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Decrypt Wang Yangming's heart and be a strong person!
Cultivate the magical wisdom of a strong heart, be a must-see for those who have a strong heart, and collect the essence of the whole book of the "Records of Transmission and Practice"; absorb the power of Wang Yang's knowledge and action, the study of light in the strong heart, and the source of wisdom for successful self-cultivation.
I hope you can learn something, today's first lecture, please read.
Knowledge and wisdom are not a matter of one level, knowledge is a kind of content; wisdom is a kind of thinking. One is the foundation and the other is sublimation.
So, if you have knowledge, is it equivalent to having wisdom?
Mr. Wang Yangming gave the answer in his "Reading", a person has knowledge, does not mean that he has wisdom, a word to break the essence of knowledge and wisdom.
We learn knowledge by reading books, and this knowledge is stored in our brains. Only after the tempering of practice and life, the experience of the heart, the digestion of what you see, hear, and feel, and then transform into your own world outlook and values, this is the process of transforming knowledge into wisdom.
Therefore, having knowledge is not the same as having wisdom; we must learn to put aside the vain words and pursue the essence of the ideas behind the knowledge; at the same time, we must integrate what we have learned with morality, sublimate knowledge, and even use it in practice for its use. With a frame of mind, let's talk about how to do it.
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Mastering knowledge is not the same as possessing wisdom
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According to the Records of The Transmission of The Tale of Huang Province:
A friend asked, "How about reading a book and not remembering?" ”
Sir: "As long as you know, how can you remember?" You must know that it is already the second meaning, as long as you know your own essence. If the disciple wants to remember, he will not know; if the disciple wants to know, he will not know his own being. ”
Wang Yangming believes that as long as you understand the truth in reading a book, you don't need to remember the original words in the book. If you only want to remember the contents of the book, it is not reading the book clearly. The purpose of reading is to make yourself wise and to be truly inspired.
That is to say, learning knowledge is only a skill, and using knowledge for practice is the application of learning, and in the process of using it, the heart has also been harvested and sublimated into wisdom.
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To give a very simple example:
Philosophers and mathematicians crossed the river in the same boat.
The mathematician and the boatman made small talk: "Do you understand mathematics?"
The boatman shook his head, and the mathematician said, "It's a shame, then you've lost a third of your life."
At this time, the philosopher asked again, "Do you understand that philosophy?"
"I don't understand." The boatman still smiled and shook his head. The philosopher also shook his head and said with emotion, "Then you only have half your life left."
At this time, the fierce wind blew and overturned the boat.
The philosopher, the mathematician, and the boatman were all thrown into the water, and the boatman calmly asked the philosopher and mathematician, "Can you swim?"
The two shouted, "No, no!"
The boatman sighed deeply, "Then you will lose all your lives!"
One story thoroughly illustrates the relationship between knowledge and wisdom.
Philosophers and mathematicians are scholars with superior knowledge, but in the face of the disasters of life, knowledge cannot play a role, can not help them save their lives, and can not cope with the various unexpected problems encountered in life. But wisdom is different, the power of wisdom is infinite, and true wisdom can help us face the problems of life.
In other words, if the philosopher can stabilize his heart in the midst of danger, come up with a way to rescue, or assist others in finding a way to first aid; if the mathematician can use the knowledge of mathematics to strengthen the stability of the ship in a storm, or after sinking the water, he can use the relationship between the human body and the water to calculate how to safely rescue, this is the use of knowledge, this is wisdom.
Of course, these methods are not professional, nor feasible, all that is to be expressed is that knowledge should be "moved", used, and practically used, and knowledge is "living knowledge" that solves problems and saves lives, rather than "dead knowledge" that sticks to unchanging rules and pulls into a dead end.
So a person with knowledge does not necessarily have wisdom. In real life, we must also apply knowledge and transform it into wisdom to solve various problems in life.
Like what:
Ways to educate children.
Don't talk about the big truth, these theoretical knowledge, children can't see or touch, how can they understand and do it.
On the contrary, parents should accompany their children to practice, experience the joy of learning in practice, and feel that it is not easy to obtain knowledge, so as to stimulate the motivation of children to move forward in disguise.
Another example is the problem of getting along with people. Whether it is a husband and wife, a mother-in-law or a friend relationship, we all advocate harmonious coexistence so that we can be happy. But theoretical knowledge is only theoretical knowledge after all, in the complicated life, if you do not know how to integrate and use flexibly, you will still deal with various relationships in a mess.
So, we need to turn knowledge into wisdom at this point. Specific problems are analyzed specifically, and different relationships are handled according to different problems, so as to solve the essential problems.
And so on, and so on.
Knowledge is the essence summed up through practice, and wisdom is the sublimation of knowledge, and it is the life of knowledge to find reasonable solutions to different problems. Therefore, mastering knowledge is not the same as having wisdom.
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Abandon the vain words and pursue the essence of the classics
Wang Yangming once said in the Records of Transmission and Practice: If you believe in conscience, and only work conscience, although thousands of scriptures are consistent, heretical musicology is completely destroyed, so why should it be decomposed so gradually!
Meaning: in the study of knowledge, we must be attentive, without the heart, there is no gain, and everything can be obtained with the heart. To learn to learn the essence of things, not to be confused by superficial glitz and forget the root cause.
There is a folk joke that goes like this: a man beats a dog with a stone, but the dog chases after the stone to take revenge, forgetting that it is actually a person who hits it. It fully illustrates the principle of putting the cart before the horse.
This is the word, which has its literal meaning and its deep meaning, blindly pursuing the literal meaning without doing deep thinking, even if it solves the superficial problem, it cannot solve the fundamental problem.
There are countless such cases in real life. The most common is the euphemistic rejection of words. Whether it is life or the workplace, when we reject others, we will always euphemistically express: "I'm sorry, I still have something to do, I can't go over." "Sorry, we still have to study your resume, and we will reply to you later!" ”......
These euphemisms all reflect the meaning of rejection, and if you understand its deep meaning, you will naturally understand what to do next. However, if you don't understand, you will make jokes and even be embarrassed.
In addition to this, there are words of praise. Powerful people also have the courage to accept praise from others, on the contrary, those who have no strength but pursue false names often hope to be praised by others, and the "praise" at this time may have a deep meaning.
For example, "Your strength is unmatched, I am ashamed of myself!", "Your approach is really unique enough." ”...... Praise with sarcasm. Such praise, if you do not pursue a deep meaning, but also laugh at it, will become a joke of everyone.
Of course, such cases of pursuing vain words but not paying attention to the connotation of words abound. At the end of the day, it's a question between knowledge and wisdom. The meaning expressed by words is not what the heart thinks. Only by figuring out the meaning of words is the work of the wise.
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Integrate knowledge into life's moral beliefs
Wang Yangming once said: "To lead and promote knowledge with morality, to supplement and promote morality with knowledge, the two complement each other, and in practice, they will achieve the effect of making progress together." ”
One sentence clarifies the relationship between knowledge and morality. Knowledge is a person's framework system, and morality reflects a person's qualities, knowledgeable people are not necessarily morally noble, and people with high morality are not necessarily erudite and multi-talented cultural people. Knowledge and morality are two concepts.
For example, someone is knowledgeable and moral, and in many cases it is like this, that is, when he does not have knowledge, even if he has no knowledge, he is still moral.
For example, when someone has no knowledge, he has no morality, and then he goes to college and has knowledge, and generally speaking, he will not become morally noble because he has knowledge.
In fact, morality is a unique long-term cultivation independent of knowledge, and morality is still largely an innate disposition.
In real life, some workers and peasants who have no culture tend to have a sense of morality. Some "bad boys" with low cultural knowledge are very filial to their parents. They don't pay lip service to the big truth, but they turn moral demands into a natural action. However, some "cultural people" with knowledge are doing immoral things under the cover of culture.
In this way, knowledge is only theory, while morality is a practice. Only by incorporating knowledge into morality can morality be sublimated and put to use.
In short, knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing, just like a small tree, just having the shape of a tree, but not necessarily growing into a beam of wood.
Knowledge is only the framework of our growth, and wisdom is the use of knowledge, only by truly integrating knowledge into life, peeling off its superficial glitz, pursuing its essence, and integrating it with our words and deeds and morality, can we truly learn knowledge.
Author: Mr. Senmei
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