Confucian self-cultivation: Scholars start from Daqin

"Threesomes, there must be my teacher! Whoever teaches is not the same?"

Master Xun said angrily, then felt a little ashamed, and asked, "Then junior brother, what do you want to learn?"

Gao Jing thought for a while, and said: "Let's learn to recognize characters first, and learn all the characters first, and then learn other things."

Master Xun laughed and said, "This old man knows 33 languages. Which country do you want to learn from?"

33 kinds...

I used to barely pass the fourth level of English...

Gao Jing twitched the corner of his mouth, and said, "Confucianism pays attention to "Boyue"...everyone learns."

"The "Shangshu" still talks about "Jingyi"!" Master Xun accidentally tore off a beard, stared at Gao Jing and said, "Can you learn 33 languages ​​at the same time?"

"I'm still young and I still have a lot of time."

Gao Jing smiled, pulled out the book from his waist, and said: "This is a strange thing I got unintentionally. It can record what I see, hear, think and feel. With it, I can "boyfriend", I just need "Jingyi"!"

Xun Fuzi took it curiously: "Is there such a strange thing? I have a look."

As he spoke, he turned over.

Li Si and Han Fei also moved over curiously to watch together.

As a result, a thread-bound book was turned from the beginning to the end, but there was not a word, a single figure, and the whole book was blank!

The three looked at Gao Jing strangely.

Gao Jing explained: "Don't look at me, I don't know the reason... It's just a guess. Since this book records my thoughts, others will not be able to see my thoughts."

Having said that, he paused for a while, and Gao Jing hesitated again: "At least no one else can see it now, and I don't know if it will be seen by others in the future."

"It really is a strange thing. It seems that this strange thing can only belong to you."

Master Xun returned the book to Gao Jing, and said: "Keep it well and keep it secret to prevent others from peeping."

Li Si and Han Fei had fiery eyes. They both knew how precious such a book was to a scholar!

Gao Jing smiled, and threw the book into the stove, and the whole book suddenly turned into flames and burned.

Afterwards, Gao Jing spread his hand and grabbed the void...

The book that was originally burned, unexpectedly reappeared in Gao Jing's hands, intact!

"On the way here, sometimes I couldn't find firewood, so I used it to light a fire for warmth... Sometimes I lost it and couldn't find it...

But the result is that my book is useless for others to take it away. ".

Chapter 6 Han Fei entered the meditation

Out of the eight lines of Confucianism, there are only seven lines left. From the perspective of outsiders, Confucianism is a whole.

But from the perspective of Confucianism, there is a clear distinction between each other, especially the Xunzi lineage, which is even more incompatible with other people.

To be precise, the relationship between Xunzi and all schools of thought is not good, because all schools of thought have been scolded by him... If they were not of high enough status, they would have been beaten up long ago.

So when Xunzi said he didn't know martial arts, he was just talking nonsense!

Not knowing martial arts, he was beaten to death when he was young.

As a result, Gao Jing's relationship with other lines of Confucianism is not very close.

As Xunzi's disciples, Han Fei and Li Si were naturally the same.

……

Confucianism is constantly developing, and "Xin Xue" can be said to be the masterpiece of Confucianism.

Confucianism in the pre-Qin period only had self-denial and self-cultivation, emphasizing benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. After Dong Zhongshu absorbed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, Confucianism began to "seek within" like Taoism.

When the Buddhist gates of the Tang Dynasty went eastward, they found that many Buddhist teachings could not be translated. Confucianism realized that there was something missing in its own culture, so it began to integrate into Buddhism.

Until the Song Dynasty, after Confucianism was integrated into Taoism and Buddhism, Neo Confucianism was opened, and began to seek "reasons", the principles of heaven, and principles of righteousness.

Whether it is Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, or the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty, without exception, they all have a resume of "studying Buddhism for more than ten years".

Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty concretized Lu Jiuyuan's "mind is reason" and formed "Xin Xue".

The gap of more than 2000 years before and after this is that Xun Fuzi has a lofty state of mind, broad and deep wisdom, and a broad mind, so that he can gain some insights.

Like Han Feilisi, they get nothing.

……

Two years have passed.

Gao Jing finally learned all 33 languages...Of course, he said he had learned all of them, but they were all recorded in the book.

He himself only focuses on the languages ​​of the seven countries, and the others are just familiar, and he can read the book when he needs it.

In the middle, Gao Jing took the time to go to the library, and spent more than half a year to record the hundreds of thousands of books in it into the book.

The predecessor of Xiaoshengxianzhuang was Jixia Academy, where all schools of thought gathered to discuss Taoism and collected all the classics of schools of thought.

Although the state of Qi was destroyed once and part of its classics were missing, it is the place with the richest collection of books among the Seven Kingdoms.

In short, from now on, Gao Jing no longer has to hold the heavy bamboo slips to read.

As long as you open the book, everything in Xiaoshengxianzhuang will be in it.

And through this book, it is easier for Gao Jing to "read" the ideological realm that the author wants to express.

……

"Yu don't leave Kyushu, follow the mountains to dredge the rivers, let the earth serve as tribute. Yu spread the earth, follow the mountains to plant trees, and lay the mountains and rivers..."

Gao Jing sat upright, holding a book and reading aloud.

The body is done well, the body is straight, the breathing is much smoother when practicing, and the mentality will naturally be straight.

Now when Gao Jing is studying, he is very focused, and his distracting thoughts are gradually reducing.

Once people focus, their memory and thinking ability will also improve.

With less distracting thoughts, the mind will become pure, and the perception and comprehension will increase accordingly.

There is a movie called "Never Ending", in which there is a kind of medicine, within a few days after taking it, you can learn the skills that others need years or more than ten years to learn.

This kind of medicine is to make people's thinking highly concentrated and extremely focused!

But the spirit of ordinary people is limited. Excessive concentration of thinking will lead to excessive dispersion. So when the protagonist doesn't take medicine, his thinking consciousness will be scattered, and he doesn't even know what he has done.

Gao Jing will not be like this.

"Sincerity" is a gradual process. With the improvement of concentration, his spirit is also constantly improving.

Moreover, "sincerity" must be accompanied by "righteousness", with a pure mind and only focus on "single heart".

When he reaches the "way of sincerity", it is equivalent to taking drugs in the movie, but there will be no sequelae!

……

"Yu divided the boundaries of the land, walked high mountains and cut down trees as road signs, and established boundaries with high mountains and rivers!"

Gao Jing's recitation was interrupted by Han Fei's voice.

Gao Jing put down his book, turned his head to look, and saw Han Fei walking over with a wine jug, and said, "I've seen my little uncle."

But he was not polite, and sat down directly.

Gao Jing's heart began to straighten, and his mind was gradually becoming pure. He didn't need to straighten his body, so he naturally didn't care about these empty rituals. He looked at Han Fei and said, "You are explaining the meaning according to the words, but from what I read, there is still There's something deeper in it."

Han Fei took a sip of his wine and asked curiously, "What's hidden?"

"I don't know..." Gao Jing thought for a while, "Da Yu measured the world with his footprints, sealed Kyushu, and his footprints are all over the mountains and rivers... He walked along the mountains and rivers... I think there is probably a book hidden in "Yu Gong". Set "Yu Bu"!"

"Hahaha..." Han Fei laughed loudly and said, "If you can really realize a set of footwork from "Shangshu. Yugong", my little uncle is really unprecedented!"

"I can't understand it, it's just a feeling." Gao Jing shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "In the final analysis, my intentions are not sincere enough, and my heart is not correct enough!"

Han Fei was stunned and said: "Little uncle is too demanding..."Shangshu" talks about only the essence, and other knowledge, you can just know it, why bother to delve into it?"

Gao Jing shook his head and said, "You and I pursue differences, you specialize in law, and you only want to save South Korea..."

Having said this, Gao Jing suddenly stopped talking and looked at Han Fei carefully. His increasingly pure mind seemed to have noticed something.

Han Fei looked down at himself, and asked strangely, "Why does little uncle look at me like that?"

Gao Jing looked at him strangely, and said, "Are you in meditation?"

Han Fei immediately said proudly: "I had a dream last night, accidentally stepped into the long river of time, and realized something..."

"The Doctrine of the Mean" has a saying: The way of sincerity can be known in advance!

Gao Jing suddenly couldn't maintain his state of mind. He was envious and jealous at the same time. He gritted his teeth and said, "Have you seen your own death?"

After finishing speaking, Gao Jing immediately regretted it, gathered his mind, and recited in his mouth: "Those who cultivate their body depend on rectifying their minds, if they feel angry, they will not rectify it, and if they have fear, they will not rectify it..."

After finally staying in the right mind, I almost got confused again! .

Chapter 7 On Soldiers

Han Fei only stepped into the "fixed" state by accident, which was a flash in the pan.

But now that you have already set foot, as long as you continue to "sincerely and righteously", you will step in again sooner or later until you are stable in the "stable" state.

Zhang Liang in the future should be stable in the "fixed" state, so it seems that everything can be predicted in advance.

The so-called "the way of sincerity can be known in advance" does not really see the future through time and space.

Rather, "the spirit of the human heart has knowledge, and everything in the world has reason." The human mind has cognitive ability, and everything has a certain reason.

In the "fixed" environment, with a sincere and upright heart, you can calculate what will happen in the future based on the known situation and the truth of things!

This also verifies the principle of "heart is reason" in "Xin Xue", as long as you keep "constructing your mind" and keeping your original mind in a state of neither good nor evil as the law of heaven, you can "fulfill your nature"!

That's why in "The Doctrine of the Mean" there is a saying that "good fortune and misfortune are about to come, good things must be foretold, and bad things must be foretelled to stop. Therefore, sincerity is like a god."

Misfortune and good fortune can be predicted in advance, and "sincerity" is as subtle and magical as a god!

……

Gao Jing was busy calming down his mind and getting his chaotic heart back to normal.