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Reflections on Six Analects of Confucius
Confucius' words of wisdom are not as meaningful as Laozi's, nor as free and easy as Zhuangzi's, but they are a simple panacea. Just a few words can often benefit people for life. In the Analects of Confucius, what impressed me the most was "Zi wants to live in nine cities". Or: "What about ugliness?" Confucius said, "How can a gentleman be humble if he lives there?" Confucius said, "A gentleman does not have enough to eat, but he is restless. He is sensitive to things and speaks carefully. "Confucius said," A threesome must have a teacher. " "The first one said that Confucius wanted to live in the wilderness of Jiuyi. Everyone was surprised and asked how he lived in such a backward place. He replied, "How can a gentleman be closed and backward when he lives there?" There are two aspects to this. First, a gentleman doesn't care about the external environment. After all, his inner purity is more important than his external environment. Second, whether people change the environment or the environment changes people. There is a short story that carrots become soft when you put them in boiling water. When you put an egg in water, both the egg white and yolk are solidified. When you grind coffee beans and put them in water, water becomes coffee. This is enough to explain three attitudes towards the external environment, namely, "poor tolerance, rich tolerance, and inability to sleep." Until it is slowly changed or confronted by the environment, or changed like coffee beans, Confucius said that gentlemen can go to Jiuyi and change the environment like coffee beans, so that they will not be closed and backward. A small bibliography, from governing the country, to politics, to being a man, has detailed thoughts and feelings. Zhao Pu, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, once said that he ruled the world with half of The Analects. Now we ordinary people can also rule our lives with an Analects of Confucius.