1. A wise man does not fight with fate, law, reason, or power.
Explanation: A wise person does not fight against fate, the law, the truth, or the general trend.
2. Those with excessive Qi cannot determine whether they are male or female. Those who are excited cannot live with concentration.
Xing: Hobbies. Explain that you should not compete with someone who easily gets angry. People with broad and easy-to-transfer interests should not decide to stay or leave together with him.
3. Leave seven points of decency to live your life, and leave three points of dementia to prevent death.
4. If you recognize the delusion from the extreme delusion, you will wake up everywhere. If you let go of difficulties, everything will become wider.
Explanation: When you realize confusion when you are most confused, it is time to wake up. Once you let go of things that are hard to let go of, your situation becomes more relaxed.
5. Tranquility is the first way to deal with things, modesty is the first way to protect yourself, tolerance is the first way to deal with people, and freedom and ease are the first way to nourish your heart.
6. You must be able to endure the disobedience that others cannot tolerate, and you can accomplish the things that others cannot.
Explanation: You must be able to tolerate offenses that others cannot tolerate in order to achieve what others cannot.
7. The good people who accumulate hills and mountains have not yet become a gentleman. If you are greedy for the slightest benefit, you will fall into the trap of villains.
Explanation: Even if you accumulate a mountain of good deeds, you may not become a gentleman. People who are greedy for petty gains will easily fall into the trap of villains.
8. Paintings and calligraphy subject to secular inscriptions will lead to catastrophe in three lives. The Ding Yi people and the people of the city appreciate each other and have different grievances through the ages.
Explanation: Calligraphy and painting works are appreciated and inscribed by ordinary people, which really encounters the disaster of three lifetimes. Those ancient Ding and Yi utensils were appreciated and appraised by ordinary people who did not understand, which can be described as an eternal injustice.
9. Most of the flaws in the world are found in dealing with others. The point of criticism is mostly seen from the place of love and care. Difficulties often come from greed.
Explain that most of the flaws in the world are discovered through socializing with others. Most of the criticism and fault-finding come from a place of love and care. Difficulties often arise from greed.
10. Living in the mountains is a wonderful thing, and if you linger in love for a while, you will be in love. Appreciating calligraphy and painting is an elegant matter. If you are greedy and foolish, you will become a businessman.
Explain that living in a mountain is a wonderful thing, but if you miss it for a moment, then living in a mountain will become a market and a court. Appreciating calligraphy and painting is an elegant thing, but if you become greedy and infatuated, you will become a businessman.