Wu Ge, is to ask people to experience their own things, personally handle their own things, that is, to materialism, to increase knowledge.
To know is to seek true knowledge. Find out your inner knowledge from deducing the principle of things.
Sincerity means honesty in the mind.
Righteousness is to get rid of all kinds of uneasy emotions, not to be shrouded in material desires, and to maintain peace of mind.
Excerpted from Ceng Zi's book The Book of Rites, excerpted from the original text:
If the ancient desire is obviously superior to the world, rule the country first; If you want to govern your country, you must first put your family in order; Want to be in a family, first repair the body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be correct, be sincere first; People who want sincerity; Get to know it first; Knowledge exists in things. Things are known, people know and are sincere, honest and upright, upright and self-cultivation, self-cultivation and self-cultivation, self-cultivation and self-cultivation, self-cultivation and governing the country, governing the country and leveling the world.
Translation:
In ancient times, if people want to carry forward noble virtues in the world, they must first govern their own country; If you want to govern your country, you must first adjust your home; If you want to adjust your family, you must cultivate yourself first; If you want to cultivate yourself, you must first correct your own heart; People who want to correct their thoughts must first make their thoughts sincere;
People who want to turn their ideas into reality must first acquire knowledge; The way to acquire knowledge is to explore things. Only after exploring things can we get a correct understanding, know the truth, revise our thoughts, cultivate our moral quality, adjust our family, govern our country and make the world peaceful after our thoughts are sincere.
Extended data
"University" focuses on the important relationship between improving personal cultivation, cultivating good moral quality and governing the country and leveling the world. The central idea can be summarized as "cultivate one's morality for the people's security", with the theme of "be virtuous, be close to the people and stop at perfection" and eight items of "discipline, knowledge, honesty, cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, govern the country and level the world".
The outlook on life put forward by the university is inextricably linked with Confucianism, which is basically a further expansion of the Confucian outlook on life.
This outlook on life requires paying attention to personal cultivation and embracing positive goals. This kind of cultivation and requirement is mainly based on Confucian morality. The three cardinal guides and eight aims have class nature, and "virtue" and "supreme goodness" are the political requirements and ethical standards of feudalism for monarchs. Eight items, such as "discipline" and "knowledge", require the combination of political ideas and ethical thoughts in the three programs in terms of self-cultivation.
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