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In life, we must distinguish between the end and the end, "ben" is based on conscience as the fundamental basis of planning, and it is also the essential pursuit of doing things, while "end" is the way and method of doing things. Behind this approach, what is more important is the thinking of balancing the problem yourself.
It cannot be changed at all, because no matter when and where life is, it needs to have a master, and this master is also the conscience of one's own heart, and it is also the moral code of the world;
And the "end" can not be unchanged, life planning is also the need for a constant change of attitude, change at any time, with the events of change, only change, in order to formulate a practical plan in an appropriate way.
To achieve moral purposes in a reasonable way, in such a way that one can make contributions to one's own life and at the same time seek the well-being of the people of the world, both of which can be achieved in order to become the cause of the inner and outer kings of life.
There are two typical forms of error in life, both of which are typical cases of bias caused by the failure to have both, one is too sleek and the other is too paranoid.
The sleek do not take conscience as the bottom line, they will choose to exercise the means without a bottom line in order to achieve their own ends, such people are more than enough and insufficient, even if they can achieve the end, but this purpose is mostly to satisfy their own interests and exercise the means.
The other kind of paranoid people, that is, there is a bottom line in their hearts, but the outside is less of a round and flexible wisdom, they only know what the purpose of their adherence is, but sometimes they lack a flexible and concessionary side, and even for their so-called persistence and abandon the opportunity to plan a career, and then hit the wall everywhere, and finally regret for life.
There is a very classic dialogue in Mencius:
Chun Yujie said: "Men and women do not receive affection, is this a ceremonial system?" ”
Mencius said, "It's etiquette." ”
Chun Yuji said, "Sister-in-law fell into the water and pulled her with her hand?" ”
Mencius said, "A sister-in-law who falls into the water without pulling her is a jackal." The incompatibility between men and women is a ceremonial system. The sister-in-law fell into the water and pulled her with her hand, which was a workaround. ”
Chun Yu said: "When everyone falls into the water today, sir don't pull a hand, why?" ”
Mencius said: "When the world falls into the water, you must use the 'Tao' to rescue, and your sister-in-law who falls into the water is to rescue with your hands, do you want to rescue the world with your hands?" ”
In this dialogue, Chun Yuji's original intention was to persuade Mencius to save the world, but he did not say it directly, but gave an example of a man and a woman who did not kiss, but wanted to save his sister-in-law, to express why Mencius did not help when he was in the water today.
Mencius, on the other hand, thought he had been saved and helped by the Word.
In Mencius's view, when you are in the water today, you use the Tao to rescue yourself, and you exercise a flexible method, which is like the reason why your sister-in-law fell into the water and pulled her with her hand, which is the wisdom of power after knowing how to weigh the pros and cons.
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The attitude of Chun Yu Jie and Mencius to look at the problem is exactly what we say today that everything cannot be attached to the form, and many people often become overly attached to conscience itself when they live in the world, ignoring the wisdom that needs to be rounded and flexible, and finally clinging to the form too rigidly.
For example, some people in life, always think that they can stick to the bottom line, but in many cases, it is precisely because they do not understand the degree of change to stick to the bottom line and form an invisible mistake, at this time, persistence also loses its own meaning of existence.
Therefore, for the inner perseverance, it is a master of life, and we need to use this master to plan our careers, but we cannot blindly stick to it.
This is the principle of balancing the knowledge and action of life, and it is also the criterion of the holy and external kings in life, and if this criterion is put into the world, it can also be used as the basis for pursuing a career.
For a thing, how to do it is not important, the important thing is to be able to follow the fundamental laws of the Tao, and finally achieve the purpose of goodness, if you are too attached to the form when facing the problem and dealing with the problem, then what you are trying to do is only the thing itself, and you cannot achieve a reasonable purpose through the way, and many people often make a mistake in life is to cling to the thing itself, and at the same time, because they are too attached to the form and miss the opportunity to achieve the goal.
It is as if when a sister-in-law falls into the water, she abandons her in order to observe the etiquette of not being intimate.
There is a saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War: "It is better to take measures because of form than the multitude, and the multitude cannot know." Everyone knows that I am the shape of victory, and I do not know why I am the shape of victory.
The meaning of this sentence is that the flexible use of tactics according to changes in the enemy situation, even if the victory is placed in front of the people, the people still do not know the magic of it. People only know my winning method of combat, but they do not know how I flexibly apply various combat methods in light of changes in the enemy's situation.
The method of combat is "skill," and the one who can understand how to flexibly apply combat methods according to changes in the enemy's situation is the Tao.
All the strategies and actions of life need to be based on conscience in order to be counted as wisdom, otherwise it is only a means of self-cleverness, and the wisdom of the supremacy of life can be based on conscience, supplemented by flexible use of combat thinking, which is also the state of existence of the Tao.
Therefore, it is the key point that we should understand that we can flexibly change the way we do it based on conscience, rather than blindly sticking to our own standards and even losing the opportunity to use them effectively for the sake of moral standards.
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