Yang Ming Xinxue four sentences of teaching, take you into the wisdom of Xinxue

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-26

There is no good and no disgusting body, and there are good and malicious movements.

Knowing good and knowing evil is conscience, and doing evil for good is a thing.

There is no goodness and no disgusting body": To understand this sentence, you can refer to the "Biography". The mind is like a mirror, it has no good or evil in itself, but it can reflect good and evil. Any thought, any idea, everything can be illuminated. But if the mirror of the heart is dirty, dusty, and obscured by desires, then it will not shine through.

There are good and evil movements": After understanding the previous knowledge, we know that once we have intentional thoughts and thoughts, there will be good and evil, and if the mind is like a mirror, it can immediately reflect good and evil, and if the mirror of the mind is blocked, it will not reflect good and evil.

Knowing good and knowing evil is conscience": it is conscience that knows good and evil, and it is the essence of the mind that knows good and evil, so the essence of the heart is conscience. Wang Yangming always said that it is necessary to "have a conscience at all times", and only when the conscience is clear and thorough can good and evil be illuminated, and if the conscience is blinded, good and evil cannot be illuminated.

Doing evil for the sake of good is the object": the object is always to the conscience, the object is the thing in the heart, the mirror of conscience is dirty, obscured, and blinded by selfish desires, so we must remove these bad things in order to achieve a clear and thorough conscience. There will always be some excessive selfish desires and selfish thoughts in people's hearts, so we must always be conscientious.

Wang Yangming began to discover that the heart is reason, and he knew that there was such a thing, but he had not yet given the exact term, only until the appearance of "conscience", Wang Yangming was extremely happy, and the word "conscience" was often on his lips, so that the study of mind was finally complete. Xiaoqing.

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