Book of rites? The concept of "knowing by learning things" was put forward for the first time in Eight Commandments of University. However, because Daxue didn't give an exegesis, and there were no ancient books in pre-Qin period to study, it became a mystery of Confucianism and a place where a hundred schools of thought contended.
Zheng Xuan was the first to annotate "Shi Shi" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Since Song Confucianism separated "Da Xue" from the Book of Rites and became a part of the four books, the meaning of "Shi Shi" has gradually become a hot topic of debate among later Confucian scholars, even today.
The popular explanation of "learning from others" in society is based on some viewpoints of Zhu's theory in the Southern Song Dynasty, which holds that "learning from others" is to acquire knowledge and truth by studying things.
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Only talk about the governor, so you are poor, and you have never stopped others from being poor, making them sit still and do nothing. If things are poor, as mentioned above, it is not a problem to "keep people inside".
A sleepy person can observe the essence of this heart with everything, so that his natural conscience, though ignorant, is clear, though soft, but powerful. Big Ben stands upright, and the nine classics return to the Tao, which can cover everything in one go. Why dwell on useless facts?
He is a stubborn, empty and quiet man, but he can't observe the essence of his heart with everything, so that his natural conscience abandons ethics and becomes indifferent to nothingness, so he can't rule the country and the world at will. What does it mean that a sage learns to be an official, but he also has shortcomings? -Empresses in the Palace answer Gu Dongqiao book excerpts.
When I say knowing things, I mean the so-called exhaustion of things, not forbidding people to be exhausted and making people sit still. Learning things is very poor. As I said before, it is wrong to focus only on external learning and ignore internal preservation.
A confused person will become smart even if he is stupid, strong even if he is weak, and will certainly be able to build a big foundation and run through the nine classics without missing anything. Are you still worried that he has no practical ability to govern the country?
Those Buddhist children who stubbornly insist on emptiness and quietness, just because they can't carefully observe their conscience in everything, will abandon ethics and regard nothingness as a normal phenomenon. Naturally, you can't keep your home, you can't rule the country, and you can't level the world. Who says that the theory that saints exhaust justice and exert human nature also has such disadvantages?
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