What are you talking about, fortune telling?

No, it's a natural law. This sentence comes from The Analects of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period and his disciple Yang Huo.

Original text:

Confucius said, "I want to be speechless." Zi Gong said, "If you don't say anything, it's enough. What can you say?" Confucius said, "What did Heaven say? When you are at four o'clock, everything is born. What is the sky? "

Translation:

Confucius said, "I want to stop talking." Zi Gong said, "If you don't talk, what will we students preach?" Confucius said, "Does Heaven have a word? The four seasons are still running and everything is still growing. Did the sky say anything? "

This is an interesting dialogue between Confucius and his disciples, which contains philosophical speculation. He used the phenomenon that the four seasons are still running and everything is still growing as a metaphor to explain to students that all laws and rules are silent and self-evident, and it depends on the truth he discovered. In fact, silence is used to inspire disciples to think in a wider and deeper field.

Extended data:

What Zi Gong said in this chapter represents the mentality of many scholars. I am willing to learn from my teacher and be the first person to look forward to it. They are at a loss when the teacher doesn't talk. As we all know, learning from teachers ultimately depends on nature and sociology, because teachers only learn from nature and society, and knowledge is limited, while nature and society are infinite. If we only learn from nature and society, we will eventually deviate from the essence of learning.

Zi Gong also admitted that his perception was not as good as that of Yan Yuan, so Confucius said, "What's the meaning of heaven?" On the one hand, he expressed his pessimism, on the other hand, he began to educate Zi Gong.

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