The way of university is to be moral, to be close to the people and to stop at perfection. Zhi Zhi then has a decision, then he can be quiet, then he can be quiet, then he can be safe, then he can think about it, and then he can get it. Things have a beginning and an end, and things have a beginning and an end. If you know the order, you will find a shortcut.

Those who want to be obviously superior to the world in ancient times should rule their country first, and those who want to rule their country should rule their home first; If you want to reunite with your family, you should first repair your body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be correct, be sincere first; To be sincere, you must know first, and you must know the style. Everyone knows everything, everyone knows it and is sincere, sincere and upright, upright and upright, well-trained and well-groomed, well-groomed and well-governed, well-groomed and well-governed. From Tian Zi to Shu Ren, one is based on self-cultivation. If the end of the treatment is messed up, it won't work. Thick is thin, thin is thick, and there is nothing. This is called knowing it, and this is called knowing it.

The so-called sincere person is not deceiving himself. If it stinks, if it's lewd, it's called modesty. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious and independent. Little people are not good at fooling around and do everything they can. When he meets a gentleman, he will resent it, fight for his incompetence and concentrate on his kindness. It is impossible for a man to treat himself as a liver and lung. This is called sincerity in the middle and tangible outside. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious and independent. Zeng Zi said, "What you see with ten eyes and what you point to with ten hands is strict!" Rich, virtuous, broad-minded and obese, so a gentleman must be sincere. As the poem says, "If you support yourself in Australia, you will find yourself in green bamboo, and you will find yourself in Fiji. If you are incisive, if you are grinding, if you are sad, if you are noisy, you will find yourself in Fiji. " As eager as you are, Taoism is also; If you are as sharp as a mill, you will learn from yourself; Those who feel sorry for others are embarrassed; He Xi Xi Xi, Wei Yi also; If you have a gentleman, you can't be embarrassed. Morality is the best, and the people can't forget it. A poem says, "Yu Xi! The former king did not forget. " A gentleman is virtuous, close to his relatives, and a villain is happy and profitable, so that he will not forget the world. Chen Kang said, "Ke Mingde." Dajia said, "Ancient times are destiny." Emperor Dian said, "Mingde is also." It goes without saying. The dish of soup said, "New is new, new is new." Chen Kang said, "Be a new citizen." A poem says, "Although Zhou was an old country, his life changed." Therefore, a gentleman does his best. As the poem says, "the country is thousands of miles away, and only the people can stop it." As the poem says, "The yellow bird stops at the corner of the mountain." Confucius said, "When you stop, you know what you have stopped. Can people be worse than birds? " There is a poem that says, "King Mumuwen stops at Ji Xi." Stop at benevolence for the monarch, stop at respect for the minister, stop at filial piety for the son, stop at kindness for the father, and stop at faith in making friends with the Chinese people. Confucius said, "If I hear a lawsuit, I am still a human being, and I will make it litigious!" Ruthless people can't do it, and they are afraid of people's ambitions. This is called knowing it.

The so-called self-cultivation lies in mindfulness, and it is wrong to be angry, afraid, happy and worried. Absent-minded, blind, listening but not smelling, eating without knowing its taste, this is called cultivating one's morality with the right heart.

There are few people in the world who are in physical repair, loved, looked down upon, feared, worried and lazy. Therefore, there is a saying: "Man is the evil of his son, and he doesn't know the size of his young son." This means that if you don't fix your body, you can't be at home.

The so-called rule of the country must be in line with its family, its family can not be taught, and there is no one who can teach. Therefore, a gentleman does not become a monk and becomes a Buddhist. Filial piety, so things are also jun; Brother, so the matter is long; Kindness, so make public also. Chen Kang said, "If you protect your son." Sincerely ask for it, although it is not in the middle, it is not far away. So are those who haven't learned to adopt children before getting married. A benevolent government, a benevolent government; A letter, a goodsky letter; One person is greedy, and one country is chaotic. This means that a word is urgent and one person rules the country. Yao and Shun lead the world with benevolence, and the people follow it; Jie fights violence with violence, and everyone follows it. What it ordered was contrary to what it wanted, but the people did not obey it. Therefore, if a gentleman has himself, he will ask others, and if he does not have himself, he will not be others. Hidden things are unforgivable, but they can be used to describe people, but nothing is left. So the rule of the country lies in its own home. As the poem says: "If a peach wants to die, its Ye Zhenzhen, its son's return, its home is suitable." Appropriate family members can then teach China people. A poem says, "My brother should be my brother." You should be brothers and younger brothers, and then you can teach the people. As the poem says, "there are four kingdoms." Father-son law, then civil law. This means that the rule of a country lies in its own home.

The so-called people who rule their country by leveling the world are old and filial, long and lonely, and the people are different, so courtesy is the way of a gentleman. If you are evil, don't let it fall; What is evil is not in this matter; Evil is ahead, not behind; What is the evil of the future, not the evil of the past; Right evil, not left; If you are left evil, don't give it to right evil. This is called the way to slap the moment. As the poem says, "the pleasure of a gentleman is the parents of the people." What the people do well and what the people hate are called the parents of the people. As the poem says, "Nanshan is a festival, rocks are rocks, and the people have a long-term vision." Those who have a country should not be careless and slaughter for the world. As the poem says: "It is not easy for Yin to lose his teacher, to be innocent of God, and to be disciplined by Yin." If you talk too much, you will get the country, and if you lose the people, you will lose the country. Therefore, a gentleman must first be cautious. Where there is virtue, there must be people. Where there is soil, there is wealth, and wealth is useful. Virtue is the foundation and wealth is the goal. The external cause is the internal cause, and the people strive for it. Therefore, if you gather wealth, the people will disperse, and if you gather wealth, the people will gather. People who say the wrong thing come out and go in; Goods that go in illegally will also go out illegally. Chen Kang said, "Obedience is not constant." If it is good, you will get it, if it is not good, you will lose it. Chu Shu said, "Chu has no treasure, but good is treasure." My uncle said, "The dead are not treasures, but the benevolent relatives are treasures." Qin vowed: "If a minister has no other skills, forgive him. People have skills, if any; People are saints, and their hearts are good, just like their mouths. Tolerance is also beneficial, so as to protect my children and people! People's skills hate evil, and people's are unreasonable. I really can't stand it, it can't protect my children and grandchildren, it's very dangerous! " Benevolent people untied themselves and burst into the four barbarians, not with China. This means that only the benevolent can love and be wicked. If you don't do it when you see a sage, you will die if you don't do it first. You can't retreat if you see something bad, you can't retreat quickly, and you can't go too far. What a good man hates and what a bad man likes is his arrogance, and disaster will catch his husband. Therefore, a gentleman has a way, and he gains it with loyalty and loses it with arrogance. There are avenues to make money, many people are born, few people eat, and those who use them are sick, so wealth continues. Kind people get rich by money, and unkind people get rich by their own bodies. It is also bad for people without kindness to go on, people without kindness are not finished, and people without treasury wealth are not their wealth. Meng Xianzi said: "Cattle and horses ride, not chickens and dolphins;" The home of ice cutting, not cattle and sheep; A hundred times the home, not a minister of livestock. It is better to have a thief than a minister. "That is to say, the country does not benefit from benefits, but also benefits from righteousness. To serve the country, those who spend money must be small. He is good, the villain's ambassador is the country, and the disaster comes from his mouth. Although there are good people, none of them are good. This means that the country does not benefit from profit, but also benefits from righteousness.

Translation:

1. The way of university is to have morality, be close to the people and be perfect.

◎ Vernacular explanation: The truth of the university is to show that everyone has their own virtue (virtue), and then push others to others, so that everyone can get rid of pollution and start over (be close to the people and be new to the people), striving for perfection, being the most perfect and unchanged.

Zhi Zhi will decide later, then he can be quiet, then he can be calm, then he can be safe, then he can think about it, and then he can get it.

◎ Vernacular solution: If you can know what it is, stop at the best, and then the will will have a certain strength; Only when the will has a certain concentration can the heart calm down; You can keep your head still, and then you can be content with the status quo; Be able to take things as they are, and then you can do things carefully and thoroughly; Only when you can think carefully can you achieve perfection.

Things have a beginning and an end, and things have a beginning and an end. If you know the order, you will find a shortcut.

◎ Vernacular explanation: Everything in the world has a beginning and an end, and everything has a beginning and an end. If you can understand the sequence of beginning and ending, you can get close to the truth of self-cultivation and self-governance.

4. Those who want to govern their own country; Get together with your family first; If you want to reunite with your family, you should first repair your body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be correct, be sincere first; Be sincere, let him know first; Knowledge exists in things.

◎ Vernacular explanation: If you want to govern the country well, you must first govern the family. If you want to manage your family well, you must first cultivate your own morality (self-cultivation); If you want to cultivate your morality, you must first correct your heart (righteousness); If you want to correct your mentality, you must first make your thoughts sincere and selfless (sincere); If you want to make your thoughts sincere and selfless, you must first understand-study the truth (knowledge) of things; If you want to know and understand, you must first get rid of material desires and correct their incorrect ideas (things). The latter: just right and not so good. ※.

Studying machines is at the beginning of thinking, but at the beginning of things. ※.

5. Things are known by people, people know and are sincere, sincere and correct, just and correct, training and good, good and governance, good and governance.

◎ Vernacular explanation: After an exhaustive effort to get rid of material desires (material cases), the truth of everything is clear (knowledge); After understanding, the heart is sincere and innocent (sincere); Have a sincere heart, natural integrity, selflessness and impartiality (righteousness); If you are honest and selfless, you will naturally Xiu De (cultivate yourself); Being able to practice in Xiu De, the natural family is harmonious and orderly (the family is clean and tidy); Only when the family is well managed can the country be well managed; Only when national governance is on the right track can the world be more peaceful.

6. From Tian Zi to Shu Ren, one is based on self-cultivation. Whether there is confusion at the end of treatment; Thick is thin, thin is thick, and there is nothing.

◎ Vernacular explanation: From the emperor to the common people, everything should be based on self-cultivation. Without self-cultivation, even the fundamental self-cultivation is screwed up, but it is impossible to rule the country and level the world. It has never been so reasonable to treat self-cultivation as unimportant, but to talk about governing the country and leveling the world.

7. The inscription on that dish of soup reads: "New is new, new is new. 」

Vernacular explanation: Shang Tang carved words on the copper plate he used to wash his hands, which was used for self-vigilance. The inscription said: "If we can clean up the dirt we learned today and start over, we should make progress every day, strive for new progress, continue to clean up the pollution and make progress every day. 」

8. As the poem says, "There is a Fei Jun, if it is incisive, it will be polished." Learn Taoism if you want to learn, and learn yourself if you want to learn.

◎ Vernacular explanation: The Book of Songs says: "A gentleman with brilliant literary talent. His study of Xiu De's kung fu is like cutting bones and corners, cutting jade and grinding stones, hoping to keep improving. " "Honesty" means that he studies hard; "Sharpen as a mill" refers to his efforts to cultivate, examine and hone his own virtue.

9. The so-called "sincerity", don't deceive yourself.

◎ Vernacular interpretation: The scripture says "Be sincere", which means don't deceive yourself.

Not being bullied is smart, not deceiving others is sincere, and not deceiving yourself is true. ※.)

10. Sincerity is in China, but external is in form. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious.

◎ Vernacular explanation: A person's inner sincerity will definitely be manifested externally. Therefore, when a gentleman is alone, he must be more cautious and dare not casually.

(Heaven knows the earth, you know me. ※.)

1 1. Zeng Zi said, "What you see with ten eyes and what you point to with ten hands is strict! 」

◎ Vernacular explanation: Ceng Zi said: "When a person is alone, it is like having ten pairs of eyes looking at you and ten hands pointing at you. How serious and terrible this is! 」

A gentleman never cheats in a darkroom. ※.

12. Furun House is virtuous and healthy, broad-minded and fat.

Vernacular explanation: Rich people always decorate their houses with wealth, while virtuous people enrich themselves with morality, because their hearts are broad and peaceful, and their bodies are naturally Shu Tai.

13. The so-called "self-cultivation is in the right heart", it is wrong to be angry; If you are afraid, you may be wrong; What is fun can't be right; If you are worried, you may be wrong.

◎ Vernacular explanation: The so-called "the purpose of self-cultivation is to correct one's heart", which means that when one is angry, one's heart is not right; When there is fear, the heart is not right; When there is love, the heart is not right; When you are sad, your heart cannot be straight. (emotions, love, hate, fear, secular desires, all affect people's hearts. ※.)

14. Absent-minded, blind, hard of hearing, unable to taste when eating.

◎ Vernacular solution: If the mind is not focused and not affected by emotions, it will become: eyes look at things, but they don't seem to see them, ears listen to sounds, but they don't seem to hear them, and mouth eats something, but they don't know what it tastes like.

15. There is a saying: "People don't know the evil of children, and people don't know the size of seedlings. 」

◎ Vernacular explanation: As the saying goes, "People don't know the disadvantages of children, and they don't know that rice seedlings have thrived. 」

If you are biased, you will not be right, and you will not see the truth. ※.)

16. sincerely seek it, although it is lost, it is not far away.

◎ Explanation: If you do it sincerely, you are not far from your goal.

17. A gentleman has himself and then asks for others; Nobody, and then nobody.

◎ Vernacular explanation: When a virtuous spirit leads a gentleman, he must do good deeds first and then ask others to do good deeds; You must first ask yourself not to do evil, and then forbid others to do evil.

Confucius said, "I am upright but not obedient, and I am upright and not obedient. ※.」)

18. If you are evil, don't let it fall; What is evil is not in this matter; Evil is ahead, not behind; What is the evil of the future, not the evil of the past; Right evil, not left; If you are left evil, don't give it to right evil; This is called a gentleman's way.

◎ Vernacular explanation: I can't treat my subordinates with the attitude that my boss hates me; Similarly, whenever I hate the behavior of my subordinates, I can't serve my boss with that behavior; I hate the people in front, and I can't do those things to treat the people behind; I hate what the people behind me do to me, so I can't do those things to treat the people in front; I hate the evil deeds of the people on my right, so I can't impose the same evil deeds on the people on my left; I hate the evil deeds of the people on my left, so I can't impose the same evil deeds on the people on my right. Do as you would be done by. Behavior is the so-called: the way to push yourself and others.

19. See the sage and don't lift it, lift it without first, and life is also; If you see something bad, you can't back down. If you back down, you can't go far.

◎ Vernacular explanation: people who see talents can't recommend them, and then refuse to approach them after recommending them. This is an act of neglect; It is a mistake not to refuse or retreat when you see a bad guy, and then not to alienate him.

20. The evil of good people and the good of evil people are the nature of teasing people, and disasters will catch their husbands.

◎ Vernacular solution: like what everyone hates, and hate what everyone likes. This is against humanity, and disaster is bound to befall you.

2 1. So if a gentleman has a way, he must be loyal to get it, and arrogant to lose it. There are avenues to make money: many people live and few people eat; For the sick, the user is comfortable; Then wealth is enough.

◎ Vernacular explanation: Therefore, a gentleman must have the law of self-cultivation and governing the country: loyalty can win the hearts of the people, and arrogance and extravagance will inevitably lose the hearts of the people. There are certain rules for enriching the country and the people: more people are engaged in production, less people are consuming, the production speed is fast, and the use is slow; Then the wealth of the country can always remain abundant.

22. Kind people get rich by money, while unkind people get rich by their own bodies.

◎ Vernacular explanation: A benevolent person helps others with property and naturally wins everyone's support. Those heartless people use their position to seek wealth, which will eventually lead to death.

23. the country does not benefit from it, but from justice.

◎ Vernacular explanation: A country should not take wealth as its interest, but should take benevolence and righteousness as its interest.

(Profit is the goal of profit, so it is dangerous for the country to compete for profit! ※! Taking justice as the benefit means taking justice as the goal, which is the way of long-term stability. )