactics, combining positive and odd forces, calming the rebellion of King Ning, and even more strange plans, at first he did not have a single soldier in his hand, running alone at night, he did not wait for or rely on, did not want the assistance of the central authorities, and even did not want the policies of the central authorities, in the blink of an eye, millet turned into rice, shotguns for cannons, propaganda and public opinion attacked the heart war and counter-planning very successfully, and later raided the ning king Nanchang's old lair, achieving the anti-guest mainly, so that the king of Ning fell into passivity, taking the battle of Nankang hard, the so-called narrow road met the brave to win. Finally, in baojiao, borrowed from the battle of Chibi with fire to quell the rebellion, and its reputation has been famous for eternity, and the miracle of such an empty glove white wolf can be described as unique, which can be called a miracle of the world.
Quelling the guangxi rebellion can grasp the core of the problem, and the ethnic minority leaders are not sincerely rebelling, but the legitimate demands cannot be satisfied, so they adopt a policy of appeasement and put an end to it without spending a single soldier.
He hates the violence of trampling on the people, because in his philosophical system, human nature is the most fundamental thing, the source of everything in this world, he hates King Ning who started the war, but he has never been carried away by anger, only accumulated strength when there is no strength, waiting for the opportunity to come, there is a counterinsurgency direction, but also a realistic counterinsurgency strategy, this is the unity of knowledge and action, this is Wang Yangming's invincible philosophy and wisdom.
This mind did not move, moved randomly, included Wang Yangming's military thinking, he was good at using soldiers, scheming, in that era his wisdom was beyond anyone's expectations, he was determined, his heart was like water, he could not buy, nor did he compromise, and there seemed to be no weakness.
But he has never been proud of his achievements, but he only hopes that the imperial court will reform politics and make plans to withdraw at any time, he once said that his career is like mud, do not fall into it, it is rare to come back! In the face of all kinds of discredit, he treated it indifferently, saying that he was just acting by his conscience and being a madman...
His conscience and mind are derived from the multiplicity of deaths, and the more difficult he himself goes, the more he shows the strength of his heart.
In 1529, after he put down the Guangxi Tusi Rebellion, he returned home after being seriously ill, and died in a boat in Zhanghe, Jiangxi, at the age of 57, and his last words were: My heart is bright, and what do I say?
Wang Yangming's psychology is a strange flower in the history of Chinese civilization, is a wealth worthy of our pride, he blew the clarion call for the liberation of human nature, led the trend of ideological emancipation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, his thoughts have been passed down through the ages, his mind has drifted across the sea, profoundly affected Japan, South Korea and other East Asian countries, he himself is also worshipped as a god, Japan's General Dongxiang Heihachiro is his loyal fan, Dongxiang Heihachiro carved a seal, engraved: a lifetime of bowing to Yangming, wear on the body.
His life was a bright life, he experienced ups and downs but he was determined, he was in the official arena but he cared about the people, he opposed violence and greed, he believed in justice and conscience, and he was a true sage worthy.
The essence of the mind as I understand it...
Before Wang Yangming, Zhu Xi's three principles and five constants, to go to human desires, to save heavenly reason as a social structure criterion, feudal emperors regard the magic weapon of governing the country, the so-called loyalty and filial piety constitute the pyramid of human morality, no matter what class you are in, you must do people according to feudal etiquette, on the contrary, it is deviant, heaven is difficult to tolerate, so that the feudal etiquette that is formed destroys human nature and suppresses human nature, and the result is that the water is stagnant and ignores the meaning of individual life. Wang Yangming used the unity of knowledge and action to solve this problem, summed up that existence is reasonable, listen to the conscience of the heart to do things, to self-awakening, he awakened the conscience and soul of human beings, and used knowledge and action to build a round and harmonious human world.
He said that the mind is the reason, and the essence of the mind is originally a heavenly principle, that is, the true self of Ru, and the body is only a tool that serves the mind, and should not be anti-guest and driven by delusions. Mountains and rivers are just an illusion that the True Body of Mind Qi decodes with this shell tool. The mind is the force that forms the artifacts of this world, what is the meaning of human life? Selfish desires produce dust, which obscures the true self's spiritual essence, and it is necessary to work hard to see the inner dust through external circumstances and remove the dust until nothing is complete, and then the essence of the mind can be restored, and this is the meaning of life. If the mind reaches the conscience and removes this obstacle, then the essence has been restored, and this mind is bright, nothing more. How to remove soul pollution? Conscience is the Tao, but ordinary people are mostly blinded by material desires and cannot seek conscience, because doing things with conscience is the correct direction of cultivation, and people's behavior must be unified with conscience, that is, knowledge and action are one, such as selfish desires, and when they cannot be united with conscience, they must use the method of qualities to go to human desires and restore their conscience, the world is just the world that human beings think of themselves, it is false, it is not worth our attachment, we must cultivate the truth through falsehood, we cannot be fascinated by physical tools, and we must restore the bright mental nature.
No matter when, where, and for what reason, humanity will not be destroyed, and he will always stand between heaven and earth.
Wang Yangming once persuaded a Zen master to return to the world, because this Zen master thinks of his mother, thinking of his mother is conscience, and Zhu Xi's desire to go to people is a bit excessive, like starvation is small, loss of discipline is big, it is wrong to oppose human nature and heavenly reason, it is wrong to separate heavenly reason and human nature, people have all kinds of desires, and it is not right to suppress it with heavenly reason.
Wang Yangming said that everyone has a saint in their hearts, only self-confidence is not enough, they have buried themselves, his affirmation of the value of individual life has awakened the social atmosphere to be free and unrestrained, and the social atmosphere of the late Ming Dynasty is free and unrestrained, tracing back to the roots, we must not forget the enlightenment of mind learning.
Each of us should conscientiously study Wang Yangming's mind, the significance is very great, what we pursue is meaningless, it is easy to break the mountain and the thief in the heart, Wang Yangming has written a big truth in his life, and the biggest enemy of man is his heart.
Wang Yangming's mental studies and Buddhism are similar and similar, they are both said by saints, but how many people in the world understand? My generation should encourage themselves, stand on their own feet, work hard to cultivate, and take the path of the sages...
Finally, he concludes this article with his four essentials of mental learning: there is no good and no disgusting body, there is good and malicious movement, knowing good and knowing evil is conscience, and removing evil for good is a special thing.
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