Commentary on the Analects (Jing Shou Edition).
Zi said: "If you don't cultivate virtue, you can't learn it, you can't move when you hear righteousness, and you can't change it if you're not good, it's my worries." ”
The way of doing is "virtue", so virtue can only be achieved if it is cultivated well. To learn is to preach and learn Xi;It is the meaning of cultivating virtue and lecturing.
Confucius said: "Benevolence is not cultivated, Taoism is not taught, hearing benevolence and righteousness and not following it, and unkind behavior cannot be changed, which is what I am worried about!"
There is Tao, but not necessarily virtue. Because virtue is to be cultivated. What does it look like without virtue?To put it in layman's terms, for example, when evaluating a person, I feel that this person has the ability and ability, but I just can't find a good word to say about him!If a person is dying and does not have a good word to evaluate him, then what is the meaning of life!After understanding this, you should realize the meaning of cultivating virtue!
Virtue is relative to people. Therefore, virtue should refer to benevolence. If a person uses great wisdom to decorate his house well, but has nothing to do with others, he still has no virtue.
When a young person establishes his own ambitions, he should consider the impact on himself and others from the very beginning. It always makes sense to keep yourself right!A person, who has created and created in society, no one thinks that he is meaningful, and this is not what a normal person should aspire to!Determined to do things that are meaningful to yourself and others, this is the accumulation of virtue!
Taoism can be obtained by learning, and virtue can be obtained by cultivating Xi. The way in which Tao and virtue are implemented is equivalent to the opening chapter of the Analects, "Learn and Xi it"!Learning is the Tao, and if Xi succeeds, there will be virtue!Learning and Xi is the way to cultivate morality.
Hearing righteousness can be migrated, and bad things can be changed, are two issues that should be paid attention to in the process of moral cultivation. That is, when you smell morality, you must follow it, and if you are not virtuous, you must correct it immediately.