Since the birth of human beings, they have tried to figure out everything about this world, where the world came from, what is the essence of the world, where did human beings come from, what is the essence of human beings, why there is a world, why there are human beings, what is the relationship between the world and human beings, and so on.
Unfortunately, these questions have not been answered, and modern people have tried to understand the world in a scientific way, but science is only the way of explaining the world, not the world itself.
If life does not find the answers to these questions, then people will have doubts, and even the brightest scientists in the human world will not be able to solve this ultimate question. Scientists who study the natural sciences eventually study God, because God is eternal, and if you can recognize the eternal God, then there is no confusion in life.
Even the most accomplished scientists in the human world, the scientists who have left a precious legacy to mankind, are full of doubts about this world until their deaths, and all the knowledge they have created has not relieved them of their doubts.
The real quest for knowledge of human beings does not lie in the study of natural sciences, no matter how many theories are used to study the world, they are only systems created by man. In fact, it is not very helpful for people to understand the world and human beings.
And the one who really resolves the confusion of life, and who truly grasps the truth of the world and mankind, is not a scientist, but a saint. Confucius was not confused at forty, and at the age of forty, Confucius had no doubts about the relationship between the world and human beings, because Confucius heard the Tao. Zi said: "When I heard the truth, I can die at night." ”
The so-called Confucian quest for knowledge is to seek the truth of the world, and the enlightenment of the sages means that they know where people and the world come from and what the relationship between the two is. Enlightenment is a saint, a saint knows the theory of life and death, knows the state of ghosts and gods, knows the reason of the underworld, and the saint is a person who has relieved the confusion of life. This is the highest pursuit of mankind, and it is the answer that all the great scientists in the world dream of.
There is a huge gap between scientists and saints, the top scientists in human history do not know the truth of the world and mankind, about these answers, the saints know the answers, this answer can not be expressed by any formula, and the saints can only leave a way to seek knowledge for future generations.
The saint not only knew the answer, but also left a teaching speech to guide others to pursue the truth of life in the world and relieve the confusion of life. What Confucianism wants to teach people is how to seek the truth about the world and mankind.
The sage's answer lies in the Confucian classics, Mencius said: "Those who do their best know their nature, and those who know their nature know the heavens." ”
The heaven discussed by Confucianism is the permanent, and if you know the sky, you can know the universe, and if you know the nature, you can know the human being. And the way to know the nature of heaven is to do its best.
How to be dedicated, Mencius believes that in expanding the four ends of the human heart, the so-called compassion, shame, resignation, and the heart of right and wrong. Expand this mind, stop at the best, and then do your best.
In the Confucian system, the human heart is the essence of the universe, but it can only be known by doing its best. Therefore, how to dedicate oneself, Confucianism has a set of self-cultivation skills for people to practice.
Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties believed that the heart is reason, and if you want to know the reason of all things in the world, you must know the heart. Everyone has a heart, but the heart is blinded by material desires, through the self-cultivation of sincerity and sincerity, to overcome the shadow of material desires, until this heart is fully manifested, then you can know the truth of human beings in the world.
Therefore, the truth of the world cannot be exhausted by a doctrine or a formula, and it is impossible to know the truth of human beings in the world with reason.
The saint is superior to any scientist, because all the scientists in the world together do not know the truth, the saint knows. If all the world's top scientists can meet saints, these scientists only have the share of apprentices, and in front of saints, the world's top scientists are just dolls who have not woken up.
Confucianism says that the truth of the world lies in the heart, and with the heart, you can know the nature and the heavens! The only way to seek knowledge is the way of the sage, and I recommend two books to you, which are my primers for learning Confucianism.
Those who are interested in learning Confucianism should not miss this book. You can watch it yourself or leave it to your child. Foreign families have Bibles, and the Four Books are the Bibles of Chinese families. The family stores four books, and who dares to say that the next saint does not come from your house? After all, the sages said that everyone can be holy.
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