The way of kindness

1 1.20 When asked about the way of kindness, Confucius said, "No practice, no entry."

Translation interpretation:

Zhang Zi asked how to be a good person. Confucius said: "Good people don't follow the footsteps of their predecessors, but their knowledge and cultivation are not completely at home."

Swing with each other and tell stories:

Meng once asked Confucius: "Can Luz, Ran Qiu and Gong Xihua be called benevolent people?" Confucius said to Meng: you can manage a country's military and political affairs with thousands of riders; Ran Qiu can be the general manager of a hundred companies; Gong Xihua! Dressed in royal clothes, served as a courtesy officer to receive foreign guests. They can't call it kindness yet. "

? After listening to the teacher's words, Meng's eldest son has no intention of making any further progress. Not only did he not follow suit in the court, but he also teased the monarch and his subjects. (This may be the reason why people can't talk in words when they are down there!)! )

When Zhang Zi heard of such a thing, he felt that Meng certainly didn't understand the teacher's intention correctly, so he talked nonsense everywhere. This is simply an insult to Confucius. He said that if he met Meng, he would beat these idiots.

Confucius once called Zhang Zi to his study and said to him:

"People like Meng home eldest brother, really stupid. Everyone has his own ambition, you don't have to expect it, just make trouble for yourself. " In addition, he told him: "If you can't be a kind person, can't you be a good person?" Good people are hard to meet, but it is good to persist. Lutz made a good start and a good end. "

? Zhang Zi was very happy to hear the master's "good man" and felt that he should learn from Master Lutz and be a good man. Then asked:

"So, master, how can we be a good person?"

The master said:

"The key is to cultivate the virtue of being good, and to have an understanding of benevolence, so as to be a good person. If you don't understand the thoughts of saints, don't practice the miracles of saints, don't train your inner virtues, and only deliberately do some good deeds, you will only leave a good reputation, but personal cultivation is difficult to reach the highest level. "

"How can I cultivate my inner kindness?" Zhang asked.

"The key to cultivate benevolence is perseverance. Southerners have a proverb:' Perseverance does not make a witch doctor.' Another said,' Don't accept its virtue, and don't accept its shame'. People's fate can be known without divination. "The master replied.

"So, master, what kind of influence will good people have on the country and society?"

"Let me put it this way! Let a good man run a place. If he can persist for seven years, when foreign enemies invade, the people will follow him to the national disaster and share life and death. If it can last for a hundred years, maybe there will be no war and disaster! "

The master said, closing his eyes, as if intoxicated with the longing for a better life. Gradually, he fell asleep with a slight snoring.

Zhang Zi listened to the master and was deeply educated. I swear in my heart that I will never change my infatuation, and I am determined to be a good man all over the world.