Confucius said, "Being rich and expensive is what people want. There is no way to get it, so there is no place." Poverty and meanness are human evils. If you don't get them their way, you won't go. Isn't it good to be famous if a gentleman goes to benevolence? If a gentleman has no final food, he will violate benevolence and will do it again. "

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Confucius said: "everyone wants to be rich and famous, but if you don't get it in a proper way, you won't enjoy it;" Poverty and meanness are disgusting to everyone, but we won't get rid of them without proper methods. If a gentleman leaves benevolence, how can he be called a gentleman? No meal of a gentleman deviates from benevolence. Even in the most urgent moment, he will act according to benevolence, and even if he is displaced, he will certainly act according to benevolence.

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Comment and analysis

This passage reflects Confucius' view of reason and desire. In the past study of Confucius, this paragraph was often ignored. It seems that Confucius advocates that people should only be benevolent and not greedy. Actually, it's not. No one wants to live a life of poverty, hardship and displacement, and everyone wants to be rich and comfortable. But this must be obtained through proper means and channels. Otherwise, I would rather be poor than enjoy wealth. This idea still has its value that cannot be underestimated today. This chapter deserves careful scrutiny by researchers.

Poverty and wealth, success and failure, are all the results of the cultivation of benevolent people. Take it from the Tao, but don't take it from the Tao. It is indecent to keep it in one section. A rich man is enviable, as long as his wealth is earned by legal labor. The poor need sympathy, especially those who prefer poverty to crime.

Mencius once said, "Poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, wealth and power cannot be lewd, and power and power cannot be bent.". It is for men. " (I don't remember the original clearly, these four sentences are roughly the same. Being rich and expensive is what everyone yearns for, and everyone wants to achieve something. On the contrary, being poor and cheap is what everyone hates. No one wants to live a poor and displaced life, they all want to be rich and comfortable. Even a person with benevolence and virtue is unwilling to live like this. However, all this must be obtained through the means and channels of political parties. Otherwise, I would rather live in poverty than enjoy such wealth.

Under the economic tide of today's society, we should keep a clear head and do something. Often people can try to change their situation when they encounter difficulties, so as to get what they want. On the contrary, if some people live too comfortably, they will lose their direction, gradually lose their direction and go to the opposite side. Therefore, strengthening the cultivation of benevolence is very worthy of attention. Everyone's life will inevitably have some regrets and disappointments. If you magnify these regrets and disappointments, you will live in the shadow forever. Maybe we can't change the shortcomings in life, maybe we can't avoid the suffering in life, but Professor Yu Dan believes that one of the essences of The Analects is to tell us that the power of the mind is infinite. If you treat the shortcomings and sufferings in life with different attitudes, you will have a completely different life.