How difficult is it in the world? For it, it is easy and difficult; If you don't do it, it's hard for easy people. Is it difficult for people to learn? Learned, difficult people will be easy; If you don't learn, it will be difficult for easy people.

I am too faint to catch people, and I am too incompetent to catch people; Learn once and for a long time, but don't be lazy, you will achieve it, but you don't know its vagueness and mediocrity. I am smart, I am smart, I am smart, I am smart; Abandoning it is tantamount to fainting and mediocrity. The way of being a saint was handed down by Lu. However, it is both stupid and clever. How can it be common?

There are two monks in Shu: one is poor and the other is rich. The poor man said to the rich man, "What do I want in the South China Sea?" The rich man said, "Why should I go?" Yue: "I have a bottle and a bowl." The rich man said, "I have always wanted to buy a boat for many years, but I have never been able to buy it." Why should I go? " The next year, the poor will come back from the South China Sea to tell the rich, and the rich will be ashamed.

I don't know how many miles it takes to get to the South China Sea in Xishu. The rich can't come, and the poor can't. People's aspirations are not as good as humble monks. Therefore, cleverness and sensitivity can be relied on, but they cannot be relied on; It is self-defeating to rely on its cleverness and sensitivity without learning. Confusion and mediocrity can be limited but not limited; Don't limit yourself to mediocrity. People who are tireless in machinery are also self-reliant.

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Things in the world are difficult and easy? If you do it, the difficulty will become easy. If you don't do it, it will be so easy and so difficult. Is it difficult or easy to learn? To learn, then the difficulty becomes easy; If you don't learn, it's so easy and so difficult.

I am too stupid to catch up with others; I am mediocre and can't catch up with others. I keep improving myself every day, and I don't know my stupidity and mediocrity until I learn it. I am talented and superior to others; Ability is better than others, but if you don't work hard, it is no different from ordinary people. Confucius' knowledge was finally handed down by Zeng Shen, who was not very clever. So smart and stupid, is it unchangeable?

There are two monks in a remote place in Sichuan, one is poor and the other is rich. The poor monk said to the rich monk, "I want to go to the South China Sea. How about it? " The rich monk said, "Why did you go?" The poor monk said, "A water bottle and a rice bowl are enough for me." Rich monk said, "I've wanted to rent a boat down the river for many years, but I haven't been able to do it yet." Why are you going! " The next year, the poor monk came back from the South China Sea and told the rich monk about it. It is shameful to be rich and respected.

Western Sichuan is thousands of miles away from the South China Sea. The rich monk can't get there, but the poor monk has already arrived. Isn't a person determined to study worse than a monk in a remote place in Sichuan? Therefore, cleverness and agility can be relied on, but not relied on; Those who rely on their own cleverness and agility and don't study hard ruin themselves. Stupidity and mediocrity can be limited or not; Those who study tirelessly without being limited by their own stupidity and mediocrity learn by themselves.

Source: This article is selected from the Collected Works of Baihetang, originally titled A Learning Son and Nephew.

Author: Peng Duanshu Zilezhai, Dan Ling (present-day Sichuan) Renyue 1699—— Yue 1779, was a litterateur in the Qing Dynasty, with a ceremonial name. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1699), Li Yu was also called the three great talents in Sichuan in Qing Dynasty. He is the author of Baihetang Collection, Poems on Snowy Nights and Learning (meaning learning). The original title is A Learning Son and Nephew. Eighty-one-year-old, died in Baihetang, a southern suburb of Chengdu. It belongs to the eighth lesson of the compulsory education curriculum standard experimental textbook "Learning", the twenty-eighth lesson of Unit 7 "Learning" in the first semester of the sixth grade of Shanghai Education Edition (excerpt), the sixth volume of the sixth grade of Shandong Education Publishing House (excerpt), and the twenty-second lesson of the first volume of the seventh grade of Hebei Education Edition. The original title is "Showing sons and nephews for learning", which is selected from Collection of White Crane Hall and Qing Wen Juan (published by People's Education Publishing House) and partially abridged.