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The way of a university lies in its virtue.
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original text

The way of university is to be moral, to be close to the people and to stop at perfection.

Note that "people-friendly" should be "new people". New, verb, innovation. That is, abandon the old and build a new one, and go from evil to good.

Modern explanation

What is a "university"? This is a political and moral proposition in the Confucian Book of Rites. Zheng Xuan, a master of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, said: "A great scholar can remember his erudition and be a politician." It is an important moral article in China's traditional philosophy, which is the first of the four books. According to legend, the author is Ceng Zi;

From childhood to adulthood, the university has learned profound philosophy, which is the soul of China's traditional culture. Primary school learning refers to learning the etiquette of sweeping the floor, coping, advancing and retreating, learning poetry, articles and martial arts;

Therefore, Zhu said in the "University Chapter": "When you were eight years old, all children, from below the princes, entered primary schools and taught them to sprinkle, sweep, respond, be upright, approach and retreat, and teach them manners, music, shooting, restraint, writing and counting. And more than ten years and five years, from the son of the emperor to the son of a doctor or a public official, everyone's handsome appearance has entered the university, and they have been taught the ways of poverty, integrity, self-discipline and governance ... "This is a university.

Therefore, the knowledge spread by the idea of "university" is a profound knowledge that teaches people how to be a man, engage in politics and cultivate monasteries. Looking at the purpose of Confucianism, its ultimate significance lies in "seeking benevolence and getting benevolence", which is its highest realm. And "benevolent, people are also." All his knowledge, that is, completing it in life practice, is the reason why people are human. People are different from animals because they have conscience, conscience and virtue-this is their heart and personality; And the human heart is "benevolence". Therefore, "the benevolent loves others" means having love, compassion and kindness. This is all human consciousness. If you lose this kind of consciousness, this person will be passive, lose consciousness and personality over time, then people's hearts will be dark, without light, they will act like animals, and then illegal and criminal phenomena will appear immediately.

The revelation of human kindness is the revelation of spiritual light, which is the road to a bright university and a bright mingde; Therefore, the primary knowledge of learning "University" is to discover and understand what is bright and beautiful.

Due to many ugly phenomena and bad habits and habits that occur every day in real society, people gradually become accustomed to these phenomena and become insensitive. From then on, they don't believe in the theory of human nature at all, and they still need to talk about personality. Everyone goes with the flow like this. Our hearts are shrouded in desire, evil and pollution every day. Just as dark weather can block the bright sunshine, the light of human kindness is blocked by ruthless customs day by day, which makes our hearts dim and the bright moral light no longer visible.

The knowledge of "the way of university" is to teach and guide people how to regain the light of their kind nature, how to make everyone's own bright virtue shine again, and how to glow with a shining personality. This is how universities can light up their moral light.

Therefore, it is the "way of university" to consciously improve one's personality and shine the light of personality;

In other words, it is often said that in moral practice, we should purify our hearts, strive to be good, and repent all immoral acts with courage and shame, so that our own truth can be revealed, our hearts can be bright, and we can find the bright virtue of personality. This is the truth of "knowing my virtue".

Being able to be "virtuous" should be a person's instinct to pursue the most basic moral cultivation. In other words, just because you are a person, you should do your duty to be a good person and pay attention to your personality. There seems to be nothing to doubt. As Mr. Nan said in "A Brief Introduction to Universities": "The main purpose of our ancient traditional education is to teach you to be a man and do your duty of humanity and human relations. I don't just teach you knowledge and skills, whether you are a good person or not. Because working, farming, peddling, being an official, being a scholar, being a soldier and being an emperor are all different occupations. Although the position is different, it is the duty of being a human being. "

And what does "close to the people" mean? Only when people have the cultivation of "Ming De" can they give full play to their instinctive consciousness to carry forward their aboveboard moral character and stimulate people's enthusiasm for abandoning the old and establishing the new. After carefully reviewing my own self-cultivation, I found my own light of humanity. This is a reformed man, a wise man. That is to say goodbye to the gloomy old self in the past and welcome the bright, moral and rational new self, thus becoming a "new citizen." This is the connotation of "being close to the people";

This stage should be a very difficult stage of self-cultivation, and it is not easy for people to reach the realm of "being in Xinmin" and "being Xinmin"! The sages once said: They are quite cultured/