The first lesson of the new year It is important to cultivate yourself more and discipline others less. The first point of cultivating oneself is to make oneself better. The second point is that only you can control yourself. Right?The only thing you can control is yourself, and nothing else is under your control, so you put your energy into something that you can change, and that is to cultivate yourself. So why give less advice to others?Because a person does not need to be educated, one just needs to be reminded that when you can be yourself, in fact, unintentionally an example to him, a reminder. Restraining others is inherently anti-human. People don't like to be constrained because it's an era of freedom and individuality. So the best way for Confucian things to suit you and Taoist things is to read them for a while and discuss them for a while, because only by discussing problems can you think for yourself. You will only express your point of view when you think. At this time, you can read books alive.
You see, he's saying here that my life is finite, my knowledge is infinite, finite versus infinite, that's it. In fact, this sentence does not mean that I will lie flat and not learn Xi, wrong, on the contrary, he is reminding you to cherish your limited life, try your best to learn more Xi knowledge, and not to slack off life because of the vast amount of knowledge. He tells us what the truth isFirst, knowledge is infinite and cannot be learned. That is, people tend to become very arbitrary because they are ignorant or know very little. The more knowledgeable he is, the more humble he becomes, because he knows that he is likely to be wrong.