I used to spend a long time studying those things in the Ming Dynasty, but looking back recently, I found that Wang Shouren's sentence "Unity of knowing and doing" impressed me the most.
You can understand this sentence like this-read thousands of books and follow Wan Li Road, and theory must be combined with practice to become a useful person.
You can also understand this sentence-what you think in your heart should be consistent with what you do in your hand, so that you can live up to your conscience. Like Harry, his ambition in life is to benefit the people, and he has devoted his life to the people.
However, I still want to talk about what I agree with-to achieve great ambitions, we must have a down-to-earth and down-to-earth approach.
Wang Shouren once visited Jiangxi as an imperial governor. Ironically, he was "pitted" by Wang Qiong, an adult of Shangshu at that time. He came here to crack down on bandits who had troubled the imperial court for more than ten years. As a philosopher, Wang Shouren used force in a strange and insidious way. It is common to dig a hole and ambush, but no matter how many troops there are, we must surround the enemy half to death and then arrest him; Sometimes you deliberately underestimate your enemy, but when the other person is recuperating, you suddenly take care of Jiao Zi. Even those who surrendered were spared, and those who were recruited several times but rebelled several times were killed, scaring the bandits into surrendering, which really became a success.
Jiangxi is clean. A miracle happened.
This is only because Wang Shouren has a good starting point and ideal to pacify bandits, supplemented by ruthless means.
The best way to curb violence is to fight violence with violence. That's right.
Another person who also developed "the unity of knowledge and action" to the extreme is called Xu Jie. At that time, politics was dark, Jiajing was addicted to Taoism, Yan Song dominated politics, and demon wind prevailed. The way Xu Jie defeated Yan Song was actually ugly. Xia Yan, who promoted Xu Jie as his teacher, was besieged and killed by Yan Song. He did not say a word; Visit relatives and friends on holidays, don't forget to visit Yan Song; Jiajing is fatuous, but also volunteered to make an alchemy for the other side to gain goodwill and improve his position against Yan Song; Even Yan Song's downfall was achieved by framing his son Yan Shifan for rebellion.
Yes, at that time, almost everyone was scolding Xu Jie for his moral degeneration, but he silently endured it. After defeating Yan Song as the records, he promoted talents, cleaned up the failure of state affairs, and single-handedly sent the Ming Dynasty to a peaceful and prosperous time, although it was not the peak.
I admire him. He can do what he doesn't want to do for the people, and at the same time, he never loses himself and never forgets his starting point in this dark political affairs. "Good use is good, and evil use is evil." With a good starting point, the ultimate goal is to strive for the fair interests of the world. The process may be despised, but if it succeeds, it will be worthwhile.
In fact, Lincoln is also the executor of "the unity of knowledge and action". During the adoption of The Emancipation Proclamation, his staff asked him if he needed to pay bribes to ensure the adoption of the declaration. Lincoln smiled, but his staff knew this clearly and moved around, and finally the proclamation was passed by a high vote. Black Americans can finally fight for their fair interests.
Actually, this kind of thing is very common. If a politician wants to go to power to seek benefits for the broad masses of the people, then he has to push his opponent off the competitive stage. Of course, it can be enabled, but it must not be allowed to threaten its position or put forward contradictory ideas.
If we don't say hello with the same guns when Japan calls, how can we call them out? If I just hold the scriptures and preach benevolence, righteousness and morality, I'm afraid the land of China would have been flooded with blood!
I, China, love peace, but why should we develop nuclear weapons with great lethality? If it weren't for its strength, it would have been pressed to talk about peace!
In fact, the realization of many lofty and great ideals is based on the helpless measure of compulsory violence.
Therefore, we should not only have a clear mind, but also have practice that can ensure the realization of our ideals.
"Unity of knowing and doing", with a down-to-earth and flexible method, to realize a great and lofty ideal of life.
I hope it will help you, and hope to adopt it. Your adoption will be our motivation to answer questions.