"Cautious independence" is a high-level moral cultivation. The ancient sages of China have long understood that a gentleman should be cautious. As early as in the Book of Rites, it was recorded: "Mo is insignificant, so a gentleman should be cautious." Throughout the ages, sages and people who have demonstrated morality in history are cautious and independent. Confucius, a sage, not only strictly abides by the ceremony of "monarch, monarch and minister" in the court, but also abides by the ceremony of a gentleman on the way of being demoted, and does not sit up straight and say indecent words. Qu Yuan, a poet, was deposed and exiled in troubled times, but he can still "play the crown after bathing and change clothes after bathing". Sizhitang exclaimed: "Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know, what is unknown!" Let the polluters run around and let the virtues last forever, thus becoming the best footnote of "a gentleman is cautious and independent".
"A gentleman is cautious and independent" is a person's honesty to himself. A person can be loyal to others only if he is honest with himself. There is a story about the Five Yuan Lantern Festival: Due to the war, the Buddhist monks of Putuo Temple decided to move the temple site. During the migration, Master Yutong was the only one who insisted on attending the morning class and never gave up. Someone advised, "There is no Buddha here, so the master doesn't have to." Master Yu Tong replied, "There is no Buddha here, but there is a Buddha in my heart. I am sincere and sincere. " What a "sincere to my heart, sincere to my Buddha"! In fact, everyone has a Buddha in his heart-his own conscience. A gentleman in public is a gentleman among all gentlemen, and only a gentleman who is alone in a room is his own gentleman. A gentleman is cautious and sincere to himself, just like an empty valley and a secluded orchid. Even if no one knows it, it always exudes fragrance. And those who don't know how to be "cautious and independent" deceive their conscience in vain, and their hearts will eventually become the stinking place of abalone!
"A gentleman is cautious and independent" is still a kind of examination of himself. Whenever you are alone in a room in the dead of night, when the faces of a billion generations are hanging high above your head, can you indulge your body and mind because you don't care about others? No, the bright stars are looking at you, and the bright moon is looking at you. Vaguely, there is a sound, as if the soul is torturing itself, in this lonely silence. A gentleman is cautious and independent, and his soul is always cautious.
When a new moon rises and shines in the lonely valley, there is a unique orchid, pure and beautiful, standing in its own fragrance. It is in this complete solitude that he won the stars all over the sky.