A mind without material desires is an ocean in the autumn sky, with a piano and a book on it, and it becomes the Danqiu in the stone room. Where did it come from? Thank God for his help.

Caigen Tan, edited by Hong Yingming Taoist in the early Ming Dynasty.

If a person's heart is not blinded by material desires, his mood will be as cheerful as the blue sky in autumn and the calm sea; For an idle person on weekdays, if accompanied by piano books, he will live as carefree as a fairy.

"Caigen Tan" is the crystallization of the truth of three religions, and it is not easy to teach people from generation to generation. It is a rare and precious training for the vast past. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation.

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Caigentan? 【 is a collection of epigram prose based on the thought of life, which adopts the citation system and combines the Confucian doctrine of the mean, the Taoist inaction and the Buddhist thought of being born. From the structural point of view, "Caigen Tan" has beautiful words, neat antithesis, far-reaching implications and food for thought. It is a popular reading that is beneficial for people to cultivate their sentiments, temper their will and strive for progress. The author named this book Caigen, which means that "people's intelligence and self-cultivation can only be obtained through hard training".

As the saying goes, "Bite off the roots of vegetables and do whatever it takes." There are roughly two versions of Caigen Tan-Qing edition and Ming edition. The Ming edition comes from the inscription of the owner of Sanfeng, and is collected by Hirasakamoto, the head of the cabinet library of Japan. According to legend, it was first seen in Eight Stories of Respecting the Saints in Yashangzhai edited by Gao Lian in Ming Dynasty.

The book is divided into two parts, the first part is 225 articles, and the second part is 135 articles, with a total of 360 articles (there are 362 articles in the collection of Shanghai Library, several of which have been merged and finally added). The photo of this entry is a clear edition, mainly based on the woodcut edition of Yangzhou Tibetan Classics Institute during the reign of Emperor Guangxu Dinghai and the typesetting of Buddhist Bookstore in the twenty-third year. ?

The content of Caigen Tan is a popular reading of Confucianism, which adopts the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, takes Zen as the core, and takes self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world as the main road. At the same time, because it combines the characteristics of philosophy, art of life and aesthetic taste, it is also a China literary work that people strive for.

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