Caigen Tan is a classic book that integrates Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and traditional Chinese culture, and its core content mainly includes the following aspects:
Self-cultivation: Caigen Tan emphasizes the importance of self-cultivation, and advocates the purpose of improving personal quality, cultivating body and mind, and shaping personality through introspection, self-reflection, and self-improvement. At the same time, it also emphasizes the importance of qualities such as modesty, tolerance, and self-discipline, and admonishes people not to be greedy for fame and fortune, not to be driven by desires, and to maintain inner peace and calmness.
Treating people in the world: Caigen Tan emphasizes the wisdom and skills of dealing with others, advocating treating others with sincerity, kindness, tolerance, understanding, respect and other attitudes, and avoiding hypocrisy, cunning, arrogance and other bad behaviors. At the same time, the importance of making friends is also emphasized.
Inspirational Learning: Caigen Tan emphasizes the importance of inspirational learning, and advocates that through continuous learning, accumulation of knowledge, and improvement of ability, we can achieve the purpose Xi of improving personal quality, enhancing one's own strength, and realizing one's self-worth. At the same time, it also emphasizes the importance of modesty, diligence, steadfastness and other qualities, and warns people not to be complacent, not to be opportunistic, to keep working hard and making progress.
Indifferent to fame and fortune: Caigen Tan emphasizes the importance of indifference to fame and fortune, advocating not to be driven by fame and fortune, to maintain inner peace and calm, and not to be burdened by fame and fortune. At the same time, it also emphasizes the importance of contentment and happiness, and admonishes people to cherish the happiness and things they have in front of them, and not to pursue too much material wealth and status and honor.
To sum up, the core content of "Caigen Tan" mainly includes self-cultivation, treating others, inspirational learning, and indifference to fame and fortune. These ideas and viewpoints are of important guiding significance for people to improve their own quality, shape a good personality, handle interpersonal relationships, and maintain inner peace. At the same time, the classic quotes and stories in "Caigen Tan" are also very inspiring and infectious, which can allow people to draw wisdom and strength from them to better face the challenges and difficulties in life.