Only saying that "goodness" is true or false; There are ends and curves; There are yin and yang; There are yes and no; If there is bias, there is positive; Half, full; There are big and small; Difficult, easy. If you don't understand what true goodness is, you think that you are doing good, which is not only futile, but also useless.
Take true goodness and false goodness for example, it is good for people, good for themselves and bad for them. In this way, if a person's starting point is only for himself, even if he doesn't do anything to hurt others, it belongs to evil, not good. This standard can be said to be quite high, which shows that the ancients were very strict about moral cultivation. I remember Qian Liqun, a professor of Chinese Department in Peking University, once said that some universities are now cultivating some exquisite egoists. They are highly intelligent, worldly, sophisticated, good at acting, know how to cooperate, and are better at using the system to achieve their goals. Once in power, such people are more harmful than ordinary corrupt officials. Indeed, our education system is deficient in traditional culture education, and the moral education for students is also a mere formality, and schools only pay attention to scores. The students thus cultivated do not have a correct view of good and evil, and everything is centered on personal interests.
I remember there was a famous "Pan Xiao Discussion" in the early 1980s, and the person who signed "Pan Xiao" wrote a letter to China Youth. In this letter entitled "Why is the road of life getting narrower and narrower?" The author wrote: "Anyone, whether living or creating, is subjective to himself and objective to others. Just like the sun shines, it is an inevitable phenomenon of its own survival movement at first. It shines on everything, but it is an objective meaning derived from it. Therefore, I believe that as long as everyone strives to improve the value of self-existence, the development of the whole human society will become inevitable. This is probably the law of human beings, and it is also a certain law of biological evolution-a law that no arbitrary preaching can overwhelm and deceive, which has triggered a national discussion on life.
In fact, before learning the four disciplines for Fanfan, I almost agreed that most people are subjective to themselves and objective to others. As long as everyone works hard to be himself, it will inevitably promote the progress of the whole society. However, such a lifestyle, although understandable, will not bring enough happiness to people. After all, this is a highly interdependent society, and you can't succeed alone. Mutual assistance is the best choice to improve the overall efficiency.
Then, can it be understood that true "goodness" should be subjective to others and objective to oneself?