The word "carrying things with kindness" comes from Zhouyi ~ Kun. The original text is: Tian Xingjian, the gentleman strives for self-improvement, the terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with kindness. Interpretation is that heaven (nature) is strong and powerful, and a gentleman must be as strong and powerful as heaven. The earth is magnificent, and a gentleman can tolerate everything with a generous mind and heavy virtue like the earth. The ancients regarded heaven and earth as the largest and could accommodate everything. It is believed that the sky is above, the earth is below, the sky is yang, the earth is yin, and the nature is rigid and soft, so that the whole world and everything in the world are the products of yin and yang. Heaven and earth are the universe, and the universe is heaven and earth! This is the simple materialistic view of China ancients.
Later generations extended this word to the truth of being a man, thinking that a gentleman can't bear the material foundation without a generous mind and heavy virtue, which brought words like "virtue is not worthy" and warned people that when you walk alone in the world, the amount of material you carry or go to a higher level needs the support of mind and virtue! This is the embodiment of ancient people's outlook on life and values.
This word is often used with "kindness as water". The word "good as water" comes from Laozi. The original text is that goodness is like water, and everything in water conservancy is indisputable! It means that the highest state of goodness, such as water, is beneficial to everything without asking for anything in return! Kindness is generally used in women, and virtue is often used in men, so the meaning and virtue of this word become a complementary combination of yin and yang, which is a perfect match!
The wisdom of the ancients is great, which is one of the essences of our 5,000-year culture. Therefore, we all need to inherit and carry forward these traditional cultures, so that they can be handed down from generation to generation and live endlessly!
"The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality." This sentence comes from Xiang Zhuan, one of Yi Zhuan, that is, Kun Gua in Xiang Ci Upload. Note: the momentum of the earth is horizontal and follows the heaven. In view of this, a gentleman takes the law from the ground and educates everything with generosity.
How to understand virtue?
First of all, what is virtue? Virtue is straightforward, square and generous. Straight, is the integrity of integrity and selflessness; The party is the decisive and excellent ability to do things; Big is generous. Taken together, it is the personality charm that a person must have when dealing with the world, and it is the concrete embodiment of his comprehensive quality.
Secondly, what is loading? Carrying things is actually tolerance. A person who is so broad-minded must be tolerant. Just like the earth, it can hold everything. The earth can accommodate both sunny days and stormy weather; It can accommodate both flowers and autumn wind; It can adapt to the spring breeze and winter ... so, tolerance will be broad, rich, recurrent and long-lasting. Tolerance must also include integrity. A person who is dishonest cannot tolerate. Without a just and upright mind and action, there can be no inclusive broad mind.
In a word, being virtuous is a kind of accomplishment, a kind of life experience, an art of treating people with things, and a kind of human mind.
The idiom "Kindness with things" comes from Zhouyi Kun, and the original sentence is "A gentleman is kind with things." "Carrying things by virtue" means attaching importance to moral cultivation and can support everything like the earth. Describe the generosity of virtue, like the earth containing all the rivers. The original intention is that people with high morality can undertake important tasks. Later, I learned that only by doing good deeds and accumulating virtues can we afford the material civilization and spiritual civilization we have. In other words, the more you enjoy and have, the more you need to accumulate virtue.
Although the academic circles have different interpretations of this sentence, they finally agree that "a moral person should be as broad and heavy as the earth, bearing and growing everything."
Although there are different understandings of the meaning of this idiom, it has given people a lot of enlightenment and understanding, and has an important edifying effect on people's minds, and even has a wide range of social significance.
Confucianism emphasizes that the fundamental difference between human beings and animals lies in the pursuit of spiritual life. So Confucianism advocates seeking the foundation of life and the source of happiness. The idea of "carrying things by virtue" can cultivate people's kindness, restrain their desires, reduce selfishness, love others, love society, love mankind and even love everything. As a broad spiritual accomplishment, "respecting morality and carrying things" outlines the profound understanding that the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature should be harmonious and coordinated. It is the seed of harmony, and its humanistic characteristics are conducive to building an ideal society in which the interests of all parties are effectively coordinated.
In fact, since ancient times, only people with this quality can help others and take responsibility in family, career and social life. From this perspective, emphasizing personal inner moral cultivation is conducive to urging people to cultivate moral quality, improve their quality and pursue a noble spiritual life. It is still of great practical significance to cultivate the good conduct of modern citizens, establish good social morality and build a harmonious socialist society.
Undeniably, "carrying things with virtue" will also appear as a "good person", which has certain limitations of the times, but it has shaped China people's broad, generous and pragmatic moral mind and spiritual outlook, and is the talent pool, life realm and spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation. In today's society, although science and technology are changing with each passing day, the economy is developing rapidly, and people's ideas are constantly updated, the Confucian thought of "respecting morality and carrying things" still has positive practical significance.
"Zhouyi": "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality, leaving only "self-improvement, carrying things with morality." The explanation is that it is ridiculous to dismantle trucks such as engines, so that the load will not be turned off and the abandoned cars will become dirty; And its original whole sentence, like a truck carrying fuel and goods, means that the powerful countries compete for the people first, and its fundamental meaning is:
Celestial bodies rely on the secret ballot of gravity to determine the focus of their orbits, thus becoming stronger physically, mentally and collectively. There will be no "self" to suppress the filth of "heart", and there will be no supreme authority to vote on blood, brain consciousness and * * * things by secret ballot, thus stopping people's and collective lives.
The dominant potential energy of the earth depends on the secret ballot of gravity to determine the focus of the orbit, so that the privacy of the scattered "Earth" voting will not be reported to the sun star, which is why it is called "Kun". A sensible gentleman should vote by secret ballot in a democratic way, be kind to her, let her vote with sincerity, and choose to decide and treat her heart with good consciousness.
In short, we must exchange and vote, let the earth and people breathe and reflect different opinions (two cows), limit selfish consciousness (none), that is, the quality of "things" determines consciousness, and the people decide history. Otherwise, it is called the invalidation or extinction of the publicity right of consciousness and morality. Otherwise, there will be no morality to serve the earth and the people in society, only the evil of bullying and bullying the earth and the people will run rampant.
Why?
Because, this sentence in the title comes from "Meeting" in Zhouyi Gankun, and it is also an original whole sentence quoted by Tsinghua University in the school motto. The word "Yi" in this sentence refers to the privacy right of secret exchange and voting, which restricts the publicity right of "people"' s governance consciousness and is the "Yi" of things.
For details, please refer to my "Decoding the Popular Dragon Learning Zhouyi-Applied Mathematics" and "The Dragon Learning Code Behind Decoding". (Text/Liu Shucheng)
It's a little hard to explain.
First of all, there is land and water on the earth. The sun evaporates water into the sky, and then it turns into rain when it meets cold air. Living things can survive because of such a big environment.
Why do you think that no creature in the world was born in the sky? Birds fly in the sky, and when they are tired, they will find a suitable place to land on the ground. So there is no room for life in the sky, but the earth can.
There are many creatures on the earth, so she can't move around casually. As long as she moves casually, there will be a big earthquake. So, if necessary, she won't move out.
People live on the earth and abuse its resources. The earth says nothing. If this doesn't work, tell God to reduce his punishment a little, which will make people lose their temper.
Yeah ~ that's about it.
How to explain the virtue of carrying things?
A: "Load" means loading, bearing and accepting. Things that are "things", things, things, including spirit, thoughts and so on. "Thick" means many, many levels and heavy meaning. The key to this sentence is to understand the word "de", which is the eye of this sentence. "Virtue" matches the position of heaven and earth, and the position of heaven and earth from the largest to the strongest is called "no position"! The "middle" position of east, west, north and south! The "transformation" position of growing collection! Spring and summer are long, and summer, autumn and winter are the "long summer" of Chongyang! The position of "negation of negation" in the three laws of unity of opposites, negation of negation and qualitative change! According to this principle, many such positions can be found in all walks of life and so on. For example, the virtue of traditional Chinese medicine is reflected in whether to live in "individual". The virtue of Buddhism is whether to stand for "being born without being born, being born without being born". The "virtue" of our common people has become a big position based on "no self". Not without me, even without me, it will be "all-round and unfavorable"!
This is "virtue", you can be virtuous!
With such a thick position of "virtue", we can bear endless great pressure!
"Heaven is healthy, the gentleman strives for self-improvement", "The terrain is vast, and the gentleman carries things with morality".
Where there is virtue, mountains and rivers can be carried. Not because the mountains are heavy, nor because the river leaks. She can bear all the pains and burdens, and silently provide the foundation of life for all kinds of creatures on the earth without regrets. This is her virtue. It is also because of her virtue that she can carry things.
Virtue is the only way to carry things, but virtue is thin and thick, which is disastrous. People who lack virtue must have nothing to carry. Because those who go to prison for corruption are virtuous and generous. Give less and ask for more, and ask for more if you don't give it. Bring disaster to the country and people, you can't carry things, but bring disaster to yourself. That prison is where he stays, because they are evil.
How much Yuan Longping Sr has contributed to China and the world! His kindness is enough to carry things, and how high the reputation and rewards the country gives him are enough to carry them.
Only virtue can carry things.
Tian Xingjian, the gentleman strives for self-improvement, the terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. Dry belongs to the sky, belongs to the dragon, belongs to Kun's territory, belongs to the mare, and deserves dry virtue (self-improvement, kindness and morality), which is really the ultimate. The image of doing things for heaven, doing things in heaven, running vigorously and tirelessly reveals and creates the original power and changing law of the universe. Therefore, it emphasizes "self-improvement". Kun is a land and a tunnel. The symbol of Kun is a submissive mare. The foundation of Kun is that everything depends on it to be born and grow. It follows heaven. The land of Kundao is deep, bearing all things and endless. The earth embraces everything, and vast expanse is full of prosperity. The mare belongs to yin with the same kind. Yin is extremely supple, but his movements are vigorous. The earth is extremely quiet, but the tunnel is square. The tunnel follows the heaven and has a solid method. The earth embraces everything, but education is vast. A gentleman's benevolence is enough to grow a man and carry things with virtue. Like a mare, it is always lucky to obey, keep the right path, be peaceful and keep the right path.
Virtue comes from the Book of Changes, which is like water with Laozi's kindness, and later generations often use it together. Virtue is a gentleman's character cultivation. Like the earth, it is loadable, so that everything can survive and tolerate in its belly. Just like water, being beneficial to all things without competing with each other can become the embodiment of virtue. Virtue is not only a character, but also a spirit. The so-called tolerance and generosity.
In order to correctly explain virtue, we must first understand what is gentleman culture. What is villain culture? What is "Wu Ge"? What do you mean "doing nothing"? If you don't even understand these basic knowledge, it's wishful thinking for a toad to want to eat swan meat!