Wang Yangming's family instructions
Be filial; Learn humility and follow etiquette; Diet and games; Not lying, not greedy; No feelings, no quarrels; Don't complain, be independent. Being a servant is determined to win; Being able to accommodate people is a great tool. Be a man, in your heart; Kind-hearted, a good man; Fierce and cruel. Like a tree fruit, the heart is the pedicle; When the pedicle is broken, the fruit falls off. I teach you everything. Listen carefully and don't give up easily. "
Wang Yangming's Translation of Wang Yangming's Family Instructions
Children, listen to instructions: study hard and be filial to your parents; Learn to be modest and act according to etiquette; Save money and play less games; Don't lie, don't covet profits; Don't be emotional, don't be angry with others; Don't complain, just control yourself; Being able to lower one's status is a sign of ambition; Being able to accommodate others is a great measure.
Who is a man, mainly depends on the quality of the heart; A kind-hearted person is a kind-hearted person; A ruthless person. For example, the fruit on a tree has its pedicle in the center; If Betty goes bad first, the fruit is bound to fall. Everything I teach you now is here. You should listen carefully and never give up easily.
The core of Wang Yangming's family rules is conscience education, which advocates "being taught to be right" and regards diligent study, early determination, learning to be a good person and being a good person as the top priority of family rules education.
Comments on Wang Yangming's Family Instructions
After reading Wang Yangming's family instructions, I deeply felt the importance of Confucianism for family education. Wang Yangming is an outstanding Confucian thinker. His family instructions are based on Confucianism, emphasizing such important Confucian concepts as determination, discipline, knowledge and the unity of knowing and doing.
First of all, I think the advantage of Wang Yangming's family precepts is to emphasize the importance of determination. In Wang Yangming's view, a person's achievement depends on his ambition. Only by establishing a firm ambition first can he have a successful career.
This point still has important enlightenment significance to today's society. In modern education, we also need to pay attention to cultivating children's aspirations, help them set correct life goals, and let them move forward more firmly in the future life path.
Secondly, Wang Yangming's family instructions emphasize the importance of learning from things. This means that we should deepen our understanding by observing and analyzing things. This idea is still of positive significance to today's society. In today's era of information explosion, we need to have the ability to think independently and form our own opinions and cognition through observation and analysis of things.
In addition, Wang Yangming's family instructions also emphasize the importance of the unity of knowledge and action. In Wang Yangming's view, knowing and doing are inseparable. Only by applying knowledge to practice can we truly master knowledge. This point still has important enlightenment significance to today's society. In modern education, we also need to pay attention to cultivating children's practical ability and help them apply what they have learned to practice, so as to better master knowledge.
Finally, Wang Yangming's family instructions also emphasize the importance of conscience. In Wang Yangming's view, conscience is the moral consciousness in everyone's heart, and only through conscience can moral realm be achieved.
This point still has important enlightenment significance to today's society. In modern education, we also need to pay attention to cultivating children's moral consciousness. The application of this idea can better help children improve their self-cultivation and moral level and become people with noble qualities.