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Confucius said: "unkind people can't keep appointments for long, and they can't enjoy their own strengths." The benevolent is benevolent, and the knower is benevolent. " From the Analects of Confucius, Liren

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Confucius said: "People without benevolence cannot live in poverty or happiness for a long time. The benevolent is content with benevolence, and the wise man knows benevolence and does it. "

Comment and analysis

In this chapter, Confucius believes that people without benevolence cannot be in poverty or happiness for a long time, otherwise, they will be in trouble or extravagant. Only when the benevolent is content with benevolence can the wise do it. The idea is that people should pay attention to personal morality, be firm and keep honesty under any circumstances.

Confucius said: unkind people can't keep appointments for a long time and can't enjoy themselves. The benevolent is benevolent, and the knower is benevolent.

Confucius said: Benevolence is a person's innate morality. If a person can fully abide by this morality, then he will have a backbone in his heart and will not be shaken by external things. Those heartless people are easily shaken by foreign things, because their selfish desires cover up their inner morality, lose their sincerity and have nothing to rely on. If such a person suddenly meets the life of a poor man, he may be able to restrain himself at first. After a long time, you will be sad and miserable. For your own practical interests, you dare to do anything and think about everything, and you can't harm others and benefit yourself. How can such a person suffer for a long time? If such a person suddenly leads a rich and comfortable life, he may be able to pretend at first. After a long time, you will be full of ambition. In order to satisfy your greater desire, you dare to do anything extravagant and extravagant. How can such people stay rich for a long time? The true benevolent has a pure moral heart and no selfish desires at all. For benevolence, it is not forced to do it, but completely corresponds to the heart. Therefore, the external environment has no influence on him. He is equally optimistic and cautious in poverty and wealth, so the benevolent is peaceful. A true wise man has a correct standard of right and wrong in his heart and will not waver, so he will not lose his mind in a daze. For benevolence, I know its benefits in my heart, and I am determined to pursue it. I must achieve something. I will stick to my idea in poverty and wealth, and I will not change it. Therefore, the wise benefit others. Although the benevolent and the wise have different degrees, they can also preserve their own hearts, so they can stay poor for a long time without excesses, and stay rich for a long time without lewdness.

Benevolence is a higher realm, and there is no lack of pure goodness in the heart, so the behavior is completely revealed from the heart and will not be affected by the outside world at all, just like Confucius' performance at the age of 70, he did what he wanted from the heart. There is no pure goodness in the heart of a wise man, but he has understood the true meaning of benevolence and is determined to change from kindness to true benevolence, so his goal is clear and his thoughts are fixed, and he will not be influenced by the outside world. And we ordinary people, in the materialistic world, want to achieve something, we must have a heart to settle down, so as not to go with the flow.