The ancients said that everything will be done if it is planned in advance, and if it is not planned, it will be ruined. This is to emphasize the importance of planning. So why does Zeng Guofan's sixteen-character motto include "The future will not be welcomed"?

Personal understanding:

As a great Neo-Confucian scholar, Zeng Guofan placed great emphasis on "meditation". Zhu Xi once said that reading half a day and sitting quietly for half a day reflect the ancient Confucian scholar's concept of cultivating Qi. When everyone is alive, especially those who are smart, their heart is like an ape's mind and their mind is like a galloping horse. After reading, they have thousands of thoughts. It is easy to let them out but difficult to take them back.

In Zeng Guofan’s opinion, not welcoming the future means that modern people “live in the present”, and by extension, it is also the concept of “minimalist thinking”. It’s not that we don’t make plans, but that after we make plans, we “get involved” and focus on the present. We don’t worry about the future, and we don’t be blindly pessimistic or optimistic about the future. Don’t look forward to a certain milestone moment, don’t look forward to a certain decisive moment, don’t dream about “what if I have so-and-so, what if I become so-and-so”.

For such people, if they feel that running will help them lose weight, they will not immediately check which gym is better, but will just go for a run peacefully; if they get the idea at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, they will not wait for the first day of the new year to start again. , just do it according to your thoughts.

Appreciate Zeng Guofan and appreciate the concise and profound meaning of these four words.