Mr. Yang Ming made an earth-shattering exclamation in Longchang Enlightenment: "The way of the saint, my nature is self-sufficient. According to Mr.'s feeling of enlightenment, it is not difficult to deduce the shock brought by Mr. Enlightenment. From a young age, he had a desire to seek the truth. Mr. failed in the imperial examination, and his friends felt sorry for him, and Mr. was more concerned about the change in mentality because of the fall.
It can be seen that saints are different from ordinary people, and the difference between saints is that they are always aware of their hearts, rather than being accustomed to it, not doing it, and changing with the changes in external conditions. In his thirties, he had already undergone major changes, and then he was moved to endure in the dragon field, devoted himself to the study of the way of the saint, and finally comprehended the way of heaven on a stormy night, and issued a shocking testimony of ghosts and gods: "The way of the saint, I am self-sufficient." ”
This remark of the gentleman will surely travel through the ages and inspire future generations of seekers. The self-sufficiency of human nature is the way of enlightenment, and the so-called knowledge of the Holy Gate is not to seek some kind of knowledge system created by predecessors, but to seek knowledge. Mencius's so-called those who do their best know their nature, and those who know their nature know the heavens.
Heart, sex, and heaven are also the same, the Lord is the heart in terms of the body, the person is sexual, and the popular is not the heaven in terms of the day. Infectivity can know the heavens, so the so-called knowledge seeking of the Holy Gate is the pursuit of knowledge. If you don't seek knowledge in this way, even if you are well-read and memorized, and you don't seek your true nature, you just have more knowledge than ordinary people.
He realized that human nature is self-sufficient, so in the process of preaching, he put forward the theory of conscience, which is to bring the self-sufficient understanding into the preaching and teaching. The so-called conscience is to use conscience to guide people's behavior, and in the process of people actually following conscience, they are truly seeking knowledge.
What is conscience, a conscience, a person who can know without learning without worrying. Conscience is a natural thing of human nature, a gift from heaven. Sacred learning is not the teaching of knowledge and skills, but the study of guiding people to seek the Tao, and it is the knowledge of cultivating saints. And the saint is the person who hears the Tao, the person who knows the heavens, and the person who has the highest wisdom in human society. Sacred learning is the fundamental study of life, so Confucius said: "A gentleman is not a weapon." ”
The saint is enlightened, but the saint cannot clearly explain what the Tao is, the so-called Tao is the Tao, and the Tao is not the Tao. The way of a saint is to seek the wisdom of nature, and a saint cannot tell people what the Tao is, but can only guide people how to learn and how to do kung fu. Therefore, if a person recites the Four Books and Five Classics upside down, can it be said that this person knows? Failure to achieve the unity of knowledge and action is not true knowledge. If you only work the text and do not practice this way, it is to abandon the original and chase the end. The ancients read the books of the sages, most of them in order to gain fame, and worked the words of the sages, but did not know the way to seek the sages.
Sex is Mingde, and if people want to be truly intellectual, they need to demonstrate Mingde. To manifest enlightenment lies in the continuous work of effort, the use of the methods of objectivity, knowledge, sincerity, and righteousness, until we stop at the highest perfection, we can know our true nature, we can know that our nature is sufficient, and we can obtain the highest wisdom of human beings.
Human nature can only be known by carefully observing oneself and doing practical work. The saint is the example of the seeker, and the saint is enlightened, and his words and wisdom have changed dramatically. After Mr. Yangming realized the Tao, he can be said to be invincible, and the way of the realm is very understandable.
Mr. Yang Ming's words will not deceive people. Everyone has the nature of perfection, but they don't know how to ask for it, so Confucius said that the people don't know what they use every day. The way of the sage, self-sufficiency in understanding, letting go of the ego, returning to the self, gaining wisdom, and knowing the heavens intellectually.
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