Sharing: people's hearts are only in danger, and their hearts are only subtle, but they are only refined, only unique, and they are loyal.

The focus of China culture is also the center of life science and cognitive science. There are sixteen words that say, "People's hearts are in danger, and the Tao's heart is subtle, but it is exquisite, and it is left in a daze", which is the center of China culture. This is where you start talking about Confucianism or something. Therefore, the thoughts of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and Zhuangzi all started from ancient times.

"People's hearts are in danger", people's psychology and thoughts are the most terrible, and the acquired people's hearts are terrible.

The highest spirit of China culture is "Tao", which is finally represented by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Becoming a Buddha is the Tao, and becoming an immortal is also the Tao. What is this road? This is a big problem worth studying. China culture, the Tao, is extremely subtle!

His method is "essence" and "one".

"Allow yourself to be in the middle", and practice the golden mean when you do it.

The orthodoxy of China culture includes Confucianism, Taoism, and even the highest cultural Buddhism introduced from India. The principle is the traditional 16-character (which can be read as a mantra) of the ancestors: "The human heart is only in danger, the Tao heart is only tiny, and the essence is unique, leaving it in a daze." Even the principles and principles of meditation, tantra, Zen and body and mind that everyone likes to learn come from this place.

Speaking of sages, China's traditional culture is about three quiet generations. Yao passed it on to Shun, Shun passed it on to Yu, and handed over the country. This is the world. Dayu wanted to abdicate before his death, but he couldn't find a suitable person. After Dayu's death, people all over the country elected his son Qi. Since then, Dayu has been married and passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, our culture in China advocates the rule of the world for three generations or more. Look at Confucius, Mencius, Confucianism and Taoism, all of which advocate ruling the world.

The three generations of Yao, Shun and Yu not only inherited the state power, but also inherited the mental method. This kind of mental method is what we call self-cultivation, and how to cultivate mental cultivation is also the truth of meditation. Don't think that you are studying Buddhism and practicing Buddhism when you see meditation. In China culture, the method of self-cultivation is referred to as mental method, which spread from Tang Yao to Dashun and from Dashun to Dayu. Their method of succession is only sixteen words:

People's hearts are only in danger, and their hearts are only weak, but they are unique and tolerant.

"People's hearts are in danger", and now the state is in charge of you. You should pay attention. People's hearts in the world are very dangerous. People's thoughts are divided into good and evil, which is relative. If they are not good, they will be evil. Therefore, "people's hearts are in danger." Ancient Chinese is very simple. China characters have been preserved for thousands of years, and a few words contain a lot of content.

"Road flyover is soft-hearted", you should cultivate yourself into an emperor. Being a parent is the same as being an emperor. It's too difficult to cultivate yourself first and cultivate your mind. "Micro", you can't see or touch, your thoughts and emotions are too subtle, and this micro represents subtlety. Equivalent to the translation of Buddhist scriptures of Sakyamuni Buddha in India. What is micro? "Incredible", you can't imagine, you can't discuss, our psychological activities, our thoughts and emotions are invisible. In ancient Chinese, it was such a simple sentence. When passing on the throne, tell the heir: you should pay attention. As a leader of a country, "people are only afraid of danger, but their hearts are only afraid of weakness." Find out their incredible moral role in self-cultivation.

"Only the best", this is the time to cultivate self-cultivation. Don't be confused, everything must be accurate. This good word is difficult to explain. What you see is the spiritual essence, but what is the essence? When we were young, we read books and our classmates told jokes. What is the essence? Just finish eating. Why? There is a rice next to the green word. It's good to be full. This is a joke told by our classmates when we were young, because it is difficult to explain what is nice. We all know the subtleties. This is easy to understand. "lifelike", self-cultivation is the only thing. Be single-minded in thought. If we are not careful, our hearts can easily go to evil and bad roads. Later, Buddhism came, and the ancient Zen master also said that "it is easy to get involved in the world, but it is difficult to achieve a career." The temptation of social environment and external material can easily defile our own clean and comfortable mind, and it is easy for a person to learn badly, that is, "it is easy to be wet behind the ears." "The Tao is a foot high, the magic is a foot high", it is too difficult to succeed, and it is too difficult to come back and try to achieve the realm of being immune. This is to borrow the words of Buddhism to explain our own ancient traditional culture.

"Allow yourself to yield", good and evil, right and wrong, good and bad, right and wrong, everything in the world is relative. For example, just before I came, that teacher Li read me a report written by her parents about the hard work of doing good deeds and doing business. In fact, good and evil are relative We don't have the wisdom to do things, and sometimes we will get bad consequences because we are good, and doing things well becomes a very bad result. Sometimes I accidentally do something wrong, but it has a good result. The reason here is too difficult. Being a good person is not necessarily being a good person. So the good people in the world are right and the bad people are wrong? That's not true. It is difficult to govern the country, to do things for others, and to talk about self-cultivation. Therefore, it is necessary to "be superior to others and allow yourself to be in the middle" and grasp the middle way. To rule the world, sometimes you have to use a seemingly bad way. How do you achieve a good goal in a seemingly bad way? This is wisdom.

These four sentences are three generations of self-cultivation formulas from Yao to Shun, and from Shun to Dayu. They come from the Book of Books, Dayu Mo, which is not a strategy. Now it is an important proclamation of the country. Yao said: Consultation! Ershun! Days are in your bow, you can hold them! The four seas are poor, and the roads are endless.

When Yao and Shun inherited the throne, he told Shun that it was God's will, not his own. Let's take a look at the inner meaning of this sentence. Yao gave the throne to Shun, neither his relatives nor friends, nor his descendants. This is the ancient "public world". For decades, after many experiments, he trained a person to be really old. According to historical records, the ancients lived longer than us. ) 100 years old, so I gave up, which means it's not personal. The spirit of history is here.

There is also a problem with the sentence "allow". There are four sentences in the scripture: "The human heart is only in danger, and the Tao heart is only tiny, and the essence is unique and tolerant." There's only one quote here. When we talk about China Thought and Confucianism, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu and Confucius all use these four sentences. It can also be said that China culture is the center of people's knowledge and cultivation, and the center of education is here, or you can just say the word "Chinese".

"People's hearts are in danger", and people's hearts are very dangerous. This danger is not necessarily the danger of killing people. All people have desires, and desire is a general term. Modern words such as "competition", "honor", "hope" and "meaningful life" are all good things. In a word, they are all desires. The galloping of desire can make people very dangerous. This is a question of desire to destroy yourself and the world.

Here we tell a story about Arab culture. The Middle East believes in Islam, and an old imam of Islam has retired to practice in the mountains. One day, a king of the Middle East went hunting with a group of people. The king shot an elk. The elk was wounded by an arrow and fled behind the imam in despair. The Imam turned around and saw that the elk was injured. Knowing that a hunter was chasing him, he covered the injured elk with a wide robe. Soon, one of the king's men caught up with the imam first. This Ministry will ask this question several times, and it will kill the imam. Imams will open their eyes and ask who will be the priest. The Ministry will report the name of the king, and the imam said: Your king is a slave of my slave, and the Ministry will be furious and want to kill the imam. At this moment, the king just arrived, asked why, and asked the imam if he knew he had committed a crime. Imam said, in fact, you are my slave's slave.

The king said, who is your slave? You can say it. You can be innocent. Imam said, don't be angry, sit down and listen slowly. I used to be a slave of desire, but now I am a monk. I understand that I will never obey the command of desire again. I can control desire, so desire has become my slave. Although you are the king, you are full of desire, even an elk. It can be seen that you still obey the command of desire and become the slave of desire, so you are the slave of my slave. Hearing this, the king suddenly realized that he immediately worshipped the old imam as a teacher and followed him to learn Taoism. This is a story spread in Islam and an example of people's fear of danger. Thoughts guide themselves to be right, and to guide themselves to be bad is bad.

We now say that thoughts have formed an idea, such as wearing colored glasses to see things, and what we see is different. When we suspect ghosts, we get the creeps. Buddhist scriptures say that you don't really have to stand on a cliff, sit and close your eyes and think you are on a cliff. If you fall, you will die and your feet will be weak. This is a fact. This shows the terrible desire in my heart. If we want to calm down this desire and turn it into a Taoist mind, it will be too difficult, too subtle and incredible. What is the heart of Tao? For thousands of years, we have been talking about Taoism in China culture. Four books preach, and Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties also preaches. Buddhism, Taoism, Laozi and Zhuangzi all speak Taoism, which is extremely subtle. How can we reach this realm of Taoism? It is this sentence that should be "precise", "one" and finally "let it be dumbfounded".

What do you mean "in the middle"? If we do a lot of research on knowledge, such as the "golden mean", we say the mean. In the physical world, we will talk about the center of the teacup, which is hypothetical. A man standing in the middle of the house said that he was in the middle and was right around; In fact, this is still an advantage, because on one side, it is in the middle, and on the other side, he stands on the left or right, or in front or behind, so it is still an absolute winner with no advantage. This is physical and ideological, which is more difficult to determine. What you can think of in your heart stays in the middle. Where is the middle? Balance of power is the middle. Take a chopstick as an example. Don't think that the center point at both ends of chopsticks is the middle. The ends of chopsticks are different in thickness. Put a chopstick on your finger, keep it horizontal and balanced on both sides. The contact point between chopsticks and fingers is in the middle. Therefore, what can be balanced ideologically is called the middle way.

Therefore, Zhong is an abstract name. It can also be said that it is a practical matter. For example, every movement of Tai Ji Chuan has a center, and this center is the truth of circle, that is, the truth of Tai Chi. Not as slippery as the golden mean explained by later generations, but to understand the central point of balance. This knowledge is too difficult to learn, and it involves the cultivation of personality. Therefore, our life should be flat. If we can be flat, we will have nothing to say, "If we are flat, we will not flow" and "If we are flat, we will be speechless". "If there is injustice, it will sound", and if there is injustice, it will be chaotic. Governing the country is peaceful, but it is hard to find peace, so China people are concerned about world peace, and peace is really hard to find. "Ping" is the truth of "Zhong", so is personal cultivation and treating people.

Yao told Shun to "allow it", and the word "allow" has two meanings, one is faith and the other is harmony. Is to tell Shun to adhere to the principle of fairness, not favoritism, unshakable. If this principle is not grasped, all countries, people and things in the world will collapse. In Yao's time, the Chinese nation's country had not yet been established, and floods flooded. After Dayu's flood control, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River have not been developed, and the whole country is still suffering from floods. It was the hardest time. If the governance is not balanced, the whole country will be finished. If it is not done well, it is "eternity". These words can be interpreted in two ways. If you do something bad, you won't die of natural causes. If you do well, there will always be good results. Here lies the beauty of ancient Chinese, and here lies the difficulty of understanding it. The word "The Pilgrim's Road Ends Forever" is volley and perfect from all angles. Therefore, a good ancient prose, vernacular Chinese is finished as soon as it is explained, and the aesthetic feeling is destroyed, which is equal to a good painting. There is no addition or subtraction.

This is a sentence when Yao Shun surrendered at that time, when Yao confessed the center of China's cultural and political thought. When Shun was old, Dayu succeeded in controlling water. Seriously speaking, in the cultural history of China, Yao Shun was the first person who contributed to cultural creation. As for the foundation of national construction, Dayu made the greatest contribution. Since then, he has established a family in politics, but his personal achievements have indeed lasted forever, laying the foundation for building a country through agriculture.

"Shangshu" contains Yao Shun's 16-character heart biography: "The human heart is only in danger, the heart is only in micro, but only in perfection and tolerance."

This so-called dangerous person is what Buddhism calls ignorance, greed, ignorance and so on; The so-called micro-person, that is, what Buddhism calls subtle and sincere; If you are only good, you must be cautious, which is what Buddhism calls abstinence from learning; The only thing is prudence and independence, which is what Buddhism calls learning.

As for the Chinese characters in Yun Zhi Jue, there is a clear record, and there is no clear definition since then. The meaning of seeking the golden mean can be linked with the sixteen-character heart-to-heart communication. Later, Zhu commented on Chinese characters, saying that "impartiality means mediocrity", and the doctrine of the mean is in an independent and impartial position, but the significance of expressing the doctrine of the mean can be as good as Buddhism, to show the words of sages, and it has long been well taught, not just Buddhism. Its conception is noble, but it is not as beautiful as it is. Why not take the heart of Buddhism to explain its meaning and make it easier to understand?

According to the explanation of Neo-Confucianism, the moral man in his theory is not only inferior to Buddhism, but also unable to convey the heart of saints. Why? Partial subject is not easy, partial subject is not easy! And saying "Tao is parallel but not contrary" is not contrary to talking to yourself?

If we take "to be neutral, the position of heaven is uncertain and everything is fertile" as a great use to express the style of Chinese characters, we will have the purpose of the last chapter of the Doctrine of the Mean, saying: "Heaven is loaded, silent and odorless." According to this, the scriptures speak for themselves, and we can learn from the words of Confucius and Mencius, as the Buddha said, so what? Silent and odorless is the carrier of heaven, which is called the supreme good, but it is originally "the empty phase of all laws"; Neutrality, the position of heaven, and the enlightenment of all things are called mingde, and the legal world is endlessly obscure. Comparing such inventions and expounding ancient Confucianism is better than what rationalists have seen.

Six ancestors of Zen Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism in China.

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Physical and mental cultivation is the foundation of being a man. No matter what occupation or position you are, as long as you are human, this is the basic literacy. This is the foundation of education in China.

In ancient times, after Xuanyuan Huangdi, Tang Yao, Yu Shun and Dayu not only spread the national law, but also spread the mental method. There are sixteen words, "The human heart is only in danger, the Tao heart is only tiny, and the essence is unique, which makes you dumbfounded."

"people's hearts are in danger." Now the country belongs to you. You should pay attention. People's hearts are too dangerous and too bad.

As an emperor, you should cultivate your mental knowledge. Your thoughts and feelings are too difficult and subtle to be seen or touched, but you should find out the moral function of the mind.

"Only the best", this is self-cultivation. Don't be confused. Everything should be precise and precise, and your mind should be single-minded. If you are not careful, it is easy to go in the evil direction. Later, Buddhism came, and there are two words in the Buddhist scriptures, "It is easy to get involved in the world, but it is difficult to achieve a career." We are used to being seduced by social environment and external substances, or confused by emotions and thoughts, and it is easy to block our quiet and comfortable hearts. It's easy for a person to learn bad things, but it's difficult to come back and restore the realm and cultivation of "being exclusive to the best".

"Allow yourself to be in a daze" and slowly cultivate to the realm of the Middle Way. "China" is not the middle, it is appropriate. For example, good and evil, right and wrong, good and bad, everything in the world is relative Grasping the golden mean does not mean that being partial to goodness is completely correct. To govern the world, sometimes we have to use "bad" methods to achieve "the best", which depends on wisdom.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the world was in chaos. At that time, there was chaos not only in China, but also in India and Europe. At this time, China produced Confucius, who sorted out the Six Classics, but the most important thing was telepathy. What did Confucius say? "I am fifteen years old and determined to study. Stand at thirty, don't be confused at forty, know your destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and walk at seventy. "

After the death of Confucius, his disciple was Zeng Shen, and Ceng Zi wrote The University. A few years ago, I published "Random Talk about Native University" and talked about this. "University" is something for adults to learn, and it is about physical and mental cultivation. Therefore, "the way of a university lies in virtue, in being close to the people and ending in perfection", which is the outline and the "three cardinal guides" of physical and mental cultivation. Next, I will talk about the degree of cultivation. "Zhi Zhi will decide later, then he can be quiet, then he can be calm, then he can think about it, and then he can get it." That's why he wants to sit still. I call it seven stages: knowing, stopping, deciding, being quiet, being safe, worrying and gaining. In this exercise, you don't have to sit still or cross your legs. You can cultivate yourself at any time, whether standing there or walking on the road, you can cultivate your peace of mind.

"University" went on to say, "From Tian Zi to Shu Ren, it's all about self-cultivation". Physical and mental cultivation is the foundation of being a man.

Nan: Physical and mental cultivation is the foundation of being a man (see Oriental Weekly).