Analects Story No. 40: How Confucius Became a Winner in Life

Analects Story No. 40: How Confucius Became a Winner in Life

Confucius in his life in the era, although he did not have the title of Xianda, but he traveled around the world for thirteen years, accumulated a wealth of life experience, returned to the country of Lu in his later years, taught and educated people, and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for future generations, in the more than a hundred years after his death, his thoughts were respected by all the dynasties, he can be counted as a winner in life, but where did Confucius's learning come from?

Once Confucius said to Zigong, "Do you think that my learning comes from extensive study?" Is it because I'm knowledgeable? Ordinary people think, of course, is it, do not study much, study diligently, how can we have knowledge?

Zigong replied in the same way. But Confucius said, not like this, just like we say that some chess players, the heavens, the moon, the moon, a lifetime, but still a "stinky chess basket", some people are very hard at learning, but always did not open up, it seems that more learning is not necessarily strong, just like Shakyamuni's eldest disciple - Ananda, known as "the first to hear more", the brain is like a computer, Shakyamuni said, he wrote down all word for word, but among the many brothers, his degree is not the highest. Like Ananda's brother-in-law, Mahakaya, if he is a postdoc, Ananda is only a bachelor's degree.

Of course Confucius knew this, so how did he reply to Zigong, he said. I am a little mastered, all of them are mastered, and the Taoists have a similar saying: This one is so important, so what is this one? According to Li Bingnan's explanation, it is Zengzi's "way of loyalty and forgiveness", loyalty is the heart of people, loyalty is to do things sincerely, forgiveness is to forgive all people, that is, "dedication and happiness", in the unit to do things, friendly colleagues, always do not forget "loyalty and forgiveness", then you can also "get one".