Reflections on Dan's The Analects of Confucius

Reflections on Dan's The Analects of Confucius

After reading Yu Dan's Understanding of the Analects of Confucius, my heart was touched: it made me know Confucius again and let me appreciate a unique wisdom, a correct mentality and a rational morality that is integrated into today's society.

The Analects of Confucius is a book that records the teaching and life of Confucius more than 2500 years ago. I remember when I was in middle school, I mechanically recited "Why not learn from it?" ? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? "In fact, I didn't really understand. Now, Professor Yu Dan systematically interprets and interprets such an ancient book from a modern perspective with his unique perspective, which has narrowed the distance between us ordinary people and sages.

In my mind, Confucius is an ancient sage far away from us. Now, Professor Yu Dan connects the Analects, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand, with the colorful world now, interprets it through experience, and combines modern real life to explain its profound connotation in easy-to-understand language. Among them, many of her original opinions seem to make people appreciate the scenic spots with winding paths, just like the door of the heart is closed for a long time and a window is opened, and the sunshine shines in, making the mind brighter; Another example is the trickle injected into the heart, which is refreshing and beautiful.

Confucius described by Professor Yu Dan is simple, peaceful and approachable without the attitude of a saint, and always conveys a simple and warm attitude towards life. As Yi Zhongtian said, "Confucius only has temperature, but no color". The real meaning of The Analects of Confucius is to tell everyone how to live the kind of happy life we need in our hearts. Yu Dan's experience in The Analects of Confucius is divided into seven chapters: the way of heaven and earth, the way of mind, the way of life, the way of being a gentleman, the way of making friends, the way of ideal and the way of life, which tells us a lot of philosophies in dealing with people by telling stories. Next, I will talk about "treating people with things" explained in The Analects of Confucius and Yu Dan's Experience from five aspects:

(1) the way to be a man. In today's rich material life, because of the fast pace of life, heavy work pressure and fierce competition, people are becoming more and more impetuous and the spiritual world is empty. Many people are unbalanced and complain. In fact, human life is short. How to make your life meaningful and be a real person? Yu Dan's The Analects tells us that if we want to make our limited life meaningful and become a meaningful person, we should be mentally rich, mentally healthy, live actively, live in harmony with others, love our work, meet our responsibilities and contribute to society.

(2) Lifestyle. In social communication, whether at work or in life, people want to find a rule that is responsible for themselves and others. Yu Dan mentioned in his understanding of the Analects that "if you are not in your place, you will not seek politics." In other words, one should not overstep one's responsibilities, and should do his own job no matter what position. Don't go beyond your post and do what you shouldn't do. If you are not in your position, don't call the government. This is true at work, and it is also true when getting along with people. The relationship between people in modern society can be said to be the distance between people is close, and it can also be said that the distance between people is far. Because the use of communication and transportation has narrowed the distance between people, but in a reinforced concrete city, the neighbors across the street are often strangers. I remember a poem "Far and Near" written by Gu Cheng: "You look at me for a while and the clouds for a while. I think when you look at me, it is far away from me. When you look at the cloud, it is very close. " This poem tells the relationship between people very vividly and subtly. No matter how close people are, there is still the possibility of distance. How to live in harmony with others, Yu Dan wrote in Learning the Analects of Confucius, and summed up several principles of getting along with others: First, listen more and be suspicious, and the rest are cautious and rare; If you see more dangers, if you are cautious about others, you will regret it. If you don't say anything, you will regret it, and Lu is one of them. Second, cultivation and respect; Self-cultivation, helping others; Cultivate one's morality and protect the people. Third, he is human. He was angry and forgot to eat. He was happy and forgot his troubles. He doesn't know that he is getting old. From the three principles, we can realize that the way to get along is indeed an art, the premise of which is to maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, and the key is to grasp the scale of getting along well. Only in this way can we really live in harmony with others.

(3) the way to make friends. Everyone will have many friends in his life, but how many friends really belong to him? Who will help them when they need help? In Yu Dan's Understanding of the Analects of Confucius, it is said that friends should be treated with a certain scale, a certain distance and a certain boundary, so that friends can communicate for a long time. It can be seen that through Yu Dan's experience of The Analects, The Analects tells us a way to make friends: how to make friends, what kind of friends to make, and how to maintain friendship.

(4) the ideal way. One should have ideals. China's traditional moral ideal is "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world". Self-cultivation is the foundation of doing everything well, and self-cultivation is the first. Self-cultivation can be understood as: perfect external ability, flexible and changeable, advancing with the times, perfect and rich internal mind. Because only when one's inner cultivation is improved and one's ability is improved can one do things better. Through Yu Dan's understanding of The Analects of Confucius, we know that it is a summary of Confucius' life ideal and is regarded as a standard by later generations.

(5) Lifestyle. Confucius said, "I am determined to learn five out of ten, stand at thirty, be puzzled at forty, know my destiny at fifty, listen at sixty, and act at seventy without overstepping the bounds." This is the life track of Confucius, but it has also become the life coordinate and value system of future generations. It is like a mirror, through which people can compare their own life trajectories. Of course, people's age includes physiological age, psychological age and social age, but if we can achieve the realm of forty or fifty years old ahead of time in our twenties and thirties, and establish a clear life value system in our hearts, so as to be calm and calm, then such a life must be efficient and meaningful. I read the value system of life from Yu Dan's understanding of The Analects.

Professor Yu Dan's perception of The Analects of Confucius is happy, rich and enlightening. By reading Yu Dan's understanding of The Analects of Confucius, I learned to cultivate my self-cultivation and taste the true meaning of life. Only by living with an indifferent heart, an open mind, a detached temperament and a relaxed mind, and integrating one's emotions and life into the natural state, can we find inner peace and live happily as Confucius taught us!