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Chapter 14 Self-cultivation (5)

Not chasing things is a great strength, and scholars do their best here.

The hands are respectful, the feet are heavy, the head is straight, the mouth is quiet, sitting like a corpse, standing like a vegetarian, as if thinking, no wild eyes, no ears to listen, and other scenes.The exterior scene is neat and solemn, and the interior scene is Zhaizhuang Zhongzheng. There is no one who is not neat and solemn but can Zhaizhuang Zhongzheng.Therefore, picking up the five palaces and all kinds of bodies is just to capture this heart.If the mind is calm and compliant with etiquette, why not bend your arms and fingers, sing songs in the bath, sing the wind and enjoy the moon, follow the willows and flowers?The so-called boarding the other shore to do nothing.

The status of the sky, the growth of all things, there will be a certain time in thousands of years, a certain time in hundreds of years, and a certain time in decades.Therefore, the harmony between heaven and earth is very difficult.

Respect to Si.Respect is to restrain inward step by step, until there is no inner place, and it comes out naturally to the four limbs, develops career, and permeates heaven and earth; wantonness is to indulge the outside step by step, and the misfortune caused by wantonness is self-evident.Therefore, the saints through the ages only honored the character Guan Jizi of Yunzhi.Yao, Qinming and Yungong, Shun Wengong and Yunsai, Yuzhi An Ruzhi, Tang Zhisheng Jing Rijin, Wen Zhilang Gong, Wu Zhisheng Jingsheng, Confucius Yuzhi respectful and peaceful.Lecturers don't talk about this, and they don't know how to do it.

Sighing the recent world, those above accumulate magnanimity and become soft, accumulate softness and become cowardly, accumulate cowardice and accumulate fear, and accumulate fear and become useless;

I don't know how to reverse the governance system at this time.The word decent is also the thief of the law.Decentness is important, but law is light; law is relaxed, and discipline is bad.In the past, the disease was caused by the laws, and now it is also caused by the Ji Gang.Fame, Ji Gang is also a great thing.Today, the courtiers despise the ministers, the soldiers at the frontier despise the commanders, the sons and daughters at home despise their parents, the disciples at school despise the teachers, the juniors overshadow the advanced ones, and the young ones despise the elders in the village.But greed and wantonness are unbridled, and I don't know what etiquette is, so I can't grow up gradually.Now it has been a long time, the extreme will be chaos and death, the situation has become heavy, and it is difficult to reverse it.The ignorant is still the same, what's more, what can I do?
Those who misfortune and good fortune are governed by heaven; those who honor and disgrace are governed by the king; those who slander and reputation are governed by people;I only pay attention to our company, and don't take care of others.

The last thing we should do is wander around like an empty shell all day long.

When karma has to be discarded, as for virtue, when there is self-knowledge or even ignorance, you can't stop learning.

When nothing is clear, things will be cleared up, and if turbidity is reduced, it will be cleared;When the disease is gone, he is a good person; when the cloud is gone, it is sunny.

With a body of seven feet, he wears the sky and the earth, resists death and does not yield to others, but falls from the grass, and even covers the coffin to humiliate the body and flatter material desires. He is nothing more than a slave.Ashamed!Ashamed!

Can't stand slander, just ignorance.Unless you are facing punishment for your crime, you must not die unjustly, you must be justified.If you slander fame and deeds and gossip, the more you argue, the more you will become more angry.

If you don't pay it and forget your words, it will become clear after a long time.I don't know what I got, but I got it from the sky.

To be a man of integrity must be well-established, and if it is not well-established, it means that the seedlings are not beautiful.

Don't suffer from the famous name that no one knows, but suffer from the hidden evil that no one knows.Although it is obvious that it is far and near, it is evil to offend the gods.Those who bow down are afraid of it.

If you behave evilly, you will have no scruples about fighting against the forehead; if you practice righteousness, you will be ashamed and ashamed.This constant state of ignorance is the great shame of a gentleman.

Material desires are born of temperament.

If you want to be rich, noble and blessed, God can't help me; if you want to be a virtuous gentleman, I can't help you.

There is no more force in doing evil, and no more spontaneity in doing good.Scholars have explored this idea, rather than be ashamed?
If you are not a servant of the three clans, you are the masters of the two clans.Who are the three clans?One is called temperament, which is born with qi in the body, and all actions are dictated by it, such as how violent the brave are, and how retreating and cowardly the cowards are.The second is the custom, the state of the world is established, and the sage cannot escape from it, so he has to go up and down with the world, rely on the world, and know it but cannot be independent.The third is the desire of things, things that can be destroyed all over the world, and things that are sacrificed to desire every day.With a body of seven feet, he runs through the doors of the three families, if he is not here, he is there.Lowering one's ambition and humiliating one's body, peace of mind and willingness, obsession can't be self-knowledge, even if you know it, you are not ashamed to be angry. A man stands between heaven and earth, and participates with the two appearances. Wealthy, profitable and self-sufficient, it is also pitiful.I am not loyal to Tibetan righteousness, but also a heroic slave and maidservant, roaring and hesitating, unable to untie the bondage, An De is quite free and alone as the master of the two rooms!Deplorable and hateful.

Being a man of one's own family, one's own self-knowledge is very infuriating, and it is self-deception to be fond of color.When other people are human beings, they are very knowledgeable, but they know their evil, and they praise their cheeks, which is called deception.Both are shameful.

The word "consciousness" refers to Xiqiao Tianyuan.Only when you know, you will know, and you will know if you feel it, and you will not know it if you don’t know it.Nowadays, everyone knows about the pain of sores, but those who suffer from sores call it pain.Nowadays people cannot do good and do evil, but they just don't realize it. After realizing it, they have to do good and not do evil.

Let nature take its course, only a little enhancement, it is not; get what it is, only a little gain, it is not.

The degree is about the length, and the right is about the severity. If you are not happy, you need a palm ruler to lift the bottom of the scale.

The four ends have their own weight, and when they are expanded to the end, they are only full to the original weight, and cannot be increased any further.

Seeing what is right is not doing anything, and there is no perseverance in determination, but the kidney qi is insufficient.

Passing, everyone sees it, but sees a gentleman.Today people have no faults to see, how can they be more virtuous than a gentleman?Yuan only worked hard on the fringing of decorations, and exhausted infinite ingenuity to protect, and became a real villain.

One's own body was originally intended to harm him, to seek misfortune and attract others, to fall into danger and defeat, let alone to do other things.

Six Classics and Four Books, the law of a gentleman.The villain breaks the law, and he never studied law.A gentleman reads the books of sages and sages and offends them one by one, he is at the mercy of villains again.

Careful words and actions among wives and servants, and mind and body when eating, resting and living, this time will be dense.

Don't blame yourself for gasification, and take all responsibility for the personnel; don't look too far at the world, and ask for everything.

If you often see that your own family may not be right, and others may not be wrong, you will make progress.Then I can see that others have merits, but my body is just too much, and I am more motivated.

If you understand the word "righteousness and destiny", you will naturally refuse to be inferior.

Every word and movement among the crowd, everyone looked around at it, although they didn't say anything, they were just right and wrong.If it is good, everyone will love and respect it; if it is not good, everyone will hate it. Although it is a small word, it must be cautious.

Or ask: "Arrogance is a bad virtue, so humility is a virtue?" Said: "Modity is really auspicious, but humility is not polite, and it will cause a lot of damage." Ji Wang, the law will not work for a long time.Those who are under the humiliation of indecent humiliation will take humiliation, lose their integrity, and lose their integrity and shame for a long time.A gentleman never fails to be orderly when receiving people, and never fails to behave righteously. There is a master who said: "Respect is closer to propriety than disgrace." Shame on you." Zeng Zi said: "Shouldering shoulders and flattering and laughing are sick in the summer border." A gentleman has no crowd, no small or big, no one who dares to be arrogant, how can he be proud?And the same is true of his shame and humility, which can be a precept for those who stand up for themselves.

For those who do not have the status of certainty, they may as well be modest.Do what you have to do, although there is no temporary humiliation, there must be worries later.That is to say, no matter the theory of profit or loss, it is also true that people are not arrogant when they live on the top, and they can be close but not below.

As long as people are familiar with the world, what officials can't do?As long as heaven and man agree, what good things can't be done?
Gentlemen often check themselves, think day and night, and don't have a moment of leisure. What is Qie thinking about?Is it a country in the world?Or is it a wife?Birds and beasts rush here and there, vying for food and nests; the trafficker, who goes out at night and returns at night, eats and sleeps in the wind and water. He is self-sufficient. He was originally fed and clothed, and he was not entrusted by others to enjoy offerings. Why not?Gentlemen, high-ranking officials value salary, borrow it for fame and honor, and honor it for you, is it for you?Not for you?It's a picture of capitalism and power making birds and crying market wells. It's really shameful to think about it carefully.

In ancient times, there were gentry in the village, and the family and the state were sheltered by them, and the scholars and the people regarded them as the yardstick.Today, there are gentry in Ye Township, which increases the worries of their families and mausoleums robbing them of labor expenses, and creates the custom of extravagance and frivolity among the local people.However, there are gentry in the countryside, and the calamity of the village is also the beetle of wind education.Our party can feel ashamed and hate itself.

The vulgarity is dying, and Bian Que cannot be cured.There is no reason in the mind of a person, but mediocrity, low-level position, empty words, recognition of the extreme truth, and stubbornness, this is a human being, and he wants to save the medicine, knowing that he can't get in.Our party quits it.

No matter how beneficial it is for a scholar-official to live in the countryside, as long as he does not violate the prohibition to make a fortune, invade the mausoleum by relying on the power, accept bribes and ask for entrustment, ask for husband's service, without these four evils, he is still a person.Or say: "Family fortune is sluggish, how can you live in peace?" Said: "There is a way to manage life, and then you can manage life in this way, and those who have no power to rely on will die?" Said: "Officials have their own laws, and if there is a lawsuit, they must borrow it. Those who are powerless will die?"

Scholars regard people's desires as enemies, and they are not troubled and have no power to attack. It is only because they have always tolerated him like a proud son, so they develop a rampant trend, and there is nothing they can do about it.At the beginning of the desire to control people, it is very easy to suppress and arrest, but when it is in the cross flow, it takes a lot of courage to succeed.

The internal affairs of the universe are all prepared for this body, that is, one kind is not finished, and one thing is not finished, which is a flaw;

Resist one point, one hundred, ten thousand points, and only when the limit is exhausted can you see the real self; take one step back, one hundred steps, ten thousand steps, and retreat to the extreme, without worrying about nowhere to live.

When things are at ease, why not be cautious?It's better to think about it than to say it.

All kinds of good things are said to be done, but they are not done all day long; when all kinds of greed are satisfied, when will they be satisfied?
Looking back, there are mistakes every year; let go of your feet and make progress every day.

It's hard to get rid of politeness and decline, but it's still strong, and it's not the old boy with a dusty heart.

But if you hold iron and stone with the same determination, you will have a body that will not be damaged by gold and steel.

(End of this chapter)